Our Success

It’s Just Lunch is a fun, proactive approach to your personal life. As first date specialists, we arrange fun lunch dates and drinks after work for busy professionals. We began in a tiny office in Chicago in 1991 and have grown to over 100 offices worldwide. In summer 2004, we opened our first international locations in Singapore and Toronto. Many of our first dates lead to 2nd dates and our matchmaking is responsible for thousands of marriages. We have arranged over 2 million fun first dates in our 17 years. Each month we arrange 50,000 dates for our 30,000 members worldwide----and growing by thousands each month!—that’s a lot of lunch dates!

A Chicago woman founded It’s Just Lunch over 17 years ago after her engagement was suddenly called off. She attended her first IJL wedding after the company had been in business for just 5 months. Since then, The IJL Team has been responsible for many weddings and she still gets goose bumps when she hears about another engagement!

Since Washington, DC is the home to several of the country's largest companies and the nation's political Mecca, it is a city brimming with busy professionals and transplants from all over the globe. The primary complaint that we get from new clients is that it is hard to meet like-minded people outside of the workplace because of limited time and social networks. Our system will allow you to leave the work to us! Our first date experts work with your busy schedule to coordinate convenient lunch, brunch or drinks after work for you as a fun way to meet awesome, single professionals!