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 85 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 15 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 15 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 Tampa is such a desirable place to live, it is a city brimming with professionals and transplants from around 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 as a fun way for you to meet quality, single professionals. Each week we set up hundreds of clients on dates throughout the Tamp area. Considering the majority of our clients are referred, our success stands alone. We are happy to report many engagements and many more clients dating exclusively!! We were even featured on CNBC and The Today Show.
Our most recent success story is about Tara and Roger. When Roger came in for an interview, we immediately knew who we were going to set him up with...Tara! On their date, they discovered that they were supposed to have met many years earlier! They both attended college in Boston and their parents had tried to set them up, they just never ended up getting to meet. We were glad that we could finally bring them together!