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!

With so many places to go and things to do in Western New York, there is no one place for singles to meet. That’s why we are so popular. Our clients come to us to meet other busy professional singles in the area. We introduce our clients to people they wouldn’t normally meet on their own. Another reason we are so popular is because we have a high success rate. Many of our first dates lead to second dates. We set up dozens of dates each week in Buffalo.

One of our favorite success stories is about Joe and Susan. Joe had been on many dates through It’s Just Lunch, but he was looking for “the one.” Susan joined on Wednesday evening and went out with Joe on Friday afternoon. By Monday morning both had left 3 messages on our phone asking to go on hold for each other. Susan said she knew it was only her first date, but when you know its right, it’s right. They have been dating for 2 months.