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 19 years.

A Chicago woman founded It’s Just Lunch over 19 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!

During our eleven plus years in Cincinnati, we can count many engagements among our clients and many others dating exclusively!! One of our favorite and most recent successful stories is about Wayne and Susan. After describing Susan to Wayne, he couldn't wait to meet her...and vice versa for Susan. After their amazing date, they strolled around Fountain Square and were actually interviewed by the local newspaper...coincidentally they were doing an article about "Dating in Cincinnati!" They absolutely hit it off and both described each other as "WONDERFUL!" They also let us know that they have seen "a ton" of each other lately and we couldn't be happier for them.