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 over100 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!

Albuquerque is spread out and that means there is no one place that everyone goes to meet people. That’s why we are so popular. Our clients come to us to meet other busy professional singles in the Albuquerque area. We are able to introduce our clients to people they would probably not meet on their own. Another reason we are so popular is because we have a high success rate. Many first dates lead to second dates. We set up over 100 clients on dates each week in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas.

One of our favorite and most recent successful stories is about Sarah and Matt. Sarah signed up first. When Matt came in for his interview, we immediately knew who we were going to set him up with. They are both busy business owners and their paths would have never crossed. They were married 8 months later!