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Welcome to It's Just Lunch! We are a specialized dating service for busy professionals. We minimize stress and maximize efficiency by sending people on casual dates over lunch, brunch, or drinks after work. It's Just Lunch is a fun proactive approach to your personal life. As first date specialists, we arrange quality lunch dates and drinks after work for busy professionals in a discreet, no-pressure setting. It's Just Lunch started in 1991 and now has 70 locations all over the world, with thousands of clients ... and many wonderful success stories!
It's Just Lunch! ("IJL") is a specialized dating service for busy professionals. We have coordinated hundreds of thousands of dates for our clients since our opening in 1992.
We minimize the stress and maximize the efficiency of dating by coordinating our client's dates for lunch or for a drink after work. IJL is a "first date introduction service." People use a recruiter to find a job, a personal trainer to find a new body and IJL to find new friends and potential partners.
There is a huge, untapped, and ever-growing national and international market for dating services as singles seek alternatives to bars, personal ads, and other methods of meeting others. The rise in tele-commuting, Internet usage, multiple career moves, long work weeks, etc., have made it more difficult for today's singles to meet. This has created an opportunity for IJL and our franchisees to help singles expand their social circle and introduce them to or clients - people they normally would not get a chance to meet.
Perhaps, more than most businesses, a franchise-based business is an alliance built on relationships. We are a group of people with common ideas, attitudes and goals. And, just as you have to be absolutely certain that the franchise you choose to invest your time and money in is the right one for you, we need to be equally certain that every new member of our "family" is the right one for us. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to all our franchisees and clients.
If you are a resident of one of these states or countries, we will not offer you a franchise unless and until we have complied with applicable pre-sale registration and disclosure requirements in your jurisdiction.
SOMEONE...
...with a burning desire to work for themselves.
...with the desire and ability to learn.
...who is passionate about helping other people meet new people and understands the difficulties in meeting someone in our culture.
...who has drive and initiative.
...who is not afraid to try.
...who wants to be an entrepreneur - looking to generate their own independent income and wealth, and to create and control their own future.
...who has the time and energy that success demands.
...who is looking to bring both talent and commitment "to the table" - within a proven system.
...who has the financial means to start their own business.
...who can fully grasp and appreciate the benefits, challenges, possibilities and rewards of an exciting, high-profile industry and our unique position within it.
...LIKE YOU?
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