Dating Service News

"The holidays are wrought with stress. So is meeting (or being around) your beau's parents. Combine the two, and you've got major freak-out potential.This time of year, worries over family manners are nearly unavoidable. Seventy-one percent of 2,620 surveyed singles plan on celebrating Thanksgiving with their extended family, and 10 percent are thinking about bringing someone home with them, according to It's Just Lunch, a dating service."

"Detroit was recently named the fourth worst city when it comes to dating, but Action News has some help to turn things around in the love department. 'Exposing yourself to other people, new adventures, new opportunities is really the best way to combat being single in the Detroit area,' says Paula A. Komar, author of a new dating guide specially made for metro Detroiters. It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating in Southeastern Michigan, $9.95. Komar’s book includes tips on dating, and lists of restaurants and bars, classes, and activities."

"You can find a whole bunch of suggestions about how to have fun with a date or without one in a new booklet from It's Just Lunch [the dating service with locations in Detroit and Ann Arbor]. The It's Just Lunch Guide to Dating in Southeastern Michigan includes suggestions for where to go for everything from a drink after work to skydiving lessons. It also inlcludes some common-sense dating advice."

"If you have someone that's single on your gift list, here's a great gift ideas for you. The international dating service It's Just Lunch has a new book out for singles. It's a Guide to Dating in Southeastern Michigan is what it's called…They say the five best places for a first dinner date, Boccho in Southfield, The Earl Uptown in Ann Arbor, Sweet Georgia Brown in downtown Detroit, Rochester Chop House in Rochester and Murel's in Bingham Farms."

"'Detroit has been ranked one of the worst places to date because people spend so much of their lives in cars,' says Paula Komar, who invested $150,000 in a franchise for t's Just Lunch, a dating service for busy professionals…'We don't promise love or marriage, just introductions,' Komar said, noting the strength of match-ups comes from a one-hour, live interviews with prospective customers."

"In the month since I signed up with the [dating] servic eIt's Just Lunch, my social life has been a whirlwind of dinners, dancing and pleasant summer strolls. I've met three men. They all were interesting, attractive and fun."

"At It's Just Lunch [a datingservice with locations in Ann Arbor and Detroit], the average female client tells 12 friends about the service…But the average male confides in just three. 'Women do our marketing for free,' notes Daniel Dolan, CEO…To achieve gender equality, mathcmaking chieftans admit to trying everything from plying men with extra dates to channeling marketing into male-dominated arenas such as gym locker rooms and newspaper sports pages. One recent It's Just Lunch direct-mail promotion sent to 45,000 men featured a latte cup with the slogan: 'extra tall, fat free, low maintenance blonde' and offered $200 off to join."

"If you have someone that's single on your gift list, here's a great gift ideas for you. The international dating service It's Just Lunch has a new book out for singles. It's a Guide to Dating in Southeastern Michigan is what it's called…They say the five best places for a first dinner date, Boccho in Southfield, The Earl Uptown in Ann Arbor, Sweet Georgia Brown in downtown Detroit, Rochester Chop House in Rochester and Murel's in Bingham Farms."

"As the national dating service It’s Just Lunch reports, there are 110 million single adults in the United States alone. Give ’em a chance. Take the time to listen and look for their special qualities, urges Paula Komar, [director] of It’s Just Lunch Southeastern Michigan, which has locations in Ann Arbor and Troy and counts Toledoans among its clients."

"...A dating service is trying to revolutionize the blind date. It's Just Lunch! offers clients a chance to get acquainted over lunch. The firm does all the work, making reservations, clearing the matches with customers. All couples have to do is show up."

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