Dating Service News

"It was a great date. He promised to call. He never called. The average single woman will stare at the phone, willing it to ring. A long list of possibilities noisily circling her brain…'Ultimately, chemistry is impossible to predict,' said Nancy Kirsch, senior vice president of It's Just Lunch international dating service. But women, she says, are much more prone to second-guessing than men. 'We want to figure it out. We want to fix it.'"

"Here are the Top 10 things every single should know or be able to do on a first date, according to It's Just Lunch, a [dating service in Norfolk and Hampton Roads]. Be familiar with current events, not just celeb stuff. Know which sports are in season as well as the name of your team. (We just flunked this test.) Make sure you've at least heard of three New York Times best sellers..."

"Gentlemens, it seems, actually prefer brunettes. According to a survey by the It's Just Lunch dating service, 76 percent of men like their dates' hair dark. Also, 75 percent of men said they prefer women with long, straight hair, while only 8 percent of men like curly hair. As for what women want in their men, 23 percent said goatees were sexy."

"When Andrea McGinty was dumped by her fiancé just five weeks before her wedding, she came up with a unique idea: a dating service called It's Just Lunch! 'Suddenly you're single again, you're busy, you're working a lot of hours and it's hard to meet people,' Andrea says. 'And I found that when I was getting fixed up, I would either do lunch or a drink after work. But I learned really fast that lunch has a beginning; lunch has an end. It's kind of easy to say goodbye, there's no good-night kiss—it's just really easy!''

"It's prom season. Nightmare time for any young man. I know — I was one once. Unlike my brother, who had a girlfriend from kindergarten on, I never really 'dated' in high school. Never had a steady. I was still trying to figure out who I was, but prom season has never cared much about introspection. Come spring, you needed a date, a white dinner jacket and a corsage. And so I fell in line with the rest of the lads. For me, as for many, I suspect, prom night always was first-date night...It's Just Lunch, a national dating service, has just come out with 'must-know' tips for first dates. They translate nicely to prom nights, too. Far too late for me now, of course, but I was curious to see what they were and how close I came to using them to assure my date that oh-so-perfect prom evening."

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