THE LUNCH WORKS CONCEPT

Lunch Works is Australia’s newest and freshest alternative to online communities.  It's a place where members can find and contact others who are either single like themselves, or just wanting to network on a social or business level.  For the single community, Lunch Works is all about establishing friendships, companionships and relationships. Bringing together two people or more, Lunch Works members can select from an online list of preferred venues that are offering their services for lunch, coffee, or even a drink after work as a suitable and friendly place to meet.

Lunch Works is committed to providing members with a more professional and friendlier dating service.  A service that aims to remove the additional stress and stigma associated with internet dating personals, by offering not only an excellent online service to those looking for partners, but providing a welcoming and safer environment in which to meet offline. For this reason, we are focussed on connecting people in the community through the community. This is also a new concept in the world of online dating.

Lunch Works because it’s;

• Quick & Easy – lunch has a beginning and an end. Members will give themselves up to an hour then simply head back to work,
   
• Social & Friendly – Lunch Works is a fun and very social way for people to meet. We allow members to not only search through our online dating community for suitable profiles and potential dates, but also give them access and the ability to choose from a list of great venues for lunch, a coffee or a drink,
  
  
• Convenient - members can access their Lunch Works account and profile from either the office, home or wherever convenient to them, and easily pop out at lunch for a bite to eat, or maybe have a coffee instead. It doesn’t have to cut into their own personal time or weekends and they don't need to get especially dressed up, buy a new pair of shoes and have their hair done, or find a babysitter if children are involved,
  
  
• A Safer Environment – lunch means daylight hours, so there are generally lots of other people around to help provide a safer envionment in which to meet new people. There’s no need to call for a taxi to get home from a pub or club late at night either,
  
  
• Less Pressure – having lunch or coffee provides members with a comfortable, respectful and quick exit strategy. There’s never been an easier way to get out of a sticky situation when on a date or meeting someone offline the first time,

A recent survey of more than 300 singles revealed that for a first date they preferred to meet for;

• Lunch 27%
• Coffee 25%
• Drinks after work 18%
• Dinner 16%
• An activity 10%
• A spectator event 4%

"I prefer to make the first date a short one."

"I'm at my most comfortable when the exit strategy is quick and handy." 


WHAT CAN LUNCH WORKS DO FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

Does your establishment need or want more customers?  Would you like to advertise your venue for free to a large and ever expanding community of potential customers?  Need more good word-of-mouth advertising about your business? 

Lunch Works is partnering with respected restaurants, cafes and bars around Australia, to provide a service of real value to its online community.  A partnership that will expose and freely advertise your business to two of Australias largest markets - the singles community and the white collar working fraternity.  Combined, these individuals are generally characterised by having a higher disposable income, they enjoy socialising and going out, and they often spend good money on frequenting places like restaurants, cafes and bars.

If you believe your venue has a certain ambience and style that would make it a great place to send our members and you would like your business to reach a bigger spending, socially active and dining orientated market, then we have one last question to ask;

Your listing will display important information like your trading hours, special features, ambience, payment types, prices, signature dishes and wine selection etc.  There are also plenty of places to display photos on your listing, from pictures of the premises and surroundings to images of the tastey dishes served.  If your venue has one, we will also provide a link to your web site.

Seize the opportunity to reach out to more customers by creating and promoting your venues own unique special discount voucher.  It's designed to attract more customers to your establishment and can be as flexible as you like it to be.  Make it valid for certain times of the day or days of the week when it's quiet.  If you need help, let us know and we can assist you in creating the offer.

To apply now for your FREE Preferred Venue Listing, CLICK HERE or on the button at the foot of the page.

All new venues to join Lunch Works will be featured in our monthly member newsletter.


WHAT CAN YOUR BUSINESS DO FOR LUNCH WORKS?

By becoming a preferred Lunch Works venue and offering a special discount voucher, your participation sends a message to our members that you value their business and are supportive of the local community.

In the online application form we ask for your permission to display Lunch Works in your venue, either through items like a small promo card display at the cashiers counter, or a Lunch Works sticker on your venues front door/window.  We also ask for your permission to display a link to Lunch Works on your own web site if you have one.


FEATURED VENUE OPTION - "FREE"

Our FINAL offer to restaurateurs is the option to really drive their listing and special discount voucher by becoming a Lunch Works Featured Venue.  We have some dedicated areas within both our dating and venue guide communities to prominently display and advertise your venue, encouraging the flow of traffic to your listing and customers to your front door.  Aside from what you and our other guests are able to see throughout our user friendly site, whenever a Lunch Works member logs in to their account, we have allowed for some further dedicated areas in which to feature your venue.  We will also be looking at targeting your venue to those Lunch Works members who share a like for the cuisine you serve and are available to dine in your venues location.

SPECIAL OFFER.  If you would like to come on board with Lunch Works and offer a special discount voucher to our members as part of your preferred listing, we will give you a 6 Month Featured Venue spot FREE.  Offer ends 30th June 2009.


If you are unable to complete our online application form, you can download it here (v4.2e) (1.2 meg) and send in to us by fax or mail.  You will require Adobe Acrobat to read and print this form.  You may download the most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader here: 

If you have any queries regarding preferred listings or featured venues, please send them to us using our online Contact Us form.

Coming soon to Restaurateurs is a backend Administrative area for venues where they have full access and rights to maintain their listing, photos and special discount offers.