There’s room at the table.
Open your calendar. Open your circle.
What is Open for Lunch?
Open for Lunch makes it easier to turn everyday availability into real connection. Share when you’re free, open a seat, and make room for new friends, acquaintances, coworkers, and people in your community.
Who is it for?
For anyone who wants a little more room for connection in their life. Whether you’re hoping to meet new friends, get to know an acquaintance better, connect with coworkers, or simply be more present in your community, Open for Lunch gives people an easy way to say yes.
Have room in your life
You would enjoy more lunches, conversations, and loose connections.
Would probably say yes
Someone in your wider circle may be interested in knowing you better, but the invitation hasn’t found it’s way through.
Make the interest visible
Open a seat with a calendar booking. Share your availability with others, at your invitation.
Open a seat
Create a bookable lunch in the calendar you already use.
Choose the days and times you’re open, create a booking page, then share the link with your circle or post it in the Open for Lunch community.
Create an appointment schedule
Choose your lunch availability and create a booking page people can use to reserve an open seat.
Create with Google CalendarCreate a booking page
Use Microsoft Bookings to choose when you’re available and share your lunch booking page.
Create with Microsoft / OutlookCreate a lunch event
Set your available lunch times in Calendly and share your scheduling link with the people you’d like to invite.
Create with CalendlyAlready have a booking link? Share it with your circle or post your open seat in the Open for Lunch Facebook or LinkedIn group.
Join a lunch
Open seats, lunch invitations, and availability can be shared inside the Open for Lunch Facebook and LinkedIn groups. If someone posts that they’re open, you can let them know you’d like to join.
Otherwise, lunch stays personal. If someone shares an invitation or calendar directly with you, that’s your invitation to step in.
Stay connected
This is bigger than lunch.
Open for Lunch is an experiment in making everyday, in-person connection a little easier. Join the list as we build it. Follow along as Open for Lunch grows, meet more people in your community, and keep making room for real-life connection.
Choose your own adventure, with care.
Open for Lunch helps make invitations visible. You decide who to meet, where to meet, and what feels appropriate. We do not screen participants or guarantee anyone’s behavior. Please use good judgment and take responsibility for your own safety.
