The Downtown Lunch Club's restaurant list is invitation-first. We curate it ourselves, and we walk most invitations in personally. This page is the side door, for great spots we haven't reached yet.
Make your case. We look at every application personally.
Make your case →This August we launch the Downtown Lunch Club, a free social dining club with member-only offers at a curated list of top-quality downtown restaurants, personally vetted by our team, who've eaten their way across downtown.
Run clubs, supper clubs, members clubs: this is how people gather right now, and a club builds loyalty across a whole destination in a way no single restaurant can on its own. We use our deep knowledge of the downtown lunch audience and a flywheel of methods to build a real community around real value. Then we keep it engaged: offers from our restaurant partners, member events, and brand moments.
Your restaurant gets its own profile on the club platform and a spot on the club map, where members browse for where to eat next.
We build every offer custom to your restaurant: your menu, your prices, your slow days and hours. Together they make your offer bank, each one exclusive to our members and designed for the comeback. Three from the bank:
Every number is yours to set. "Spend X, get X back" scales to your ticket.
The bank powers the whole plan: a door opener that earns the first visit, a personal ladder that pays out as each member's visits stack up, automatic nudges when a regular drifts, and a monthly spotlight for whatever you want members trying next. You approve the whole plan once. Nothing ever runs that you haven't signed off.
Keep your menu, your prices, your register, and any loyalty program you already run. Members scan the club QR, and their phone shows your staff exactly what to do. Nothing to type, no POS change.
We train your team once. A loyalty program you don't have to run.
Every partner gets a live dashboard, always on: members coming in, offers being used, first visits turning into return visits, counted as it happens.
Every partner gets an account manager: one person who sets up your spot your way, builds your offer plan with you, and stays on it through launch and beyond.
Our team maps the downtown lunch market block by block: who works where, which buildings hold the crowds, where lunch actually gets bought. That knowledge aims every channel at the exact people who'll join, from physical and digital outreach pointed at the buildings where the lunch crowd works, to an AI search presence built so the club is part of the answer when someone asks what's good downtown.
Then the club feeds itself: members bring coworkers and both get credit to spend at a member restaurant, and member events at partner venues invite every plus-one to join before they leave.
Tell us who you are and where you are. Our team reviews every application personally, against one bar: is this food we'd proudly put in front of our members? Approved restaurants receive a personal invitation with founding partner terms. Founding partner terms are limited.
We look at every application personally. If your spot clears our bar, you'll hear from us fast, invitation in hand.
