Change the World Through Lunch

The Seattle-based Noonhat luncheon service is now matching pairing people up for lunch across the United States. Brian Dorsey uses these words to describe the goal of his site, “connect us with people outside of our normal social, work, and hobby circles.”

Noonhat is exceptionally easy to use. Go to the site and enter an emaill address, specify a date and using the Google Maps interface specify a geographic area in which you are willing to meet. On the day of your lunch you will receive an email with the contact information of your match (if there is a match). The site is starting to get a lot of traction in Seattle, having been featured on King 5 news and the Seattle PI’s Big Blog.

I’ve been on two Noonhat lunches in the launch site of Seattle. Because of Brian’s connections to the tech community in Seattle my matches have been other software developers. The first luncheon did not go very well, bad chemistry is a nice way of putting it. My second Noonhat was awesome. I’ve settled on a Noonhat every other Tuesday schedule.

Maybe Tacoma can be the first non-tech, non-Seattle Noonhat outbreak?