What is Speed Dating?
First created in 1998 by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo in Los Angeles as a way to help Jewish singles meet efficiently in person, speed dating is an event format where participants have a series of brief, one-on-one conversations with multiple potential romantic matches in a single evening.
After an event is completed, participants anonymously indicate whether they’d like to connect again, and if two people mutually express interest, their contact information is shared. Speed dating is designed to foster real, face-to-face interaction in a focused, time-efficient format.
How it works
Step 1. You join the waitlist
This gets the ball rolling. By sharing your contact information and dating preferences with us ahead of time, you’re joining our waitlist and ensuring that you're among the first to know about future events in your area.
Step 2. We schedule an event
When your city reaches our threshold, we announce the event date and send registration links to everyone on the waitlist. After a few days, we open remaining seats to the public on our website—first come, first served.
Step 3. The Night Of
Arrive at the venue, check in, and grab your match card—this is how you'll indicate who you'd like to see again.
Our hosts will explain how everything works (it's simple, promise), then you're off. You'll have 6-minute conversations with 10-15 people. Women sit, men rotate. Each round has a 30-second buffer so conversations don't feel rushed.
Halfway through, we break for 10 minutes—refill your drink, decompress, whatever you need.
Total time? About 2 hours. And yes, it goes by faster than you think.
Step 4. The Results
The next day, we'll email your personalized results. If you and someone else both marked "yes", that’s considered a “match” and we send you each other's contact info… and then it's up to you! Everyone's experience is different. Some people get multiple matches, some get one, some don't match. Historically, about 65% of attendees get at least one match.