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UPCOMING SPEEDDATING EVENTS – Speeddating since Feb 2004.

Speed dating cost per head is $89. Pay on the night or in advance by paypal.

Sydney Dinner Club / David’s Dinners since Oct 1978

See some of our speeddating testimonies below. Link to: How it Works



AGES: 40-50 ***MONDAY - SPEED DATING IN SYDNEY Come and find new friends and lovers at our new venue, Concord Bowling Club, cnr Davidson Lane and Clermont Ave Concord: Arrival by 6.30pm for 7pm start (formalities finish around 8.15 pm). For your $89 you get unlimited champagne plus finger food canapes. Other Drinks at Club prices. Importantly you are notified of any matches on the night and you have a 55% chance of receiving at least one match !

Afterwards if you get a match go down to Concord or up to North Strathfield for eats or drinks to get to know each other better. Well serviced by public transport, walk from North Strathfield station, M41 red bus from Burwood stops outside. Easy immediate parking.

Click here to book online and specify for which event.

Bookings can be made now on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365.

You will be informed of any matches straightaway on the night so you can get right on with getting to know each other better.
These people have booked and are ready to meet someone tonight.

AGES: 35-45 ***MONDAY - SPEED DATING IN SYDNEY Come and find new friends and lovers at our new venue, Concord Bowling Club, cnr Davidson Lane and Clermont Ave Concord: Arrival by 6.30pm for 7pm start (formalities finish around 8.15 pm). For your $89 you get unlimited champagne plus finger food canapes. Other Drinks at Club prices. Importantly you are notified of any matches on the night and you have a 55% chance of receiving at least one match !

Afterwards if you get a match go down to Concord or up to North Strathfield for eats or drinks to get to know each other better. Well serviced by public transport, walk from North Strathfield station, M41 red bus from Burwood stops outside. Easy immediate parking.

Click here to book online and specify for which event. 
Bookings can be made now on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365. 
Minimum 4 girls and 4 guys to be booked in all up to go ahead.
You will be informed of any matches straightaway on the night so you can get right on with getting to know each other better.
These people have booked and are ready to meet someone tonight.





AGES: 45+ ***MONDAY - SPEED DATING IN SYDNEY Come and find new friends and lovers at our new venue, Concord Bowling Club, cnr Davidson Lane and Clermont Ave Concord: Arrival by 6.30pm for 7pm start (formalities finish around 8.15 pm). For your $89 you get unlimited champagne plus finger food canapes. Other Drinks at Club prices. Importantly you are notified of any matches on the night and you have a 55% chance of receiving at least one match ! Easy immediate parking.

Afterwards if you get a match go down to Concord or up to North Strathfield for eats or drinks to get to know each other better. Well serviced by public transport, walk from North Strathfield station, M41 red bus from Burwood stops outside.

Click here to book online and specify for which event. 
Bookings can be made now on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365. 
Minimum 4 girls and 4 guys to be booked in all up to go ahead.
You will be informed of any matches straightaway on the night so you can get right on with getting to know each other better.
These people have booked and are ready to meet someone tonight.

AGES: 30-40 ***MONDAY - SPEED DATING IN SYDNEY Come and find new friends and lovers at our new venue, Concord Bowling Club, cnr Davidson Lane and Clermont Ave Concord: Arrival by 6.30pm for 7pm start (formalities finish around 8.15 pm). For your $29 you get unlimited champagne plus finger food canapes. Other Drinks at Club prices. Importantly you are notified of any matches on the night and you have a 55% chance of receiving at least one match ! Easy immediate parking.

Afterwards if you get a match go down to Concord or up to North Strathfield for eats or drinks to get to know each other better. Well serviced by public transport, walk from North Strathfield station, M41 red bus from Burwood stops outside.

Click here to book online and specify for which event. 
Bookings can be made now on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365. 
Minimum 4 girls and 4 guys to be booked in all up to go ahead.
You will be informed of any matches straightaway on the night so you can get right on with getting to know each other better.
These people have booked and are ready to meet someone tonight.

 

Note: besides Speeddating on Monday nights we also hold other reasonable well attended more subtle conversational based dinner parties in restaurants and occasionally homes on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday lunches and you are welcome to attend these also. Details can be found at dinnerclub.net.au


    

Speed Dating events for different age groups (as above) are held at the Concord Bowling Club cnr Clermont Ave & Davidson Lane Concord on Mondays at 6.45 pm. If you are wanting to know where to meet women or where to meet men in Sydney then this speed dating is for you if you are genuine and want to find someone on the night whom you like who quite likes you.

Click here to visit our speed dating homepage at speeddating.net.au

We are now on Facebook. Link to us at facebook.com/davidsdinners


SOME EMAILS:

Hi David

I just thought you would like to know. I went to one of your speed dating events in Sept 04 and met Richard. We have been together ever since and now have an 8 month old boy called Adam. Thank you and all the best.

P.S. I will be forwarding your number to a friend. - Jo Gunter

Hi David
Thanks for the continuing updates, however I have been going out with John, whom I met at my first speed dating session.
We are buying a place together, and planning to get married. Therefore I won't need to attend anymore events.
Thank You.
Regards
Francesca

Hi David,
Could you kindly remove me from your mailing list. I met someone at one of your speed dating nights a few months ago and have been together for a couple of months in a relationship. Thank you from both of us for providing an alternative way to meet new people and we wish you all the best with future events.
Regards, John George

Hi david
Just wanted to say I had a good time last night
Me and xxxxx went out until the small hours and got on VERY well indeed
We agreed to go out again
Im going to try to call her tonight
Even if we don't go out, it was good
Thank you so much, Ashley

Yes I enjoyed last night it was better than going online.  Now I know where the place is I won't be so early next time.  Have a nice day.   Again thanks. Lynn 20.7.10

Hi David, I met one of your people Glenn P., he met a lady at your speed dating and is soon to be married to her. regards Alan Todhunter B.Sc. M.Sc. 5.4.11

i loved the speed dating it was the funniest night ive had in a while, im happy to say ive met someone and am very happy thanks cindy 19.3.08

Hi, David.

Thanks for a great nite! (And I actually do mean that, I've never spoken to so many women in my life in 1 hour - I wish it was this easy to do normally :-)

Cheers, Alex

Hi David, Just a quick note, to thank you for last night's speed dating event. It was well run and I had a great time. Many Thanks Michael 22.07.08

Hi David,
Firstly thank you for hosting the speed dating event last night. It was
well run and affordable. I had a lovely time, some good conversations
and am looking forward to coming along again. Thanks again for a fun night.
Kate 22.4.09


Hi David,
Last Monday was great-thanks! I’d like to book for the speed dating on Mon Sept 14th and also my friend Sue, would like to come again…based on my glowing account of last time, she promises not to run away this time 27.8.09

If you have a success story don't forget to email us a sentence or two.

Hi David
Please add me to your new events/report emails.
Thank you for last night had a nice dinner and chat with the others who were all lovely people.
Maria 4.5.10

David thank you for organizing your speed dating night, great night out, and will book again in October 2010, will see you then. K

HI David, I have gone to a few of your events..particular the speed dating and have found them to be very well organized & attended by some very nice people.
On one occasion, (your Monday night SD) I met a lady and for a few months had quite a nice relationship going. Unfortunately that didn’t continue but since have entered into another which...touch wood ! is going well.
I thank you for the tremendous efforts that have gone into your site....your venues & activities are very well organized and appealing.
I definitely will recommend your club to others.
Thank you again Lou 26.07.11  



** To go on the email notification list for future speed dating in Sydney theme events (and the other Internet Dinner Club events) ring David on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365 or click here to go on the free notification list.

How it works: Every one has a number. You get 8 - 12 minutes with each member of the opposite sex (longer if there are double ups due to ratio imbalances). You can work off the question sheet or just chat or ask questions which you might have prepared beforehand. You write down the numbers of the ones you have selected, as many as you like on your different “Love Lotto” slips, and at the end we collect all the slips and look for the two way matches. Usually about 50 - 60% of the people are involved in primary matches, some more than one, and secondary matches can take this to about an 80% chance of being selected. Primary matches are disclosed to the lucky participants on the night and secondary matches can be discovered upon enquiry afterwards as sometimes you may have overlooked someone with very good taste who thinks very highly of you and maybe further investigation on your part may be warranted.

Instant Results ! If you get a match you find out about it on the night for instant results. This is different to other speed datings who do not provide the matches on the night because there may too often be no (valid) matches at all and you would never know and they don't want you to know that few matches occurred. This may be, in part, also be because many more expensive speed datings get many more women than men (thinking they’re meeting a higher class male) and so the organizer‘s have a free list of men to keep inviting back over and over again to fill the empty seats – and the women, by the higher price are subsidizing these “in demand” guys. Obviously these regulars may not be relationship material (and the organizers find them essential to survive financially and have to keep a hold of them) because they keep getting called back to meet more women for free and this tends to disrupt you trying to form a relationship as you don’t know what is really going on. These free regulars are probably never really considered for any matches as they will be needed again later for future shortfalls - you are just wasting your time and paying to do so. I don’t maintain such a free list.

The best defence by other more expensive speed dating companies for not supplying matches on the night is to avoid causing embarrassment for those not obtaining a match – well you can always privately check for secondaries – the other speed dating companies cannot do this. You may not have picked anyone and, of course, you won’t have a match (as a match is a reciprocal selection e.g. 5 <---> 8) but I do like everyone to play along and at least do one selection slip to experience it. The others don’t know your number and most people are only interested if to see if they got a match and not to see who didn’t get a match. You may even get two or three matches and still the others would probably not know (one lady once got 7 – that’s our record, and for some reason she later came back (why?, no free ones then, and she later got no matches so it can be highly adventitious and capricious). It’s always been a weak defence and I was waiting a long time to hear it. These other speed dating companies have generally bought a franchise or a system and have to pay ongoing franchise fees (or loan interest) to someone who sold them a system and they’re obliged to keep with it (or breach the franchise agreement and lose their capital outlay and be replaced) and not do the matches on the night and the master franchisor’s legal team. I presume, came up with that defence. You’re paying for their and the franchisee’s profit and costs but essentially for the franchisors’ ongoing income stream arising from selling and reselling their franchises. I don’t have any of that. That was naughty of me to say all that wasn’t it?? I wonder what they will come back with next – they all know who I am. They know I have the best system and people tell me so – people prefer their results on the night because the other way over half the matches go stale and never come to fruition.

Sometimes people who do not get a match are interested to know who picked them as, although about 55% of attendees end up in a match, about 80% receive selections. Those who did not match are welcome to enquire after the session as to who selected them in case they would like to follow up on those who selected them as they may have overlooked people who clearly have very good taste and think highly of them. Hence people should stay for drinks as they may still end up in a secondary match.

Due to the nature of our operation being in the nature of a club I cannot disclose members’ email addresses or phone numbers to others the next day unless you direct me to do so. Normally you get notification of your matches on the night, importantly while they are still there and you can rely upon and keep them to their “declaration” having chosen you. However if you would like to have your match contact you the next day (some people who have been to other speed datings think this is “standard practice”) it has always been possible to request that and from time to time some have requested that or simply sent me an email to send to someone else, match or not, which you can do at any time, even apart from speed dating, and numerous members have done that arising from any event at all. If you wish your matches to be notified the next day so they might contact you please write on your slips “notify” or “advise” with both your name and your speed dating number and both their name and their speed dating number (I need the names on the slip for this system) and I will take particular note of that and send any notifications to those who have selected you for them to contact you – but it a tends to be a bit chancy, you may well never hear from them. Experience shows if you do not make plans on the night (when they can still remember who you are because you are in front of them and planning your next meeting there and then or going off together) about half or more of the matches go stale and never meet up. On the night is still the best but you have the option. I suggest if you wish to follow up or be followed up (good luck) the next day send me a very thoughtfully written email written to them, maybe with your photo (why not propose and outline a date and suggest a venue and date or two or three perhaps based upon what you spoke about, this requires some forethought before your speed dates, and I will forward it. This alternative can be very effective if done right and can really sort them out. No other speed dating company offers these options. In fact I could then collect all those propositions and post them anonymously on a separate webpage linked off this one for people to peruse and get ideas.

An interesting phenomenon: over the years I have noticed something interesting happening on speed dating nights when numbers are small (our minimum is 3+3, if less we just sit around and have drinks, still no loss, things have happened thence too). Large speed dating nights with 50 people may sound fine (can take up to 3 hours, solid hard exhausting work, you should be paid to go, you’re the one doing the work (I told where they get that many guys)) but it means that with too many people for the women the time is too short to pick up on character, personality, qualities and vibes and all the guys become a blur to them and any benefit is lost. I have often noticed that when we have had a small number, and hence longer (the duration of each date is determined by how many) when it has been 15 – 20 minutes per date the women have really warmed up and become responsive and picked up a lot and made more selections per woman than when there are larger numbers and they really become very warm events afterwards and the women I have noticed seem to need the extra time to get to know what the guys are like. The men are visual and make quick decisons but women who go deeper think the men are like them and can’t quite understand this. Men think the women are visual like them and don’t understand that most women need about 15-20 minutes to really pick up on what a guy is like (must be very time consuming for them (I can teach some extremely quick and ultra powerful techniques for women if they want to come to generally the other events and get me talking upon this subject, I am happy to expound, once a teacher, always a teacher - I now teach how to get any man you want for the women). I can teach some of the guys too how to get some of the women you want) at the Wednesday dinners). The women are on a completely different frequency and radar picking up other qualities and men don’t understand or know this. Over a lot of speed dating I have come to see this over and over again when doing the matches and the women have confirmed it. So with a small number, guys, the women are going to warm up more as the time goes by because they have more time to pick up the qualities and you can get a more rewarding response. Also with more time (if you don’t want to focus upon them) you have more time to ask about their girl or guy friends and investigate their potential contacts so you can multiply the number of people by asking about their available friends and then organize a follow up event to meet them or even ask for their phone numbers, etc etc.



We have Speed Dating on Monday nights so that if you have broken up over the weekend you can come along on a Monday night to find a new partner / lover / relationship straightaway - and of course you get the results on the night.

Numbers are limited to the first 12 girls and the first 12 guys who book. Arrival time is 7.00pm for 7.15pm start and the dating goes till 8.45pm. Buy your own drinks at the hotel. Bring a pen. It may be a good idea to make up some of your own questions, about 5 to 10 to ask although there will be a questions sheet provided for you to work off which you are welcome to keep.

How it works:

This is different – you won’t have read this sort of thing before – this is for the real spontaneous fun - and serious – people. Players beware unless you both are - then all is OK.

Our system is simple. Everyone has a number: all the girls get to be even and all the guys are odd as we say. During the evening you simply write down on as many slips as you like the numbers of the ones you fancy and would like to follow up on. Your number goes in the left circle, in the Your Number circle, and their number goes in the right circle, the Their Number circle. Please also put both your name and their name in the respective circles as this makes it easier for me at the end and you will remember the names better. At the end I collect everyone’s slips and separate out the two way matches where for example 5 chose 8 and 8 chose 5. When we have two reciprocal selections such as those we have a match. For maximum impact upon both of you your selections should not be discussed. You should keep them secret because then when you do get a match, if you get a match, it makes quite an impression on you. And of course on our nights you get your matches straightaway at the end so you can immediately make plans as to what to do next. Since you’ve both declared a sincere interest in getting to know each other better it tends to be a very powerful process especially when you get immediate results. If you have discussed picking each other the result may not have as much impact upon you and is less than what it could have been if it had been totally pure so keep it discreet. You can tell them to pick you but if that is said to you don’t let the other person know if you actually have picked them, although you could tell them to pick you too but don’t say if you actually have done so and don’t pick them unless you really mean it. When you get your match/s start making immediate plans or have some plans in mind. Either stay back together for drinks, or have an instant dinner date there and then or go off to get to know each other better as you have both picked each other and want each other.

A big attraction with our system where you get your matches on the night is that for some like-minded people who want their matches straightaway this allows them to go off together and spend the night together and I encourage you to do so if you are so minded as it a wonderful way to get to know someone intimately. If you have it in mind to spend the night with someone you really fancy who has matched with you you might say “if we match I have left the whole night free to spend quality time with the person who really really likes me so that we can really become acquainted as intensive friends – that will prove to you I am happy to show I really like you if you are ready and ready to do the same for me” or “ to show you I am serious if you pick me and I really really like you I am happy and ready to spend the night with to show you I am serious – but first I have a few little conditions and disqualifications which I will discuss later” (see below).

It is however suggested that if you are going to spend the night with your match you should beforehand lock in what you are going to do together on the Friday and Saturday nights following or over the weekend. It is advisable to secure these mini-commitments first (so maybe stop off for coffee) so your night together will be completely honourable and not just an deceptive one night stand. If your match will not commit to Friday and Saturday you may have just a player and a time waster and someone not really available so you should reconsider if you are going to spend the night with them. You will feel much more relaxed if Friday and Saturday are locked in the diary – yours and theirs – so bring it with you and expect them to bring theirs and write the dates in too.

Of course, if you don’t want to spend the night with them you just say “that won’t be happening, I don’t do that” or “not tonight, soon. I want to meet you again for coffee first and then we will plan the weekend so bring your diary and we’ll do all that first, so just be happy to wait a while. When everything’s in the diary, yours too, I’ll know you are serious - just wait for the weekend, honey, it will be really good - you don’t have anyone else, do you, so you’ll be with me, all weekend and on that weekend before anything else happens we’ll plan the next week out too.” Remember the purpose of each date is to arrange the next 2 or so dates and when you have those mini-commitments you can proceed to other activities. (Hint: get them to book the restaurant for a dinner on the weekend in their name (ring the restaurant to check that they have) so that if they don’t turn up the restaurant can chase them for the money. If you’re really game get a deposit off them by saying “guys always double cross me so give me $100 for the dinner and then I’ll know you are serious. If you didn’t read what David wrote then you miss out tonight honey, don’t make the same mistake next time. I was so hot for you tonight but you’re starting to blow it. Us girls always do our little tests so we get the best and when we’re sold then WOW ! Pass all the little tests and I’ll make you so glad you did. Impress me and make me happy and you’ll be very very happy.” Have fun. Of course always remember to put the requisite precautionary steps in place such as mini-commitments and have ready the disqualification options and of course remember this is only for those who are comfortable with quick decisions. Failure to do so could constitute recklessness. Many people like more time but if the arousal is there and mutual why block the transmissions and not proceed? If you want more ideas ask me. I have some more real shockers for the girls to use which I can’t print here, two or three in particular when you have some time).

However, be advised, with our system although you get your match/s on the night you can get more than one match and then you may have an interesting problem but one that is worth having and solving – and it seems to take many by complete surprize – “two or three or more matches, what do I do now??” You will have to be a little more discreet in some cases and if doing the overnight thing work out how you’re going to navigate it. Some won’t mind or care but a good idea is just to say you‘re going to stay back with the group and keep chatting and maybe have dinner as about half usually do. You will have to play it by ear if you don’t want it known that you have more than one match - you will have to be more diplomatic. If you only get one match then things are more straightforward but more good matches are always worth having. A suggestion is to get all the mobile phone numbers and leave and five minutes later ring your favourite and tell them to meet you at a certain place or their place to chat and plan and then go on for the night - again have somewhere in mind.

When you achieved a satisfactory result why not email me your story of what happened with any advice and I’ll post it.

You can make as many selections as you like and you can even put down “all” if you want to discover all the ones with very good taste who chose you - as even if you aren't attracted to them you may have overlooked some people in making your choices and so may miss out on making some good friends who are greatly impressed with you. It's a nice way to start a friendship or a relationship as you both have made a declaration for each other and it can be a very powerful process. Even if you are not greatly attracted to someone who has chosen you they may, as a good new-found friend, recommend you to some of their friends, one of whom may just prove to be the right one for you - so be open to possibilities.

What to do if you get a match: swap phone numbers, arrange a coffee date within days straightaway, (have an idea as to where in mind), stay back and have a drink or meal together or go off together. The keen ones don't have dinner beforehand but have dinner with their match, who hopefully, in anticipation, hasn't had dinner either: an instant dinner date! If you get more than one match this may not work – but that creates an interesting problem for you so just stay back with the group and organize matters discreetly.

A recent email and it’s response which may be of interest:

Comment: Speed dating to me is the event that can be the most anxious making out

of all your events ... especially if it does not go well. To me the

restaurant event is not stressful compared to speed dating.


Response: Many women have described the restaurant nights as "non
confrontational". Speed dating of course is, it is the embodiment of it.
No wonder the people who tend to come to each tend to be fairly
different.
How might it not go well?, no matches? You can still check on
secondaries or have me send a special email the next day to any of the
guys. New wording about this is is now up on the speed dating site.
Then again it may be good that it "does not go well" because to get a
match you have to make a selection, at least one, and if there's no one
there you fancy you would not pick anyone and so, of course, you would
get no matches and you would know that that was happening so in that
case you would not worry that it "did not go well".

WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET A MATCH

What to do if you get a match: swap phone numbers, arrange a coffee date within days straightaway, (have an idea of where in mind), stay back and have a drink together. The keen ones don't have dinner beforehand but have dinner with their match, who hopefully, in anticipation, hasn't had dinner either: an instant dinner date! If you get more than one match this may not work so you are advised just to swap phone numbers with your matches and stay back and chat with the group and arrange to meet each match later.

At this new venue you will be able to have an instant dinner date with your new match as dining is open till 9.30 pm so you may have a very interesting time - or you might just decide to have dinner there so come hungry for love and food and be willing to encourage interested parties to select you and have dinner with you there and then or later. If you get just one match it is better to continue on for an instant dinner date there and then or at least swap phone numbers and have a drink together unless you or they are in a hurry to leave.

For more details and some interesting write ups on some recent nights visit the special bonus website at Speed dating and Matchmating Events website at mm.html.

Bookings to David on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365. To see up to the minute real-time bookings for this event click here. If numbers are low or are still building then book in early and it will attract others to book in.

To find on the map type the address at Concord type Clermont Ave Concord into http://maps.google.com.au/

To get there by public transport check out www.131500.info.

Work off the question sheet, which you get to keep, or bring your own questions or just chat on the night.

Room for only the first 12 girls and first 12 guys.

Times: Mondays: 7.00 – 8.15 pm.

Ring David now on 8214 8397 or 0419 605 365 to book in.

For other more discreet events on other nights of the week where you can meet other people wanting to find new partners and friends over dinner click here for a summary of other events.

To learn some dating skills and how to increase your chances of being selected go to ft1dating.html

and

to learn how to start a safe formal full on relationship from day one of the relationship with a relationship agreement go to ft1ra.html

For links to the major local Internet Dating websites with large numbers of new people to meet where you can join for free and put up a profile for free and receive email contacts for free click here.

For the very popular dinner events etc. in detail click here

The Love Lotto selection process central to our speed dating nights allowing for the unique instant discovery of the matches on the night is the intellectual property of David Murphy as of 2000 and its design on the slips is copyright.