Oh, simple enough, a wonderful service called LunchBoxPal.
Have you ever been on a business trip, at a conference, or even in some city on vacation, and yearned to meet-up with somebody for a lunch break? A morning coffee, maybe? You know how it is, you’re sitting in your hotel room alone and wish you just had something to do before your flight back home.

Well, LunchBoxPal is here to help. Think of it as a more mature and targeted craigslist, and cross that with some common social networking features you’d find at facebook. 

“LunchBoxPal is going to be a new form of professional networking geared towards bringing people together in the physical world, rather than just in cyberspace.  With most social networking tools, it just allows people to become friends with others that you currently know, or have met once or twice.  We’re looking to create professional relationships that won’t exist online, but actually where people get out and connect.”

To this date, founder Brandon Dohman has paid a single $200 towards all development and work on LunchBoxPal. The now-tech-consultant-gone-serial-entrepreneur estimates future expenses of $3-5,000 to get LBP into the spotlight. When asked, Dohman replied he’ll either be making these investments himself, or possibly seeking a strategic partner to help out.

So far, Dohman hopes to connect colleagues and people meeting up through the site with restaurant and cafes, which I think is a wise and strategic model. Take a look at their advertising page to learn more about it.

The idea popped into Dohman’s head when, “…one day while I was sitting bored at my desk during my lunch break.  Many times, I end up sitting at my desk reading through some blogs, or reading up on new business concepts, which after a month got boring.  And one day I realized… It would be nice if I had a way to connect with someone who wouldn’t mind catching a lunch and talking some business, or politics, or the most recent Family Guy episode.”

Still in pre-beta development stages, Dohman reports a hopeful launch date of May 31st. We couldn’t get our hands on any invites or screenshots just yet, but Brandon said the service will be based (though very heavily modified) off popular open-source networking platform Elgg. Hopefully we’ll be able to send out a few beta invites once things come closer to being ready. Look out for more coverage on LunchBoxPal as it unwraps.