The Luncheon Club was even more exclusive than the Rainbow Room, consisting of 600 members and a board of nine governors. A prospective member had to be known to at least two of these governors to even be considered for the lunch club, let alone be accepted. Women were banned from the club. Jewish membership was limited to 3.5 per cent of all members at any given time, ostensibly because that was the ratio of the American Jewish population to the entire American population at the time. This failed to take into account the fact that Jews in New York City numbered 30% of the city's population, and so was considered an anti-Semitic measure for some time.