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Blue_true

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11. I have a good friend who is in that business.

Reply to UniteFightBack (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 08:45 PM

Jun 2019

A big component to success is lasting long enough to develop a name. The closing restaurant certainly had the name part down, so other things likely caused it to fail. My view is that even wealthy people don't have the time or patience to sit around idly with their economic class. That is why institutions that promoted that are failing.

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The Power Lunch Is Officially Dead [View all] brooklynite Jun 2019 OP

Country clubs, murielm99 Jun 2019 #1

How it was used is one thing; it was still a fine restaurant. brooklynite Jun 2019 #2

That sounds like 1970's food. murielm99 Jun 2019 #3

Lots of businesses are enacting no-alcohol policies. Initech Jun 2019 #9

Think about paying $150,000 per year to play the same golf courses, Blue_true Jun 2019 #10

"The maitre d' came by to ask ... if she could join them" Retrograde Jun 2019 #4

The key point was that Brooke Astor knew the host... brooklynite Jun 2019 #5

"The restaurant world has changed" and you go out when you don't change with it. nt UniteFightBack Jun 2019 #6

I have a good friend who is in that business. Blue_true Jun 2019 #11

Maybe it's dead at that restaurant, but I can assure you the power lunch is still alive and well. nt cwydro Jun 2019 #7

The Internet has changed the dynamics. People don't have to meet face to face. nt Blue_true Jun 2019 #12

However, many still do. cwydro Jun 2019 #13

I have to admit. I occasionally like sitting around with people that have the Blue_true Jun 2019 #14

The power lunches that I'm referring to usually involve business deals. cwydro Jun 2019 #15

Relic from a bygone era. Today people grad lunch at the building cafeteria and eat at their desk Blue_true Jun 2019 #8

More places provide free murielm99 Jun 2019 #16