"Breakfast meetings the toast of town" by Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff | September 7, 2010
Forget about the power lunch — breakfast is back as the business meeting meal of choice.
They serve martinis at breakfast?
Many executives, facing smaller expense budgets and slimmer staffs, are turning to daybreak dining as a less expensive and quicker way to do business compared with more traditional lunch and dinner gatherings. And restaurants are expanding menus and operating hours to accommodate the surge in interest....
That can't be good for the economic recovery.
Also see: Boston Globe Takes Care of Business
Maybe they left a good tip.
It’s a far cry from the free-wheeling 1960s, when three-martini lunches were a staple of the businessman’s diet. That was, until Jimmy Carter denounced such lavish meals in a 1976 campaign pledge to crack down on expense-account abuses. Deal-making over dinner became increasingly common, along with more sober lunches.
The power breakfast made waves in the 1990s, but largely centered on fine dining spots like the Four Seasons, said Bonnie Riggs, a restaurant industry analyst with NPD Group, a market research firm. This time around, midtier restaurants are seeing the boon, while exclusive spots like Asana at the Mandarin Oriental and Bristol Lounge at the Four Seasons have not noticed an uptick in business breakfasts....
You know, the Globe can cook a turd so many ways but it still stinks.
Once again my Boston Globe breakfast ****.
It's always lemons = lemonade = good thing.
Of course, what else would you expect from an elite-serving, agenda-pushing, war-promoting PoS?
Today's front-page fare: Alarms on youth obesity in Mass.
Related:
"Researchers calculated the body mass index - a standard measurement of size.... There is growing debate about the accuracy of the standard method of calculating whether someone is overweight.... the system would put nearly half of NBA players in the overweight category"
Hey, what is ONE MORE AGENDA-PUSHING LIE, huh?
Yup, LESS FOOD for your "fat" kid so the ELITE can GORGE THEMSELVES!
