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Four Seasons Restaurant is Closing. Is the Power Lunch Dead?
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| June 8, 2019
| Jackie Wattles
Posted on 06/08/2019 7:18:19 PM PDT by Cecily
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Maybe they "power lunch" differently these days.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:18:19 PM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
Pretty sure we here in fly-over country paid a fair share of the $36.00 tuna sandwiches. Wall-Streeters ate these on their expense accounts and wrote them off their taxes, right up until the crunch. Then we bailed them out.
I’m not bitter, but I am tired of it.
MAGA
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:23:15 PM PDT
by
oldplayer
To: oldplayer
OK, I’m Wall Street but I really enjoyed this restaurant!
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:27:17 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!)
To: Cecily
Maybe they "power lunch" differently these days. CHICK-FIL-A?
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:29:23 PM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. - Psalm 33:12)
To: Cecily
It’s true, Location, Location, Location!
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:30:55 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-ampute)
To: Cecily
Grub Hub and Skype is the new power lunch.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:31:46 PM PDT
by
peggybac
(Government is about force. It always has been about force.)
To: Cecily
Power lunch when America was still America:
Power lunch today:
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:31:47 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: oldplayer
“Im not bitter, but I am tired of it.”
Agree entirely. NYC ‘wealth’ includes a lot of money made off the efforts and money of others.
To: Bonemaker
Liberals ruin everything.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:37:02 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Bonemaker
I worked in mid town Manhattan 1974 - 82. We used to “drink” our lunch on pay day and had a nice lunch. It was the tail end of the "Mad Men" era
Then the young tight asses put the screws to coming back to the office hammered (about 1985). And the new feminists said we were being exclusionary (hell, we'd invite the ladies along)
The difference? We made money in the 2 martini days.
As the Japanese “salary men” say - you don't know somebody until you've been drunk together (in other words, team building)
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:39:52 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Vote, while it is still legal!)
To: stars & stripes forever
Chick Fil A
It is statistically IMPOSSIBLE for that crowd around the block that I’ve seen to be made of less than 65 percent democrat. :)
Dems outnumber Rs in the city now by almost 6 to 1.
But just like a number of us here use Amazon, dems make exceptions also.
It’s a superior product and when you’re stomach is rumbling, a restaurant’s stance on gay marriage doesn’t matter much!
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:40:06 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: BunnySlippers
I’m glad you enjoyed it, but I don’t think I could ever enjoy a tuna sandwich for $36.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:40:21 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
To: Cecily
Wonder how much NYS’s past, current, and future minimum wage hikes had to do with this....
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:40:58 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: llevrok
As the Japanese salary men say - you don't know somebody until you've been drunk together (in other words, team building) Almost every KDrama I've watched features scenes of employees going out, getting drunk and singing Karaoke.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:41:02 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: libertylover
At least it kept the riff-raff out.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:41:35 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Cecily
The restaurant, however, lost its home at the Seagram Building on Manhattan's Park Avenue when its lease expired in 2016. I guess they wouldn't pay a higher rent so they moved, hmmm.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:42:21 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
To: stars & stripes forever
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:47:58 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Bonemaker
Those are the skimpiest martinis I've ever seen.
And even worse, they're probably vodka.
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posted on
06/08/2019 7:55:26 PM PDT
by
semimojo
To: llevrok
The last time I had alcohol at a business lunch was in 1986 so your timetable seems pretty accurate. Yes, it was right around then that all the corporate memos went out prohibiting alcohol during business hours for any reason whatsoever. The "Mad Men" era came to an abrupt end.
Here's some trivia for you. As we got into the 1990s, corporate America started prohibiting any expense reimbursement for alcoholic beverages even if you took a client for dinner - after business hours.
That's about when restaurants started giving you two receipts if you paid by credit card. One receipt listed out all the menu items you ordered (including drinks) and the other receipt only listed the total amount charged - without any itemization. The latter was the receipt you turned in with your expenses and corporate would be none the wiser as they processed the expense. So long as alcohol was not listed on the receipt, you would get reimbursed.
To: Cecily
$15.00 - $25.00 minimum wages killed them?
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:00:15 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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