The new power lunch...
Posted on 06/08/2019 7:18:19 PM PDT by Cecily
The famed Four Seasons Restaurant in New York, which for decades was a go-to spot for power brokers to hobnob over lunch, will shut its doors on Tuesday. The 60-year-old upscale dining spot hasn't been able to hold onto its clientele, Four Seasons managing partner Alex von Bidder told CNN Business on Saturday, and its investors "lacked the confidence to fund it for another year or six months." He confirmed earlier reports in the New York Post and The New York Times that the restaurant will close indefinitely after lunchtime on Tuesday. Forty years ago, The Four Seasons became known as a go-to destination for Wall Streeters, publishers, movie producers and other executives who would hash out business deals amid the lavish decor and seasonal dishes. A 1979 article in Esquire magazine used the term "power lunch" to describe the midday meetings; the phrase and its association with the Four Seasons stuck around for decades.
The restaurant, however, lost its home at the Seagram Building on Manhattan's Park Avenue when its lease expired in 2016.
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Probably tastes like crap anyway since DeBlasio has banned salt and soft drinks.
I've gone to most of the Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Manhattan (there are now six of them). They are absolutely mobbed at all times.
I'm thinking these are mostly commuters from Westchester County, Southern Connecticut, Long Island and Staten Island.
If I recall correctly de Blasio recently reaffirmed that good liberals should continue to boycott Chick-fil-A.
This is something I do not understand, as to the continued liberal efforts against Chick-fil-A. The Liberals won the battle over homosexual marriage. So what’s going on here do they feel the need to punish those who were against them, punish those who are not always in favor of homosexual marriage?
Just saying, theoretically their lives should be complete now that they can experience the joys of homosexual marriage openly and legally. Why the need to be punitive against those who oppose them?
The Texas men's basketball program went to the NIT tournament in 1978. Their head coach was the comedic gem named Abe Lemons. Lemons ordered an egg for breakfast and, when he got the bill, asked the waiter to get the chef. When the chef arrived at the table, Lemons demanded to see the hen that laid his $10 egg. "I just want to shake her wing," he told the chef. I don't think Abe ate at the Four Seasons. I think this was some diner on Broadway.
“Anybody staying here at the hotel? Have you looked at the breakfast menu? … Look at the breakfast menu. It’s one of the funniest things you’ll ever want to see. Says, one egg, any style, a dollar thirty-five.”
“All I know is, when that egg comes to me, it better have an act.”
-Bill Cosby from around 1969
Now that they mention Four Seasons, I had lunch at the Dallas Four Seasons with a supplier rep. As we sat down at our table, the rep noticed a woman alone at her table. He asked her if she’d like to join us for lunch. She said no.
Over lunch the rep and I talked about a lot of stuff but what sticks in memory was about Texie Waters, the exec in charge of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. My MIL worked as Texie’s assistant/secretary.
We finished our meals, then the lady left her table and told us she had overheard our conversation and was sorry to not have joined us as she had interests in the Cheerleaders, too.
This was in the days before every-man-a-rapist, but heralded what was coming.
I used work with a basketball group (yes, I’m being evasive). One time they put me up at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago and told me to put the breakfast tab on the room and don’t freak out on the price. This was over thirty years ago. Bacon and eggs, hash browns: $27. Coffee $5. Nevertheless, I still freaked out.
Liberals do not attack CFA because they are anti-queer, but because they are pro-family. In their warped minds pro-family equals anti-whatever-perversion.
A former hangout for me back in the late 80s & early 90s when I flew into NYC for work every several months. Loved the place.
Walked in there several times & stopped the crowd with a B-list actress on my arm that I was seeing at the time. People loved to gossip & to be seen. They did not know who the hell I was, but they knew her as that was her prime acting window.
It had the best dessert-tray in the city along with impeccable service. Good times.
Geez, the power lunch was dead in the 90s. CNN should come into the 21st Century.
Because the left have a totalitarian mindset. Why do communists kill people left and right even when they have total control of things? The use of terror as a political tactic to keep people in mortal fear is very useful to them in terms of maintaining that control at least that is the theory anyway.
Starting in the late 80’s, we could not drink during business hours but our customer could. I was in international sales. Most non-American customers thought we’d gone stark raving mad!!
So I was always playing the old world clock game (”let me see, it must be 22.00h in Seattle so I can have a drink.....” Or “Gee, it must be 0600 in Tokyo so I’ll have a beer...”)
A blackened tuna steak sandwich might be right at that price. But it better be good bread lol.
It’s all about control. They have to control you. You must accept them. And once you do, they progress forward and force you to accept another insanity. I jumped off that train over a decade ago when I threw my TV in the trash.
The Four Seasons moved to East 49th Street in 2017 after the developer Aby Rosen ousted the restaurant after he took over the landmark Seagrams skyscraper in 2016. Rosen was not happy with the physical appearance of the 50 year-old Four Seasons. It must have cost them greatly for the extensive construction process in the new location. The improvements they hoped would attract more customers as well as improvements they did not have in the original Park Avenue location. I think they got way over their head with expenses. I didn’t help when the restaurant’s longtime managing partner, Julian Niccolini, resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations.
I have never liked ‘business lunches’. I’m always wondering what the real reason for the meal is. I don’t like being judged on how loudly I sip my soup. I just wish it to be over. I understand some, if not most people feel differently, and are used to dining with diplomacy.
To no one in particular: say what you will about Wall Street. I have issues with the people there too, and know one broker who is incredibly obnoxious.
However, in the days after September 11th, many showed they apparently love this country. More than I can say for many liberals in the USA.
When is that NOT true?
In the 80’s I worked in an office right above the Four Seasons. Every morning we could smell bread baking.
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