CHICK-FIL-A?
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
CHICK-FIL-A?
It’s true, Location, Location, Location!
Grub Hub and Skype is the new power lunch.
Power lunch today:
Wonder how much NYS’s past, current, and future minimum wage hikes had to do with this....
I guess they wouldn't pay a higher rent so they moved, hmmm.
$15.00 - $25.00 minimum wages killed them?
Probably tastes like crap anyway since DeBlasio has banned salt and soft drinks.
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.
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.
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.
In the 80’s I worked in an office right above the Four Seasons. Every morning we could smell bread baking.
Things also ebb and flow. There likely will be a revival of the power lunch relatively soon.
ML/NJ