At one company I worked we got a new boss. He took everyone out, one by one, for a get to know you talk at the coffee shop next door. When he and I were done I went to slide the cheap plastic chair back and caught a leg on a cobble stone, folding and breaking it.
He said it was like watching the Titanic go down...
Oy. Not a bad idea for a new boss, but maybe a nicer restaurant might have been better. :)