Originally Posted by
hfly
1. I was meeting a French client for lunch, the Pizza Hut was downstairs from her office and SHE insisted on it. It would be rude not to eat there.
So true! I've had meetings in lots of great food cities...Paris, HK, NYC, etc...where lunch was a takeout sandwich, an ordered-in pizza, or even crap out of a vending machine. Contrary to popular belief, every working lunch in Paris isn't 3 hours with endless carafes of wine and fine Parisian cuisine. (Sadly.
) If it's a larger multi-day meeting, it's often handled by an office caterer approximately as good as the ones we use in Kansas, Chicago, or Phoenix.
Honestly, the place where business lunches never suck is Portland. No matter how tight the schedule is, there are 20 food trucks across the street from our office from which to choose. They're permanently there, and most of them are quite good.