[Quality_Not_Quantity]

What company is providing $25.00 lunches? You’re hard-pressed to spend that much at a high-end restaurant (unless you’re doing the 3-martini thing).

[Buckeye McFrog]

(unless you’re doing the 3-martini thing).

Remember when Jimmy Carter tried to clamp down on the 3 martini thing? Led to a great episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where Arthur Calson sent out a memo stating that the station would follow the President's lead.

Schlocky sales guy Herb Tarlek immediately ran into his office and said, "YOU try selling time on this station to a sober client!"

[Vigilanteman]

Not in New York. When I was in the corporate world and went on business there even two decades ago, it was hard to find a decent sit down lunch for less than $30.

Of course, when it was my own money, or a set allowance, I found a Bistro for under $10 or used one of those ubiquitous snack carts for even less . . .

[Starstruck]

What company is providing $25.00 lunches? You’re hard-pressed to spend that much at a high-end restaurant (unless you’re doing the 3-martini thing).

I live in a fairly cheap cost of living area and the $8-10 meal we used to get at a moderate restaurant 10 years ago is now close to the $25 mark. That is also drinking iced tea.

[jiggyboy]

That might be a little high, but it’s not outrageous. Try to find more than a “recession buster” “limited time” lunch at Applebee’s or TGIF or Red Robin or Outback or any of those kinds of places or even Denny’s these days for less than ten bucks, plus a soda, there’s two or three more, tax and tip and that’s $17 or $18 for a fancy burger and fries and their special cole slaw or fish & chips or a big Cobb Salad. And that’s the level of cuisine you’ll see at these Silicon Valley places. Add a dessert, ‘cuz it’s right there for the taking at the end of the lunch line, and there’s easily a twenty-plus-dollar restaurant meal.