Corporate Diner Gifts

Power lunch

"Even the waiters here are organic."

"This place is one of New York's best-kept secrets."

'I want to make a positive environmental statement - What do you suggest I order?'

'I never should have ordered the diet platter.'

'Dang! I never now if the sommelier is messing with me.'

"You have a big check because you had a big wine."

Countervailing Clichés.

'I really can't stay for dessert. Why don't you stay and DVR the rest of the date for me?'

'How is the water prepared?'

"Expense account or regular?"

"No, my consomme was perfect, but my husbands calamari is a little underdone."

What's your thumb doing on my steak? Want me to drop it again?

'Six different chefs in six months and they still can't make a decent broth!'

'So,,,apparently you're really a dude,'

"Regular service or affected?"

As I say, local produce, locally produced; all our meats tonight come form our local meat processing plant.

'What wine goes with enormous expense account?.'

'What wine do you recommend with the peanut butter-filled, deep fried, jalapeno bacon bombs?'

'They're not mints - they're antacid tablets.'

Unintelligible speaker at Subway Announcers Dinner.

When Managers have a Four Seasons pizza.

"Aperitif?"

'How would you like that? Medium, rare, or wrapped in plastic on a foam tray?'

'One businessman's lunch-on-the-rocks and one businessman's special straight-up.'

'Can I get a box for this?'

"Perhaps I'm asking too much of you in the way of companionship."

'Yeah we found it, hey Ichabod, remember that jack o' lantern somebody left at table two this morning? Where is it?'

'Due to budget cutbacks we are combining our annual employee dinner with The Seven Basic Quality Control Tools Training.'

'Excellent cork, go ahead and pour.'

'Waiter, you seem to have mixed my bill up with somebody who wants to buy this restaurant.'

An art director eats: 'Waiter! Does this lettuce say 'salad' to you?'

I like the look of the sherry trifle!

"When I eat out, I like to order something I would never make at home."

'Your tea is getting cold.'