Corporate Diner Prints

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.'

Countervailing Clichés.

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

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

'How is the water prepared?'

"Expense account or regular?"

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

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

'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?.'

"Aperitif?"

When Managers have a Four Seasons pizza.

'Can I get a box for this?'

Unintelligible speaker at Subway Announcers Dinner.

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

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

'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.'

"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?'

'Excellent cork, go ahead and pour.'

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

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

'Your tea is getting cold.'

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

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

'Careful, the plate is really hot.'