Corporate Dining Gifts

Which wine will go well with a limited expense account?

'What wine goes with enormous expense account?.'

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

'You forget, I'm a blackbelt in powerpoint.'

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

"'Quid pro quo' is a no-no, Bradbury. Around here we say 'reciprocal altruism'."

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

'The efficiency expert's recommendation is we drink more coffee!'

'It has come to my attention that we need to hedge against our five-year plan.'

"We're experienced an extraordinary amount of growth this year."

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

"Vintage? What would you like it to be?"

'I'm judging by your silence Al that you're giving me the green light on the Greenwich project. I just want to say that I admire your leadership. I guess that's why you've been running this company for 20 years.'

"Monsieur, si vous plaît. I'm sure I ordered the fusilli and not the Fusilier."

Bo're'droom

"Ok, do we agree the minutes of the last meeting?"

"I have no idea what, hic, went wrong. I did everything, hic, Mario Batali said."

'I'm sorry, but everyone is in a meeting.'

'Mr. Dawson, about when I said 'don't pull any punches'...'

"Waiter! Two of your finest menus!"

'This is one of our most recent vintages!'

Inclusive speech

'Why, of course I remember our first date -- I had filet mignon, potatoes au gratin, sauteed....'

"So then the VP of Sales looks right at me and says 'Larry, what's going on? We don't have any traction in the market.' Like it's MY fault!"

"That report on corporate redundancy... I'd like it in triplicate."

"We need to reset our fiscal compass to the changing business horizon."

"I drink just enough coffee to make me think I can do my job."

"That's Paul, he's our head of partnerships..."

Lethal Presentation

'Now THAT'S a presentation! Great delivery, great graphics, and he moonwalks from the room.'

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

Sales chart is buildings in background.