Gaby, a high-end French restaurant in Manhattan’s Sofitel New York, launched a lunch idea earlier this summer: 30 bucks for a 30-minute meal.
Could this be ideal for the savvy entrepreneur looking to butter up more than bread with a potential client or investor? Maybe not.
More than ever before, the wide array of lunchtime options makes picking a venue a bit of a crapshoot. Do you opt for a longish, pricey meal that evokes the Mad Men era? How about those 30-minute briskly moving sit-down affairs? Maybe “trucking it” is a better choice to demonstrate your hipness factor. And, hey, what about just ordering in?
“Picking the best lunch option is about intent, location, and perception,” says David Leite, the publisher of Leite’s Culinaria, an online food publication, and the author of The New Portuguese Table. Leite, who has 18 years’ experience in the advertising business, says one of the biggest challenges facing an entrepreneur trying to advance a lunch deal is time.
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Author: Coeli Carr
