It’s lunchtime with the Americans. It’s usually lunchtime with the Americans if you look at it in terms of the number of hours in the work week and how many of those they spend at lunch or recovering from it. Each will drink three martinis before they even look at a menu. A new waiter last week made the mistake of presenting a menu to the president of Western Van Doreen Engineering when he was just one drink in. He got his correction — not from the president but from the maître d’, who got the look from the president. That waiter was gone from the restaurant before they were. These guys don’t lose their temper. It’s 1956 in the
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