If it's done wrong, it's indistinguishable from the rest of your day. Do it right with this week's Top Picks . Lunch in a restaurant is where you go when you are waltzing through the last tango of a negotiation and what you need is not what's on the menu. What you really want is for him to hand over the money. But you smile and nod over a discussion mired in incandescent banality until at the end it is you who are presented with the check.
Lunch has a lot to do with power.
Power is having enough self-control to ask for a tossed salad sans dressing right after the other person has ordered the roast chicken with mashed potatoes. Lunch back then was something to look forward to. I thought I was in for just such a good time when I recently received an invitation that perked me up no end. Unfortunately it turned out to be a typographical error.