Friday, November 21, 2008

Sit-down business lunches

Last week, hubby attended two business conferences in some of the big names in the hospitality industry-the Semiramis Intercontinental and the Four Seasons. The peculiar thing was that both the breakfast and the lunch were served in the dining room as sit-down meals. Usually, at business conferences elsewhere, the meals are served in the buffet as it gives an opportunity to the participants to network, secondly it is faster and definitely convenient too. The sit-down affairs are more drawn out and make it very difficult to network. Of course, there is less wastage and the quantity of food that is served can be regulated since there is no possibility of “second helping”.

Am trying to find out if hubby’s experiences with sit-down lunches was an exception or is this the way things usually happen in Cairo?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I guess this is seen in quite a few places...we had an iftar party for the office ppl and it was a sit down affair. Similarly in one of the other smaller seminars which i attended also it was like that. However I hv seen some buffet parties also typically at social functions. Dont know if that is a distinction, that is followd

Sanks said...

Mukesh-Thanks for sharing your experiences.As I said the sit-down business lunches are a bit intriguing