More Business Meal Tips
- When you are entertaining one client, sit next to each other at a right angle rather than across the table.
- When you entertain two clients put one across from you and the other to your side. You don’t want to look like a ping pong ball.
- At a breakfast meeting time is short so get down to business quickly. At lunch, wait until you have ordered so you won’t be interrupted.
- Dinner, even for a business meal is the more social occasion, is a time for rapport building.
- If the food or service is poorly executed at a business meal excuse yourself to discuss any problems with the staff in private.
- Limit the amount of alcohol you drink at the business meal. The three Martini lunch is mostly a thing of the past.