While we’re on the subject, as promised here’s a 1983 lunch receipt from the swanky Fleur de Lys, once again provided by my eighties ad agency survivor Mary Will.
If you’re new to the marketing industry and wonder why everybody over 50 speaks nostalgically about the ‘liquid lunch’, this will give you some idea of what they’re talking about. Bear in mind this is for just three people, herself included.
A Quiet Lunch in the 80's
Beer, wine, cognac, Irish coffee, sherry, liqueur … what is Coopers Cook? Prices look good, although is that $11 for a glass of cab sav or the bottle?
Sadly there’s not much detail on the food – WTF is an oyster cocktail? How did the avocado come? Please tell me sliced thinly and spread around your plate like a fan!
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I was clearly born in the wrong decade.
ReplyDeleteI'm a marketer and I can count on one hand the number of boozey lunches (ok, work sanctioned boozey lunches) I've had. Hell sometimes we aren't even allowed to go to junkets which more or less circumvents my motives for this career choice.
Oh and $3 beers. I could live forever on stroganoff if there were still $3 beers
Ripped off, Debbie! Hope all these young communications grads know they're going to be lunching daily at their deskaurant ...
ReplyDeleteIf you use the reserve banks inflation calculator. It equates to only about $480-500 in today's money. Not a cheap lunch. But I have seen and had a lot worse bills. I expected it would have been a lot more.
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Ha, nice calculating Mike cheers! For me it's not the size of the bill so much as the proportion of it devoted to alcohol, and the range of different beverages. Looks like a country desperate to discover a few new varieties of wine to me ...
ReplyDeletewow if only eating out was still that cheap!
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