Question about eating meals at work

[garbon]

Are you thinking she'd be going to the grocery store while traveling for work?

[Josquius]

Are you thinking she'd be going to the grocery store while traveling for work?

No.
But getting food from somewhere reasonable should only cost about 5 quid a time at the most (that would be a big spend for me).

[garbon]

Well B is a grown woman so I doubt she just wants to grab some chips for a meal.

[Maximus]

May want to eat more than twice a day too.

[Syt]

Do restaurants/eateries in NYC/London have lunch time specials?

[DontSayBanana]

Do restaurants/eateries in NYC/London have lunch time specials?

Can't speak for London, but NYC, sure.

That said, lunch specials are still way less cost-effective than bringing lunch.  I find it helps to think of it in terms of getting the car fixed.  If you've got the know-how, you're only going to pay for parts.  If you take it to a mechanic, you're going to pay for parts plus labor.

[The Brain]

Are you thinking she'd be going to the grocery store while traveling for work?

No.
But getting food from somewhere reasonable should only cost about 5 quid a time at the most (that would be a big spend for me).

[Martinus]

My guess is Portugual has an overly strong restaruant lobby.

Don't think so. If I were to bet my lunch money on it, I would say this comes from the paternalistic tradition of Salazar. This seems a lot like what we had during the communist era (where there was no overly strong restaurant lobby) and seems a type of thing Catholic "socialist" paternalists would come up with.

This tradition does not view an employee as merely a contractor of the employer, but someone the employer should care for and protect (and someone who, like a feudal client or, in more paternalistic and "benevolent" interpretations, a slave, is simply less smart than the employer, and as such should be guided and have some decisions taken for him).

Ultimately, this is pseudo-feudal and such fringe benefits (other allowances include often stuff like clothes you need for work - even if it is just a suit - or a holiday allowance, a special allowance granted on the birth of children, or marriage, or funeral in the family and so on and so forth) that are not seen as a "real pay" (and thus are not taxed or are taxed differently) are a perfect example of this mentality.

To a free market capitalist mind these make no sense, as the employee is perceived as an autonomous economic actor who engages in a transaction of pure exchange of work for pay, but to a paternalistic mind these are all part of a social contract.

The only thing that surprises me is that, on a forum so full of educated people with broader horizons, noone seems to be able to grasp these cultural differences and all we get instead is Martim Silva being puzzled at the Anglosaxons and the Anglosaxons being puzzled at Martim Silva.

[Martinus]

So that my post does not get ignored as being too reasonable and balanced (aka the PDH's Curse), here's the executive summary: I'm smart and you are all stupid. 

[Eddie Teach]

By the way, when you travel for work, you can only claim expenses for meals you'd normally eat at home, i.e. breakfast and dinner. The place I currently work at has a top limit of £12 a day 

?
Thats loads.

No that isn't.

You don't think 12 pounds is a lot of food? 

[Josquius]

Are you thinking she'd be going to the grocery store while traveling for work?

No.
But getting food from somewhere reasonable should only cost about 5 quid a time at the most (that would be a big spend for me).

In Britain anyway. In Scandiweenia you have to remortgage your house to eat.

[Syt]

Well, in Vienna lunch time specials are between 6 and 9 EUR on average. If you go for, say a 7 EUR meal (soup + main course, usually), that leaves you with 5 EUR for breakfast/dinner. With that money you could go to a deli counter in the supermarket and get maybe, two, three basic sandwiches (i.e. a roll + some lunch meat on it). And then you haven't had anything to drink yet. 12 EUR would cover "normal" breakfast in a café plus an average lunch I suppose, but then you've had no dinner yet.

[garbon]

Well, in Vienna lunch time specials are between 6 and 9 EUR on average. If you go for, say a 7 EUR meal (soup + main course, usually), that leaves you with 5 EUR for breakfast/dinner. With that money you could go to a deli counter in the supermarket and get maybe, two, three basic sandwiches (i.e. a roll + some lunch meat on it). And then you haven't had anything to drink yet. 12 EUR would cover "normal" breakfast in a café plus an average lunch I suppose, but then you've had no dinner yet.

Lunch special would help her considering that isn't a meal that qualifies (she only gets breakfast and dinner covered).

[garbon]

The only thing that surprises me is that, on a forum so full of educated people with broader horizons, noone seems to be able to grasp these cultural differences and all we get instead is Martim Silva being puzzled at the Anglosaxons and the Anglosaxons being puzzled at Martim Silva.

Good thing we have the oh so wise and experienced Mart to help us out.

[The Brain]

We couldn't put a sign on the forum that said "No Portuguese". But, no Portuguese.