Please help me to decide on strategy for a company dinner

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Skelton
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Please help me to decide on strategy for a company dinner

Post by Skelton » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:15 pm

I need to attend a business dinner on Tuesday evening.
The set menu consists of 5 courses.
I feel like I can comfortably skip dessert in favour of the cheese course, but I will feel self conscious and will attract curious comments and questions on our table of six if I refuse all other courses except the main course.

So, strategy advice please. I see my choices like this :

a) Make it an S day. Go and enjoy the dinner with no restrictions. The problem I see here is that it's NOT an S day is it? :lol: It's not a weekend, it's not my birthday, it's not a special celebration. If I let this one become an S day I'm in danger of allowing all business dinners to be such and as many of us know, it's a slippery slope.

b)It's an N day so go with that. Try to virtual plate as I go along, ie take a few bites of each course and skip dessert.

Any advice? What would you do?
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wosnes
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Post by wosnes » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:56 pm

As long as these dinners are infrequent occurrences, here's what I'd do: I'd make it an S event (the whole day isn't an S, just this one meal). I wouldn't try to virtual plate or skip a course. Concentrate on the main course, but don't ignore the other courses, just eat less of them. With dessert, for instance, I'd take three bites and be done with it.

If I were in control of what I was being served, at a restaurant, for instance, I wouldn't order that much food except on an S day. When I'm not in control, I eat some of everything being served. It doesn't happen often, so I don't worry about it.
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Amy3010
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Post by Amy3010 » Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:30 pm

I would go for an S-event too. That way you can be stress free (about the food at least!) throughout the evening, without needing to sacrifice the entire day.

Good luck!
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Skelton
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Post by Skelton » Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:12 pm

Thanks Wosnes and Amy, I'll make it an S Event. I hadn't even thought of doing that. It doesn't happen this way too often, maybe once every 6 months or so. Usually at company dinners we're given a menu just like a restaurant so we can make our own choice about how many courses to eat and so on. But these 'set menu' dinners come around maybe twice a year.
Anyway, by making it an S Event I can go ahead and enjoy the dinner in the knowledge that I'm still on track.
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