21.   Even those who think themselves well-mannered were taken aback when the teacher advised against ordering alcohol at a business lunch.

22.   For all the exotic outposts, the neighborhood also has something for seekers of predictable quick business lunches and staid pretheater dinners.

23.   For many, business lunches are a thing of the past, too.

24.   Gone are the days when it seemed that almost every business lunch was added on to a house account, with the careless wave of a hand.

25.   In late September, Kimpton abruptly closed its Embarcadero Center restaurant, Splendido, where the volume of business lunches and dinners had fallen sharply.

26.   It may be because the participants wrongly assume that a business breakfast is not as important as a business lunch.

27.   It was a business lunch in SoHo like any other.

28.   Meeting the boss for a business lunch in a noisy restaurant?

29.   More and more companies are canceling their memberships in lunch clubs because of federal rules cutting back on the tax break given for business lunches.

30.   Meanwhile, Berghoff thrives on business lunches, with patrons jamming the long bar.