31.   Once after a business lunch of fancy French food, he confided to his lunch partner that he would have been just as happy with a bologna sandwich.

32.   One former officer had never had a business lunch until a couple of years ago and was unsure how to behave.

33.   Robert J. Eaton, the chief executive officer of Chrysler, said business lunches at strip clubs are prohibited.

34.   Some say this is where the business lunch has gone to die.

35.   Sometimes, they would not come back at all, and the business lunch would slide into dinner.

36.   Susan Friedland, an executive editor at HarperCollins who is also the director of cookbook publishing, recalls a business lunch a few years ago at Sushisay in Midtown.

37.   That relative scarcity is what gives the business lunch its special currency.

38.   The book is packed with tips on everything from how to charm waiters into giving you a better meal to the etiquette of hosting a business lunch.

39.   The Israeli business lunch here was packed with Arabs.

40.   The lucky beneficiaries include oil, gas, and timber companies, executives who eat a lot of business lunches, and firms producing energy from chicken excrement.