I should know, after my recent lunching experiences.
It weakens the resolve of editors down the line if they think their bosses are lunching with their critics.
I was lunching with the managing director of a specialist firm in exactly that context today.
That is obviously why he keeps so fit, despite his evidently heavy lunching programme.
I hope that that cordiality will continue into private life and that we shall have the opportunity to continue lunching together at regular intervals, with his permission.
With whom are they lunching there?
He returns home, furious, to find them lunching at his home.
Due to his constant lunching at these clubs, he is a remarkably fat 25-pounder.