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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ordering the most expensive item is just tacky. Shows you have no class or manners. [/quote]

Unreal. You neurotic strivers are projecting your class insecurities onto your kids. The rich literally don’t look at menu item prices. They don’t care. And an entree is never going to come close to the bottles of wine they uncork with reckless abandon anyways.

The guest should order whatever they want, whatever makes them happy and good conversation. Stop stressing your kids out about POINTLESS worries.[/quote]

I hate to say this, but PP is right. Your kid needs to just be a normal human being and have a meal. Order whatever. [/quote]

Plenty of rich people are cheap or at least aware of what they spend. When being treated, It is tacky to get the most expensive thing on the menu or to order multiple rounds of drinks when the host isn’t drinking. Whether they are counting pennies or not, many people would still notice. [/quote]

No, this is a DCUM striver trope. Rich spend money like water. If an old rich guy takes your dopey kid to a nice restaurant they’re clearly not pinching pennies. Some of you seem to lack any and all social IQ and soft skills. [/quote]

NP here. You sound like you don’t know any rich people. [/quote]

+1 the mentor isn’t taking him out to dinner bc he’s hungry FFs. It’s a test of class, manners and social graces. Not drinking (even if the mentor does), not ordering the most expensive thing, having good table manners, knowing his way around a menu, using the right fork and saying thank you are all essential behavior. And so is coming prepared with three non-political or religious conversation topics and having well-informed questions about the career. Mentor will spend first part “getting to know him as a person” which means all of the above except work. Second part will be work questions. Any actual business will be conducted after the entree.[/quote]

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