Today the average time taken to eat lunch - usually in front of the computer - is roughly 15 minutes, according to researchers at the University of Westminster.
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That's led me to be more dedicated to my morning run or to lunch-time trips to the FORBES gym.
Roughly a fifth of the people polled now bring a flask and food to work to save money, and the average time spent on lunch has shrunk from a far-from-leisurely 33 minutes to an indigestion-inducing 19 minutes over the same period.
Additionally, it fails to offer restaurant recommendations or even to account for the amount of time lunch might take.
Bell, playing at three, posted his fifth successive 50 and Collingwood managed a couple of sixes off Holland before the tourists decided over lunch it was time to give Tremlett, Bresnan and Shahzad another opportunity with the ball.
The first time McClear had lunch with Denton, she returned to the office afterward and threw up.
St Ali certainly offers something different -- managing to feel like a place to have lunch and drink coffee at the same time.
But until the dust settles downtown, when it comes time to make deals, do lunch (or dinner) and bed down for the night, business travellers will likely head to stylish west side haunts in Beverly Hills, Century City, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.
While others are enjoying coffee or lunch, use the time to update yourself on your technology, your competitors, angel investors, or how to incorporate a new business.
For example, the federal government is now in the business of limiting lunch-time calories to high school athletes.
After Madoff made the invitation a second time, Wilpon happened to have lunch with an old friend named Howard Squadron.
And basketball legend Magic Johnson retold the time he went to Jackson's for lunch and watched Michael being served a bucket of fried chicken.
When Rumble in the Bronx opened the following year, Corliss repaid the favor by inviting Chan to lunch with me and other TIME editors in New York.
She attributed this to food poisoning, but it happened again the second time they had lunch.
Researchers say the fan could be used to remind people that it is lunch-time by dispensing pleasant smells of fresh bread or pizza.
At the time it amused Moritz that they never made it in to work before lunch.
In this case, you're lunch, and you won't get the chance to be more cautious next time.
He's obviously quite a busy person so maybe he could get off the train a stop earlier on the way to work or he may be able to get away for a lunch-time walk rather than sitting at his desk.
We try to have lunch together whenever you come into the city, and I just have to say that the time that we spend together means a great deal.
No play was possible before lunch, but once they made it out to the middle, Hussey and Hayden wasted no time in feasting on some undistinguished bowling by the West Indies seamers.
There is no shortage of members who would like to butter up their clients, but the inefficiency of those guards outside has made stopping by for lunch too time-consuming.
If we watched ourselves closely we'd see that we have more energy at some times in the day and far less at others, that we think more clearly in the morning and less so right after lunch and that we tend to feel more emotionally well at one time or another on average.
Opener McIntosh took 38 balls to get off the mark but once at the crease Flynn wasted little time in getting into his stride and by lunch he was two short of a half-century.
Brokers argue that the exchange's reforms will only benefit the big banks' brokers and that cutting lunch means they can't spend time with their fast-trading clients who want to discuss the morning trading session and strategize for the afternoon.
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