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What is the etiquette for offering to pay for lunch in these circumstances:

1) As an SA? Especially on an official, organized SA lunch, it's obvious that you're not going to be paying for your meal. Is it improper/awkward to even offer?

2) What about as an SA if it is just you individually with another lawyer from the firm at a real informal lunch?

3) Lastly, I'm getting together next week with the father of a friend from HS who is the named partner at a relatively large firm (top 300 nationally). We were friendly in HS as I was over at his house a fair amount but I haven't seen him in years. When I reached out to him, he wants to go to this real exclusive club that is clearly out of my price range. Do I even offer? Or is that improper?

I can't imagine in any of these situations them expecting (or wanting) me to pay, but I don't want to be rude one way or the other.

Don't offer to pay for an SA lunch. Believe me: we want to pay.

There's some kind of write off for business expense for paying right.

I wouldn't offer in any of these situations. I've never seen any of the SAs in my class even pretend to offer to pay for an attorney lunch. Everybody knows what the deal is- they can usually expense it and, if not, they make a lot more than you

We can certainly expense it. But that's a smaller reason for why we want to pay.

Fresh Prince wrote:We can certainly expense it. But that's a smaller reason for why we want to pay.

What's the bigger reason?

Anonymous User wrote:

Fresh Prince wrote:We can certainly expense it. But that's a smaller reason for why we want to pay.

What's the bigger reason?

to feel like a baller, obviously

Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

Hint #1:https://creditcards.chase.com/sapphire/ ... d-benefits

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

oh, i know, to fill up your "buy 10 get 1 free" punch cards?

fatduck wrote:

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

oh, i know, to fill up your "buy 10 get 1 free" punch cards?

See above.

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.

Fresh Prince wrote:

fatduck wrote:

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

oh, i know, to fill up your "buy 10 get 1 free" punch cards?

See above.

see my previous 6950 posts.

Anonymous User wrote:

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.

You're not thinking big, friend. Supposed I rounded up two more associates and three more summers. Suppose we each charged $60. That's 60*7*2 = 840 points.

Anonymous User wrote:

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.

Where do you pay forty bucks for an sa lunch. Ours are usually 300 or so for a group of 5. At 5 percent which is what amex gives that's 15 bucks for a free lunch

Anonymous User wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?

Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.

Where do you pay forty bucks for an sa lunch. Ours are usually 300 or so for a group of 5. At 5 percent which is what amex gives that's 15 bucks for a free lunch

Points are better than cash back IMO, but you get my gist,

the associates fight for the check at the dinners. 1000= a lot of points, not to mention a good meal

Only when you take your secretary out to lunch.

If this was business, I can see employees insisting on paying for the meal. Quite often when my dad takes employees out to lunch, they take care of it before the bill even arrives. I get why the do it, but he has even said that it doesn't really impress him; doing good work and making the company money impresses him.

Broseidon wrote:If this was business, I can see employees insisting on paying for the meal. Quite often when my dad takes employees out to lunch, they take care of it before the bill even arrives. I get why the do it, but he has even said that it doesn't really impress him; doing good work and making the company money impresses him.

Cool.

concurrent fork wrote:

Broseidon wrote:If this was business, I can see employees insisting on paying for the meal. Quite often when my dad takes employees out to lunch, they take care of it before the bill even arrives. I get why the do it, but he has even said that it doesn't really impress him; doing good work and making the company money impresses him.

Cool.

story, bro. The meme's not funny anymore. I just was offering an anecdote to counteract the sarcasm of the above posts.

I had a similar question, except with golf. My partners have taken me golfing a couple times for outings and such. Do I offer to pay?