What is your firm’s SA lunch budget? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Management says the cap is $30 per person (DC firm). That seems laughable. Are we supposed to take summers to Potbelly / Chipotle / Shake Shack every day?

This made me wonder - what’s your firm’s SA lunch budget (& city, for context)?

[Anonymous User]

$50/each for lunch, $100/each for dinner at Kirkland (Texas, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same policy in other offices).

[Anonymous User]

$50/each for lunch Willkie (non-NY). Idk about dinner

[Anonymous User]

Also DC, and the lunch budget is $60. My previous firm's (NY V10) budget is $80.

[Anonymous User]

Management says the cap is $30 per person (DC firm). That seems laughable. Are we supposed to take summers to Potbelly / Chipotle / Shake Shack every day?

This made me wonder - what’s your firm’s SA lunch budget (& city, for context)?

Wow, thought firms just had a banner year. Vault ranking?

[Anonymous User]

$75 pp at Weil

[Anonymous User]

$50/each for lunch, $100/each for dinner at Kirkland (Texas, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same policy in other offices).

KE chicago is $60 pp for lunch and $125 pp for dinner. No alcohol for lunch

[Anonymous User]

$50/each for lunch, $100/each for dinner at Kirkland (Texas, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same policy in other offices).

KE chicago is $60 pp for lunch and $125 pp for dinner. No alcohol for lunch

[Anonymous User]

$50/each for lunch, $100/each for dinner at Kirkland (Texas, but I’m pretty sure it’s the same policy in other offices).

KE chicago is $60 pp for lunch and $125 pp for dinner. No alcohol for lunch

When I was a summer we could expense alcohol at lunch in Texas, but now they changed the policy to be “in line with the other offices.” Lame!

Can still expense it at dinner though...

[Anonymous User]

Ropes is $75 in NY and $60 all other offices. Boston office upset some say

[Anonymous User]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

[Sackboy]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

Per week. If you take 2-3 summers out, most firms recommend splitting entrees or just ordering apps to make the budget work.

[Anonymous User]

S&C is $100 per person ($150 per person for dinners). $1,000 total budget per associate for the summer.

[Anonymous User]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

The ropes budget is per person per meal. So a 4 person lunch in Boston is $240 max and in NY us is $300

[Anonymous User]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

dawg do you think firms are exclusively ordering from the dollar menu?

[Anonymous User]

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[Anonymous User]

V50, NYC, $65 back in summer 2017.

[Anonymous User]

S&C is $100 per person ($150 per person for dinners). $1,000 total budget per associate for the summer.

Total budget? That's weird.

[Anonymous User]

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[Anonymous User]

S&C is $100 per person ($150 per person for dinners). $1,000 total budget per associate for the summer.

Total budget? That's weird.

These are not strictly enforced

[BrowsingTLS]

S&C is $100 per person ($150 per person for dinners). $1,000 total budget per associate for the summer.

Total budget? That's weird.

S&C's summer budget is interesting. No firm has a higher nominal per person summer budget as far as I know, but most firms do not have a total budget limit and so you can spend more at other places than you would at S&C.

Also, am I the only associate who would rather not do summer lunches because of how long it takes to be reimbursed?

[Anonymous User]

Also, am I the only associate who would rather not do summer lunches because of how long it takes to be reimbursed?

weird, we're given firm Amexes. not an issue

[Anonymous User]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

Per week. If you take 2-3 summers out, most firms recommend splitting entrees or just ordering apps to make the budget work.

Whoah whoah whoah - per week? Cap for the summer?? I’m the KE Texas anon above and the $50 lunch /$100 dinner figures I quoted are per person per meal. There is no limit to how many associates can take out how many summers across the program. I mean presumably if you tried to expense two simultaneous lunches on the same day that would be an issue, but there’s nothing stopping a summer (or associate) from having a $50/pp lunch and $100/pp dinner five days a week for all ten weeks.

[Anonymous User]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

Per week. If you take 2-3 summers out, most firms recommend splitting entrees or just ordering apps to make the budget work.

Whoah whoah whoah - per week? Cap for the summer?? I’m the KE Texas anon above and the $50 lunch /$100 dinner figures I quoted are per person per meal. There is no limit to how many associates can take out how many summers across the program. I mean presumably if you tried to expense two simultaneous lunches on the same day that would be an issue, but there’s nothing stopping a summer (or associate) from having a $50/pp lunch and $100/pp dinner five days a week for all ten weeks.

How often are associates even expected to take out summer associates?

[Anonymous User]

Probably a dumb-seeming question but is that per day or week?

Per week. If you take 2-3 summers out, most firms recommend splitting entrees or just ordering apps to make the budget work.

Whoah whoah whoah - per week? Cap for the summer?? I’m the KE Texas anon above and the $50 lunch /$100 dinner figures I quoted are per person per meal. There is no limit to how many associates can take out how many summers across the program. I mean presumably if you tried to expense two simultaneous lunches on the same day that would be an issue, but there’s nothing stopping a summer (or associate) from having a $50/pp lunch and $100/pp dinner five days a week for all ten weeks.

How often are associates even expected to take out summer associates?

I'm in NY but it's all up to the associate. I plan on going pretty hard this summer to compensate for missing previous summers, assuming I actually like some of the summers