They served large pizza slices and coke at the meeting. There was also salad and crackers for the health-conscious. The people sat through the meeting, biding their time until lunch.

At lunch, there was an unexpected level of chaos. People badgered the staff about the slightly cold pizza and asked if they could change the toppings. They asked if they could get a diet coke instead. The staff wasn’t particularly pleased but hid it under sugary smiles and servile “Let me just check, Sir”s.

A woman was heard complaining that the salad leaves were beginning to shrivel. Another asked if they could get a boiled egg, with the yolk scooped out of course, alongside the salad. She looked rather displeased when they said that would not be possible. She muttered under her breath about how she’ll have to go hungry and moved to the juice counter.

A large number of people had more than one serving of the chocolate mousse. The health conscious temporarily forgot about their dietary restrictions and licked their spoons clean. Some asked if they could have some fresh fruit to balance out the chocolate.

The hour long lunch break took close to two hours. At the end of it, everyone looked full and pleasantly sluggish. Not one of them could properly list out what had been covered in the first half of the meeting.