Word: meal
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...minutes you are: Grabbing a meal with my friends...
...sculptures, the high hammerbeam trusses, and the stained glass windows with their beautiful blue, yellow, red, and orange panes, each separated by thick black lines to depict a variety of Western, almost religious, images. I would watch as my classmates arrived from their myriad activities, filed through the meal lines, then sat down with their respective cliques...
...JOHN HARDY jewelry factory in Bali, it is daily practice for the executive staff to gather under the shade of a massive banyan tree for lunch. Someone will usually start the meal with a brief greeting or speech. On a recent Tuesday, more than 40 designers, executives, managers and guests paused, forkfuls of organic food halfway to their mouths, as company founder John Hardy stood up to read from a stack of old report cards that his mother had just sent from Canada. ?Listless, inattentive, distracted,? he recited. ?A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow...
...Hardy revolution begins at lunch. Every day more than 700 factory workers dine on fresh organic food raised on the factory grounds. It's a commitment that Cynthia Hardy takes seriously. ?We took a stand on giving our people a really good meal. It nourishes them and gives them energy. It benefits them, and that benefits us,? she says. ?That's the definition of sustainability,? says John. ?We don't want to burn through our workers just because we know we can get more. In the end that doesn't make sense...
...many visitors, a meal at Hong Kong's Jumbo floating restaurant has proven to be a mild disappointment. Although it's name-checked in many a guidebook?and appears on every other postcard dispatched from the city?the 30-year-old waterborne tourist haunt is locally infamous for its mediocre food and moribund air. But all that has changed with the opening of Top Deck, tel: (852) 2552 3331, a snazzy international restaurant on the Jumbo's uppermost level. Operated by the same team behind the almost-as-iconic Caf? Deco restaurant atop Victoria Peak, the new venue provides...