Definition
A working lunch at which bosses make business decisions or hold important discussions.
Origins
Coined by American journalist Lee Eisenberg in 1979, in the Esquire article America’s Most Powerful Lunch.
In Context
- "Difficult as it is to recollect today, tiki was a highbrow phenomenon: Trader Vic’s in the Washington, D.C., Hilton, for instance, became a famed venue for mid-century power lunches."