A lunch in Florida

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Not sure we’ve ever seen the kind of shade on a restaurant as Harriet Agnew provides in the latest Lunch w Financial Times, with Nelson Peltz, at his own restaurant:

It’s the proprietor’s prerogative — Peltz’s 19-year-old investment firm, Trian Partners, owns the building and the Italian restaurant is their de facto canteen. Soon the elevator-style music quietens down and we settle at our table on the outdoor terrace

Peltz declines wine – always a bad sign in Lunch FT:

As we begin our starters — slightly flavourless mozzarella and tomato in need of seasoning, with roasted peppers — Peltz tells the story of Triangle Industries, his focus in the 1980s. Fuelled by the junk bonds of his friend Michael Milken, he and his business partner Peter May built it into the largest packaging company in the world, before selling it. They later bought and lucratively sold the Snapple beverage business.

They talk about Peltz’s campaign to win a contested fight for some board seats at Disney (asked if he would fire Kevin Feige, who masterminded like 60 winning Marvel movies, he doesn’t say yes but expresses displeasure):

By now our main course has arrived: filleted snapper in a gloopy artichoke, mushroom, tomato and white wine sauce, served with sautéed spinach.

In terms of lunch, it doesn’t seem billionaires have it that much better. Here’s a link.