Do Atlantans go to lunch? (Alpharetta, Tucker: home, buying, live)

[JPD]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Take my lunch to Woodruff Park

From Dunwoody?

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by JPD

From Dunwoody?

From Downtown, who said anything about Dunwoody?

[flyonpa]

Originally Posted by JPD

I don't buy the 1 in 5 claim. Every time I leave the office and go to lunch the restaurants are mobbed. I had the day off last Thursday and decided to go to Krog Street Market. It was just as busy at noon as it is at 7 pm. I just got back from Peachtree Center a little while ago. It was jam-packed. Zero tables available. Broad Street is a zoo every day at lunch. CNN food court always has lines at every restaurant. And it's not just fast food type places. Just about every table service restaurant downtown is near full whenever I go there.

The "mobbed" is part of the problem, Getting in and out fast enough to lunch during "lunch" time, If everyone (the other 80%) also were all out doing lunch the lines/time would be 2-3 hours each day. Many of the restaurants / FastFood Places just can do the volume.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by cqholt

From Downtown, who said anything about Dunwoody?

I thought you've said in the past that you work near Perimeter Mall.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by flyonpa

The "mobbed" is part of the problem, Getting in and out fast enough to lunch during "lunch" time, If everyone (the other 80%) also were all out doing lunch the lines/time would be 2-3 hours each day. Many of the restaurants / FastFood Places just can do the volume.

The crowds surely deter some people, but 80%? I don't believe that. There's a Yogi Berra quote about this exact scenario.

[waronxmas]

It depends on the neighborhood where your office is in or whether or not your office has a cafeteria.

When I worked in Downtown and Midtown, on most days I would walk to eat lunch out. There are plenty of options and all within easy walking distance. While I have no personal experience with it, the Lenox/Buckhead Financial district area is conducive to that as well. During my stint in Alpharetta though there is no walking to lunch, and it was a royal pain in the you know what in order to drive to lunch. I just ended up bringing my lunch because it was such a hassle.

This all flies out the window though if I'm in an office with a decent cafeteria. A lot of companies are starting to put more in to this now as it is seen as a perk of working there.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by arjay57

We didn't go out to lunch every single day but it was common to step out 3 or 4 times a week.

These weren't elaborate meals. Often we'd just pop into the S&W for a vegetable plate, or grab a hot dog at Woolworth's or one of Harold's massive sandwiches.

It was really more about stretching your legs and being part of the city's street life. Downtown was still a major shopping center in those days so lunch was also a good time to run a quick errand or two, or perhaps get your suit pressed or your shoes shined. I think folks tended to be nicer to one another because you never knew when you'd bump into somebody on the street corner.

the s&w, that's a few years back isn't it? you would have loved the other day when my family went down to macon for gregg allman's funeral and ate at the S&S— that one's still around... and the only one i know where it seems like there are young and old people too. more and more these days i have been thinking about leaving metro atlanta entirely. it's just getting too expensive, too busy, too high strung. it seems like everybody is always wanting more, and i definitely used to be like that, but these days it seems i find myself wanting less.

[Just Blaze]

Originally Posted by waronxmas

It depends on the neighborhood where your office is in or whether or not your office has a cafeteria.

When I worked in Downtown and Midtown, on most days I would walk to eat lunch out. There are plenty of options and all within easy walking distance. While I have no personal experience with it, the Lenox/Buckhead Financial district area is conducive to that as well. During my stint in Alpharetta though there is no walking to lunch, and it was a royal pain in the you know what in order to drive to lunch. I just ended up bringing my lunch because it was such a hassle.

This all flies out the window though if I'm in an office with a decent cafeteria. A lot of companies are starting to put more in to this now as it is seen as a perk of working there.

Thankfully I work on Windward and there's tons of places to walk to on lunch.

[TheKiwi]

I work in film production and we usually send an assistant out to buy lunch for the whole department and bring it back. So I guess technically we are supporting the restaurants, but we aren't eating there at the restaurant.

Some movies we have a caterer serve us lunch at our office.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by bryantm3

you would have loved the other day when my family went down to macon for gregg allman's funeral and ate at the S&S— that one's still around... and the only one i know where it seems like there are young and old people too.

Do you mean H&H Soul Food? That's a great place. I had lunch there last year when I went down to tour the Big House/Allman's museum. Everyone in the place seemed to know each other, and I would up having a nice chat with some of the employees and diners. Very warm and welcoming folks.