Recession eats into sandwich quality

Trade

Cheesed off! Executives are beefing about the quality of sandwiches

Eight out of ten IT employees feel the quality of sandwiches at their business meetings has fallen, a survey shows. Of those polled by office design firm Maris Interiors, only 4% felt sandwich quality had improved in the past five years, with 16% noticing no change.

Popular sandwiches in 2006 included crayfish-and-avocado, and chicken teriyaki. Today, cheese-and-pickle or tuna-and-sweetcorn make up the staple boardroom diet, the survey showed.

It also found that the cost of sandwiches per person at meetings is a miserly €4.54. When first run in 2006, the survey put the average cost at about €7.15 per person.

Maris chairman Michael Howard notes: “It’s a sign of these austere times that firms are spending much less on sandwiches in the boardroom. It’s certainly a sensible way to cut costs, but be careful not to overdo it: you won’t impress a client with jam sandwiches!”

The survey canvassed 185 people in mid February.

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