{"id":65249,"date":"2026-08-20T20:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wat-te-eten-in\/zakenlunch\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:07:36","slug":"zakenlunch","status":"publish","type":"eatin","link":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wat-te-eten-in\/zakenlunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Business lunch in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shorter and plainer than visitors expect, and that is habit rather than rudeness.<\/p>\n<h2>The length<\/h2>\n<p>An hour, sometimes forty-five minutes. In France or Italy a business lunch runs two hours; here that reads as wasted time.<\/p>\n<h2>What is eaten<\/h2>\n<p>Soup with a roll, a salad, fried eggs on bread. Two courses is generous, three is rare.<\/p>\n<h2>No alcohol<\/h2>\n<p>Wine at lunch has become unusual in Dutch business circles. Ask and you get it, but the table usually drinks water.<\/p>\n<h2>Who pays<\/h2>\n<p>The party who invited, without argument. Splitting also happens and causes no embarrassment.<\/p>\n<h2>Where it happens<\/h2>\n<p>Grand caf\u00e9s, hotel restaurants and lunchrooms near office districts. Around the Zuidas in Amsterdam and central The Hague the offering is built for it.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to look<\/h2>\n<p>Grand caf\u00e9s in the centres, and places near office locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false},"dish-region":[18894],"class_list":["post-65249","eatin","type-eatin","status-publish","hentry","dish-region-zuid-holland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eatin\/65249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eatin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eatin"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dish-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restaurant-cafe-bar.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dish-region?post=65249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}