Meal Allowance

$75/week

damn =/

Not yet. It's tough to eat for less than $25 in New York. WHat they are cutting down on though is early ordering and using multiple seamless accounts for one person.

$25. Where are they giving $75 at?!

he said 75/week...not 75/day :)

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If you're talking about $25 a day, then yeah that's tough, but for dinner alone $25 is very reasonable. All a cut back from that means is people will no longer be able to load up on beverages.

still at 30 here. Also get 20 for lunch on weekends in addition.

Yeah most of the time the allowance is too generous in terms of just dinner since people buy other stuff for the following day (drinks and sometimes something I can eat for breakfast since I'm a cheapskate). I can't imagine them cutting down on stuff like that too much though since it really doesn't affect the bottom line in comparison to md's taking private jets whereas it will piss off a lot of vp's and downwards.

at MBB its a 120 per diem (or at least the one I'm at)

I've got $25 for dinner, plus $25 for breakfast/lunch on weekends.

- Capt K

120 per diem? do you mean while you're on the road? we have 100 per day when we are on the road. i think people are referring to how much they get to spend per night on seamless. 25 here

"Yeah, that's my per diem, so who do I give it to?"

Vince Vaughan is a genius

don't think that's exclusively for on the road.

i was at a boutique consulting firm and we had a very generous limit (more than twice as much as the numbers being bandied about here) for dinner every day, even at the office or client site.

i think on the road we could expense lunch and breakfast as well.

"120 per diem? do you mean while you're on the road? we have 100 per day when we are on the road."

Yeh on the road and after 7 pm in the home office. Since there isn't work on Fridays, its pretty much just Mon-Thursday evening. But I think you can pretend its after 7 when you leave and still expense.

i'm getting fat on 25 dollars a day in the office after 8pm. i can't imagine what would happen if i ate 100 per dinner.

I can't think of one instance in which an MD took a jet, other than for roadshows, which are paid for by the client.

hehe you'd probably eat a lot more sushi :)