Look at the City boys, don”t they look stressed? Well, they are ” the champagne ain”t up to scratch!
This is them in the grip of a credit crunch. The first thing to be done is increase booze budgets. There”s drowning sorrows, you see, and then there”s drowning sorrows ” the difference being that the second way needs to be done with bottles of ”250 Louis Roederer Cristal.
A certain hotel chain has swapped its Cava for crates of this expensive stuff following ”a large number of requests” from beleaguered bankers at its City Road property to upgrade its bubbly. And it”s laying on caviar served on bilinis with sour cream ” just to help soak it up, presumably, so that heads remain clear enough to go and save our economy.
”City workers are under a lot of pressure right now and obviously need pampering a bit in the current economic climate,” said Travelodge chief operating officer, Guy Parsons.
The heart bleeds.