Credit Crunch Lunch...Brown Bag or Not?

The grim headline 'Three million jobless' by 2010 (BBC, November 17) illustrated by a Credit Crunch Lunch 3.98 (British Pounds that is) picture shot got me on the hunt for more on the topic.

As far back as April 2008, Restaurants gain appetite for credit crunch lunch (This is London, Evening Standard, UK) was sharing 'best buys' from Good Food Guide London in the "lunchtime table d'hôte at some of the city's top dining rooms and found many are serving superbly cooked three-course meals — often for well under £20"...