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Gregory Warner of Rough Translation fame. I read you loud and clear.

Alright, well thanks so much for making this lunchtime meeting work.

Did you get something to eat by the way?

Yeah, I coupled together a pretty sad vending machine lunch.

I've got my chips and my little granola snack here.

What you got yours?

I'm with you. I got some leftovers from dinner

and also my breakfast all piled up on a salad like thing for lunch here.

So what are we doing here? Why are we lunching in the studio?

Yes, so over at Rough Translation we have been working on a story that is all about what we are doing right now,

which is eating lunch at our desks, talking about work.

And this is something many folks across the United States do on most days without thinking twice.

Sadly all the time.

But I'd like to say it doesn't have to be this way.

In fact, one of our listeners in France told us about a very different approach to work lunch culture there.

So different in fact that it was creating a kind of workplace cultural challenge for her.

That, well when we heard about it, we just had to try to solve.

Hello and welcome to Planet Money. I'm Alexi Horowitz-Gazzy and I'm Gregory Warner.

Alright Greg, so today on the show you are taking us to France for a little cross-cultural tera-teta over work, life and lunch.

That's right Alexi and we start at lunchtime in Paris.

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