When Monica Lewinsky, as soon as an intern on the White Home, was cajoled right into a lunch date by Linda Tripp, a colleague sporting a wire, she was met by fbi brokers and brought to a room in Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Resort to be interrogated. What appeared like an harmless lunch date was one of many first steps in the direction of a presidential impeachment. But one of many extra exceptional features of the story is that even lowly staff took lunch in a restaurant again in these days.