Ever wondered how to spend $47,221.09 on lunch for five?
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich walks you through it.
On the other hand, Abramovich is worth $8.5 billion. If my math is right, for him to spend $47,000 on lunch is equivalent to someone with $70,000 in the bank spending 38 cents on lunch. Viewed that way, Abramovich was downright thrifty.
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November 3, 2009; 3:20 PM ET
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Dang, they had spaghetti? Really?
Posted by: JkR- | November 3, 2009 3:28 PM | Report abuse
Most of his bill was on wine and truffles. You leave that out and the bill was $429. You couldn't do that everyday, but you could do it.
Posted by: CraigMcGillivary1 | November 3, 2009 3:39 PM | Report abuse
I count seven bottles of wine. For six people. For lunch.
Posted by: willow8300 | November 3, 2009 3:40 PM | Report abuse
Plus Scotch, and some port.
And an espresso, to get back to work....
Posted by: JkR- | November 3, 2009 3:45 PM | Report abuse
nice tip.
Posted by: bdballard | November 3, 2009 3:55 PM | Report abuse
Funny! That means lunch for me would be about 9 cents!
Posted by: charley42 | November 3, 2009 4:03 PM | Report abuse
How to spend $47K on lunch? Order 7 ridiculously overpriced bottles of wine.
Also, classy of the restaurant to not only impose a 20% gratuity ("Hey, it's automatic on a party of 6 or more!"), but to make them tip on the full price of the wine.
Posted by: JEinATL | November 3, 2009 4:10 PM | Report abuse
Roman Abramovich may have walked you through it, but it doesn't look like he (or his co-diners) could have walked out of the place with that amount of booze.
Posted by: mdem929 | November 3, 2009 4:33 PM | Report abuse
That seemed like an extremely unimaginative way to spend 50k on food.
Posted by: TWAndrews | November 3, 2009 6:05 PM | Report abuse
Ummm...do my eyes deceive me or did he spend $12 on a large water?!
Posted by: urbanempire | November 4, 2009 12:12 PM | Report abuse
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