one of my clients loved sushi and after every deal he signed, wanted to try a different sushi restaurant. I’d spent three years in the derivatives salt mines consulting for a Japanese bank, so knew of a bunch of great places which flew under the radar. But at some point, he wanted nobu.
I spoke to my partners and we agreed I’d take him and our sales guy. The next day he asked if he could bring his manager, his chief of staff and a couple more people, before one could say omakase, we had 8 people.
I did what I could to control the bar bill, looked like spend was going to be in the right zip code when my client said “who wants another round of sushi?” so more sushi, more saki, and then my client said “Let’s go one more round!”. And then again. And then again. the waiter brought the bill and I felt sick. My partners weren’t happy with me, with my client but the money was spent.
The next morning, my client asked me to swing by and apologized for his behavior, he’d had a little too much to drink and realized he’d taken advantage of the situation so to make up for it, he brought on another consultant for six months, and in a week, we’d made back the dinner bill
but the real kicker was that two weeks later I went to a meeting in their nj office and took him and five of his staff to a $40 all you can eat sushi restaurant. As we were leaving, my client said "you know, I don’t know what the fuss is about nobu, this place was just as good. 
