If you do not have time for a meal, step in for a martini or Manhattan at the long bar and watch the parade of high society drop in for dinner.

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And you might not have time to prepare a healthy meal for your children.

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Now it should be noted that not every restaurant will have a 30 minute meal down to a science for every visitor.

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I've got two gorgeous sons and I cook a lot and we have an evening meal together and I'm not there drinking some goop.

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Because the price points at which they can purchase are not where ours are, so the opportunity to have a meal outside of the home is considered a fairly prestigious event.

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Some said they missed meal times and breaks, with a number saying they sometimes did not even have time to get a drink of water.

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It may not have been the most traditional Arctic meal, but thanks to the determination of a few innovative Icelandic farmers, it was indubitably a local one.

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