Today, with the start of the athletics, come Jessica Ennis-Hill, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Jo Pavey from a UK-friendly lunchtime BST.
On a Saturday lunchtime this friendly bacaro was heaving with shoppers from the nearby Rialto market, which sells a stunning selection of fresh fish and remains a favourite meeting place for Venetians.
Indeed, the park's extensive makeover not only produced a verdant oasis, but inadvertently also created a haven for rats: leafy ground cover in abundance, garbage cans that proved rodent-friendly and droves of lunchtime visitors carrying brown bags with deli sandwiches.
Yoga or a short walk at lunchtime, using ergonomically friendly chairs and taking phone calls while standing are all things that can be done easily.
Friendly service can be slow at lunchtime.
When I mentioned this attitude to a bunch of friendly Italians from out of town enjoying a lunchtime bar crawl, one of them said: "Don't take it personally.
But during lunchtime on Tuesday, the hospital's own Friendly Café promoted the "M&M Cookie" for $1.99 as the day's "featured treat".
But given the lunchtime rollout of a new Blackberry device, the overall friendly questioning of prominent newsmakers, the reception afterward – featuring wine, hors d'oeuvres and the incessant rubbing of journalistic and corporate elbows — the word "adversarial" did not come to mind.
"You generally want to be friendly with the police," Sommers told HuffPost in an interview around lunchtime on Wednesday.
Closed Sundays and Tuesday lunchtime A stone's throw from Turin's Lingotto conference centre, this friendly osteria, with tables spilling onto the street, attracts the locals at lunchtime for its €10 set lunch.
