There is Johnny Mindlin, the sound engineer who looks like Jimmy Page; wine company employee Maggie Huttingford; teacher Jonathan Chutor; Carole Elphick, a clergywoman; even Dame Liz Forgan, chair of the Arts Council.
The subject always elicits very strong opinions from winemakers and wine-shop employees alike.
"Most of the Argentines who make it over here are right wing, and they don't hang out much together," Adam, an Argentine wine-shop employee with a PhD in political economics, told me.
Instead of selling the product, he has elected to use most of it in wine-tasting events, giving the rest to trade partners, employees, wine critics and charities, he said.
A great deli (plenty of fare for vegans on up to carnivores), hundreds of kinds of beer and wine, the savviest employees.
In addition to the normal hurdles, like obtaining a license to sell beer and wine and training employees to serve the drinks, the restaurant had to hire security guards to keep away underage drinkers, and it expects insurance rates to increase, he said.
The evening had many highlights, including the bottomless and quite good wine (a BAM employee noted, before the ladies took the stage, that we seemed like a "drinking crowd"), but Treisman and Egan stole the show.
They already work long hours frantically dashing between tables and a sweltering kitchen while desperately trying to ply customers with a pudding or that extra glass of wine – but now Pizza Express employees will have to find time to flirt too.
And according to an ad-hoc group of 10 or so off-duty VA hospital employees, the wine flavor improved after swirling.
We host a yearlong weekly program in wine, open to any employee, that prepares participants for the introductory test by the Court of Master Sommeliers.
GlobalExpense checks the receipts, pays the expenses and throws in a few extras such as related tax work and information on whom the company's employees are wining and dining.This year GlobalExpense will pay out £60m-worth of employee expenses, which probably makes it the biggest expense-payer in Britain.
