I used to travel a lot for work. I literally lived out of a suitcase in hotel rooms.
I ate whatever I felt like when I was on expense account. Sometimes I’d have a $2-$4 meal because all I wanted was a donut and coffee and other times I’d have steak dinner.
Many many years ago I interviewed for a job in a non profit in Washington, D.C. My prospective boss asked me to go out to lunch and my choices were the expensive restaurant next door or a cafeteria at NEA. I chose the former.
Yes I got the job, but I later found out I almost didn’t because I had stupidly forgotten this was a NONPROFIT with a limited budget and I should have been more sensitive to this.
Why did I get the job? I was red haired, boss’s daughters had red hair, and this was a mitigating factor. When I walked into the office on the first day of work, his secretary AND administrative assistant were red haired.
Moral to story: Order somewhere in the middle. Avoid all traps.