There's a delicate art to these negotiations if you want to end up going someplace good. You can't just come out and say where you want to go, because it will

There's a delicate art to these negotiations if you want to end up going someplace good. You can't just come out and say where you want to go, because it will get swatted down by everybody else who wants the Barbeque Joint or Sushi House or Rubio's Fish Tacos or Thai Garden. You have to let them wear each other down for a while until all the good options are off the table and everybody is resigning themselves to compromise on that lame soup place or Applebees or whatever. Then you strike with Mama's Mexican Kitchen. Everybody will be so relieved that they don't have to eat another f'ng TGI Friday's meatloaf that they'll jump on the idea, even if they weren't in much of a Mexican mood 45 minutes ago when this stupid negotiation started.