“What is Dinner Meetings?” Responds a Las Vegas bottle service hostess after I handed her a business card. The tone of her voice and the look on her face were those of a mother finding a box of fireworks in her son’s closet. Laughing, I explained to the hostess that Dinner Meetings was an event planning website and not an escort service.

The term dinner meeting has traditionally been used in the pharmaceutical sales world. How a pharmaceutical dinner meeting works: Pharmaceutical companies rent out hotel dining rooms or restaurants and then their pharmaceutical sales reps pitch the company’s latest drug to doctors. During these sales meetings or “dinner meetings,” doctors enjoy lavish dinners paid for by the pharmaceutical company pitching their newest product. In some cities and states these meetings are frowned upon and in some places they are banned. Due to the popularity of these events, the words, “dinner meeting” became a term used by audio visual rental companies.

Audio visual rental companies associate dinner meetings with a rental package consisting of a few laptop rentals, microphones, mixing board, audio, projectors and projector screens. These item’s were rented by pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical reps and or venues in which the meeting was taking place. When someone called an AV company and said they were having a “dinner meeting,” AV companies had an idea of what equipment was going to be needed.

With a background in audio visual rentals, and a foundation in elegant dinner parties, the name DinnerMeetings.com was born.

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