There are a few things that you must know before you get the team to go out to lunch; book them at least two days in advance, warn them ten minutes to time and ten minutes after because they will still be stuck on their laptops. From instance:
Henry is a developer at Ushahidi and works mainly from Accra, Ghana but since he came to Nairobi, he does not feel like going home. Its always nice to welcome people and have some group lunch but he was the one delaying us, or so I thought.
When I suggested that Erik was yet to log off, he said "its not me, its him" pointing at Henry who was seated across the table. In the end, we had to go, after all, Limo and Linda had already started walking away. But in another table, Jessica was still finalizing.
Finally we got off from the iHub and headed to the Buffet Park, which was just around the corner in Hurlingham. There, we learnt a vital lesson from Erik; when the attendants say it will take 45 minutes to prepare the food, its 90 minutes, so get that or get some other food if in a hurry. So, because Erik was in a rush, he demonstrated what he meant; he ordered his food and within no time it was there; am not sure whether he carried it from the kitchen or someone actually brought it, I just saw him eating.
In the mean time, Erik had sorted himself out:
We thought it would take less than an hour but after getting impatient and waking out because it was 90 minutes, the food finally came and we decided to just take it. The lesson was that next time order in advance.
And this is how it went down...
Linda and Martin were in the mix too..
In the end, Jessica and Henry said they liked "Mukimo" and Henry had a new way of taking it; combining it with Chapati- now, thats a new one! We also taught Jessica a new way of eating Nyama Choma in a team; she was starting with the bones and struggling with them while the rest of us were eating the boneless meat. We advised that the best way was to "taste" the bones, put them aside then continue with the boneless stuff and after all finish, you get on to the bones. At least thats how the story goes! After two hours, we were ready to head back to our laptops and continue with work!