The dish: If you're in sales, "you probably need five restaurants that you always could go to, where they know you," said Joe Abruzzese, president, ad sales, Discovery Communications, noting the importance of knowing where to get a good dinner and not have your clients waiting. "This is one of them." We're at "Joe's table" at Bobby Van's, a steakhouse about three blocks from the Discovery office in Manhattan. Abruzzese and his former CBS and Discovery lieutenant Scott McGraw offered so much help populating the restaurant with clients and parties when it opened that the owners gave them their own boxes. So Abruzzese's nameplate is right by his box, right by his favorite table. Whatever he may keep in that box, you're not likely to catch Abruzzese drinking during the day, Don Draper-style.
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