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Breakfast Club



It's Sunday and a breakfast club is in order.

Breakfast clubs are a new phenomena springing up all over the country. These syrupy gatherings are popping up as regular Sunday Meetups and as early workday kickstarters. Breakfast tête-à-têtes are a way to share ideas, network, or even meet that perfect Cheerio chum for an afternoon trail mix in the mountains in the afternoon. Sunday breakfast club gatherers idle over coffee and conversation, while the before work clubs grab a quick bite, glance at their watches, and move on to a day already rife with professional connection and camaraderie.

Weekday breakfast clubs meet at the crack of dawn, six, seven, - on route to the office, while Sunday clubs tend to convene later - anytime for eight to ten. Workday conversations center on projects, bosses and trends. While the weekend clubs focus on anything from recipes, to religion. Epic topics linger on weekend tongues, combined with maple marinated pancakes, grapefruit wedges and java sipped from thick milk-white mugs, while the weekday exchange is rapid-fire, fueled by croissants and breakfast sandwiches.

Singles and young couples tend to make up the majority of the new breakfast club new social universe, while the trend is catching on with families and even retirees on the weekends. Weekday breakfast Meetups are often appointed by neighborhood and work destination, although in urban centers, professional breakfast clubs have grown so rapidly in popularity and numbers, that some are splintering off into media-professional chews, and finance-over-food banquets. Other do-breakfasts a la Sunday, hone in on kid-nosh, complete with parent-provided canvas bags of games, puzzles and high-end coloring books.

Ideas and venues for breakfast clubs are unlimited - breakfast chess, dim sum with daughters, dallying over cider doughnut deals at the Doughnut Project in NYC, or lingering over Sunday jumbo pancakes at Papa Pete's in Bennington, Vermont. Whatever your breakfast bent is - it's time to start your own breakfast club and join the best part of this new American start to the day!

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