Hmmm. If I took a box of donuts to the town offices, they couldn’t accept it. There’s only one department in our town where free food from businesses is delivered regularly. The Police department. The Fire department in the same building does not allow it, and fire department personnel are not supposed to go over to the police side, even off duty to partake. But vendors are bringing food to my private sector company all the time.
Same with junkets. Public sector employees are monitored very carefully when they travel. Executives at our company are jetting about on private jets of suppliers all the time. There’s never a Very Important Strategy Session in Cleveland somehow. La Jolla and Monterrey seem more conducive to deep thinking.