This is from a longer post, "Seven habits for successful video meetings," on Virtual Teams Blog, run by Al Jury who did his Ph.D. in virtual team leadership. Critical issue here. Food at virtual meetings:
6. Be careful ordering food during the meeting:
In meetings where food is ordered it can be very disruptive to meetings. Most video meeting rooms have very sensitive microphones which pick up lots of noise from cutlery etc which can be very disruptive to meetings. I have also been in meetings where the majority of participants are in one location and only food is ordered for that location. So participants often have to sit through the meeting hungrily looking on at all the others eating their lunches. This doesn’t help feelings of inclusiveness. So either have food ordered for all participants irrespective of their locations or none at all.
