Among the three classes of the Indian society, the upper class is the most affluent, influential and powerful. Though numerically inferior to the middle and lower class people, it is the most powerful class than them; in fact it decides the destiny of other people.

Wine, long-held as a upper middle class beverage is becoming more and more widely accepted and with it a new appeal.

For the ten percent of the Roman population who were the wealthy upper class—called patricians, breakfast and dinner were the main meals, eaten at home. Lunch was lighter, often bought from a street vendor.