I was going edit-to-add the following to my rather terse comment above:

These sorts of preference orderings aren't restricted to "pure" preferences such as "ceteris paribus I prefer Italian food to Mexican" -- they apply also to preferences over multivariate states like in the example above, where the variables are {food type, company at dinner}.

But you've pre-empted it with this comment. Still, I liked it enough that I wanted an excuse to post it.