Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech cos
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#3This can definitely help support local business. But seems unfair to lower-salary employees. As an employee who used to have free lunch and now doesn't, I have felt the financial effects.
Dining out truly can make a big impact on the wallet- $10 dollars per meal (unlikely in Mountain View unless fast food) x 5 meals a week x 48 weeks a year (let's be generous and assume you get that much PTO) = $2,400 annually
Company-provided meals also tend to provide healthy options which can be expensive to purchase outside of work- and tend to contain less sodium and sugar than restaurant foods.
I can see this potentially benefitting the local business of 'Amazon WholeFoods' and Costco as people buy more groceries to bring lunch to work with them and eat at their desks. Eating out every day is expensive.
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#4Does this seem a little like bit of gov't overreach?
They're saying a business can't provide food to their employees?
Am I missing something?
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#5This might be a great idea in theory, but terrible execution. By having this only apply prospectively, it makes every new business have to compete with businesses that can offer free meals on campus.
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#6Besides, it is also healthy to really get out of the office for an hour or two.
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#7What's stopping companies from charging a cent per meal?
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#8Besides, it is also healthy to really get out of the office for an hour or two.
You can do that and have access to a company cafeteria…
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#9I'm sorry but this is so f*cking stupid.
As a Bay Area resident my priorities are the cost of housing, cleaning our dirty streets and alleviating traffic congestion.
This is an example of progressivism gone awry. Solving the basics is incredibly important. Our quality of life is in decline (in the bay area) and this is the best our politicians can do?
I'm enraged.
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#10The editorialized title submitted by the OP is incorrect (and probably in bad faith). Free food is banned at one complex in MTV called the village ("That's because the city prohibits companies from fully subsidizing meals in the Village,"), not all over mountain view.