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It saddens me to see that sugar costs less than fat. ObReference to "Good Calories, Bad Calories."
ObReference, haven't seen that in a while! Former rec.arts.books reader or device driver writer?
One correction and one comment: The article says cafeterias are available 24/7. That is not technically correct. The cafeterias are open for various meals on various days (eg one might do breakfast and lunch 5 days a week, another might do lunch 5 days a week and dinner 4 days a week). What are available 24/7 are the micro-kitchens, which have coffee machines, breakfast cereal, various snacks, sodas, ice tea, etc. It…
FWIW, Santa Monica has a number of cruiser bikes to quickly cover the few blocks between the two local offices (or to go for a ride along the beach ;) ). And I think I saw a scooter at the Irvine office...
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It would be very cool if it was correct. How is sugar the cheapest?
Agreed. The idea is very good, but the implementation sucks.
It's good to make sure healthy food is available, but ultimately only people themselves can decide what to eat - the fact that candy and snacks with saturated fats are available in the first place illustrates that very clearly.
I do wish more companies would take lessons from this. Sadly it seems like this will only ever work for relatively big companies. Having to hire someone to cook for a team of 10 doesn't really seem worth it. And feeding a team of 10 anything other than sandwiches seems impractical. There are many catering services out there that (pardon the pun) cater to smaller crowds, but in my experience their food is invariably c…
From what I understand though, there are only two of these under this brand. I believe it's called Cafe and Catering Co.
I do wish more companies would take lessons from this. Sadly it seems like this will only ever work for relatively big companies. Having to hire someone to cook for a team of 10 doesn't really seem worth it. And feeding a team of 10 anything other than sandwiches seems impractical. There are many catering services out there that (pardon the pun) cater to smaller crowds, but in my experience their food is invariably c…
The vending machine isn't quite what the article makes it out to be. For starters, it's one vending machine in all of Google (as far as I know). It magically appeared one April Fool's day, and has been attributed to some of the SREs in charge of keeping web search running, but credit has never been claimed. There was a rather funny "I am spartacus" thread about the vending machine that appeared on a major email list…
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Unfortunately it seems to penalize people who choose to eat more fat vs. carbs.
That's a problem with the entire green/yellow/red color-coding system at Google as well - the labels seem to be in line with the common belief that whole grains = always good and dietary fat = always bad. Then again, it's not really difficult to figure out from the list of ingredients whether food is in line with your personal dietary belief system, so the color-coding system isn't really all that valuable to begin w…
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It saddens me to see that sugar costs less than fat. ObReference to "Good Calories, Bad Calories."
Well technically, sugar costs more per calorie than fat. As one gram of sugar is 4 calories and one gram of fat is 9 calories.
IMO the various ways blood sugar affects your appetite and your body chemistry are probably more responsible for the obesity epidemic than the high-calorie content of fatty foods.
I do wish more companies would take lessons from this. Sadly it seems like this will only ever work for relatively big companies. Having to hire someone to cook for a team of 10 doesn't really seem worth it. And feeding a team of 10 anything other than sandwiches seems impractical. There are many catering services out there that (pardon the pun) cater to smaller crowds, but in my experience their food is invariably c…
This exists. There was a NYT article a few years ago about options in New York:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/dining/05diet.html
In Chicago, I use Organic Life: