> Ha! So one more perk that only existing, large, entrenched players can offer. A level playing field indeed. Yup, this exemption makes this idea even worse.

> Ha! So one more perk that only existing, large, entrenched players can offer. A level playing field indeed. Yup, this exemption makes this idea even worse. > Does this include ordering a pizza to a war room or is it specific to a separate structure for day to day dining? Per an article in Eater.com (https://www.eater.com/2018/7/23/17603424/facebook-mountain-view-ca-free-cafeteria-ban https://www.eater.com/2018/7/23/17603424/facebook-mountain-v...): > The rule — which was actually passed in 2014 — states that companies cannot routinely fund more than 50 percent of employees’ meals, but it can fully subsidize meals if they come from open-to-the-public restaurants. So the occasional pizza-in-the-war-room would be fine, but establishing their own cafeteria inside their complex that provides free food would be forbidden. This rule seems to allow them to routinely order-in from "open-to-the-public restaurants", however if none of the nearby restaurants offers food that is up to their standards - they're SOL. This rule is bad for employers and bad for their employees. There's no way you can get food catered from local restaurants that will match the quality of what Google cafes offer, especially health-wise: restaurants optimize for taste and cost, disregarding customer health as long as they don't serve outright poison. It's no coincidence that Google spends billions on sourcing their own employee food, and its competitors follow suite. The result would be that new offices in MTV won't be able to provide the same healthy food that Google has been offering for decades.