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My experience working in such places has been that most people bring better food. Soup, pasta, rice and beans, etc. I'm sure some people bring sandwiches and ea

My experience working in such places has been that most people bring better food. Soup, pasta, rice and beans, etc. I'm sure some people bring sandwiches and eat at their desk, but most people prefer hot food. Food prep at home is cheap, but has a labor cost in time. Are employees really going to do their own food prep in the middle of 80 hour weeks? When I prepped my own meals I was much more inclined to go home at 5pm sharp.

nonethewiser 4y ago
You're ignoring that they can still get lunch at Twitter though. It's just not free.
- orwin 4y ago
  I used to work as an intern in a PaaS startup. We had meals paid for by the company. We ate in 35 to 50 minutes, then got back to the office where we started our work environment, putting some work before the official end of the lunch break. I changed jobs and now work as a "freelancer" (i have missions, the last one had an objective and lasted 20 months, the new one is a bit less clear). The meal is practically free for the employees, but is roughly 12€ for freelancers, and of really bad quality. So we get out with the full team (including employees), walk, or sometime take the bus to a restaurant (we change each week), eat there, then come back. It's often a bit more expensive (15 to 25€), but both the product quality and the preparation are better. Our lunch break at my previous mission lasted on average 90 minutes (we were quite far from good restaurant), on the new mission it seems to be a little less (we're closer to Paris and there is a lot of restaurant around).
  - justinclift 4y ago
    There's also the point that getting out of the office to stretch the legs and have a bit of a walk (eg to food place), is generally good for the mind / productivity later on. Unless you overeat, and the body gets sluggish afterwards that is. ;p
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    Sounds like you get more work done with a 90 minute lunch that includes walking/moving then a rushed 30 min in house lunch

nonethewiser 4y ago

You're ignoring that they can still get lunch at Twitter though. It's just not free.

orwin 4y ago
I used to work as an intern in a PaaS startup. We had meals paid for by the company. We ate in 35 to 50 minutes, then got back to the office where we started our work environment, putting some work before the official end of the lunch break. I changed jobs and now work as a "freelancer" (i have missions, the last one had an objective and lasted 20 months, the new one is a bit less clear). The meal is practically free for the employees, but is roughly 12€ for freelancers, and of really bad quality. So we get out with the full team (including employees), walk, or sometime take the bus to a restaurant (we change each week), eat there, then come back. It's often a bit more expensive (15 to 25€), but both the product quality and the preparation are better. Our lunch break at my previous mission lasted on average 90 minutes (we were quite far from good restaurant), on the new mission it seems to be a little less (we're closer to Paris and there is a lot of restaurant around).
- justinclift 4y ago
  There's also the point that getting out of the office to stretch the legs and have a bit of a walk (eg to food place), is generally good for the mind / productivity later on. Unless you overeat, and the body gets sluggish afterwards that is. ;p
- ipaddr 4y ago
  Sounds like you get more work done with a 90 minute lunch that includes walking/moving then a rushed 30 min in house lunch