+1 to this, I had one job where lunch was provided and it very much brought people together, particularly across team boundaries / job levels, and often "tricke

+1 to this, I had one job where lunch was provided and it very much brought people together, particularly across team boundaries / job levels, and often "tricked" you into having pseudo meetings over lunch. I find that still happens organically in smaller companies without, but in larger companies things trend towards more clique like behaviour without it (caveat small sample size)