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Going Inside Google: 7 Cafes in Two Hours
Last Friday I grabbed my camera and headed down to the Google campus — home to more than 4000 Google employees — in Mountain View. Before chatting with chef Eric Dela Cruz, my Google girlfriend and I took a whirlwind tour of 7 of the 17 cafés during their two hour lunchtime. From whole roasted fish to Spanish tapas to fresh wheatgrass, the Google cafés have something to offer everyone.
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Eric Dela Cruz: My Life As a Google Chef
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's a known fact that the employees at Google live a charmed life. Besides massages and Internet-wired shuttles, Googlers are invited to free breakfast, lunch, and dinner each and every day. The Google campus has 17 gourmet cafés, complete with 700 culinary staffers and 20 chefs.
Google Is Hiring a Concierge For Employees
Fortune named Google the best company to work for two years in a row, and the Google guys keep coming up with more reasons why they deserve the title. They are currently seeking someone to fill the newly developed position of corporate concierge, and the job is much like that of a hotel concierge. The person's services would be available to all employees needing assistance with things like making reservations and ordering flowers.
NYC Googlers Celebrate by Eating Their Office
In honor of the first anniversary of the Google New York office, staffers celebrated by creating a cake to look exactly like their entire office building—which just so happens to span a full city block! With the help of Google Earth and Google street view, pastry chef Danita Holt was able to draw up blueprints to begin the process of building such a ginormous cake. After four days, cafe director Kevin McConvey alongside two sous chefs, two pastry chefs, an executive chef and a line cook were able to finish the five feet long, three feet high and two feet wide Googleplex cake which contained 630 eggs, 105 pounds of sugar and 20 pounds of butter!
This Week On Geeksugar - Dually Talented Human Ghetto Blaster
- This past weekend I was out and about in San Francisco and saw this geekalicious musician along the Embarcadero. The Dually Talented Human Ghetto Blaster
- Just a few days after Justin TV announced it would allow users to create their own channel and share their life with whoever has enough time to watch, the network has signed on a female lifecaster, appropriately named Justine. Female Lifecaster Joins Justin TV Network
- Gone are the days of sending doves or handwritten notes announcing your engagement and alive are the days of broadcasting your proposal, nuptials and honeymoon online for the whole world wide web to fawn over.
Would You Use WiFi with Commercials?
I've always been a free WiFi hunter, but having an iPhone has definitely heightened my hunting instincts. I am constantly seeking signals in cafes, restaurants, and stores and get a sick thrill out of finding one and getting online in unexpected places. Apparently, I'm not alone.
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