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Free Lunch Everyday at Google!

…and breakfast. And dinner too. And all the snacks in between meals. To increase productivity and time spent at the workplace, google provides free meals for all its employees. Mind you, this isn’t just some shoddily prepared food simply because it’s free and has to cater to 10,000 workers. This is top-notch organic and hormone-free [...]

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Veron Ang is the Founder and Chief Editor of Sparklette, a Singapore restaurants guide, lifestyle and travel blog. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore and runs a web design firm at Sparklette Studio. To get in touch, head on over to the contact page or follow @Sparklette and @VeronSG on Twitter.

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Xin
3 comments

Hmmm … i think the most common meal catered by company in sg is Chicken rice & Nasi lemak.
Compared to googles’ … i think their employees are very fortunate. Plus their food is filled with creativity n motivation. I’m sure their employees will be motivated to work twice as hard. hungry le :Xxx
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Posted January 29, 2007 at 9:42 am
looi
4 comments

Hi min,
talking about water… heard about Bling H2O. $US 99 a bottle? is that true, have you tried it yet?
Hey hey Veron,
just joined your community. enjoy your food blogs. Keep them coming
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Posted January 29, 2007 at 10:38 am
zaijian
29 comments

i think it all boils down to culture and local corporate responsibility. Most employers in this part of Asia, fail to see the connection and dare i say, logical importance, of spending money to motivate and enrich the employees. More often than not, the mentality is firmly directed towards getting the most out of workers, for the least possible expense. its an unfortunate truth isnt it? Regardless of how deep the pockets are, the arms never seem to reach too far into them.
But again, to expect google’s level of extravagance is unreasonable, however, the reasoning behind the strategy should really not be so hard to grasp. bravo to companies like google and pixar, for redefining the workplace for the future.
As for us, here in asia… erm.. dont hold your breath :) and just order out…
by the way V, love the live preview when typing replies… very cool. first time i’ve ever seen it used like this! hmmm maybe you should give google a call :)
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Posted January 29, 2007 at 10:55 am
Veron
3439 comments

tinkertailor: Free girlfriends for the nerds? Saying that alone already sounds too weird!
nay min thu: Even their chefs are creative!
DK: Haha I think most people are willing to do the same.
Min: Hmm I don’t think we have the Voss water here in Singapore. Just out of curiosity, how much does a bottle cost?
Xin: You got that right!
looi: Welcome to the community! We’re one big happy family now. For those who haven’t, you can still join my community!
zaijian: You put it in such a nice way! I wanted to say that Singaporeans tend to screw one another over just to reap the maximum possible benefit for themselves. Free lunch? Nah… You mentioned Pixar. How are they as employers? And oh, I would give Google a call if I had coded the live preview thing myself. But I didn’t :(
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Posted January 29, 2007 at 12:18 pm
xxoos
14 comments

the food looks really good. but i don’t think i’ll have the chance nor the qualifications to work there.
so far only one place i’ve worked in which actually provides free catered meals, but it’s nice (as in not chicken rice and nasi lemak) but still quite normal food, not nice and wah wah food. lol~
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Posted January 29, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Veron
3439 comments

Share with us what company that is, pretty please?
The closest I have come to having free catered meals at work is when my friends and I were practicing for our National Day Parade performance every Saturday and Sunday back in ’99. The caterer? Singapore Food Industries. Okay pretty sad, but that is the closest.
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Posted January 30, 2007 at 12:50 am
tinkertailor
6 comments

i was at this place where they catered free breakfast lunch and dinner every day, and sometimes the food was not bad. i was there 2.5 years, but i wasn’t happy there at all. caterer was singapore food industries as well. organisation? army.
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Posted January 30, 2007 at 1:06 am
Min
6 comments

looi – I’ve heard of Bling H20 – the bottles are so pretty! ^__^ I haven’t tried it, but they’re definitely not $99/bottle. A regular bottle is about $35, and then go up from there as they get more specialized with different editions and stuff.
Veron – You don’t have Voss? I had no idea… A bottle here costs about $2-3 if you buy them one at a time from a supermarket. If you buy it in bulk from the website it costs about $1.50 each.
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Posted January 30, 2007 at 9:25 am
xxoos
14 comments

it was ritz carlton, the welfare for the employees is not bad. think most upmarket hotels will have nice food too, after all it’s their own people do the food one…
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Posted January 31, 2007 at 1:01 am
AtelierGal
1 comment

Hi! may I know where to get Voss Water in Singapore?
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Posted July 16, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Sparklette
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- quark2012
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  @Sparklette does the free lunch at Google also apply to Google SG?
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  - Sparklette
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    @quark2012 Looking at their employment benefits http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/s... The free food varies across offices. Know any Google SG employees?
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