Google's Ginormous Free-Food Budget

Sick of hearing about the great, free food at Google? Skip this post. Want to know how much it costs Google to pay for all that grub? Read on. Here’s the math: Googlers in the U.S. get two meals a day free, according to the jobs page, but people we talk to at the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex tell us employees there are often chowing down three times a day. Google is open 251 days a year. So let’s say that Google is providing about 600 meals per year, per employee.

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