They really should note such things...

[kickaha]

The bowls in the cafeteria?

Not microwave safe.

Heated up a bowl of noodles and broth, and the &*(%$$@ thing melted and sagged in the microwave, spilling half the liquid. Lovely.

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I bet the unspilled remnants taste _really_ good now, too. :b

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was the first thing I checked after I got it poured into a new bowl, and it tasted fine.

Probably not great for me, but considering the food in the cafeteria here, better than eating something from there. :P

No, really, it's horrible. Frequently I cannot make myself choke down something I've bought. It's just awful.

[keridwen.livejournal.com]

The world is coming to an end, because I work next to a hospital, and the food in the cafeteria there is frequently quite good.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's just capitalism in action.

IBM's leasing their cafeteria space out to a vendor, and that vendor is making intelligent decisions with respect to costs and benefits--there's a largely captive audience, so revenues are going to be pretty constant no matter what level of quality is provided. The only place they have any ability to control their margins is in their costs of supplies and staffing. So you get crap food and high staff turnover.

In hospitals, cafeteria costs are largely subsidized by the insurance industry, so there's lots of room to provide higher quality without seeing your margins decrease. Also, there are many more visiting customers as a percentage of your total volume, and those customers will absolutely go elsewhere if your food sucks.

Informed health care professionals demanding nutritious food--and food is only nutritious if the patient will fricking eat it--also provide a more compelling impetus for quality than a bunch of engineers who will, largely, eat what's put in front of them because they're just there to fuel up so they can get back to work.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Very true - and there's basically squat all to eat around here. The closest is a Wendy's five minutes away, and there's an overpriced diner across the street from that, both of which you need to drive to. So really, there's no where else to go here for food.

The cook here started about 6 months ago, apparently, and is universally reviled by the employees, as far as I can tell. I hear they had an *incredible* cook before that, who then left to start her own restaurant, naturally. But this guy? He knows about a dozen dishes, none of them done well, but all of them repeated. Nothing has flavor, or if it does, it's not good. Textures are universally mush. Yesterday I got a *splinter* in my *gum*... from steamed broccoli. No, it wasn't wood, it was the broccoli, that's how low grade the ingredients are.

I'm bringing more food from home now. Incentive (other than health and comfort): I was spending about $8-11 a day on coffee and food. I pegged the avg at about $10. Every day I spend less than that, I take the balance and apply it to the Wii Fund. :)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should note that the high staff turnover will stop at the point that they're completely staffed with people who're so bad they can't get a better job elsewhere. Sounds like you may have hit that point.

I like the idea of a Wii fund. Sadly, it will have to get in line behind the "both our computers need replacing if we want to play Neverwinter Nights 2" fund and the "M. keeps having transmission problems in the Exploder" fund, which latter has gotten so bad that we may find ourselves at a car dealership this Saturday, never mind that we're about to leave for France.

Oh, and the ever-present "build the damn house. Someday. Please?" fund.

*Presses brow with back of hand* Oh, my life is so terrible... :)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Yeah, we have two laptops that need replacing. Oops.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I found your problem.

A receipt of yours is on my desk. It reads "1 paper salad." :D








(Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand why it probably says that. :P)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

*slaps forehead* Is *THAT* what I'm doing wrong? And here I thought the green triangle logo was for the greens. Sheesh.

Read 'em & weep, sucka

[margarita-5.livejournal.com]

Little cheeseburger: Ketchup, mustard & light on the fried onions. Regular fries. Coke.