A Culinary Journey Into Apple’s Corporate Food Court
9:37 pm, August 26th, 2008, Pete Mortensen
Though everything Apple gets covered with fanatical precision, life inside One Infinite Loop these days is something of a black box for non-Appleites. Steve Jobs has made secrecy job one. Which just makes Jon Phillips’s article for MacLife about dining in the Apple corporate food court that much more fun. This is a must-read:
“Oh. My. GOD. My first impression was that I had somehow found my way into the Prepared Foods Department of Whole Foods. Station upon station upon station offered a mind-boggling variety of international cuisine. There were kiosks for burritos, pizza, pasta, sushi, hot entrées, burgers, sandwiches, salads, smoothies, frozen yogurt. They even had a gelato bar.
Then there were the kiosks for Spanish tapas and paellas. For British bangers and mushy peas. For Ethiopian wat and injera bread. And for traditional Inuit preparations of caribou, walrus and seal. Amazing.
OK, truth be told, I didn’t see any kiosks for food from Spain, England, Ethiopia or the Canadian Arctic. But because the Caffe Mac food selection was so incredibly plentiful and varied, I couldn’t help but imagine such exotic cuisines. And, in fact, because this new world order of lunch possibilities was so overwhelming, I found myself paralyzed with indecision. Pizza or pasta? A sandwich or sushi? Or maybe a bold trifecta of blended and/or frozen delights?”
Read on, dear Mac lover. Read on.
Posted by Pete Mortensen in Apple, Customer Services | Comment on this article
In the case of dishes Apple seem to have “just no taste”. And I mean it in the big way: Plastic cups? Come-on! Every University mensa looks better.
Tice, on August 27th, 2008 at 1:49 am
The coffee there is spectacular. As are the burritos and the pizza. I was a little disappointed with the sushi.
And you find yourself eating next to the most interesting people.
clifford, on August 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm