10 thoughts on “Meet for late lunch or coffee tomorrow at Facebook?”

  1. It may be hard to purchase lunch or coffee at facebook HQ. Mark usually picks up the tab.

  2. Toucan Sam is correct; however, there are actually a few venues which aren’t covered by Zuck, to include a coffee bar and a sit-down Mexican place in the campus at 1 Hacker Way (unsure about the other side of the highway where Zuck now works in the Frank Gehry-designed building). I asked Philip’s nephew (who will be in attendance) whether he’s ever bothered with the paying coffee shop, and he said that occasionally if he wanted a quieter place than the massive cafeteria to talk to someone, he had gone there. Definitely check out Sweet Stop for dessert, to include ice cream from San Fran’s Bi-Rite Creamery, and unlimited toppings. There is one of those massive Italian espresso machines, but there was no barista to operate it in one of the main cafeterias (but a guy who supposedly invented the D programming language, who told me that he worked as a barista in his native Romania as a teenager, gallantly made Mom here a latte — and my son joked afterward, “I guess he’s closer in age to you than most people here.”

  4. I was about to make some tea from hot water/Tazo tea bag, when I began chatting with this 40-something male who was making himself coffee at this massive machine. I told him that I wouldn’t know how to proceed since there are no directions posted (had no idea this was the inventor of the D programming language, and later learned that my son had met him on a business trip to Boston a few months earlier). I’d only seen a machine this complex & imposing at Baked & Wired, an upscale Georgetown (DC) coffee shop, where barista told me this is a $10,000 piece of equipment imported from Italy. This was summertime when the place was swarming with interns’ parents, and the employee offered to make me a latte. Probably wasn’t the best use of his time (if you believe in economics). He also talked about losing sleep the night prior thanks to a toddler (thus the need for caffeine).

  6. That’s gallant? You’re an easy lady to please. Too bad you cannot give the rest of the Western Hemisphere’s women a lesson.

  7. DOH! I didn’t see this until today! It would have been great to meet up for a free or paid beverage 🙂

    The only “pay” places on campus are the Sol Mexican restaurant and the coffee shops (such as Philz and Blue Bottle).

  8. @Alexei you’re definitely a better person to review FB food services than a FB parent:-) and maybe you or my son David (Philip’s nephew) can report as to whether that massive espresso machine is easy to operate. Keep in mind that I am an inept mechanical engineer, and at age 12 or thereabouts David was tasked with changing vacuum cleaner belts, assembling anything IKEA, etc., etc. — this was part of his assigned chores, and since he detested yardwork due to mosquito-ridden yard in Mid-Atlantic, he liked this option. (Fodder for Larry Summers and his Google protegee.) So my son probably would have been able to make me a latte, but he was was busy entertaining my husband and his 10 yo brother at a table quite far from the dessert/coffee bar in the vast dining area, so I was on my own — see above — but would have been fine with the Tazo tea had the chivalrous D programming language inventor not been in the vicinity.)

  10. probably TMI. But be careful what you read in the media as I know someone who’s works at MSFT, and when a “non-fiction” book was published some years ago about what it’s like to work there, which specifically mentioned all the free food & candy machines, he demanded, “I’ve worked here for 30 yrs — where is all this free food I’ve been missing?” (according to this guy, it’s available for purchase for slightly-lower-than-retail-prices on the MSFT campus) Maybe the IRS will come down hard on this unlimited food one day — they do already tax the imputed value of the laundry & dry-cleaning and some other services available to FBers (to save them time).

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