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She Runs Google’s Massive Food Program — Here’s What Most Business Owners Completely Miss About Perks
Key Takeaways
Google’s attention to detail extends to their employee food program — a seemingly small perk with major implications. Google uses AI to minimize waste, maximize value and make real-time decisions about what works when it comes to feeding its employees. Google views its food program as an investment in creating informal spaces where collaboration happens naturally.Food was never a perk at Google. It was a bet on how people work.
When Helen Wechsler, Senior Director, Food Program CoE at Google, talks about the company’s food program, she does not frame it as a benefit designed to impress.
Instead, she frames it as culture. From the earliest days, meals were how the original Google team gathered, talked and built trust. Long before sprawling campuses or polished cafes, food was the thing that brought them together and kept them there.
Today, Google provides meals and access to food for employees across its offices worldwide. Cafes, micro kitchens on every floor, coffee and tea bars, teaching kitchens and even food trucks are part of how the company feeds its people. The scale is massive, but Wechsler is clear that feeding employees is not about abundance.
“We have a captive audience,” she says. “We are feeding people every day, and that comes with a really weighty........
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