Work cafeteria

What is your workplace's canteen like ?

Mine:

>We can choose between 4 different cafeterias
>In each cafteria we can choose between 4 to 5 main courses
> Two of those are necessarily 'steak with fries" and some sort of homemade pizza (every fucking day)
> One other dish is necessarily Asian
> Sometimes we get some cool shit like Couscous or Paella
>There is a salad bar
> Extra vegetables are free
>We pay about 5 euros for each full meal (Starter, main course, dessert)
>Beverage choices include soda, beer and wine (but people rarely drink alcohol at lunch)

Your turn !

Is everyone on Veeky Forums unemployed ?

Most peoples workplaces don't have a fuckin "canteen"

I thought it was a legal obligation from employers above a certain number of employees ?

work cafeterias suck. suck. the food is bad, and will make you fat and tired and eat too much meat. I stopped eating there and now bring myself sammiches and an apple and kohlrabi etc every day.

mines on wheels an serves overpriced factory garbage

I bring my own lunch at least twice a week, I take my receptionist and one of the clerks out to lunch once a week, the senior partner takes a couple of clerks and I out to lunch once a week.

Meetings with current or potential clients which they pay for are a regular occurrence.

Normally lunch out occurs at a selection of about 10 mid range restaurants near the city center

I work in a hospital that has a separate employee lounge that serves fairly decent meals. Today I had a balsamic soaked chicken breast, grilled cauliflower, and lentil couscous.

>I bring my own lunch at least twice a week

What do you usually bring ?

You're supposed to stop eating cafeteria food after you graduate from college. Even if my workplace had a "canteen," I still wouldn't get food from there, except on rare occasion. Grownups are expected to feed themselves.

Also, cafeteria food is bland, boring, and sad, made by sad, sad people. Some of them try. They do what they can to make as good a menu as they can with the resources they have. But it's still cafeteria food. And most drones just want to eat mushy pasta or pizza or "chicken parm" anyway.

Also I'm not aware of any American workplace where you are permitted to drink alcohol (at least, officially).

>Breakfast

Includes a grill special that comes with coffee. Have gravy, biscuits, pancakes, hashbrowns, sausages, bacon, eggs, buritos, donuts, muffins available

>Lunch

*Mexican station like a chipotle
*Grill station with burgers, chicken and hot sandwhiches with fries and other fried stuffs
*Sandwich station with about any kind of sandwich you can imagine. Sides include fresh made chips or fruit
*Salad Bar you pay for by the ounce
*Soups
*Entree specials that range from indian food, to asian dishes and things like meatloaf, roasts or casseroles

Coffee, sodas, tea, milk and juices available all day long.

Its pretty ok to have a place like this at work.

Leftovers from dinner then night before, or a sandwich

hummus and pita almost every time

a mixed fruit smoothie with added protein and fiber

a can of ginger ale

>Burritos for Breakfast
What country do you live in ?

I work at a store so if I get a break I walk across the street to a gas station and buy a cup of coffee with a pickle or a cheese stick

How awful

silicon valley detected

>buying food with your own money is a sign of immaturity

What kind of fucking Bizarro childhood did you have, son? Do you beat yourself up for buying from vending machines instead of bringing your own snacks/water too?

super common california food.

eggs, salsa, sauted peppers/onions, salsa, maybe potatoes or cheese.

god tier is with chorizo con papas

I supposed I should have specified breakfast burritos.

>US

Coffee and a pickle sounds nice weirdly...

Good god, an egg, chorizo and sauteed peppers, onion and potatoes burrito is all one could want for breakfast. What shithole do you live in that you've never had it?

I work in a NHS building. Here's mine:

>One hot dish with rice/salad (depending on the dish)- can be completely vegetarian on some days

>One soup of the day

>Lots and lots of pasties and sausage rolls (as per Devon tradition)

>Small salad bar; your choice of salads with a possible side of quiche/Scotch egg

>Sandwich bar offering fillings including vegetables (fresh/roasted), different kinds of dressed chicken, cheese etc.

>Baked potatoes with much of the same fillings as the sandwiches, with the only 'hot' option being baked beans

>Tea cakes, tray bakes, prepackaged baked goods (rather untouched, but still good)

>Beverages- either juice/soft drinks or brewed tea/coffee

>All the free condiments you could ever want

So, it could be a lot better, but it certainly could be a lot worse, considering how badly the NHS is doing this year.

i work as a sous chef in a corporate catering facility in california. the menus change daily and are 95% from scratch.

todays menu selections:

grilled sirloin topped with salsa verde with truffle mac n cheese and roasted vegetables, tuscan style chicken ribollita, puerto rican seafood stew with pigeon pea rice and tostones, nashville hot chicken on texas toast with coleslaw, vegan okra fritters with fava bean dill rice topped with stewed tomato, chicken tinga tostadas, pesto and oven dried tomato pizza, pancetta and butternut squash risotto, and pork vegetable soup.

this is in addition to a burrito bar (think chipotle), burgers, chicken sandwich, seared steelhead, veggie patties, 5 different pizzas, house made pasta with pesto/pomodoro/bolognese, a salad bar, and a few premade salads.

we also have sandwiches, desserts, paleo bowls, andsushi made in our commisary kitchen delivered fresh daily, an espresso bar, gelato, cookies, oatmeal in the morning, and a full array of bottled rinks from water to soda to kambucha to anythign in between.

Not in America. why would we need something like that? There's always a mc donalds around the corner not to mention dozens of other fast food restaurants and hundreds of misc delis and cafes and shit.

it depends on the workplace i think

Where the fuck do you work that fucking caters food? I need to get a better job.

I work in a restaurant, so whatever we have in stock is usually fair game barring more expensive product. I try not to eat any of the menu items because none of it is remotely healthy. Once in a while I'll grill some salmon or chicken and steam some spinach, but I don't work on the line so I only do that on slow nights when there's room in that kitchen.

Plenty of workplaces allow you to drink. Many tech companies come to mind; I know for a fact that Facebook has (or at least had) fridges specifically for beer.

The wife of the owner of the car dealership I work at is a chef so she runs a bistro in the dealership and makes all sorts of shit. THursdays they make cinnamon buns with icing, and theres usually 1-200 cookies, muffins, and brownies in the basket.

They have a daily lunch special for like 6 bucks. Today it was cobb salad and soup, I didn't get it. They sometimes make full blown rib racks, pork tenderlion dinners and really complex stuff like beef wellington or duck l'orange totally at random.

I'm a Firefighter so we have a regular kitchen in each of our stations. I'm the regular cook on my shift so I spend a lot of time cooking big meals for everybody.

It's a Cumberland Farms, they're pretty nice

I'm a prep cook in one of these bitches as well, except it's located in Indiana. The ingredients are nice and fresh, but we have to cater to retard country kids, and that means chicken tenders once a week, gallons of cheese sauce (American cheese and whatever other cheese scraps left behind) used every day, and extremely basic global dishes.

By the time I get my dinner break the food has been sitting out for a while so it's never too good. Today there was some decent teriyaki chicken. Most days are slim pickings sadly.

Ha ha ha no, where I work we have 3k plus employees and the only thing I want from my place of employment is to not be fired for some random reason.

>and I'm management

Supermarket retailcuck here. They recently got rid of our staff canteen. Not a problem for me since I bring my own. Everyone else has to go buy something from the shop floor or hope at least one of the two semi-permanently broken, half-filled vending machines works.

I have never bought canteen food. For the same price I could make a week's worth of lunches to bring, especially if it's just something simple like a sandwich, crisps, fruit and some biscuits.

My current job is 100% remote, so the food I have in the house is my cafeteria.

However, I just came from a major casino chain in Vegas where I worked in the corporate offices. Our cafeteria had clearly been repurposed from one of the kinds where you slide your tray across while people pour whatever dish of the day you want, and converted into your standard mini-mart fare. For a highly subsidized price (pretty much everything was under two dollars), you could choose from prepackaged sandwiches, salads, microwavable meals, and other snack and dessert fare. I never once took "advantage" of it, because I absolutely abhor eating lunch in a cafeteria like a little kid. I know that makes me a dick, but I don't really like lunch anyways. I'd normally either skip it, or use it to run an errand.

On the Strip itself, where our properties are, there's an individual Employee Dining Room. Depending on your level, it's either free or really cheap, and is generally just whatever extra-ordered buffet product was in that day, a hot vegetarian option, and a salad/sandwich bar. I've eaten in there a couple of times, and technically could have eaten every meal there free if I so desired, because of my employment level.

But I never did, because buffet food is gross, and it was mostly inconvenient to get there.

Lunch was frequently catered by our business partners or boss, and I got to eat a shit ton of free dinners at the nicest restaurants Vegas has to offer, because vendors would take us out all the time to thank us for the business.

I miss that part of it for sure. Dinner and drink tabs would regularly exceed $1,000 between like 5 of us. It was amazing.

I work for a big financial firm on the east coast that has offices popping up all over. Every corporate campus has its own cafeteria with decent options for $10 or less.

We always have the option of a subway style sandwich bar or a salad bar. Additionally, we have 4 other options that change every day with the exception of Tuesdays and Fridays being burger and pizza day respectively. The food quality is better than average and we get a plethora of options. I have lunch there every day with Co workers.

>a can of ginger ale

My nigger

Well there is a vending machine and thats about it. Even if there was a canteen I would never eat at it. I work in a office and sit down all day I don't need a full meal during lunch time or else I'll be tired all afternoon

I used to work at a theme park, and it was the exact same food sold to guests, but at a fraction of the price.
I think a burger that went for 7 bucks on stage was like 1.50 in one of the staff cafeterias.

Sounds like I'd get fat working there