As many people know, Google offers its employees free lunch and free dinner at the campus (Yahoo charges its employees). It’s a lavish affair, with many different types of high quality food, drinks, desert, etc. I like visiting Google for lunch, and accept nearly every offer I get from a Google employee.
To get into Google’s internal offices requires a discussion with security, sign in, badge, and escort. However, the dining area has no specific security into or out of it. If you can get past parking security, you can walk right in and eat.
Like much on TechCrunch, this is pure rumor. But I’ve heard from multiple independent sources that non-Google employees are making a game out of getting onto the Google campus, without an escort, and eating a free lunch, often taking a second lunch “to-go” for dinner. These people are keeping score to see who can eat the most free, unescorted lunches at Google. And specifically, my understanding is that many or all of these people are Yahoo employees. Yahoo HQ is right down the freeway, a very short drive away.
Have other people heard about this, or tried it (anonymous comments are fine)? For research purposes I may be trying this out myself. 
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Sneaking into Google for a free lunch appears to be a little harder than pretending you stayed at the Hampton Inn overnight and telling the front desk you didn’t get your bag lunch.
hope this post doesnt put an end it! this is hilarious! ha! you wouldn’t get past the gates at the BBC. but then people have tried to BOMB us, which isn’t hilarious at all.
FYI, Google security is aware of the rumors and is now handing hefty bills to people they catch… Be careful, this is theft and they can prosecute in civil and criminal courts..
we used to tail people into that cafeteria before it was cool back when SGI owned the building. good food then. no doubt its better now.
#4 - were you actually caught doing this? Did they attempt some sort of citizens arrest? I think I would have just run.
Meanwhile, for us x-files junkies…
As they track you entering the facility via the myriad of security cameras, they notice you aren’t an employee as your face (in combination, of course, with your gait) doesn’t hit a match in the company database. So they search other images until they find a match. They match your image with your name, then your gmail account and google ID.
Now, they observe as you browse for items and put them on your tray, paying close attention to your choices - likes and dislikes.
Next time you sit down at your computer, somehow your web experience is now a bit more tailored as those search results and ads seem slightly more tailored to your preferences. And your friends who regularly correspond with you via your gmail account have started to comment how good their web experience seems as well.
Pretty soon they’ll be opening up offices (with cafeterias of course) in a town near you! Brilliant marketing!
Not much like the campus’s of the old days… Circa 1980, you know during the REAL TECH BOOM…
Amdahl’s corporate café, offered enticing breakfasts and lunches at almost nothing (although not FREE). Breakfast for a Buck-pifty??
That was the “MCC†(Multi Circuit Carrier) which was 2 eggs of your style, bacon or ham, toast of your choice and a juice or milk.
When will the employees figure out that these “free-beezs†are not “freeâ€, as they collect you into the work environment for more hours than you are actually paid for.
Breakfast? That is a 45 minute warm up for the day, along with pre-business day meetings with co workers.
Lunch? That is a one hour time for YOU not for the company. Of course, eaten at the corporate café, then you take the 40 minutes to be polite to others are free up the table, resulting in 20 minutes of extra work for the company. Much less the 40 minutes you spent in the café talking about work, with people from work.
Outsiders?
Those are just the “fluff and fold†of the industry. How do you think “Google Leaks†operates..
Did you want to try “google earth†before it was public? I did, I have an account to prove it.
Did you want to try “Google Maps†before it was public? Well again, “Google Leaks†provided the answer…
Hey, heard about video.google.com makes you wonder huh? “Google Leaks” is slowing down.
I’m pretty sure you need a key card to get into the Google cafeteria (same with Yahoo). So it’s not quite as easy as it’s being made out to be. You still have to duck in behind another employee.
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this is right up their alley..
I work at Apple and have had many trips to google in my day, with an escort, for lunch. However, everytime i’ve gone the security is super lax, and it seems like i don’t even need my friend to be with me. I am well assured i could get in and out with no escort.
This is a trap, people! Books aren’t the only thing Google is interested in scanning. When there’s a giant seed pod in your backyard with a Google logo on the side and your clone growing inside, maybe you’ll realize there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Not to name names, but one of the people doing this is Michael Abbot.
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Haven’t Yahoo! folks heard that one never breaks bread in an enemy’s house?
I dunno, seems kind of lame to me. Go buy your own lunch.
Compare and Contrast. I know IBM folks who would “tunnel out” of their complex to *avoid* their canteens. The worst has to be the office complex near the Airport in Amsterdam.
Be nice to the next IBMmer you meet. Give them some food.
—* Bill
This is really funny.
I’ve eaten lunch at the plex on a few occasions, and it is great food (along with snack stations they keep all over the place).
Never thought about trying to sneak through their security though - seems like someone needs a blog to keep score.
I would defianatly be down for this if they weren’t so far away:(
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hahahahaha!!
I interned at Yahoo over the summer. We would never do that…hahahahaha…ok maybe a few times.
This same thing used to happen all the time at DreamWorks Animation. Same deal — great free food / amazing selection. I remember seeing several Disney employees over for lunch frequently! Things slowed down since Sept. 11th when security ratchetted up considerably, but there are still those who get in.
If I were Yahoo, I would institute the policy that any employee caught doing this would be subject to immediate dismissal.
a) It is illegal - trespass and theft.
b) It is unethical
c) It exposes Yahoo to the threat of lawsuits not only on the grounds of (a), but also espionage. In order to get into Google legally, you have to sign in and agree not to divulge proprietary information. Sneaking in and thereby circumventing this checkpoint could be construed as an attempt at industrial espionage.
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Can someone list a menu please? And does Google have maps?
Just an FYI — I worked at Google and yes… you do need a card key to get into the cafeterias.
you need to do you, maybe then you’ll do better
This is far from a new game! We used to do this all the time in 1998, sneaking into Netscape when Mountain View dining options were far more limited. Used to be a Web site called Silicon Valley Cafeteria Hackers reviewing all of the subsidized corporate cafeterias that people snuck into. I think 3Com was rated the best in its day, if memory serves.
any job vacancy there?
Having just visited Google today, I can confirm that security has cracked down. As a guest, I was escorted in, but the security people checked my escort’s badge multiple times, they were watching everyone. I think this is a great “sport”, but I’d be wary of participating now that Google Security is aware of it.
#51 - Glad I could ruin this for everyone.
Day 3 at Google. 4 meals so far, 1 security check fairly closely, the others not at all. The main restaurant has higher security checks that the others, but the food is definitely everything that it’s alluded to be. Just about to go for lunch now. Might make it for breakfast in the morning.
good article.
Free Lunches… Google knows all, what they really are doing is collecting information from people that steal lunches. What do thieves eat? I’m sure its in a database somewhere!
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i just wondering, after you posted this free lunch announcement, than how many people will sneaking through just to find free lunch.. ha.. ha..
haha those guys are loosers.
That is wicked - who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch? I think the big G can just about cover the costs with all the AdSense revenue they’ve withheld from honest publishers
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people be to thirsty damn just calm down but im looking fo some one to talk to while im in school
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