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Apple cafeteria diary: Caffe Macs employee tells all, including Steve Jobs’ favorite gelato

“‘James’ is an Apple employee. He works at Caffe Macs, the on-site cafeteria of Apple’s campus in Cupertino, Ca. Reminiscent of Google’s epic food offerings, Caffe Macs is pretty much a corporate food court dream-come-true,” The Huffington Post reports.

Monday, September 12:

1:00pm: First break. Definitely my favorite part of the day, because it’s lunch time I can eat any of the dishes. Today I picked up a seared ahi steak with a ginger lime sauce. Dishes range from $5 to $8, though Caffe Macs employees are allowed to eat most anything they want for free. I was a bit timid with the food the first day I worked here, though reading that Apple profits are upwards of $60+ billion keeps me from feeling guilty if I also pick up a burrito.

1:15pm: Finish serving juices until lunch ends at 1:30. Juice bar closes at that time as well, though the adjacent gelato bar stays open the entire day. Some days I’m told to look out for Steve Jobs, who strolls in from time to time to grab a burrito, some lemonade and gelato. My first encounter was when he came up and asked me for a crème brulee gelato in a large cup. I, thinking the task was simple enough, scooped it and asked how him how it looked. ‘B plus,’ he said with a slightly stern look, then said thanks and moved on. I only served him once more since, this time two scoops, ‘80% caramel pecan, 20% chocolate macadamia.’ Said it looked good and proceeded to pick up lemonade. I usually spend until 3:00pm cleaning the juicers and the station.

Much more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “krquet” for the heads up.]

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