Google Gorging on Corporate Excesses

Google is acting like a pre-dot-com-bubble-burst startup company by wallowing in ridiculous corporate excesses. According to their own publications, they provide free gourmet cuisine to their employees in the cafeteria. Whereas most companies charge for coffee, Google gives its employees free Chinese sausage and Sake. Oh, and they imagine that they are a “youthful United Nations.” How deliciously Multi-Culti of them.

Delusions of grandeur? From CNET here:

“Together, the menus of the cafes add up to a global cuisine of more than 200 recipes daily. Fish sauce, harissa, lentil flour and young coconut juice are likely to appear somewhere on campus on any given day. The flavors suit the engineers and other employees who, to an outsider, collectively look like a youthful United Nations.”

“He checked on the made-from-scratch ketchup, mustard and fresh mozzarella, served at the sandwich bar along with six homemade spreads. He talked about buying locally made Chinese sausage and sake, about composting and growing his own produce in a garden near the restaurant. Keller dreams bigger than just about any independent restaurateur can.”

Made from scratch ketchup? Heinz isnt good enough? I bet you cant even get good french fries there with all that fancy food. No hotdogs or hamburgers either. While Google gets fat and happy, riding what they think is a permanent high on Wall St., the competition is catching up. Microsoft is poised to release a search engine that is rumored to rival Google, and Yahoo has their nose to the grindstone too.