Apple Building New Cafeteria in Cupertino to Enhance Security for Satellite Campus Workers

[Bchagey]

good eats!

 

[Naaaaak]

The facility is being planned to ... [give] them a private location to eat and conduct business

"We're not building it because our employees might benefit from not needing to drive around town all the time, or because it might actually be more convenient to their well-being. We're building it so our competitors won't overhear anything they might discuss."

Too bad they're not discussing how to do regular updates for the Mac Pro.

 

[bruinsrme]

You don't want your creative people to be too productive. The more productive a person is, the less out of the box a person is. There are times you want your people putting in 12 hours per day and seven per week. Other times, you want them to be sitting around talking about the next big idea.



They WANT their people talking about these projects. Sitting around a table, talking about current and future roadblocks is the best way to bang out new ideas. You just don't want them talking in public.

My best work has always been done at IHOP with a laptop, a notepad and several friends. Perhaps Apple should turn themselves into one giant IHOP.

Not understood by many managers. The number of times I have been involved with group projects I have seen an array of successes.

The most productive ones have been the least accomplished. Instead of coming up with a system for 1 thing a broader approach was used to poke at a larger issue. Wouldn't you know it all the labor associated with all those patcha on your back project fell by the wayside months after introduction while the concept of this one project was seen as Having a laughable outcome. However is still being used and still expanding today. Funny how an idea comes about and are laughed at but years later it's still being used and those that conceived the idea are forgotten

 

[xlii]

Perhaps Apple could also set up its own bars, nightclubs, coffee shops, groceries, etc, so their employees won't have to socialize in public at all.

Or, they could just go live at Foxconn.

 

[needfx]

...what was that?

 

[iHateMacs]

How soon before Larry Page applies for a job clearing tables there?

 

[Shrink]

Nothing about how the building will be powered?

My guess is electricity. Just a stab in the dark, mind you. They could go with kerosine and eliminate those pesky outlets...but I'm still going with electricity.

 

[Konrad]

The guy who flips the burgers in this cafeteria will leak all the secrets. Seriously it's just another corporate eatery. Let's see the menu, but I would also like to see the women in topless swimsuits at the company pool. I wonder however if I would still have any appetite...

 

[Tiger8]

Well hey, lets build a new building! New buildings all around.

We're environmentally friendly though, honest.

Unless you posted this from a tent in the wild, you shouldn't really talk.

 

[carmenodie]

Damn! Y'all said what I wanted to say.Lol!

 

[madcran]

Why so much criticism? Most large institutions have their own cafeteria.

They have one already, Caffé Macs It's actually a very good cafeteria, lots of selection.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Unless you posted this from a tent in the wild, you shouldn't really talk.

Or, maybe I don't have to live in a tent in the wild, though I can and often do. Maybe I don't even need to have a dozen years of city planning and have a dozen architects in in my employ to know the first thing about the increasing failure of post-war urban/sub-urbanism. Maybe, I don't have to know squat about the millions of vacant and half-completed existing building projects that are sitting dormant in the wake of our economic collapse, without needing to tear up a ton of additional space to build new. Maybe, I don't even need to be an environmentalist wacko to know that new building projects are the single largest toxic polluting and destructive ecological force in our country, far worse than industrial waste, nuclear waste, all the exhaust from all those gas guzzlers, agriculture, golf courses and all the rest of the stupid crap people do. Maybe it's just basic and sensible, which is why everyone else in the country but Apple seems to get it. ...and why it's no surprise the consumer cult on this website would recoil harshly. Reality distortion field indeed.

But I'll be sure and ask for your permission to talk next time.

 

[DrFu79]

iCafeteria.

really? hasn't the iJoke lost its appeal 10 years ago ?

 

[Konrad]

Or, maybe I don't have to live in a tent in the wild, though I can and often do. Maybe I don't even need to have a dozen years of city planning and have a dozen architects in in my employ to know the first thing about the increasing failure of post-war urban/sub-urbanism. Maybe, I don't have to know squat about the millions of vacant and half-completed existing building projects that are sitting dormant in the wake of our economic collapse, without needing to tear up a ton of additional space to build new. Maybe, I don't even need to be an environmentalist wacko to know that new building projects are the single largest toxic polluting and destructive ecological force in our country, far worse than industrial waste, nuclear waste, all the exhaust from all those gas guzzlers, agriculture, golf courses and all the rest of the stupid crap people do. Maybe it's just basic and sensible, which is why everyone else in the country but Apple seems to get it. ...and why it's no surprise the consumer cult on this website would recoil harshly. Reality distortion field indeed.

But I'll be sure and ask for your permission to talk next time.

You are absolutely right, however apple is not alone in the fuzzy perception of new realities and, at least from my end, there is no reason for you to ever have to ask for a permission to share your views.

 

[nylonsteel]

re original article

i'm ok with it

but aapl should have installed a bar with top shelf bottles and wine cellar

to enjoy libations internally

keeping air head engineers out of the south bay area ghetto sports bars

 

[ownamac]

I doubt Apple employees are as productive as everyone thinks they are. Isn't there some statistic that on average 38% of the workday is wasted by employees. Do Apple employees really need these restaurants and perks, on top of their already comfy salaries? How many people work at this company? How many people does it take to get a simple task done? How many product launches do we get a year?

It's not easy to get a job at Apple. Standards are high. As such the idea that some "statistic on average" would apply there, doesn't. In that type of environment the work is foremost and expectations are high. Having a restaurant is a nice perk but only supports the long hours and hard work already taking place.

 

[gobears81]

Redwood City, not Mountain View

It was lost at a bar in Redwood City, not Mountain View. One of the best bars on the SF peninsula.

 

[Nostromo]

Hopefully we'll be kept posted on the changes on the menu in the Apple cafeteria as well.

 

[Mal]

really? hasn't the iJoke lost its appeal 10 years ago ?

iGuessNot.

jW

 

[JHankwitz]

Next will be inCampus living facilities, so they would never have to leave Campus.

If that's good enough for Foxcon, it's good enough for Apple.

 

[NakedPaulToast]

really? hasn't the iJoke lost its appeal 10 years ago ?

Perhaps.

Maybe if the restaurant served good Asian cuisine, they could call it the ThaiPad.

 

[SeaFox]

Next will be inCampus living facilities, so they would never have to leave Campus.

You mean like the Foxconn employees?

 

[MattInOz]

Nothing about how the building will be powered?

Well a Cafeteria will use lots and lots of hot water. Which gas powered fuel cells produces lots of while producing Electricity.
Gas to power the bulk of the cooking, Solar cells to cover day to night and seasonal demand changes.

So the only feed in needed is the gas.

 

[faroZ06]

no larger screen ... no iphone5..

Ever heard of the shift key?

 

[294307]

The criticism is they build a satellite campus/campus to keep their secrets safe, as if they have a HUGE need to keep their secrets safe. Talk about ego trip. Nobody really cares and those who do will find other ways to "infiltrate" the company. This satellite cafeteria just a publicity stunt to make Apple look like the greatest, most secret company ever. When really, the people who work there are just Joe Blows like the rest of us, who probably waste 18hrs/week on the internet like everyone else.

Unless you're psychic could you let me know how you know that their reasons or intentions for the new cafeteria is more to do with their ego and being a publicity stunt? To be honest, I think you're just sharing your own perception of the situation and perhaps of Apple, which may not be necessarily true. Until we know what the intentions are behind their decision (perhaps if Tim Cook is asked at some point), it's best to not come to negative conclusions.