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What restaurant facilities are there in your workplace, if any? Do you use them?

― MarkH, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New answers coz it's lunchtime!

(it is here, anyway)

― MarkH, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely fucking disgusting and I always end up being too bone idle to make my own sandwiches and eating what they have to offer. Ugh ugh ugh.

― Tom, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The hot food is sometimes not bad (and it's open in the evenings which is handy for pre-drinking stomach lining) but the sandwiches are a national disgrace. I have often gagged. We also have a trolley.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually not bad, thanks. use it often. less often in summer.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wont know til tomorrow .

― anthony, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cafeteria food which tends to fall somewhere between gourmet and rank. i try not to eat it becuz i'm trying to lose weight, but occasionally i cave and go for a nasty brown salad. it's a wonder how all these bone thin girl freshmen arent 400 lbs.

― jess, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ours is officially a Bistro, at least that's what it says on the menus but no-one ever calls it that. When I first came to work here from my old job, I was dismayed to find food of a lower quality at higher prices, but then the catering firm sacked the chef and employed a cheery soul who rather over-zealously tries to pile everyone's plates high with his wares. I never eat the packed sandwiches which are on offer (I've always considered these a rip-off anyway) or indeed the puddings, but I also plump for the Chinese or Indian meals that are sometimes on offer, as they are surprisingly good. Every so often, the canteen will have a theme day when they dress up in the national costumes of a particular country and serve appropriate food. I remember the Hallowe'en themed day particularly well, with all the staff in witches hats and the Tomato Soup rebranded as Blood Soup or whatever.

― MarkH, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The restaurant at Harrods was the best part of working there. They had good chips.

― rosemary, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Catering is both pretty poor here and run by an evil French Multi- national (Sodexho if you want to check out your own). As a result I have been putting together a business plan to take over said canteen - which make come into force next summer - though anyone will tell you in the SU game that running catering is like being sold a pup. Still, my empire will expand... Oh yes it will.

― Pete, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the main building we have Skyline (cos it looks out over London's skyline, do you see?) which is OK for hot food and salads and sarnies but their chips suck. It is the home of the legendary Sample Sales on Fridays. In my building we have baby Skyline with bacon & sausage sarnies for breakfast, baked spuds, soup & sarnies for lunch and Spunkmeyer cookies in the afternoon. What a feast. The canteen is just far enough away to make getting the teas in an issue.

― Emma, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will tell you that in the SU game catering can be a goldmine if you do it right (simple, wholesome, cheap, tasty). But what I know about SUs is (i) a lot less than Pete knows and (ii) horribly out-of-date.

― Tim, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Catering is both pretty poor here and run by an evil French Multi- national (Sodexho if you want to check out your own).

Mine is Sodexho as well. Pretty awful, but I do buy my Coke and coffee there (how would I live without caffeine)?

― Nicole, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I suppose really I should make my own sandwiches or even go home for lunch (I live close enough) but then again, lunch is very much a social activity....the conversation can get very surreal sometimes!

BTW, when I did work somewhere without a canteen and was bringing in sandwiches, i used to make the sarnies the night before and leave them in the fridge. My colleagues said they could always tell whether I'd been out the night before by the state of my sandwiches.

― MarkH, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty good. Seeing as we are a supermarket they get the food cheap. It's just been done up though, and frankly it looks ace. There's a TV and a wicker magazine rack. The food is dearer mind and they've stopped doing jacket potatoes. It was 52p for a jackets with salad and 2 fillings! Bargain! Now there is a odd vending machine involving rotating columns and sandwiches. However, they only use white bread for their sarnies and I don't like white bread. It's wrong. I don't think they've taken much money in the time since it reopens, due to Ramadan.

― alix, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

we have no cafteria. Just a kitchen without a stove.

― Samantha, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Making sandwiches the night before = sign of serial killer.

― N., Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum was a serial killer until I was 12 or so then.

― Ronan, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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