cambrianhouse.com— In an effort to basically give thanks to where it's deserved, Cambrianhouse.com has ventured uninvited onto the Google HQ property with 1000 free Pizzas for Googlers.
Jul 29, 2006View in Crawl 4
I Know the chefs in the video, and they are really good guys. I have seen them go the extra mile to make sure someone who has a special food diet or allergies is taken care of. What some people may not know is that Google also serves dinner, and if someone got sick from eating the pizza the chefs may have some responsibility because they are in charge of food quality. As to their feelings, I imagine it being a lot like if I had worked many hours to create thanksgiving dinner and my uncle shows up having just taken the whole family to McDonald's. I think I would be a little upset as well.
@stuffhappens:No way. When I worked for a pizza chain in the late 80's, our food costs were $3 a 10", $4 for a 12" and $6 for a 14" pizza. I can't imagine that costs have gone down since then, so I'd have to estimate that if the parlors did it at cost, you're still looking at around 7 or 8 grand. Retail, probably closer to 10 - 12 grand.
Yes, or perhaps the Google Chefs could have done the same instead of being whiney bitches about it. I'm sure the shelter would have gladly accepted their food as well. Plus, it would be good PR for Google.
@barc001, I worked for a pizza place for about 10 months only 6 years ago. I spoke the owner a couple times about offering deals to local organizations. He and I talked about the cost of the pizza. He said the ingredients ended up about $1.50 - $2.00 per pizza. He even had more expensive ingredients than typical pizza joints, like fresh soft mozzarella, pesto sauce, portabello mushrooms, barbeque chicken, etc. Unless they got an extra large pizza with lots of toppings, the cost of the pizza would be below $2.00 on average. The cost of running a pizza joint is overhead. Paying for drivers, frontdesk workers, accountant, attorney, rent, electricity, gas, phones, computer system, oven, bigass mixer (if making your own dough), etc. That is the stuff that racks up the price of pizza.They offered a large pizza, 1 topping carry out for $4.99. With overhead, his cost was probably $3.10 or something.I'll bet the pizza place enjoyed the publicity as well and gave a discount for that as well as the bulk discount. How much do you think that publicity would be worth to that pizza place?
I can't see something like this happening (ie: the possibility of poisoning Googles entire staff) without being Slowing and Carefully run past officials in the company, weeks before.It's a PR thing.Nothing is real.Everything is permitted...
athlonmjJul 30, 2006
But of course, let's review:1. Ninjas are mammals.2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
charlesdarwinJul 30, 2006
"interesting enough to get on digg" = has Google in the title
systembombJul 30, 2006
I Know the chefs in the video, and they are really good guys. I have seen them go the extra mile to make sure someone who has a special food diet or allergies is taken care of. What some people may not know is that Google also serves dinner, and if someone got sick from eating the pizza the chefs may have some responsibility because they are in charge of food quality. As to their feelings, I imagine it being a lot like if I had worked many hours to create thanksgiving dinner and my uncle shows up having just taken the whole family to McDonald's. I think I would be a little upset as well.
fatlipJul 30, 2006
Open Sauce*
andburn1Jul 30, 2006
Hey, look at the latest post in the Cambrian House blog! You got a thank you. Good job.
stapledJul 30, 2006
They said it was Ameci's in the video.
barc0001Jul 30, 2006
@stuffhappens:No way. When I worked for a pizza chain in the late 80's, our food costs were $3 a 10", $4 for a 12" and $6 for a 14" pizza. I can't imagine that costs have gone down since then, so I'd have to estimate that if the parlors did it at cost, you're still looking at around 7 or 8 grand. Retail, probably closer to 10 - 12 grand.
boredatworkJul 31, 2006
Yes, or perhaps the Google Chefs could have done the same instead of being whiney bitches about it. I'm sure the shelter would have gladly accepted their food as well. Plus, it would be good PR for Google.
circlefusionJul 31, 2006
@barc001, I worked for a pizza place for about 10 months only 6 years ago. I spoke the owner a couple times about offering deals to local organizations. He and I talked about the cost of the pizza. He said the ingredients ended up about $1.50 - $2.00 per pizza. He even had more expensive ingredients than typical pizza joints, like fresh soft mozzarella, pesto sauce, portabello mushrooms, barbeque chicken, etc. Unless they got an extra large pizza with lots of toppings, the cost of the pizza would be below $2.00 on average. The cost of running a pizza joint is overhead. Paying for drivers, frontdesk workers, accountant, attorney, rent, electricity, gas, phones, computer system, oven, bigass mixer (if making your own dough), etc. That is the stuff that racks up the price of pizza.They offered a large pizza, 1 topping carry out for $4.99. With overhead, his cost was probably $3.10 or something.I'll bet the pizza place enjoyed the publicity as well and gave a discount for that as well as the bulk discount. How much do you think that publicity would be worth to that pizza place?
louisschismAug 1, 2006
I can't see something like this happening (ie: the possibility of poisoning Googles entire staff) without being Slowing and Carefully run past officials in the company, weeks before.It's a PR thing.Nothing is real.Everything is permitted...