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- teckjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82Google was unaware while being distracted by a 1000 free pizzas Cambrianhouse.com had ninjas enter the google building to steal valuable information and servers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51Why isn`t their website using Google Video system instead of Youtube if they really love it so much ?
- athlonmj, on 10/12/2007, -9/+51 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. - drunkenoaf, on 10/12/2007, -7/+48My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
- graystar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Now that is what you call ad sense.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Watching the video, I was really shocked by how rude the Google chefs were and how they were going to get security to arrest everyone. This company (Cambrian) shells out perhaps $7000 in free pizza to Google and all they get in return is to be told to leave or be arrested? There's gratitude for you! The Google chefs were acting like pouting spoilt little brats.
- FatherG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28You've gotta love how everything was going fine until the Chefs showed up and then called security.
- Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Wait, giving free pizza to a companies employees that already gets free gourmet food everyday.
Where is this a treat? - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Gee, that was a nice gesture, but at about $7000 cost probably one of the cheapest networking and viral advertising moves of recently memory - why else produce a move about it?
- MaxS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Notice the "* Also posted on Google Video" part
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20As if Google employees don't already have free pizza at their disposal..
- stuffhappens, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22"In an effort to get some free, media stunt, publicity, Cambrianhouse.com has ventured uninvited onto the Google HQ property with 1000 free Pizzas for Googlers."
There, fixed it for you. - MaxS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Haha.
Yea, I just thought this company deserves the publicity. This is a really creative PR stunt. - jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20well we all have limits :)
- SystemBomb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I 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. - RichGC, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Most chefs take pride in their food, I would be pissed of if I had spent time preparing food only for everyone to be eating pizza instead.
Imagine if was the other way round, they turn up with the 1000 pizzas and not one person touches them, its just a waste of good food.
It was a nice idea, but poorly done. - Ryosen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Probably for the same reason that Richie Sambora left Heather Locklear: sometimes you just get tired of eating prime rib every day. :)
What I find interesting is how easy it would be for Microsoft to walk on to the Googleplex and poison the entire staff of Google, Inc. with a free lunch. - obeattie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Yeah! Google is ace, and so are these guys. Can't think of employees of company more deserving.
- georgelogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+141. Enter the Google Complex with 1000 Pizzas
2. ?????
3. Profit - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14What I like about Cambrian House:
1) It's already shown that it's trying to be 'for the people'.
2) It's name isn't anything with an 'r' on the end.
3) No cam.brianhou.se
4) Joy, textures everywhere on the site! Not a web 2.0 gradient to be seen.
5) The idea is complicated, but they've done their best to simplify it using attractive flash animations and short paragraphs.
When this thing launches, I'm going to be a part of it. - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Was this pizza free as in speech, or free as in beer?
- jayh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14They've posted it up on Google Video too...
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2611684613035575342 - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Open Sauce*
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"interesting enough to get on digg" = has Google in the title
- dw2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9On the Cambrian House about page:
"It's like Open Source, but with Money!"
not for long - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8They get GREAT food at Google. Here is a sample menu
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/keyword-chefs.html - 8ight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8and it was a quarter after three. shouldn't they be done with their cooking?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2611684613035575342
- JTMON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In other news, 1000 new nano gps tracking devices were secretly planted today in the unsuspecting bodies of google employees.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What a great way to increase publicity of Cambrian House. I love it.
Cambrian House's site looks very interesting too. It sounds like it could be pretty huge in just a few month's time. I do hope it succeeds if they give off the same type of friendly feelings that that free pizza video did. - jackcall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10PR stunt? Yes, but free? no. That's probably $7-8k in pizzas...
- unclejose, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10But shouldn't security be a little cautious? This could have been a fine way to poison the entire Google campus. Furthermore, I imagine the web as we know it would change if something catastrophic happened to the Google campus, unless they have backups of everyone. They definitely need snipers on the roofs and sharks with lasers in the fountains as soon as possible, as well as chiefs with tasers.
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15Generosity = Not Lame
A bit of humour = Not Lame
You = Lame - pupppet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Nobody deserves free food more than a multi billion dollar company with more money than it knows what to do with. Nice work!
- CaptHarlock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Dear Google,
enjoy some free pizza,
lunch is on us
and please buy our company... - dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5even if it was a PR thing, it was interesting enough to get on digg
sounds like money well spent to me - andburn1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@stuffhappens - Where the hell did you get that number? Yes, they probably got a serious discount, and that's fair to say, but don't go around making ***** up. Neither you nor I know how much it cost them, so don't speculate.
- gklinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You know what would have been really cool? If the Cambrianhouse people took all those pizzas down to a homeless shelter or better yet, donated the cost of those pizzas to a food bank. Taking 1000 pizzas to the millionaires and soon-to-be-millionaires at Google who already have gourmet chefs on hand seems wrong.
- colol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't watch Family Guy, I take it?
- dimmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4they may have gotten the boot, but they did leave the pizzas (what was left), so i would consider it a successful mission
- scb0825, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The Google Chefs acted like little pussies. You would think they would have a good sense of humor, but no... their heads are too far up their asses because they are "Google Chefs". Pussies!
- zai-asal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The videos are hosted on YouTube because they have the option to embed the it on their site, the last thing they want is someone to just watch the video then leave their site.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4 Holy crap people lighten up! It was one day out of 365, live a little.
I'd hate to see if someone invited any of you out to dinner would you say "Well I had something in mind, I usually eat at 6pm, the food you buy me may not be safe..." - alexras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sadly, it didn't come with free drinks.
I'm an intern at Google, and generally the reaction to the free pizzas was that echoed by gklinger - why don't they just send them to a homeless shelter or something? We certainly didn't need them, although several people who don't eat dinner at Google regularly took a pizza home to their kids. I heard something about the rest of the pizzas being taken to a local orphanage after we Googlers were sated, but I can't really say for sure that it was. In any case, we thought it was a thoughtful, if somewhat odd, gesture on their part. - BoredAtWork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, 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.
- MaxS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, the power of digg. I actually got a post on the front page!
For those who are saying it's a PR stunt: congrats, you're smart. It's quite obviously a PR stunt, but who cares? It's a very cool one. - xswag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh and here is where the pizza was from (Amici's)
http://www.waiter.com/cgi-bin/SCMMOS/GetRestaurant.cgi?AMICIS6 - randyandy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Add to the fact that that would be an excellent way to poison a large number of people.
- adaptdev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Chefs ruined it. If they serve people for free what are they losing?
No one else in the entire place called security....call it "Little Man Syndrome". - CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@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? -
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