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The food is designed to make you work late and law firms and consulting outfits will realise this too if they haven’t already.

Law firms do this already. On site doctors too = no reason to ever leave!

(Also, in NYC, call the car service to go home late at night.)

Not at Google. The food is there because they have to spend all their money on something, or risk being singled out as a monopoly.

That sounds conspiratorial, but it's really the only thing that makes sense to me.

I suggest doing some math. Just back of the napkin.

On what?

Cost of meals vs cash flow. The thing you were commenting on.

Yes, meals are just one of the many expenses.

How does spending money on whatever have anything to do with monopoly?

Reduces profit margins