{"id":52608,"date":"2013-04-04T05:42:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=52608"},"modified":"2020-06-20T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T01:51:00","slug":"cafe-tibco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=52608","title":{"rendered":"Cafe TIBCO — Better Than Disneyland!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d heard and read so many great things about Cafe TIBCO on their YELP page<\/a> and from other geeks I work with. “It’s better than Disneyland,” “the Ice Cream Bar is amazing,” and “people from other companies come to the cafe to eat.”<\/p>\n

The last one is definitely true, there was probably a 50\/50 split between employees and people from the hospital next door or XYZ Media down the street. <\/p>\n

I wouldn’t, however, say the cafe was better than Disneyland. It’s a smaller version of the VMWare Cafeteria<\/a> with typical Silicon Valley fare: Indian food, Mexican food, sandwich bar, salad bar, etc. There was no ice cream bar that I could find or even coffee.<\/p>\n

The one thing that really stood out was the sheer amount of available vegan options: and not just one or two things, but entire swaths of food were vegan (e.g. the Indian bar).<\/p>\n

That said, this is an example of marketing hype. They preach constantly about having these vegan options, being locally sourced, about having organic food, but not one staff person I talked to knew what gluten-free meant. It seemed kind of odd to me like it’s the one marketing buzz word they haven’t yet indoctrinated into employee’s brains. <\/p>\n