Do you have to brown bag it every day, or can you get food without too much hassle?
I once worked at a place with no fridge, and not even air conditioning. The only other option was McDonald’s.
I worked at a place near an office building with a cafeteria, but the food was sickening. It was a 20 minute walk to anything else, involving crossing a major highway.
I worked in a hospital where the cafeteria was the only option, but the food was really good and there was a lot of variety.
Where I am now there are three cafeterias. Across the street I can get salad bar, Indian, Mexican, Chinese, and all sorts of pizza. Two blocks away is a food court.
There’s a cafeteria and a coffee stand in the complex where I work, and two more cafeterias at the hospital up the way. There’s also a Subway, a Dunkin’ Donuts, and a McDonald’s. Anything else you have to go off base for, in which case there’s anything you could think of (we’re in an urban area) but you’d have to drive.
There’s a fridge on the break room, so I bring lunch most days. there’s also a Chinese place, a Greek place, a Subway and 2 pubs within 3 minutes walk, and a whole downtown 20 minutes walk away.
I brown bag it anywhere from 1-4 days a week; we have a full-size fridge, and a microwave and toaster oven in our kitchen.
I’m within 3 miles of two shopping malls; one has a food court plus 3 restaurants, and the other has several restaurants within and without the mall proper. Plus I can get to about 7 or 8 other regular, sit-down restaurants within a 5-10 minute drive. Plenty of food options here.
There’s a cafeteria on campus that has a pretty good variety of food that’s better than I would expect from an office cafeteria. There are at least six major sandwich chains within a 5 minute walk of the office along with a pizza place and a few nicer (and thus pricier) restaurants. All in all, it’s a good setup, though I wish there were a few more options off campus besides the usual parade of sub shops.
I have to wonder what you mean by a 3 minute walk. I mentioned all of the places across the street from me, but it takes far longer than 3 minutes for me to get to them. It’s a wide street!
I usually bring food because it’s faster and cheaper. We’ve got several microwaves and a toaster oven. There’s a Subway, Del Taco, Fosters Freeze, and numerous Mexican places within driving distance.
And we get a catered lunch about once a month, which is nearly always good.
I have it pretty good. We have a fridge, a microwave, and free soda, so I brown bag it. We also have a decent cafeteria on campus, and across the street we have a Safeway, a sushi place, an Indian place, a Red Robin, a sandwich shop, a McDonalds, a fancy restaurant, and a few others I haven’t been to. Only downside is that they are crowded at lunch and when I meet someone at one of them for lunch he usually winds up parking in our parking lot.
Same 4/5 days. The office is in the city so on the 5th day there are about 15 restaurants within walking distance. 4 of them without venturing outside. Two food courts within a couple blocks and inside our actual tower there are two sandwich shops that do one or two hot meals a day, two coffee shops that serve lunch specials and a health food/bulk store. Also a movie theatre in case you’d prefer popcorn for lunch.
Nothing in walking distance. It’s a commuter suburb, though. Very few people who work here walk or take public transportation, so it’s not that big a deal to drive. There are a bunch of restaurants within a 5 minute drive (all chain restaurants, but at least it isn’t the middle of nowhere). I don’t really like to leave the building for lunch though, because I have to rush to finish it before I jump back on the phones. You can’t take calls with a mouthful of food.
We also have a cafeteria on-site. They’re ridiculously expensive (considering the food quality is significantly lower than the quality at my old high school cafeteria), *and *they have obscenely early hours (6am-2pm). My department is a bit anomalous compared to the rest of the building… we have reps who work 330-midnight, so a lot of my coworkers can never eat there.
Lots of people brown bag it (or bring in a frozen dinner), but there’s too much refrigerator theft for me to consider that. Some days I will bring in a snack that I can keep at my desk (lately, peaches or pickles or an avocado or a couple slim jims) and drink tea/water when I get thirsty. Other days I don’t bring any food and just eat a big dinner (mornings are hard for me and I’m often running out the door at the last minute, so I forget to grab food). I’ve gotten pretty good at tamping down my hunger through the day by staying hydrated, and I just eat a big meal once I get off work.
There’s a cafeteria in the building that serves OK food, but I never eat there. Within walking distance (<5 minutes) are two strip malls with:
a *fabulous *sandwich shop
a Thai restaurant
a hot dog shop
a burger joint
a local chain sandwich shop
a pizza & something place (it’s around the corner and I never walk up that far)
and a Mexican resaturant will be opening soon.
Within a 5 minute drive in one direction or another are all of the standard fast food options, and 5 more minutes brings you to any number of sit down restaurants.
I usually bring food because it’s the quickest option. We have a community fridge (which people mostly fill up with crap that they never eat and never take home :mad:), a microwave, and a toaster. My meals usually involve microwaving.
We have a couple restaurants, but one closes too early, the other is just okay, and when it’s busy the line is unmerciful. I only get half-hour breaks, so I can’t really spend a whole lot of time in line. There’s also a coffee shop, but it doesn’t have a whole lot of options.
I mean a 3 minute walk. The exit from my building is pretty close to the corner, walk across the street (2 lanes, with crosswalk and tragic lights) and you’re at Subway which is on the opposite corner. Keep going up the block and you’ll hit 3 more restaurants before you get to the next street. Plus I walk fast.
I work in a hospital in Chicago; we have a couple cafeterias, a couple commercial sandwich-type restaurants, a coffee bar, a convenience store with lunch options (frozen dinners, fresh packaged sandwiches), and vending machines. There’s also some chain and nicer restaurants not far away, and you can always order food to be delivered.
Oh, and in my particular office, I share a microwave and decent-sized fridge with a few people, and no lunch theft issues.
The one-way street behind my building is a food truck mecca. Every day there’s something different. This week I had a sushi burrito, a banh mi sandwich, and a lamb frankie with raita. (On different days … not all at the same time … .)