I agree. I have close, personal friends who went to work at Apple. The last time I talked to one of them, they started getting visibly nervous just talking about the breakfast they had at the on-campus cafe.
Not what it cost, or what it was, but even that it existed.
Sounds like your friend suffers from bizarre paranoia or acute social anxiety. (See how I can just make stuff up too?)
Having been invited multiple times by friends to Infinite Loop for lunch and dinner, and debated the quality of the food vs Google's with them (Google still wins on that front), I can safely say that nobody at Apple gives a shit if employees talk about the cafe.
The Gizmodo article is pretty much bullshit as well, my friends tell me. Unless there are groups at Apple that are more secretive than the UI team/iPhone/iPad are and actually enforce those rules on their own.
Not what it cost, or what it was, but even that it existed.
I quickly changed the topic.