[littledude]

lots of startups eat together, look into zerocater and how they started their whole business around this concept. even ycombinator has big dinners with multiple startups regularly. it's not uncommon at all and accepted at good practice by lots of companies. i don't understand why you're making this out to be some negative experience.

[carguy1983]

It's simply not scaleable, and shouldn't be a goal for a startup - if it happens naturally, great everyone loves each other, but it shouldn't be somebody's job description to organize this sort of thing with an implication of alienation if one doesn't partake.

As a company grows larger people are not going to be cooking for each other and the boss isn't going to spend $1k a day on lunch and dinner.

[rdl]

$1k/day for lunch and dinner is fine once you have 20 employees generating $300k/yr each (i.e. a salary of $100k, costs/benefits of another $50k or so, and generating more than they cost by 2x).

[carguy1983]

I'm talking about all-together meals, not cafeteria and catering which is totally normal and acceptable by pretty much everybody.