[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.