Food UI

Archive for July 2007

Cioppino-no

Posted by: foodui on: July 29, 2007

At my last company, we had a fancy cafeteria featuring several stations of food, such as the grill, the salad line, the sandwich line, the Italian line, the Mexican line, and the Global line.  This last station served a wide variety of food daily such as tandoori chicken, soup noodles, beef stroganoff, and falafel.  Really [...]

Spare Me

Posted by: foodui on: July 22, 2007

Last night I went bowling at Strike Cupertino, a trendy new bowling alley that’s part of the grand master plan to make Cupertino Square (the former Vallco Fashion Park mall) an ultra-cool, happening place for people to shop and hang out.  (I think changing the name alone is already taking it places.)
This is the [...]

Bricks vs. Bites

Posted by: foodui on: July 21, 2007

The last two companies I worked for were very large dot com’s, both of which had their own on-site cafeterias.  Both companies were run by the same catering service, so they had very similar setups.  You’d find several stations of different kinds of food/cuisine and various cash registers to pay for the food.  Around the [...]

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What is Food UI?

Posted by: foodui on: July 21, 2007

I love to eat.  Snacking, noshing, munching… eating is a great thing.  I’ve got a few decades of eating experience under my belt, and one thing that struck me was that eating is more than just the food.  It is about how the food is presented, how the food is consumed, the reason for the [...]