Greener Living
Google Is Trying to Reduce Its Food Waste Without Irritating Employees
The tech giant, which serves more than 240,000 meals a day, is experimenting with changes that include smaller milk portions and cooking eggs on demand.
At the Google Bay View campus, a worker cuts oranges while collecting the scraps for composting in Mountain View.
Photographer: Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg
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It’s not just the headcount at Google that’s getting smaller.
Like other Silicon Valley giants retrenching amid financial uncertainty, Google has cut thousands of jobs since January 2023. But the company is also accelerating changes within its lavish corporate cafeterias — a longtime lure for tech employees — that will both reduce costs and cut the company’s food waste.