There’s no time in the morning for people with terrible commutes and multiple jobs, etc.
Some jobs have lunch breaks that are really short, especially if you have to drive somewhere to find food or wait in line.
Some jobs have lunch breaks that are really short, especially if you have to drive somewhere to find food or wait in line.
Additionally, I'm not convinced that waiting in line at lunch is not itself a niche behaviour. I'm guessing it must be a US tech/mega Corp thing, is it like a children's tuck shop or school canteen or something? I do remember I did some work experience when I was younger with some NASA guys out at tidbinbilla, and they had like a work canteen...which I found really weird and put it down to "an American thing". Is that what you mean?
Because I'm still struggling to comprehend what it involves...a line for what exactly? A fridge? Shops? Seats?
Additionally again, at least here, with sub $8 AUD lunches available, the marginal gain of buying ingredients and preparing one's own is getting less and less.
And you can then sub off that preparation time into doing something like exercising. Even if it's simple as going for walks while eating your lunch for most professionals...
That said, prep time is the most time consuming, but only takes about 10 mins. for me. Cooking, while linearly can take a lot if time, doesn't because I'm doing other things while the cooking is happening.
The line thing can be many things like walking to a restaurant/food service, getting seated, ordering, waiting, eating. Or walking up to a food truck, ordering waiting. Going to a sandwich shop ordering, waiting. Going to a supermarket, deciding, ordering waiting checking out.
On site food service is the quickest of course, but not all techs or star-ups do or have that.