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We have real kitchens too. Saying "micro kitchen" distinguishes it from the big cafes.

IIRC, there's some legal definition too: a micro kitchen can't have ice or something. Once it does it's subject to different rules, so we need to go to the real kitchens to get ice.

No, they are quite large. The joke is that the "micro"kitchens are larger than people's expensive bay area apartments.

Ours are called kitchenettes. They differ from an actual kitchen in that they don't have real food, cooking ware, or cooking appliances (except perhaps a microwave or coffee machine).

Second paragraph:

> Some other companies have the same sort of thing going on. They don't always get the same name applied (sometimes they're just "kitchens"), but similar behaviors seem to follow them around.