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I'm just curious how much Rev/Profit they made on selling employee lunches and dinners.

Apple has 150k employees. Probably get <$15 revenue on average per employee/day, 230 days a year. So <$500M of revenue a year, and with the price/quality of the food, I doubt it's being run at a profit (It's not like they have a wine menu to boost their bottom line).

Most of those 150k employees are in retail, who don't eat at their cafeterias, and $15 is a stretch at that - I think the most I ever spent at a cafe Macs was about $10...

All that to say, you're probably off by about 80%....

I was trying to estimate as conservatively as possible. Good point about the retail employees!

You haven't been there in a while have you?

Do they own and operate the cafeterias? Or is it a third-party service provider?

Own and operate, with the guidance that they should be break-even.

I'm not sure to what extent this is true for all their cafeterias, but the Cupertino based cafeterias are very much in house, with quite a bit of executive attention. Steve Jobs made the revamp of Cafe Macs one of his first priorities on his return, and he personally recruited Francesco Longoni, who I think still runs the cafeterias, from Il Fornaio.

And Apple even patented proprietary takeout pizza boxes, with involvement by their product packaging team: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120024859

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