Prices in the Microsoft cafeteria are often illogical.\n For example, a “special sandwich” costs $4.25. A piece of whole fruit costs $0.50. But a “special sandwich with a piece of whole fruit” costs $4.95.\n If you’re not careful, the cashier will ring it up as a “special sandwich with a piece of whole fruit” instead of as a “special sandwich” and a “piece of whole fruit”.\n (I think they eventually fixed this after enough people complained.)\n As another example, name-brand bottled water is available in the cafeteria. You can get a 20-ounce bottle for $0.99 or a one-liter bottle for $1.99.\n One liter is a little under 34 ounces. You’re actually better off buying two 20-ounce bottles than one one-liter bottle. Get more water and save a penny.<\/p>\n
(For those who have a Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/i> subscription, you can read more about how corporate cafeterias maximize profits in the article Nowadays, Companies Make Money Off You, Right Down to the Last Bite<\/a><\/i> from the 13 November 2002 issue.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prices in the Microsoft cafeteria are often illogical. For example, a “special sandwich” costs $4.25. A piece of whole fruit costs $0.50. But a “special sandwich with a piece of whole fruit” costs $4.95. If you’re not careful, the cashier will ring it up as a “special sandwich with a piece of whole fruit” instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Prices in the Microsoft cafeteria are often illogical. For example, a “special sandwich” costs $4.25. A piece of whole fruit costs $0.50. But a “special sandwich with a piece of whole fruit” costs $4.95. If you’re not careful, the cashier will ring it up as a “special sandwich with a piece of whole fruit” instead […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}