David Radcliffe, our VP of Real Estate and Workplace Services, lays out our cafés and manages the lengths of lines so that there are “casual collisions” between people who might have interesting conversations. We dot our floors with microkitchens, pockets where you can grab a coffee, a piece of organic fruit, or a snack, and take a few minutes to relax. Often you’ll see Googlers chatting and comparing notes over a cookie and a chessboard or around a pool table. Sergey once said, “No one should be more than two hundred feet away from food,” but the real purpose of these microkitchens is to do
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