Grant McCracken was right

I was in New York today and had a chance to peek into the Conde Nast cafeteria.  Why did I do this?  Because I read a post on Grant McCracken's blog about a year ago about the Frank Gehry-designed space, where he described it like this:

"It's a slightly anxious place, because a) everyone looks fabulous, except of course your devoted anthropologist and, b) they are engaged in the activity that threatens their fabulousness, eating.  This is a world in which a carrot stick counts as calorie loading."

Your devoted marketing analyst has this to say about the place - confirmed, it's full of beautiful people.  Last summer I visited the Google cafeteria in Chelsea - full of smart people.  But the corporate New York cafeteria I'm most familiar with is the the ConEd cafeteria, where I spent quite a bit of time a decade ago.  It's full of...cafeteria food.

Comments

[Ryan Roberts]

Wow you are all over the place. Pakistan, Utah, New York...you better slow down. By the way, great keynote at the Omniture Summit. I loved the lunch lady image!

[Max Kalehoff]

Pete, I seem to be commenting on every single one of your blog posts. My wife is an editor at Conde Naste, and she eats in the cafeteria every day. While I sit at my desk eating PB&J, she's there having sushi one day, mexican the next, italian the next...it's all pretty good stuff, and she gets to expense most of it.

But it's not as good the Google cafeteria I ate in last week in Mountain View. I"m not sure which one it was, because they have quite a few at their headquarters.

[Peter Kim]

Hi Max - I remembered that and told my client that they should ask your wife for advice! What's better than talking social media at home over dinner?