Battle of Tech Company Cafeterias: Cisco

Al To
2 min readMar 19, 2020

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Cisco — SF

Ambiance: 4/5

Food quality: 4/5

Food variety: 3/5

Snack bar quality: 3/5

Snack bar variety: 4.5/5

Overall rating: 3.7/5

BREAD BAR

Breads are delivered weekly and feature Acme goods. Some of the seasonal highlights are the kouign amann and cinnamon pull-apart bread.

MAINS

Catering is offered on MWF. Friendly catering staff stays around and keeps the area clean and well-stocked.

DRINKS

Bottled drinks including Ugly Juice juice shots, juice bottles, bulk juice (juice-in-a-box), Tejava teas, coconut water, beer, bottled cold brew.

Drink selection on tap includes kombucha and cold brew coffee.

SNACK SELECTION

Two whole snack walls! With most tech companies moving towards trendier and healthier snack options (reference: dairy-free cashew yogurt), this is one of the few tech companies with a lot of the more unhealthy, old school snacks.

Salty: Old-school basics like Cheez-It, Lay’s, Baked Lay’s, Goldfish, Pringles, Cheetos, Ruffles, Sun Chips, Funyun’s, Gardetto’s, Snyder’s pretzels, Wheat Thins, Doritos, and Freetos. Trendier options are Hawaiian Luau kettle chips, seaweed, Popchips, Baken-Ets pork skin, Boulder potato chips, Stacy’s pita chips, Snapea Crisps, Corn on the cob chips, Late July chips, and Skinny Pop popcorn.

Sweet: More old-school basics like Nature Valley granola bars, Welch’s fruit gummies, Reese’s, Sour Patch Kids, Snickers, Nutter Butter, Lindt truffles, Famous Amos cookies, and Milanos. Other options like Tate’s cookies, Sigona’s dried fruit, CLIF bars, Think Thin protein bars, Dang coconut chips, Kind bars, Hello Panda cookies, Sahale nuts, Rip van Wafels stroopwafels, Nature’s Bakery fig bars, Justin’s peanut butter cups, Sugar Bowl bakery madeleines, and Nourish chewy granola bites.

Fruits: Assortment of seasonal fruits like peaches, bananas, apples and avocados.

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