Re:Apple Q4/2022
by microtherion on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:16PM
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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).
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Re:Apple Q4/2022
by happyopossum on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:33PM
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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%....
Re:Apple Q4/2022
by microtherion on Thursday October 27, 2022 @06:09PM
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I was trying to estimate as conservatively as possible. Good point about the retail employees!
Re:Apple Q4/2022
by pertymcpert on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:42AM
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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?
Re:Apple Q4/2022
by neuralspark on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:48PM
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Own and operate, with the guidance that they should be break-even.
Re:Apple Q4/2022
by microtherion on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:57PM
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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