> My very first office job had a very clever trick up their sleeve - we had a free lunch each day. Nobody skips a free lunch

I was recently diagnosed with celiac, so I'm pretty iffy around restaurant food in general

But even before I was diagnosed, I would much rather choose what I want for lunch than have whatever the office decided to buy.

Then again I've never really done well in office jobs, my career really never went anywhere until I started working remote and could stop trying to figure out the office politics bullshit

It's not specifically against you, but whenever I bring up this memory everyone's first reaction is just that - I won't be told what I can eat, fuck off.

But this arrangement doesn't mean you only have one option. Most of the time you have a few. Sometimes - as was in my case mentioned in the post - you could specifically say what you want. And you could want anything you'd like, as long as it could be delivered. This wasn't Google, so we didn't had chef, but we had options.

The only time I saw the company took the decision was when I had my stint at CDPR, when they advertised free lunch. The part they didn't advertised was the part the lunch was arriving at 6pm. But still they were ordering for 2-3 different restaurants.