Food cost note: In my experience, one of the best restaurants in the world is the cafeteria at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The food is fantastic, everything is fresh, the variety is tremendous — plus everything is free. The newsletter Silicon Valley Insider calculates Google spends about $7,500 per year per employee for the free-food plan. That’s $30 per employee per working day on the cafeteria. Another fantastic restaurant is the dining halls at Bowdoin College in Maine. Princeton Review ranks Bowdoin’s cafeterias, subject of an offseason New York Times dining section article, as the No. 1 college food in the country. The Maine shrimp cakes with lobster sauce — better than in a pricey seafood restaurant!