Want to know how much it costs Google to pay for all the free food that they provide to their employees? Here's the math. Google employees in the U.S. get two meals a day free, according to the jobs page, but people at the Mountain View Googleplex mentioned that employees there are often tucking in three meals a day. Google is open 251 days a year and by its own count Google has about 8,000 workers at the Googleplex in Mountain View, and another 700 at the office on Ninth Ave. in New York City. By Buying DoubleClick added 900 more U.S. employees to Google. So that's a total of about 9,600 employees in Mountain View, New York, and from DoubleClic. Internationally, benefits vary. Employees in Australia get a free lunch, whereas employees in Ireland get a fully subsidized canteen.

Now what is the cost per employee? San Jose-based caterer Abe Caterman guesses it would cost Google about $15 per day, per employee, for breakfast and lunch. But Prentiss Hall, an executive at Aramark Business Dining Services, thinks Google could be spending closer to $30 a day. So now, if you multiply the $ 30 a day by the 9,600 employees and further multiply the figure into 251 days, the grand total (estimated) that Larry and Sergey are spending to fill their employees tummies is a whooping $72,288,000. And this is not including other employees in the States. . High you say? I think the company that earned $4.2 billion can afford that. What do you think?

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