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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Getty-Images-is-going-to-file-a-complaint-with-the-EU-against-Google/articleshow/52008923.cms">Google’s </a>massive California campus houses 30 cafes in total for employees, which includes Café Baadal -an Indian restaurant. This café has been serving Indian cuisine to employees since 2013, when Bon Appetit Management Company - which operates cafes at <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword>, eBay, Oracle, and many other tech companies – decided to set up this café at the Googleplex. <br /><br />Here's a look inside this cafe:<br /><br /><strong>The Buffet area:</strong><br />
	
	
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		<strong>The decor at <keyword id="3340309" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cafe-Baadal">Cafe Baadal</keyword> is cozy and colorful<br /></strong>
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		<strong>Overhead lanterns lend a nice touch to the interiors<br /></strong>
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<br /><strong>Diners can sit on cushions at corner tables.<br /></strong>
	
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<br /><strong>Flags, photos, and maps of India adorn the walls<br /></strong>
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<br /><strong>They even screen <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> movies on one wall<br /><br />

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	<strong>The menu is prix fixe. You won't see any prices listed because at Google, all cafeteria food is free<br /></strong><br />
	
	
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<br /><strong>And here's what a meal at Baadal looks like:<br /></strong><br />
	
	
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<br /><strong>To a BIG FAT lunch</strong> <strong>and beyond<br /></strong><br />
	
	
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<br />With plush seating and a full wait staff, this gourmet Indian restaurant encourages Googlers to visit them often and allows them to make reservations even for friends, family, or other team members. <br /><br />Baadal's chef Irfan Dama, formerly a private chef who focused on Indian home cooking and the country's many regional cuisines is a very popular cooking personality on YouTube (another Google brand). <br /><br />Employees say that at Baadal, trolleys are pushed about, hawking superb chai and equally excellent rose or mango lassis. The chai has become a sensation around Google, and people love its distinct cardamom-laced allure. <br /><br />Lunch, meanwhile, is served thali-style as stews and curries to be eaten with the starches, raita, and chutneys. Another dish that happens to be everyone's favourite and is only served on Fridays - Biryani.  <br /><br />So, when you apply for a Google job, you know why it's one of the most sought-after workplaces in the world.<br />

An inside look into Baadal Cafe, the Indian restaurant in Google's California campus

<p>With more than 30 cafes serving up a huge variety of cuisine, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/22-amazing-dishes-at-the-googleplex-2014-10">Google's free food</a> is the stuff of legends. </p>
<p>Last year, <a href="http://www.bamco.com/">Bon Appetit Management Company</a>, which <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-wanted-a-sandwich-shop-at-oracle-2014-11">operates cafes</a> at Google, eBay, Oracle, and many other tech companies, opened a new Indian restaurant at the Googleplex. </p>
<p><span>"</span><span>It was in an old cafeteria that they had, and we wanted to change it up," Fedele Bauccio, CEO of Bon Appetit, said to Business Insider. "It's healthy, and the flavors are great." </span></p>
<p>It's the first restaurant at Google to offer full service from a wait staff, and <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Googlers can make reservations for friends, family, or other team members.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><strong>The decor at Cafe Baadal is cozy and colorful. Diners can sit on cushions at these corner tables.</strong></p>
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<p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Flags, photos, and maps of India adorn the walls. </strong></p>
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<p class="embed-spacer"><strong>They even screen Bollywood movies on one wall.</strong></p>
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<p class="embed-spacer"><strong>Overhead lanterns are a nice touch.</strong></p>
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<p class="embed-spacer"><strong>The menu is prix fixe. You won't see any prices listed because at Google, all cafeteria food is free.</strong></p>
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<p class="embed-spacer"><strong>The food comes out on a large platter.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Cafe Baadal has become a popular destination for team lunches at Google. </strong></p>
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Check Out The Google Campus Restaurant Where Waiters Serve Employees Gourmet Indian Food

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Silicon Valley was a completely different world when Fedele Bauccio started his restaurant company in 1986.</p>
<p>Called <a href="http://www.bamco.com/">Bon Appetit Management Company</a>, Bauccio's business sought to completely revolutionize the corporate cafeteria. </p>
<p>"<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">I was with a public company for many years, so I understood what was going on there, but I was kind of appalled at the state of corporate food - the mystery meat, frozen food. I felt strongly that I could create a restaurant company with talented chefs and change that part of the industry," Bauccio told Business Insider. "That was unheard of in 1986." </span></p>
<p>One of Bon Appetit's first clients was a young company called Oracle, whose CEO, Larry Ellison, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-wanted-a-sandwich-shop-at-oracle-2014-11">wanted to set up a paninoteca</a>, or classic Italian sandwich shop, at the company's Redwood Shores campus. </p>
<p><span>"Being Italian, I said, 'I could do that,'" Bauccio said. "But we knew a sandwich shop wasn't going to last long."</span></p>
<p><span>What they decided to do instead would change Silicon Valley culture forever. Bon Appetit installed a number of small, customized restaurants - Japanese, Mediterranean, and Indian eateries, for example -  situated among the headquarters' many office buildings. </span></p>
<p><span>Soon, other companies were following suit.</span></p>
<p><span>"<span id="docs-internal-guid-3421ab56-5796-df99-10f5-3bb8afe92936"><span>We got lucky because we were in the middle of this startup world in San Francisco and Silicon Valley," Bauccio said. "Once we started doing things with Oracle and others, other companies felt that they should do it also."</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Bon Appetit currently operates more than 500 cafes across the country, including at offices for Google, eBay, Adobe, LinkedIn, Uber, and Yahoo, among many others. They also operate restaurants at 200 universities and several museums. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span>With more than 30 cafes serving nutritious, free food to about 30,000 employees at their Mountain View headquarters, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/22-amazing-dishes-at-the-googleplex-2014-10">Google has become the gold standard of dining in Silicon Valley</a>. Each cafe has its own concept - from Mexican cuisine to vegan specialties - and a menu focused on using local ingredients. </span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Variety is key for tech workers, many of whom spend more time in the office than they do out of it. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>"<span id="docs-internal-guid-3421ab56-580c-c55f-9019-697b5d5c2d85"><span>These people creating new products now - there's no beginning or end of the day for them. They're here all the time," Bauccio said. "</span></span><span>No one wants to eat in the same place five days a week. It challenged us to create different experiences that create what I call 'casual collisions' - that as people break bread together, they come up with new ideas and innovations."</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Bon Appetit's latest venture at Google is Kitchen Sync, a health-and-wellness cafe that has its own teaching kitchen run by top-notch chefs. The idea is that employees can learn solid skills for healthy cooking that they can eventually bring them home to their families. </span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Bon Appetit's most popular venture at Google, however, has been <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cafeteria-takes-reservations-2014-11">Cafe Baadal, an Indian restaurant with a prix fixe menu and delicious small plates</a>. Googlers can make reservations, and many people stand in line to grab a bite.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"It was in an old cafeteria that they had, and we wanted to change it up," Bauccio said. "It's healthy, and the flavors are great." </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">According to Bauccio, Bon Appetit has a few major concerns when creating new cafes. First, seasonal and fresh ingredients are of supreme importance, and the company insists that chefs use produce grown within 50 miles of a particular cafe. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Authenticity is also incredibly important. Before they determine a menu for a particular cafe, Bon Appetit conducts multiple focus groups to make sure they are well acquainted with the culture and demographics of the company. </span></p>
<p><span><span><span>The variety is obviously great for employees, but it's attractive to chefs, too. Unlike in the restaurant industry, chefs who cook in corporate cafeterias work standard hours and enjoy employee benefits. Bon Appetit employs many talented chefs, including several who have won the prestigious James Beard Award.</span></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"We now have more resumes than we can use. With </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">us, they can use their love, passion, and soul, and make relationships with local farmers," Bauccio said. "Once we get chefs, they don't leave."</span></p>
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