Fiducia canteen

           „This is the best food, I’ve eaten in months.“ Usually, this is the sentence people say while having dinner in a Michelin star restaurant. But in the bBox team, this expression can be heard in the Fiducia canteen quite often. And exactly this facility deserves the special attention of our blog.

         Without any doubt, the lunch time belongs to the highlights of the day in the office. Usually the interesting part starts with agreeing on time to go for lunch that definitely is not planned the same for everybody in the team. So as I, the first-hungry-one, persuade the others – especially the Latinos – who still cannot believe that some people can have lunch before 2 p.m, we set for the quest for food.

          In the next stage, our little noisy group approaches the canteen and another problem arises. The menu translation. Decoding the German culinary specialties present sometimes unsolvable translation and my German-English skills from time to time end up with humiliating simplification “… eeee…. chicken with potatoes ….”.

         As a consequence, the team splits and visual choice comes as a solution. Here, the German language was remarkably grasped by most of the team and words such as “mehr bitte” (more please) are heard more than often. 

           After couple of minutes, the group gathers again, and you can see the little differences in the member’s nature. Clara prefers rice; Aldo appears usually with food mountain comparable only to Mount Everest, Pipe double-checks for his hated pears, Paulo sniffs for fair piece of steak, Delly could not start without soup, Claudia chooses extremely picky and Nair is renowned for her affection to side dishes so that the main dish can be even forgotten.

          Generally, we all observe some rules gained through our gastronomy experience: (1) Always cream soup – Creamy delight is usually better than clear soup. (2) I don’t know why, but everybody tends to overestimate themselves by putting mountains of patatoes  and this incapability to finish the plate is referred as a “potato mistake”. (3) Dessert – right side is the good side.

         

                                                     Salads and the Pisa Tower built out of our soup bowls

          After lunch, the excellent treatment of stomach is (at least in my and Paulo’s case) concluded with a cup of freshly minced and brewed coffee that makes an amazing dot after lunch and prevent from sleepy digestion.

Well, this all is enabled by the canteen & cafeteria employees who surely were recruited from the academy for nice people. Always smiling, extremely fast, helpful, coping with any problem with elegance and professionalism..

           Yes, the comparison of food and service with Michelin- awarded restaurants was not far-fetched. But what definitely should not be compared in any case, are the prices. 2,21 euro for three-course menu and 31 cents for a cup of coffee…

             Thumbs up for Fiducia canteen!

                        Stanislav Haba