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The Real Deal Behind Food Holidays
Does your Instagram feed ever get flooded with "National Hot Dog or Warm Apple Pie Day?" Just recently I've seen National Watermelon Day, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, and National Oyster Day—let us not forget that August 6th is National Rootbeer...
The Highlight of Every Chicagoan's Summer
Lollapalooza has come and gone. Evacuations, rain, Paul McCartney—sounds like a pretty standard music festival, does it not? Now we love romping around in Grant Park just like everyone else, but there is another festival that we crave each summer:...
Some Things are Meant to be Dirty, Lunch is not one of Them
A three-martini lunch is a leisurely lunch enjoyed by business people or executives. A dirty martini is delicious—a dirty lunch, not so much. The average smart phone carries 18 times more bacteria than a toilet seat in a public restroom. Your...
D.C. Restaurants You Can Only Afford During Restaurant Week
In a city of $15 cocktails and entrees crossing the $30 mark, it’s easy to cringe when the bill hits the table. Restaurant Week offers us the opportunity to dine at places we would otherwise only dream about—when a meal...
Top 10 Chicago Catering Options For Your Office
To attract top talent, companies like Google, foursquare, and Sony are offering more unconventional office perks—free food being one of them. While catered office meals are seemingly commonplace in Silicon Valley, the idea hasn’t quite taken off in Chicago…yet. At...
How to Design an Office to Reflect Your Company Values
When we moved into our current office in 2014, we were on a mission to make our new home reflect our company values and culture. With office space running scarce in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, this was not an easy...
Zerocater Employee Spotlight: Andy Lavelle
As a part of our on-going Employee Spotlight series, we are recognizing the company value for August, Do Difficult Things. This value isn’t just about doing something challenging, but having the dedication to see projects all the way through....
Five ways to automate your work life
When you’re on, you’re on. You arrive to the office early. Your workout for the day is done, having hit the gym before most of your coworkers’ alarms had gone off. You check all of your e-mails by 9 a.m.,...
Don’t Toss that Lunch—Rescue it!
Americans throw away nearly half their food, or about $1.65 billion annually according to a recent study by Reuters. Consumers have begun repurposing food into compost programs and green waste recycling; but little has been done at the commercial...
How & Why to Encourage Culture Collisions in the Workplace
By: Jamie Nichol Think of that random conversation with a new colleague as you wait for the elevator, or the inside joke you formed with a coworker as you heat up your lunch in the microwave. These are culture collisions. And here’s...
