The company distributes more than 40,000 national brand and private-label products to more than 130,000 customers, including restaurants, hotels, hospitals, corporate cafeterias and schools.

In an intriguing sign of the times, the company reports that it now derives fully a third of its income from lunch-break gatherings held in corporate cafeterias.

There are few women in his company, he said, and so the corporate gym and the corporate cafeteria and the corporate water cooler are out.

It is one of the area's largest commercial bakeries, supplying bread and rolls to schools, hospitals and food-service companies that supply many corporate cafeterias.

And, as some readers may know, Apple's corporate cafeteria is known for, among other delicacies, its sushi.

Think of a C.E.O. having a special relationship with the person that delivers mail or the person that works in the corporate cafeteria.

So maybe McDonald's should run corporate and school cafeterias, hospital food services, all sorts of food service operations.

The best meals are served at corporate cafeterias where technology workers choose their own pieces of fish or meat and have the chefs grill them to order.

The course includes a two-week internship in commercial kitchens in a corporate cafeteria, hospital, hotel or restaurant.

I HAVE developed a craving for the corporate cafeteria, the corporate desk, the water cooler and the copy machine.