最高檔的員工餐廳
What perks do you look for in a workplace? Perhaps a gym, maybe ping-pong tables, or how about free fruit?
你會爲怎樣的工作環境加分？帶健身房，帶乒乓球檯，還是提供免費的水果？A subsidised canteen is often popular too, but only if the food is actually good.
公司提供補貼的食堂也不錯，只要給的食物足夠好吃。But what if your office actually had a secret kitchen serving up high-quality food to the executives?
但假如你的公司裏有個祕密的食堂，專門爲高管們準備美味的菜餚，那會怎樣呢？
For that is exactly what happens at financial services company Morgan Stanley.
這的的確確發生在摩根斯坦利金融服務公司裏。Acclaimed chef JJ Johnson used to run the executive kitchen in Morgan Stanley’s New York office on Broadway, and has revealed to Eater just what it was like.
名廚JJ•約翰遜曾經在摩根斯坦利位於百老匯的辦公室裏運營過服務高管的餐廳，他向Eater網站透露了關於這個餐廳的信息。With a menu that changed daily and 15 people working in the kitchen, he says it was just like running a high-end restaurant.
他說，那就像是運營一個真正的高檔餐廳，菜單每天都更新，廚房裏有多達15名人手。Unlike many work canteens which serve up basic dishes like lasagne, burgers and fish and chips, the food at Morgan Stanley’s secret restaurant is of the utmost quality - Iberico pork, foie gras and truffles regularly feature on the menu.
一般的員工食堂提供的都是基本的千層麪，漢堡或者炸魚加薯條，而摩根斯坦利的祕密餐廳則是提供儘可能高質的食物——伊比利亞黑豬肉，鵝肝醬以及松露等經常會有。The restaurant also does ‘nose to tail eating’ - cooking every part of an animal - and serves 30 to 50 people every day.
這個餐廳也會做“全宴”——將動物的每個部分都做成菜——並每天供應給30到50人。Although budgets were inevitably higher than a standard canteen, there were still budgets: “You needed to make sure, yeah you got 50 parties this week, but you can’t spend more than this amount of money ‘cause that’s all that’s budgeted for,” Johnson said.
雖然預算肯定比一般的食堂高得多，但也不是無止境的：“你必須要確保，即使一週會有50次宴會，你也絕對不能超額，因爲預算就給這麼多，”約翰遜說道。
“You have to be able to make that work.”
“你必須要想辦法做到。”Johnson didn’t reveal how much the meals in the restaurant cost, but he did mention that the diners never left tips.
約翰遜並沒有透露餐廳的一頓飯到底花多少錢，但他提到過用餐的人從來不給小費。After leaving Morgan Stanley, Johnson went on to win an episode of American reality competition TV series Rocco’s Dinner Party which led him to co-create New York restaurant The Cecil, which recently merged into the acclaimed restaurant and jazz club Minton’s.
在離開摩根斯坦利之後，約翰遜在一集美國競賽真人秀——羅科的晚宴中得勝，接着與其他人合辦了一件餐廳The Cecil。這家餐廳最近被併入了廣受好評的爵士餐吧Mintons。Let’s hope New York’s financial executives aren’t being deprived of their truffles in his absence.
希望紐約的金融高管們能在他離開後還吃得到松露吧。
