I so SO wish I had a kitchen. We have an empty cube with a junky microwave. No sink. Tiny refrigerator. We all eat at our cubes. I bring my own food in gladware containers.

Lunch hour... ((sigh))

I miss that.

we have a bar fridge, microwave, sink and kettle. It's not bad and the fridge gets cleaned once a week. I also have a co-worker who will eat your food if he's hungry and can't find the owner. Keeps you on your toes.

We've got two microwaves, a toaster oven, a full-size fridge, and usually an open meeting room that people sometimes use as a makeshift cafeteria. One of my co-workers goes on a fridge-cleaning rampage every two or three weeks, which I personally love. People are generally clean. I'll see a couple empty oatmeal bowls soaking in the sink, sometimes for too long. One co-worker once tossed a dirty bowl that sat on the counter for a couple of weeks. I'll usually swipe out the microwave if it's dirty before I use it, even if it's not my scum. Then, I hide out at my desk to work or read while I lunch.

Ugh. I had to dump half a bottle of Brougerie's milk because someone's rotting food tainted it. I'm on a budget and that's some fancy milk! I have been eating untoasted bread at my desk because I can't stand the stink in the breakroom. I want to just empty the fridge and clean up but I refuse to be the "fridge lady". If I clean it, it's gonna be expected that I clean it all the time. I'm the youngest on this floor by 8 years, so we have grown ass middle aged people who can't keep common areas clean. I wish I could keep a mini fridge in my cube.

I work at the CUNA headquarters and we've got a pretty great cafeteria (connected to the office buildings by underground tunnels, key in WI winters) but my particular corner of the world also has a nice kitchen with a clean microwave and big fridge. Great options for lunch eating, all around.

We have a sink, bar fridge, micro, toaster oven and electric kettle in our work kitchen, which is also our conference room. Sometimes that makes it difficult to get lunch together if there is a meeting going on. Otherwise it's pretty good. I'm usually the one who cleans the fridge, but I don't mind because I use it a lot and it makes a good procrastination tool.

I feel pretty fortunate to work in an office with three microwaves, two refrigerators, and a cleaning crew that scrubs the sink every night and the refrigerators once a month. That being said, it still irks me that we are not allowed to have a toaster (or toaster oven) because they are a fire hazard. I've worked here three years, and twice people have tried to stage toaster rebellions, by bringing in their own toasters from home. Both rebellions were quelled, but I'm thinking it might be time to start another one.

I feel your pain Chusmabilly.

At my office, I’m surrounded by completely disrespectful, lazy, environmentally unconscious slobs (and their all always sick too, imagine that).

They constantly use plastic dishware and cutlery for each and every meal (even though there is a sink to wash a cup and plate). They leave rotting food in the fridge for-ever, dirty dishes all over (for days and days), don’t clean their exploded food out of the microwave and can’t even aim properly when dumping remnants of food into the trash… The cleaning crew has even left word with the property manager requesting that liquids not be thrown into the trash… It’s utterly disgusting.

I used to try to get some space for myself in the mini fridge and ask others to clean up after themselves but it’s just not worth the frustration. One woman will occasionally go through and clean out the fridge and wipe out the microwave.

I often bring simple to eat ‘picnic’ type food and try to avoid using the fridge or microwave at all. Olives, bread, fruit, cheese, yogurt, leftover couscous with chopped veggies or if I must refrigerate, I try to bring the smallest possible container and wash it when I get home. My Mom suggested I bring a small cooler for under my desk.

We have two breakrooms, one has a fridge and a microwave and a toaster (how they let us get away with that is beyond me, they won't let us have a toaster oven). The other has an honest to god STOVE. Ok, well, two burners, but still. We have people there 24/7 and I guess they finally convinced Building Services that asking them to always eat microwaved food was just mean. I keep meaning to bring in eggs and cheese and bread because eggs and cheese on toast is so much more appetizing than cold cereal.

People seem to keep things pretty clean and our fridge gets cleaned once a month-ish. If I chose to take a longer lunch, I could see actually cooking there occasionally.

I work for a small office, so our setup is a bar fridge, microwave and kettle in the storage room. Water has to come from the washroom down the hall, which is a bother. With only 5 employees, people will 'fess up to having rotting food in the fridge and clean it up themselves.

I work at Sid Lee and we have a fantastic bistro with yummy food for only $6, and CLEAN microwaves for the people who bring their lunches. Breakfast is free if you arrive before 9am and we also get free fruit, fair trade coffee and teas and sometimes cookies. We love it so much, we made a movie about it:

http://www.sidlee.com/#/tv/view/SidsBelovedBistro

I guess I am pretty lucky, nice kitchen, huge sink, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, large fridge. The bosses are big on cleanliness so everything is always tidy. The only thing though there's little counter space so I eat at my desk half of the time, the other half I eat it standing talking to my coworkers or if empty, we take over the conference room :D

We have a pretty nice set-up in our office: kitchen with full-size refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, toaster, plates/glasses/mugs and tables/seating for about 12 (we only have 15 or so employees in the office at a given time typically). Additionally, our company provides beverages (canned pop; juices; coffee; tea), oatmeal and other various snack items. For the most part people are neat and put their dishes in the dishwasher. Every couple months we pay extra for the building cleaning staff to clean the microwave and fridge.

As the office manager, I have to be the one to remind folks to clean up after themselves. The biggest offenders are people who eat oatmeal from coffee mugs and then leave the mugs in the sink to soak for hours. Rather than scrub the oatmeal from the mug, they then put it into our dishwasher. Unfortunately, the water pressure in the dishwasher isn't strong enough to clean out the oatmeal which means the mugs have to then be scrubbed by hand. Every 6 months or so I have to send an email to the office reminding folks to clear out the oatmeal and not leave stuff in the sink (and I try to be as non-passive/aggressive as possible). It still amazes me at times how lazy other adults can be about cleaning up after themselves.

We are fortunate to have some nice resources available to us in a dedicated "break room": two refrigerators-one with a freezer, five microwaves, a toaster, a toaster oven, a George Foreman grill, a sink and a dishwasher. A very gracious coworker also cleans out the fridges every one or two months and anything w/out a name on it gets tossed. She sends out a heads up email a week in advance with constant reminders so there is very little reason that someone will get upset if there favorite tupperware gets tossed. For the most part, people are courteous with one anothers items. If the weather is agreeable, I usually go for a walk beforehand and eat at my desk catching up on work.

i'm pretty fortunate here at work, too.

we have a full kitchen/staff break room with full-size stove/oven, sink, full-size refrigerator, microwave, electric tea kettle, coffeemaker, and -- my personal favorite -- a nice little toaster oven.

we've had some Stinky Fridge mishaps, and sometimes dirty dishes will linger in the sink a bit longer than i personally would like, but it's not too bad and we don't have any chronically slobby people.

I've been in my current place for a week, but I haven't witnessed any stink fridge mishaps.

The frustrating thing is that, while there is a fridge, microwave, a toaster oven and a dishwasher, there is no break or lunchroom. And I HATE eating at my desk.

Which is OK, because I live close enough to go home for lunch.

Our's is disgusting and everyone bitches about me putting a box in there for recycling...even though I haul it home every week and add it to my own. Lazy, lazy, lazy people.
Our microwave is probably older than I am. Our dishwasher is an eyesore from the 80's that doesn't work. Our toaster oven is a fire waiting to happen. And the same sponge has been in the sink since I started here in Aug. 07. Yuck!

We've got it all and we've solved the cleaning problem too. We have jobs in addition to our jobs and they rotate, one of these jobs is breakroom cleanup. Pick up the table, newspapers etc, wipe if gross then once per month clean the fridge and micro. One day prior to cleaning a sign goes up. If you want to keep your stuff have it clearly labeled with your name by 5pm tomorrow or have it out of the fridge. If not it goes in the trash. People always get caught but only once and never again do they ignore the sign. Essentially it is a zero tolerance policy and most bosses actually like having the space clean so its usually easy to get started, and once the space is clean everyone is happier.

My office is a professional kitchen but I have to say that I admire my wife, Chelsea's, office lunch rituals.

She has a routine every week where she will gather all of her lunch items for the week--raw vegetables, tuscan pane, cheese, tea, milk, different things like that. She uses the lower right drawer in the refrigerator and I am not allowed to go in there.

I'll just say that she is pretty much known as the queen of the office kitchenette.

The joys of working for a large company; we have tons of kitchens throughout the campus (not school, it's a famous tech-net company that once was a paid service now is a 3) on top of a gourmet cafe, a deli and a large cafeteria with food ordered to cook. The small kitchens all have snack machines, large refrigerators, microwaves, reg coffee makers, keurig coffee makers, ice/water machines, etc. Can't complain, except for the flurry of lunch stuffed grocery bags that tend to fill the fridge pretty quickly on any given day.

People tend to be pretty good about cleaning up, though it is a pain when someone is obviously to other people in the kitchen and just buzzes around using everything at once, making it difficult for others to use the equipment. Especially at 12:30pm.

In terms of appliances, we don't have much beyond a kettle, toaster and two microwaves. The best part about our kitchen is the wide array of utensils at our disposal. Having access to a cutting board and a sharp knife is essential to me bringing a daily apple (I hate eating them off the core!).

It would be nice to have a regular coffee maker; our coffee is a crazy pod, cup-by-cup contraption.

I'm very lucky...the office building in which I work is a converted duplex home. 2 full kitchens for only 7 employees! It is amazing, though, that only 2 of us bring our lunches to work. I do understand the need to get out of the office, though.

Over the various workrooms, offices, shop space and break rooms my department has about the theater, we have 4 microwaves and 3 fridges. The props people make coffee for the entire stage staff, and it's always hot and ready. They also provide tea bags, and the water cooler makes tea-hot water. Various members of my department chip in to keep a fridge stocked with red bull and a shelf full of gum.

On Sundays, we all get bagels and doughnuts and fruit and juice. On opening nights we get ice cream.

The company also provides the canteen, filled with vending machines and a microwave.

I work for a large publishing company (day job), and we have an enormous cafeteria on premises; the only problem is that I have gotten sick every time---literally, every time---I eat there. Doesn't matter if it' a hard boiled egg or a container of oatmeal. So I now bring my own lunch. Today: leftover cassoulet from the weekend, which I will nuke. It'll get gloppy, but not much I can do.

I once shared an office fridge with about 20 other colleagues in NYC; one summer day, I made a vat of fresh pesto, and brought in for lunch a container of fussili with said pesto. I went to retrieve it and someone had thrown it out. When I asked why, they said "well, it was green, and who wants to eat spoiled food?"

We have a toaster, toaster oven, coffeemaker, dishwasher, espresso maker and a full size fridge in our office in DC, all for about 10 people. It's nice, and we usually do a decent job of keeping it clean. We also have office potlucks rather often, and do grocery deliveries of snacks, so there's always something lovely to munch on.

I live right across the street from my work (literally), so I go home for the full hour and cook myself a "proper" lunch! It's so awesome, but I'm moving out at the end of the month and won't be able to indulge anymore. :(

We just moved into a building we had built and our kitchen has 2 full-size fridges, 2 micros with attached toasters, 2 large dishwashers, a double sink, a toaster oven, and an at-cost vending machine stocked by the company. There is an empty spot for another "vending machine" that will be filled with an range/oven in the near future. (The code required a commercial range/oven.) The cabinets are stocked with real plates and silverware, and there is plenty of room to store our own lunch supplies. It's got concrete countertops and a large island with 4 huge recycling drawers.

The lunch room also has 5 4-top tables and a large flat screen TV on the wall. Sorry for bragging...

I work in ritzy Orange County, California. The office I work in has a galley style kitchen with 2 fridges, 2 microwaves, toaster oven, sink, dishwasher, china plates, real glassware and silverware. Paper and plastic is also available. The company provides coffee and tea everyday. A light meal or snack is usually provided for our monthly staff meetings.

It's a really nice set-up, the only problem is it's routinely dirty and cluttered. People hardly ever clean up after themselves; they don't wipe out the microwave, won't wash their utensils (or put them in the dishwasher), and leave food to rot on the counter or in the fridge, then complain when admin staff tosses it. After an office function food often gets left out overnight. The best thing is people like to leave used, sharp knives sitting blade up in a mug or glass in the sink.

It's disgusting and makes me wonder how people live at home if they do stuff like this at work. I bring my lunch, usually in a soft-sided cooler and don't participate in office potlucks.

Oh to have almost any of the previous posters office kitchen/breakrooms. I work in a tiny studio (4 people all together) and we have a mini fridge and a sink.

My boss is older (in his late 70's) and his wife passed away at the beginning of last year. Turns out she was afraid of microwaves because she was worried about radiation so they never purchased one. They've known each other since elementary school and married fairly young so he has never owned a microwave and has rarely seen one used. I found it adorable when he finally purchased one for his home (his sons idea) and he spent the next day telling me how nice it was.

What I would give to have a microwave here in the office. My boss mentioned that he was thinking of getting one for here but I doubt he'll go through with it. sigh. Because of that I either bring in a cold lunch or go out to eat. The unfortunate thing is the area where I work doesn't have many cheap places to eat. I'm pretty much limited to Whole Foods or two pizza joints (which can get unhealthy really quick).