Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Yet another example of someone not eating their own dog food.

My wife and I went “out of town” for a day for our anniversary this weekend. We ate dinner in Front Royal, Virginia. We like that town.

We ate at a local restaurant – locally owned and operated. It was a small place with, what it seemed to be, much bravado. The menu, the signs, the notes in the motel welcome guide – all touted the excellence of the local food.

During dinner, I went to the bar near the cash register to take care of the bill. Two waitresses were sitting behind the bar eating pizza that had just been delivered to them. Hmm. Great local restaurant with a varied menu, and the waitresses were eating delivery pizza.

This is another example of someone not eating their own dog food. I was a bit surprised to find a Wikipedia article on this topic of eating your own dog food.  This is a practice where people use their own products.

For example, do

• waitresses eat the food they serve at a restaurant
• Apple employees use iPhones and Mac computers
• Microsoft employees use the Windows operating system (and Office and such)
• Google employees use Google to search
• WordPress employees use WordPress to blog
• public school teachers send their kids to public schools
• and so on

Funny how the answer to these and other questions are often, “no.”