The IRS and the socialist liberals embedded in its bureaucracy are bent on destroying private business in our USA through rulings & regulations.
If a business provides morning coffee, a free or much reduced lunch, it is not wages. Companies do this for competitive business reasons—for the convenience of the employer. Coffee wakes up an employee & that employee does more work for the employer. The cheap lunch is because the employer can post a shorter lunch break time, the employees won’t be away as long if they left the premises. A lot of insurance co.s do this to get their claims people back to the cubicles sooner. The employer benefits and the perk shouldn’t be considered a wage
Making it a wage requires the employer to add up what the employee ate or didn’t eat. That is an added paperwork cost for the employer. If the employer drops the lunch due to the IRS rule, morale drops and cranky employees work less or quit, another business cost.
I resent mandatory meetings with pizza. I can’t eat it, but I have to sit in a room full of others enjoying a free meal and listening to crap I don’t want to hear. Shorten the meeting and let people eat on their own time.