Reading:Silicon Valley staff tuck into Lunch 2.0 Even the millionaire engineers of Silicon Valley, the centre of computer technology in the USA like to have a free lunch. There is an interesting new idea in Silicon valley called Lunch 2.0. Workers go to other companies for free food and the chance to make new contacts. It started with four men trying to get into companies such as Yahoo and Google to sample their free gourmet lunches. But the idea is so successful that several companies now invite anyone for a free lunch. Except, of course,it is not really free. The lunches are partly about networking and eating, but they are also about presenting products and looking for new staff. In the latest example, more than 100 people turned up for lunch at the offices of Ning, a web company, in Palo Alto last week. They had sandwiches, salad, cookies -- and a presentation by Gina bianchini, Chief Executive. David Kellogg, a Yahoo technician and one of the people who started Lunch 2.0, said: “There's a business side and a food side to this.” He says lunch at the LinkedIn social networking company is the best so far.