I did work experience at tidbinbilla radio telescope facility in...1999 or 2000.
It had an on-site cafeteria, which aside from being "out in the middle of no where", we all wondered "why?". Why didn't everyone just bring their lunch?
Even at the time, we just explained it as a "just a thing that Americans did" and wrote it off as because of the presence and involvement of NASA.
So it's good to hear that Google invented it sometime later...
/Never listen to tech people commenting on history or economics, lol