What will Google do without its chef?

Google has been on a roll, but the search juggernaut might have lost its secret weapon with the departure of executive chef Charlie Ayers. Ayers is packing up his knives and leaving the Googleplex (the outdoor cafe is shown here), where he’s fed gourmet meals to overeager engineers for more than five years. Ayers, who used to cook for the Grateful Dead, was not slinging mystery meat, either: A typical Google lunch menu includes grilled petite New York sirloins seasoned with Creole spices, served with a Crescent City steak sauce and crispy organic onion rings.