Lunch 2.0

No, the reason there haven’t been Lunch 2.0’s in the bay is not the economy, it’s our laziness. Hot on the heals of Palo Alto’s Lunch 2.0, San Francisco is barking up a storm with their first summer Lunch 2.0!

Lunch 2.0 is going to the dogs! Join Fido Factor at The SF/SPCA on Friday, June 26th @ Noon PT for the launch of fidofactor.com, a new technology service designed to ease the constraints of owning a dog in the city. See demos of Fido Factor across three platforms, learn how your use of Fido Factor supports homeless animals in SF, and lunch on amazing sandwiches from Petite Deli. [Ed: As a former North Beach resident, I can vouch that Young uses only the best ingredients]

June 26th is also National Take Your Dog to Work Day, so guests are welcome to bring their on-leash pup to the event – marking the first cross species Lunch 2.0 event. Attendees will have the chance to win giveaways from local San Francisco businesses! Get your RSVP in soon; due to space limitations the guest list will be capped at 150.

Hosts: Fido Factor & The SF/SPCA
Where: SF/SPCA - Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center 201 Alabama Street San Francisco CA 94103
(Free lot parking at Alabama and Treat St – mention Fido Factor)
When: Friday, June 26th, 12:00PM - 2:00PM
RSVP on Upcoming

Get out your favorite college sports team shirt and face paint! It is March Madness time. Come and join Riviera Partners for a “slam-dunk” lunch 2.0—March Madness Edition— that will keep you talking to the Final Four!

Hosts: Riviera Partners
Where: 290 King Street, Suite 9, San Francisco, CA
When: Friday, March 20th 12:00 – 2:00PM

What can you expect from such a game changing event?
• Buckets of beer
• Tasty game-time eats
• A slew of exciting Second Round basketball games on a high definition large screen TV—You will feel as though you’re watching the game courtside
• Fun college inspired games
• “Show your College Spirit” Contest (wear your college shirts, sweatshirts, shoes, socks—-)

- Beer Provided by Guinness

So come out and socialize tomorrow at noon!

Ready for Valentine’s day? Zoosk has an awesome warmup lunch party planned for Friday, Feb 13th. There will be great people to meet, good food to enjoy, and some cool games to double on the fun. So, come on out and celebrate Valentine’s day with the largest social dating company on planet

Hosts: Zoosk
Where: 130 Battery Str, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA
When: Friday, February 13th 12:00 – 2:00PM

Launched in December 2007, Zoosk is the world’s first and largest social dating community enabling singles to meet love interests and forge lasting relationships. Zoosk enables its users to meet and connect with others within the context of their online social networks. Singles can join Zoosk by adding the Zoosk application through Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster, and MySpace, or by signing up at Zoosk.com. Zoosk is the only social dating community that allows users to seamlessly connect across multiple networks, meaning a Facebook user can interact with a MySpace or Hi5 user, for example. Zoosk’s community includes more than 12 million singles from more than 40 countries around the globe. Recently Zoosk won the 2009 People’s Choice Open Web Award in the “Dating and Romance” category.

Head on down to SOMA and join us for a fantastic lunch 2.0 @ SF Station with food, cake, beer, and a raffle!

Tired of the same three lunch time options? Well grab your co-worker and come eat lunch with the cool kids at SF Station and help celebrate our 12th birthday Lunch 2.0 style!!

For those of you that don’t know SF Station, we are San Francisco Bay Area’s definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living. We invite you to come and hang out in our office, eat some lunch, tour our website, win free stuff, and have some Friday Fun!!

Hosts: SF Station
Where: 1475 Folsom St Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94103
When: Friday, December 5th, 12noon - 2pm
RSVP ON UPCOMING!

We will have Beer available to wash down your lunch, birthday cake for dessert, raffle prizes, and of course, the Bright & Smiling faces of the SF Station Crew!!

Pizza Provided by Dino’s Pizza
Birthday cake provided by Cake Coquette
Beer provided by Phuket

Raffle prizes provided by the following:
Grand Prize: $2500 of advertising with SF Station & San Francisco.com
4 dinners to Supperclub San Francisco
2 tickets to Storytime Festival Dec 20th
2 tickets to SFMOMA
1 $50 Gift Certificate to MoMo’s

If you’re laboring during the week of Labor Day, Lunch 2.0 alumnus, Powerset, will be hosting a Lunch 2.0 to celebrate their recent acquisition by Microsoft!

They’ll have tasty bar-b-que, beverages (including beer), and special edition Microsoft + Powerset acquisition shot glasses (plus some tequilla for those who are feeling adventurous). There will be lots of Powersetters and a few Softies present.

Note: you MUST be on this Upcoming.org RSVP list in order to get in. Please know your Upcoming.org handle.

Hosts: Powerset (and Microsoft)
Where: 475 Brannan Street
When: Thursday, September 4th, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP ON UPCOMING ONLY!

This will be a very fun event (and no, I’m not prejudiced in saying that. ). Not only will Powerset be hosting a faboo lunch with drinks and food galore, but they will also be giving away special edition Powerset/Microsoft shot glasses.

RSVP now, since this event will be capped. Remember MySpace’s Lunch 2.0 reached full capacity within 24 hours, so get in early!

Upcoming Events

• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Thursday September 4 - Powerset, SoMa, SF <—-THIS EVENT
• \Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

(Any I missed?)

Join hi5 at its first ever Lunch 2.0 event on September 9th at noon. They are celebrating their company expansion and upcoming product launches. Their offices are conveniently located at 55 2nd Street (b/t Mission and Market Sts.), 3rd Floor.

Please RSVP to: Melissa Tinitigan at mtinitigan [at] hi5 [dot] com by September 3rd.

We hope to see you there!

Best,

The hi5 team, Lunch 2.0 crew

Hosts: hi5
Where: 55 2nd Street (bteween Mission and Market), 3rd Floor
When: Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP by e-mail

About hi5

Launched in 2003, hi5 is now one of the world’s largest social networks — ranked as a top 20 website globally and the #1 social network in 25 countries across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. According to comScore, more than 56 million individuals every month visit hi5, which is currently available in 24 language options (with more to come). We are a privately-held company, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Upcoming Events

• Thursday August 21 - Spongecell, SoMa, SF
• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Thursday, September 4 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday September 9 - Hi5, SoMa, SF <–THIS EVENT
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Friday September 26 - Health Solutions Group (Microsoft), Redmond Seattle
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

Oops, the facebook event has been up for a few weeks but we forgot to update our blog!

Spongecell is hosting us for Lunch 2.0 this week.

Hosts: Spongecell Ads
Where: 5 Lucerne St. #1, San Francisco, CA
When: Thursday, August 21st, 2008 12:00 - 2:00PM
RSVP on facebook

Upcoming (and some past) Events (since the last time we bothered posting)

• Wednesday, July 9 - Zecco, Burlingame, SV
• Wednesday, July 16 - souk, Portland
• Thursday July 17 - Pyramid Alehouse, Seattle
• Thursday July 24 - Evri, Seattle
• Friday, August 1 - whitepages.com, Seattle
• Friday August 8 - iDiDiD, Netherlands
• Friday August 8 - Artistforce, Los Angeles
• Wednesday, August 13 - Sun (Drinks 2.0), Beverly Hills, L.A.
• Wednesday, August 13 - CubeSpace, SE Portland
• Thursday August 14 - MySpace, SoMa, SF
• Thursday August 21 - Spongecell, SoMa, SF <–THIS EVENT
• Friday August 22 - Sogeti, Netherlands
• Friday August 22 - Apature, Seattle
• Wednesday, August 27 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Tuesday, September 9 - TBA, SoMa, SF
• Wednesday September 17 - SplashCast, NW Portland
• Thursday September 25 - TBA, San Mateo SV
• Thursday October 2 - TBA, Santa Clara, SV
• Wednesday October 15 - Art Institute of Portland, NW Portland
• Friday, October 10 - Codesta/scanR, Toronto, Canada
• Wednesday November 5 - Eclipse Foundation, SW Portland

What says summer better than Top Dogs and beer? Come visit the Zecco Lunch 2.0 TODAY in SFO (Burlingame, San Francisco).

Show, but try to RSVP on Upcoming so they can get an accurate head count.

Hosts: Zecco
Where: 500 Airport Blvd, Suite 320, Burlingame, CA
When: Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 12:00pm - 2:00pm
RSVP on Upcoming

Upcoming (and some past) Events (since the last time I bothered posting)

• Friday, May 23 - XS4ALL, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Friday, May 29 - Vidoop, Portland
• Thursday, May 30 - Wishingline, Toronto
• Wednesday, May 30 - Topix, Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
• Friday, June 13 - gWave, San Diego
• Friday, June 13 - Blue Gecko, Seattke
• Monday, June 30 - PDX, Portland
• Friday, July 4 - Spill Group Asia, Shanghai
• Wednesday, July 9 - (meetup), D.C.
• Wednesday, July 9, ZECCO, Burlingame, San Francisco/Silcon Valley >–THIS EVENT
• Wednesday, July 16 - souk, Portland
• Thursday, July 17 - TBA, Mountain View, Silicon Valley
• Thursday, July 17 - Pyramid Alehouse, Seattle
• Thursday, July 31 - TBA, SF
• Thursday, July 31 - Evri, Seattle
• August 27 - TBA, SoMa, SF

You may have caught the folks from Zecco at a number of Lunch 2.0 events. It’s about time they decided to host one of their own! And they’ve got hot dogs! Not just any hot dogs - Top Dog hot dogs. And beer. And a $500 prize to a lucky Lunch 2.0-er!

Hosts: Zecco
Where: 500 Airport Blvd, Suite 320, Burlingame, CA
When: Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 12:00pm - 2:00pm
RSVP on Upcoming

Here’s a blurb about the event:

When Zecco first launched, we picketed on Wall Street with signs saying “There Is Such Thing as a Free Lunch,” and handed out free hot dogs to passers-by from the famous New York hot dog stands. The point was to prove to the Wall Street elite that a revolution was coming – one that injects community, transparency, and free services into an industry that is based on just the opposite.

Zecco has grown wildly since, and to stay true to our message about free lunch, we’re hosting a Lunch 2.0 at our offices. Come by for some free hot dogs (the good kind, catered by Berkeley’s favorite Top Dog), some beer, and to meet our team.

What’s more? There’re giveaways! A lucky Lunch 2.0-er will win a Zecco Trading account pre-funded with $500. And if you join our Lunch 2.0 group in the Zecco community, we’ll hook you up with some schwag.

Zecco’s offices are at 500 Airport Blvd, Suite 320. Burlingame, CA 94010. Meet us out back if it’s sunny - or in our offices if there’s a freak rainstorm in the middle of July. See you there!

For more info, check out Zecco’s blog post, or careers page.