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917,000 sushi chefs  Toshi Sakuma was Steve Job's last hire,
partly because Jobs had a fascination with Japanese food.
Previously the Japanese chef ran Kaygetsu, a restaurant in Menlo
Park, California, that specialized in omakaze-style meals. The
average salary of a chef in the pricey Cupertino area is
$66,000, according to simplyhired.com. If we bump the salary up
for Sakuma (he did, after all, close his business to move to
Apple) to a conservative $120,000, Apple's cash hoard could
provide its 60,000 employees with some 917,000 chefs, or 3.17
chefs each.