Working in the workplace requires a labor all of its own. In addition to the work of simply provisioning food, the twenty-five university office workers interviewed in this interdisciplinary study also put considerable labor into developing and maintaining complex systems for making choices about what, how and where to eat while working. These systems, which were designed to meet varying individual definitions of “health,” were then strained and frequently sabotaged by food that simply materialized in the workplace through catered meals and office “food altars.” The work of avoiding and compensating for these appeared foods emerged as a central theme in the research. For many, the consumption of water offered a virtuous solution to the conundrum. Articulated as a chant and a dictum, “Water! Water! Water!” propelled workers toward self-described “good choices” in their patterns of workplace consumption and navigation.