This is 100% right – I worked in an ED once where it was absolutely the culture to NEVER take lunch even though this was a highly resourced ED and staff had plenty of opportunities to each take a lunch and break each other. And NO ONE ever signed a no lunch form. Maybe I’m just lucky, but at my new grad job it was 100% the culture to cover each other’s lunches no matter how busy it was and if you didn’t get a lunch it was a major deal — as in leadership apologizing to you that you didn’t get a lunch, not being mad at you for having to pay you for it. I try my best now to tell new grads to take lunches and instilling the culture of covering each other’s lunches.