Charles David Ayers, Jr. (born July 5, 1966)[1] is an American chef, cookbook author, and restaurateur.

[2][3][4][5][6] His work there was widely publicized in the media, and David Vise's corporate history The Google Story contains an entire chapter about him called "Charlie's Place."

By the time he left Google in 2006, Ayers and his team of five chefs and 150 employees were serving 4,000 daily lunches and dinners in 10 cafes across the company's headquarters campus in Mountain View, California.

Later he left Hilton to attend culinary school at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he graduated in 1990.

[1] He was a chef at several restaurants in the Providence and Boston areas, and then moved to California, where he worked as a chef at Stoddard's Brewhouse in Sunnyvale, Left in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Blue Chalk Cafe and the Peninsula Creamery, both in downtown Palo Alto in the Silicon Valley.