Fucking cheap skate has a vending machine set up for his programmers, arguably the most important job at the moment, but manages to bring his chef out for some chili and sea bass for a couple of visitors.
Spielberg is so schmaltzy he was tied to the idea of him as the "kindly old grandfather" instead of the exploitative cheap fuck he was in the books. Also his nosetribe heritage made him recast the hacker character as the girl and the useless little kid as a boy.