Chapter 75 Changes (Part 2)
The bus stopped and started along the way, with passengers getting on and off. After about fifteen minutes, it arrived near the Dongxing Restaurant.
"arrive."
As soon as Ball got out of the car, he felt the heat outside and quickly walked under the shade of a tree.
As one of the designated employee restaurants, Dongxing Restaurant had a lot of customers during lunch time.
The group squeezed in swiftly.
The central air conditioning makes the whole restaurant very cool. There are large seats on the first floor, enough to accommodate 500 people dining at the same time, and the entire restaurant has three dining floors.
Dongxing Restaurant specializes in Chinese fast food. The chef is a Chinese from Luzon who previously opened a Chinese restaurant in southern Lima, and the manager is a middle-aged woman .
People waiting in line to order can see the busy scene in the kitchen through the glass wall.
Compared with ordinary Chinese restaurants, the kitchen of Dongxing Restaurant appears to be well-organized, without the common problems of sewage flowing everywhere and not distinguishing between raw and cooked food.
In fact, this is also thanks to Huang Keming, the general manager of Fengzao House. His management style is somewhat obsessive-compulsive, and he has formulated a large number of standardized specifications.
The advantage of this standardized management is that everyone must follow the standards, which not only divides the business and responsibilities of each employee, but also prevents employees from passing the buck to each other during work.
When Ball looked at the kitchen inside the glass wall, he felt very comfortable. The orderly beauty made people feel that the food was very clean and hygienic.
If a kitchen is full of sewage, flies and oil, no matter how clean it claims to be, people will lose their appetite.
After a while, it was Ball's turn.
There was a touch screen in the window in front of him. After inserting his employee card, he pressed Set A and chose to add more dishes, including shredded pork with fish flavor and a bottle of Coke.
After waiting for about three minutes, the food was handed out from the window.
They found a table with a few co-workers and started to feast on the food.
Set A at Dongxing Restaurant is an employee meal and is also provided free of charge. The staple food is 500 grams of rice, plus a fried egg, fried cucumber, fried luncheon meat, and a bowl of kelp soup.
If purchased by non-employees, the price is 20 pesos per portion.
This price is relatively low locally. If an ordinary restaurant were to supply it, there would be basically no profit margin unless it used inferior and cheap ingredients.
For example, the rice bowl made from recycled meat from the swill in Manila's slums costs about 12 pesos.
The problem is that the price difference between the basic employee meal and the pagpag rice bowl is not too big. In addition, the income of ordinary people in the area controlled by the Intelligent Company is increasing, so more people are choosing the basic employee meal.
A basic meal for employees costs 20 pesos, which is affordable for House of Abundance, and they even make a lot of profit.
On the one hand, the supply of some raw materials does not require middlemen. On the other hand, we have our own farms and logistics, as well as our own electricity, water and gas supply channels.
The last factor is that the raw materials for many dishes do not come from traditional crops and livestock.
For example, the thick square fried egg that Bauer was eating with relish was made from insect protein extracts to make pseudo-ovalbumin, yolk phosvitin, and lecithin fats, and then added with riboflavin, niacin, biotin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.
In other words, this egg is actually an artificial egg.
But the taste is similar to eggs, and the nutritional content is almost the same.
Compared to natural eggs, whose production costs are difficult to suppress, a standard artificial egg costs only about 0.62 pesos per 50 grams, and a dozen artificial eggs only cost 7.44 pesos.
Of course, this artificial egg has no shell and can only be placed in a square container.
At present, Haitian Agriculture’s artificial eggs have not been officially launched on the market, not because of concerns about public acceptance, but because the packaging problem has not been solved.
Now it can only supply its own restaurants and food processing factories.
By the same token, cooking oil and luncheon meat, which are part of employees’ basic meals, are also products that embody technology and hard work.
Edible oil is extracted from insects and seaweed, and then secondary blended. The cost per ton is only about 13,000 pesos (equivalent to about 1,400 Chinese yuan).
As for luncheon meat, of course, the raw materials are starch, vegetable oil, fat and insect powder.
If calculated by meat content, the luncheon meat produced by Haitian Agriculture can reach a meat content of about 30%, which is much more ethical than the luncheon meat currently on the market, and the price is very cheap.
The four flavors of canned luncheon meat launched by Haitian Agriculture are now officially on sale on the shelves of Fengzaozhijia, and the sales are very good.
Especially in Manila's Tondo district, the House of Plenty sells one or two tons of canned luncheon meat every day.
For people living in the slums, eating canned food made from insect powder is much better than picking up the waste that the rich don't want.
Even if a small number of people are allergic to foreign proteins, it will not stop the needs of the poor. After all, allergies only occur in a small number of people, and the vast majority of people are not allergic to insect protein.
The reason why restaurants under House of Plenty like to use artificial eggs, luncheon meat, and blended oil is because these ingredients are cheap and can effectively reduce costs.
As for whether the public accepts it or not, the House of Plenty does not want to explain.
After all, there are natural eggs, palm oil, canned pork and the like on the shelves, they’re just more expensive.
For ordinary people in Luzon whose monthly income is only 500 to 600 yuan, it is actually self-evident what product to choose.
For example, Ball knew that the fried eggs in the basic meal for employees were artificial eggs.
But so what?
You still have to eat what you should eat.
Including the breakfast milk supplied by Haitian Agriculture to its own kindergartens and schools, all of them are prepared using insect protein powder.
Otherwise, how can the company satisfy the needs of tens of thousands of hungry children and students? These are the relatives of the employees, and this scale will become larger and larger in the future.
Use natural milk?
The tropical climate of Luzon is not suitable for raising dairy cows. The only way is to import large bags of milk powder from Australia and New Zealand, and then reconstitute it. Is there any difference between this and artificial milk? It is even worse than artificial milk.
Of course, the company still takes great care of the relatives of its employees. Before supplying artificial milk to the children, it will test the allergies of each child in advance.
If it is confirmed that the allergy is to insect foreign proteins, it will be changed to reconstituted milk or formulated plant milk.
Li Qingye did not feel the slightest bit of guilt about this, because what he did did not offend anyone.
At least for ordinary people at the bottom of Luzon, eating insect protein, trehalose and the like is a kind of happiness.
You should know that the entire Luzon now has a population of 101 million, and the natural population growth rate is still high.
Who can afford to support so many people?
The Homo Sapiens company had no choice but to find another way . They had to choose between starving to death and eating insects.
What's more, the insects are not served directly on the table, but undergo deep processing.
Anyway, Ball and others didn't feel disgusted when faced with artificial eggs. They got used to it after eating them a few times.
In the staff cafeteria, in addition to internal employees like Bauer, other workers in the city also often patronize Dongxing Restaurant because the food here is cheap.
If you eat basic meals for three meals a day, even if you eat them for a month, it will only be 1,500 pesos.
A working-class family of three can afford the basic employee meals.
Luzon has not yet entered the stage of population aging. A family often has three or four laborers, so there is no problem in having enough food.
