The bus stops and stops all the way, passengers go up and down, and it takes about fifteen minutes to come to the vicinity of Dongxing Restaurant.

"Here we are."

As soon as Bauer got out of the car, he felt the heat rolling outside, and hurried to the shade of the trees.

As one of the designated staff restaurants, Dongxing Restaurant has a lot of customers because it is lunchtime.

The group squeezed into it quickly.

The central air-conditioning makes the whole restaurant very cool, and there are large seats on the first floor, which is enough to accommodate 500 people at the same time, and the whole restaurant has a total of three floors of dining area.

Dongxing Restaurant specializes in Chinese fast food, the chef is a Chinese Luzon who previously opened a Chinese restaurant in Nankai, Lima, and the manager is a middle-aged woman.

The people waiting in line to order can see the busy scene inside the kitchen through the glass wall.

Compared with ordinary Chinese restaurants, the kitchen of Dongxing Restaurant seems to be orderly, and there is no common problem of sewage cross-flow, and there is no distinction between raw and cooked.

In fact, this is also thanks to Huang Keming, the general manager of Abundance House, whose management style is somewhat obsessive-compulsive and has formulated a lot of standardized specifications.

The advantage of this standardized management is that everyone must install standards, which not only divides the business and responsibilities of each employee, but also prevents employees from playing ball with each other during work.

Bauer looked at the kitchen inside the glass wall, and felt very comfortable, that kind of orderly beauty, after people looked at it, they felt that the food was very clean and hygienic.

If a kitchen is full of sewage, flies, and oil, no matter how clean and hygienic it is, others will have no appetite for it.

After a while, it was Bauer's turn.

There was a touchscreen version in the window in front of him, and after inserting the employee card, he pressed Set A, then chose to add vegetables, and added a fish-flavored shredded pork and a bottle of Coke.

After waiting for about three minutes, the food was handed out of the window.

I found a table with a few co-workers, and they feasted.

Set A at Dongxing Restaurant is a staff meal, which is also served free of charge, and the main dish is 500 grams of rice, plus fried eggs, scrambled cucumbers, fried luncheon meat, and a bowl of kelp soup.

If it is purchased by a non-employee, the price is 20 pesos per serving.

This price is on the low side in the local area, and if you let the average restaurant supply it, unless you use inferior cheap materials, there is basically no profit margin.

For example, the meat recycled from swill in the slums of Manila is made into a rice bowl, which is about 12 pesos per serving.

The problem is that the price difference between the basic meal for employees and the pagpag rice bowl is not too large, and in the area controlled by Homo sapiens, the income of ordinary people is rising, and more people choose the basic meal for employees.

The basic meal for employees is 20 pesos a piece, which is affordable at a cost and even has a lot of profits.

On the one hand, there is no need for middlemen for the supply of some raw materials, and on the other hand, it has its own farms and logistics, as well as its own electricity, water and gas supply channels.

The last factor is that the raw materials of many dishes are not derived from traditional crops and livestock.

For example, at this time, Bauer ate a square thick omelette with relish, which is an insect protein extract to make ovalbumin, yolk phosphoprotein, and lecithin fats, and then add riboflavin, niacin, biotin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

In other words, this egg is actually an artificial egg.

But the taste is similar to that of eggs, and the nutritional content is almost the same.

Compared with natural eggs, which are difficult to compress in terms of production costs, standard artificial eggs cost only about 0.62 pesos for a 50-gram serving, and only 7.44 pesos for a dozen 12 artificial eggs.

Of course, these artificial eggs have no shells and can only be packed in square containers.

At present, Haitian Agriculture's artificial eggs have not been officially launched, not because of concerns about public acceptance, but because the packaging problem has not been solved.

Now it can only be supplied to its own restaurants and food processing plants.

In the same way, the edible oil and luncheon meat, which are the basic meals of employees, are also products that contain technology and ruthlessness.

Edible oils are extracted from insects and seaweed, and then re-blended, costing only about 13,000 pesos (about 1,400 Chinese dollars) per ton.

As for luncheon meat, of course, starch, vegetable oil, fat, insect powder as raw materials.

If calculated according to the meat content, the meat content of luncheon meat produced by Haitian agricultural production can reach about 30%, which is much more conscientious than the luncheon meat on the market now, and the price is very cheap.

The four flavored canned luncheon meats launched by Haitian Agriculture are now officially on sale on the shelves of Fertility House, and the sales are very good.

Especially in Manila's Tongdu district, where Fertility House sells a ton or two of canned luncheon meat every day.

For people in the slums, eating canned food made of insect powder is much better than picking up swill that the rich don't want.

Even if a small number of people are allergic to xenoproteins, it does not stop the needs of the poor at the bottom, allergies are a small part after all, and the vast majority of people are not allergic to insect proteins.

The reason why the restaurants under the House of Abundance 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 people accept it or not, the House of Abundance does not want to explain.

After all, there are no natural eggs, palm oil, canned pork, etc., on the shelves, but the price is relatively high.

For ordinary people in Luzon with a monthly income of only five or six hundred yuan, it is actually self-evident what products to choose.

For example, Bauer knew that the omelette of the basic meal for employees was an artificial egg.

But so what?

You have to eat what you need to eat.

Including the breakfast milk supplied by Haitian Agriculture to its own kindergartens and schools, it is made with insect protein powder and the like.

Otherwise, how can the company meet the tens of thousands of children and students who are waiting to be fed, these are the relatives of employees, and the scale will be larger and larger in the future.

With natural cow's milk?

Luzon's tropical climate is not suitable for dairy farming, so you can only import large bags of milk powder to Australia and New Zealand, and then carry out a second recovery, is there any difference between this and artificial milk? It's not even as good as artificial milk.

Of course, the company still takes great care of employees' relatives, and will test each child's allergies in advance before supplying artificial milk to children.

If an insect xenoprotein allergy is confirmed, it will be changed to reconstituted milk or plant-based milk.

Li Qingye didn't feel a trace of guilt about this, because he didn't feel sorry for anyone for what he did.

At least for ordinary people at the bottom of Luzon, eating insect protein, trehalose, etc., is not a kind of happiness.

You must know that the whole of Luzon now has a population of 101 million, and the natural population growth rate is still high.

Who can afford to feed so many people?

Homo sapiens had to find a choice between starving to death and eating bugs.

What's more, the insects are not directly served to the table, but through deep processing.

Anyway, when Bauer and the others faced artificial eggs, they didn't feel the diaphragm, and they got used to it after eating it a few more times.

In the staff restaurant, in addition to Bauer's internal employees, other migrant workers in the city also often visit Dongxing Restaurant, just because the things here are cheap.

If you eat the basic meal three times a day, even if you eat it for a month, it will only be 1,500 pesos.

A family of three in the workforce can afford to consume basic meals for employees.

However, Luzon has not yet entered the stage of population aging, and a family often has three or four laborers, and there is no problem in having enough to eat.