Homo sapiens.

Chapter 75 Change ([-])

The bus stopped and went along the way, passengers got on and off, and it took about 15 minutes to arrive near Dongxing restaurant.

"arrive."

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

As one of the designated employee restaurants, Dongxing Restaurant has a lot of customers because it is lunch time.

A group of people squeezed in quickly.

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

Dongxing Restaurant specializes in Chinese fast food. The chef is a Luzon Chinese who previously opened a Chinese restaurant in the south of 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 orderly, and there is no common problem of sewage cross-flow and indistinguishable between raw and cooked.

In fact, this is also due to Huang Keming, the general manager of Harvest Home, whose management style is somewhat obsessive-compulsive, and he has formulated a lot of standardized regulations.

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

When Bauer 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 after seeing it.

If a kitchen is full of sewage, flies fly around, and oil is everywhere, no matter how clean and hygienic it is advertised, others will have no appetite to see it.

After a while, it was Bauer's turn.

The window in front of him had a touch-screen version. After inserting the employee card, he pressed set meal A, then chose to add vegetables, and added a fish-flavored shredded pork and a bottle of Coke.

After waiting for about 3 minutes, the food was handed out from the window.

Randomly find a table with a few workers, and they will feast on it.

The set meal A of Dongxing restaurant is a staff meal, which is also provided free of charge. The main food is 500 grams of rice, plus fried eggs, fried cucumbers, fried luncheon meat, and a bowl of seaweed soup.

If purchased by non-employees, the price is 20 pesos a copy.

This price is relatively low in the local area. If ordinary restaurants supply it, unless inferior and cheap materials are used, there is basically no profit margin.

For example, the swill recycled meat from the slums in Manila is made into rice bowls, and a serving is about 12 pesos.

The problem is that the price difference between the employee basic meal and the pagpag rice bowl is not too large. In addition, in the control area of ​​Homo sapiens, the income of ordinary people is increasing, and more people choose the employee basic meal.

The staff's basic meal is 20 pesos, which is affordable by Harvest Home, and there is even a lot of profit.

On the one hand, the supply of some raw materials does not require middlemen, on the other hand, it has its own farm and logistics, as well as its own power supply, water supply, and gas supply channels.

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

For example, at this time, Bauer ate the square thick fried eggs with great relish. This is the insect protein extract to make ovalbumin, vitellin, and lecithin fat, 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 whose production costs are difficult to compress, standard artificial eggs cost only about 50 pesos for a 0.62-gram serving, and only 12 pesos for a dozen 7.44 servings of artificial eggs.

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, not because of concerns about the acceptance of the public, but because the packaging problem has not been resolved.

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

In the same way, cooking oil and luncheon meat, which are used as basic meals for employees, are also products that contain technology and hard work.

Edible oil is extracted from insects and seaweed, and then secondly blended. The cost per ton is only about 1.3 pesos (equivalent to about 1400 Chinese yuan).

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

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

The four flavored canned luncheon meats launched by Haitian Agriculture have now been officially sold on the shelves of Fengrao House, and the sales volume is very good.

Especially in the Tangdu district of Manila, where Harvest House can sell one or two tons of canned luncheon meat every day.

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

Even if a small number of people have allergies due to foreign proteins, it does not stop the needs of the poor at the bottom. After all, allergies are a small part, and most 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 public will accept it or not, Harvest House does not want to explain.

After all, it's not that there are no natural eggs, palm oil, canned pork, etc. on the shelves, but the prices are relatively high.

For ordinary people in Luzon with a monthly income of only [-] to [-] Huayuan, it is self-evident what product to choose.

Ball, for example, knew that the fried eggs in the employees' basic meal were artificial eggs.

But so what?
You have to eat what you should eat.

Including the breakfast milk that Haitian Agriculture supplies to self-operated kindergartens and schools, all of which are prepared with insect protein powder.

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

Use natural milk?
The tropical climate of Luzon is not suitable for raising dairy cows. We can only import large bags of milk powder from Australia and New Zealand, and then reconstitute it a second time. Is this different from artificial milk?Not even as good as 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 it is allergic to insect heterologous protein, it will be changed to reconstituted milk or modulated vegetable milk.

Li Qingye didn't feel any 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 and the like is a kind of happiness.

You must know that the entire Luzon now has a population of 1.01 million, and the natural population growth rate remains high.

Who can support so many people?

Homo sapiens can only find another way. They have to make a choice between starving to death or eating bugs.

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

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

In the staff restaurant, apart from internal employees like Bauer, other migrant workers in the city also frequent Dongxing Restaurant because the food here is cheap.

If you eat basic meals for three meals a day, even if you eat for a month, it is only 1500 pesos.

A family of three in the labor force can afford basic employee meals.

However, Luzon has not yet entered the stage of population aging. A family often has three or four laborers, so there is no problem with eating enough.

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