[Explanation] As the saying goes, "There is no free lunch in the world", but there is a company canteen in Chongqing that not only provides free lunches for sanitation workers for a long time, but also provides mineral water and anti-heat medicine.

  At 11 o'clock in the morning on August 17, in Beibei District, Chongqing, more than 20 sanitation workers walked into a company's caring canteen with tableware and lined up to receive a free lunch.

The reporter saw that the lunch that day was full, including shredded pork with garlic moss, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, cold eggplant, cauliflower, bitter gourd, pumpkin, green vegetables and other dishes, soup, and rice.

At noon every day, the Aixin Restaurant will reserve a place for the sanitation workers to eat in advance, so that everyone can eat.

  [Concurrent] Wang Fangyun, Sanitation Worker

  It's too generous, it's hot in summer, and give us mineral water.

One meal is still three dishes and one soup, and the chef specially invited to cook for us.

It's too generous, and we are extremely grateful.

  [Commentary] Tang Guangxiu, a sanitation worker, is a frequent visitor to this canteen.

She said that when she first heard that there was a cafeteria offering free lunch, one meat and two vegetables, she still didn't believe it, but after eating for more than ten days, she believed it.

Tang Guangxiu said that before the caring cafeteria opened, she always went home to cook and eat at noon. She went back and forth for at least an hour. Sometimes she was in a hurry and only had cold meals.

Since the establishment of this caring canteen, her lunch at noon is no longer a problem, and she feels very warm in her heart when she eats a steaming free lunch every day.

  [Concurrent] Tang Guangxiu, Sanitation Worker

  I am grateful to this caring canteen. It is really good. The food provided is different every day. I am very enthusiastic to us every day.

When it gets hot, there is water to drink and boiled water for us. We thank them for this caring cafeteria.

  [Explanation] As a company’s canteen, why should we provide sanitation workers with free lunch?

According to the person in charge of the canteen, they saw that the sanitation workers got up very early to clean, and they had to go home to cook and eat at noon. It was very hard, so they decided to provide free lunch for the sanitation workers working nearby.

In order to facilitate the meal for the sanitation workers who finished the morning shift at 11 o'clock in the morning, this caring cafeteria deliberately moved it one hour earlier and changed to separate meals at 10:30 in the morning.

  [Concurrent] Yang Xiaoqin, Head of Love Canteen

  Sanitation workers wake up early every morning, and they feel that they are working hard, and they are also contributing to society.

One of our corporate culture and responsibility is that we want to make a little contribution to society.

  [Explanation] The weather in Chongqing has been very hot recently. The Aixin Canteen also specially prepared mineral water and Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid, Rendan, Fengyoujing and other heatstroke prevention and cooling beverages and medicines for the sanitation workers. Sanitation workers are always welcome to take a cool break in the cafeteria.

  [Concurrent] Yang Xiaoqin, Head of Love Canteen

  Taking into account that the weather is too hot, they are afraid of heatstroke, and their rest time at noon is also quite short.

In order to let them take a break at noon, and then they have to work in the afternoon, fearing that they will have heatstroke, and then prepare some summer heatstroke prevention medicines.

  [Explanation] Since June 2020, this caring canteen has been providing free lunch for sanitation workers for more than one year.

Regarding the cost of lunch, the person in charge of the canteen said that he had never calculated the cost, because love is priceless, and they will stick to such a love lunch.

  [Concurrent] Yang Xiaoqin, Head of Love Canteen

  We all offer love, which is an invaluable cost to us.

Because they are making contributions to society, and then we think, and do our meager efforts to pass it on to society.

  Reporting from Chongqing by reporter Xiao Jiangchuan

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]