One thousand rolls of meat, half of Stir-fried tomato and scrambled eggs, half of shredded pork with green peppers and soybeans... This is Wu Wenjing's dinner, a total of 13.5 yuan. This summer, compared to ordering takeout after work, the community run "Qicai Canteen" has become her first choice. This "cafeteria" is located in Yaoshi Er Village, Yaohua Street, Qixia District, Nanjing City. Unlike the traditional concept of a meal assistance cafeteria, it breaks away from a single dining function and forms a "community cafeteria+" model. Due to the careful preparation of dishes, it has gained popularity among young people in the community and achieved a balance of income and expenditure in the third month of operation. In recent years, institutions such as elderly cafeterias, love restaurants, and convenience restaurants have been established in many parts of the country to solve the dining problem for residents. But how to balance public welfare attributes with operating costs? How to maintain food quality while ensuring relatively low prices? Recently, the reporter visited this cafeteria with these questions. Qicai Canteen is located in Yaoshi Er Village, Yaohua Street, Qixia District, Nanjing City. Ma Xiaobo, a reporter from People's Daily, praised and stressed the busy afternoon of August 11th at Qicai Canteen. In a storefront less than 70 square meters, diners are queuing up to dine, including both elderly and many young people. You can eat enough for just a few yuan, and you can eat well for more than a dozen yuan, "said Huang Xiuli, the director of the" Qicai Canteen "operation organization in Yaoshi Er Village Community. Similar to other meal aid options, elderly people holding Nanjing Elderly Care Cards come to dine. Elderly people over 60 can enjoy a discount of 1 yuan per dish, and those over 75 can also reduce the total price by 1 yuan. Because his son often goes out early and comes back late to work, 83 year old Li Chuanguang spends three meals a day at the Qicai cafeteria. Every morning, Li Chuanguang would come here for breakfast and chat with his neighbors after finishing. Previously, I had leftovers from the previous night's meal at noon, and the cafeteria was close enough to provide delivery services. Compared to the previous meal assistance point, there were also many more dishes, "he said. The original intention of setting up a community cafeteria is to solve the dining problem of "one old and one young" in the community. Huang Xiuli introduced that before starting the preparation of the "Qicai Canteen" last year, she was concerned about the encouragement of the country to build a complete community, so she had the idea of creating high standard meal assistance points, which can cover more people while serving "one old and one small". Upon entering, you can see two rows of vegetables, both packed in large iron plates, with both vegetables and meat, and a wide variety of staple foods. "27 year old Wu Wenjing works for a company in Nanjing Xingang High tech Park and rents out in Yaoshi Er Village, not far from the company. Recalling her first visit to the "Qicai Canteen" for dining, she was deeply impressed: "A serving of 16 dumplings, paired with two vegetarian dishes, was not finished but packed and taken away." During the visit, the reporter found that among the young people who visited the community cafeteria, there were both dual worker couples and single working people. Chen Qian, who is having a meal, told reporters: "We usually order takeout more, which can cause health anxiety. There are various choices of dishes here, and the dining environment with a bright kitchen also gives people a sense of security." Behind the popularity, there is also pressure from operating costs. Huang Xiuli calculated for the reporter that there are currently chefs, pastries, cashiers, and two assistant chefs, with a monthly labor expenditure of 23000 yuan. In addition, there are expenses for food ingredients, water and electricity. In contrast, the vegetarian dishes in the cafeteria