Feedback after a few hours

[GGLoner]

Currently level 8 and while I definitely enjoy some of the Quality of Life options, I feel like more could be done :

- Add after-service time for new/practicing recipes
- Add option to change keybinding for the Cooking Details and the Give Orders key
- Ability to cancel certain tasks (e.g. Selected wrong cutting method, Cancel order for kitchen staff)
- Add office interactives (computer, Request Panel, Catalog) either nearer to the kitchen or in a menu.
- Add tracker to challenges/requests so we can see how close we are to completing.
- Option to also show AVOID tips when cooking (e.g. Avoid Heat too high/low)
- A way to see how close we are to changing dining mood/decor
- Option to toggle decor's theme permanently visible when choosing decor (instead of mousing over to see which theme it belongs to)
- Ability to preview recipes before learning/upgrading
- On the menu, highlight dishes already on the menu and allow removal of 1st/2nd/3rd dishes.
- Allow corner Prep Station to also order Kitchen Staff during service and/or 'V' to order kitchen staff during prep time (doesn't make sense it's only used during prep time and you use 'V' during service)
- Game time should be paused when customizing plating
- Ability to change plating design WITHOUT creating a new design
- Maybe add a way to discard 'ruined' food without having to finish cooking or letting it chill to ruined
- Prevent kitchen staff from pushing you around (lol)
- Show progress/experience bar for recipes to next upgrade
- Ability to quick reorder yesterday's ingredients
- Ability to manually save instead of only having auto-save outside of service
- Option to skip cutscenes

Edit:
- Currently at level 15 with Kassim Lv 10, Adele Lv 14 and I'm not sure how to feel about the balance. At the start of the game, it can be quite difficult/challenging because you're still familiarizing yourself with recipes/controls and your kitchen staff are basically useless. But once they are Lv 10 and can actually PREP, it becomes very easy (depending on recipes) and I'm just waiting for orders to arrive.

[chriscalvat]

I feel that time to practice and learn new recipes is something much needed specially since later dishes get even more complex you end up losing your time to prep for service time

[|HTD| Richthofen]

-beverages card (wines of the day)
-Staff need a rank(sommeliers or something else what waiters can do separately).
- the guest eat really fast and no formation about appetizers, main dishes or desserts.
-buying a own restaurant and deciding the own size of guests you wanna have in the restaurant after some level up.
-more time to increase menu abilities and skills, time running so fast....
-challenges a bus with 10 pax wanna eat a la cart 😅

[chriscalvat]

Originally posted by GGLoner:

Adding other things I've noticed

- Allow corner Prep Station to also order Kitchen Staff during service and/or 'V' to order kitchen staff during prep time (doesn't make sense it's only used during prep time and you use 'V' during service)
- Game time should be paused when customizing plating
- Maybe add a way to discard 'ruined' food without having to finish cooking or letting it chill to ruined

there is away of discarding ruined food you can use the packaging station to dispose of any unused or unneeded food, I use it all the time

[GGLoner]

Originally posted by chriscalvat:

there is away of discarding ruined food you can use the packaging station to dispose of any unused or unneeded food, I use it all the time

What I meant was, e.g. you added too much seasoning. You can immediately take the pot/pan off the stove and put it one side, but if you need the pot/pan, you have to

- Throw out the food
- Wait for it to cook/ruin then pick up the food
- Put it on packaging station > package it or just start-and-stop then pick up the food

[ZombiePanda]

Originally posted by 🅶 I|I Richthofen:

-beverages card (wines of the day)
-Staff need a rank(sommeliers or something else what waiters can do separately).
- the guest eat really fast and no formation about appetizers, main dishes or desserts.
-buying a own restaurant and deciding the own size of guests you wanna have in the restaurant after some level up.
-more time to increase menu abilities and skills, time running so fast....
-challenges a bus with 10 pax wanna eat a la cart 😅

Everything I feel is missing has been covered here
Especially the part where the guests just eat way too fast, and your resturant never feels "full".

[Triple J]

I agree withe the former points . My opinion : the immersion could be better too. The guest are very static, there is a silence like in a monk council. no talkings , no musik. like Robots

[chriscalvat]

Originally posted by GGLoner:

Originally posted by chriscalvat:

there is away of discarding ruined food you can use the packaging station to dispose of any unused or unneeded food, I use it all the time

What I meant was, e.g. you added too much seasoning. You can immediately take the pot/pan off the stove and put it one side, but if you need the pot/pan, you have to

- Throw out the food
- Wait for it to cook/ruin then pick up the food
- Put it on packaging station > package it or just start-and-stop then pick up the food

well when I have had that happen, I was able to just put the pan in the packaging area, package it, then clean the pan with out having to wait for anything, just take it off the stove and put the pan in the packaging area, least I have been able to do that with no problem

having said that another thing they could improve on is people turning up wanting to talk with you when you are trying to prep, it's very annoying

[nygirl976]

- The ability to be able to back track when at the chopping table and you choose the wrong option to dice/slice/grate on accident would be really nice.

[ElaBella]

It drives me nuts that for some recipes you can't re-use the same pan, like making the lemon butter for the sole.

It also drives me nuts that if you under-cook something, you can't put it back in the pan and have to start entirely over again.

[karinundmaedels]

Make employees able to cook food which isn't on the menu

[nygirl976]

Would also be nice to be able to have the ability to have chefs do dishes or clean kitchen during service and not just stand around if you don't need them. Not having it be locked in from the beginning of service as sometimes roles change in a kitchen. Either that or just give us a dishwasher.

[roggek]

Originally posted by nygirl976:

Would also be nice to be able to have the ability to have chefs do dishes or clean kitchen during service and not just stand around if you don't need them. Not having it be locked in from the beginning of service as sometimes roles change in a kitchen. Either that or just give us a dishwasher.

When you progress to hire both Adele and Hiro, you get one of them to do the dishes.

I think most of the suggestions are ideas of "low level players" under level 20.
You must do some "multitasking" in the beginning. (a buillon which is on low heat, doesn't hinder you from cutting the vegetables, a k a "mis en place".)
When you progress further in hte game, the things are so much easier,
So give it time, and practice on the easiest recipes.

My advice is the following whenstarting a new day.
1. Order your stock and fill the fridges.

Originally posted by nygirl976:

- The ability to be able to back track when at the chopping table and you choose the wrong option to dice/slice/grate on accident would be really nice.

2. Its essential to pin the recipe you want to "learn" and read it throughfully!
A pinned recipe helps you with which ingredients are needed, and what type of preparation you are doing if mutlple choices at the cutting board is shown.
You get a "green" pinned option at workstations, so you never doing anything wrong.j

3. Don't do decoration or other stuff during prep work, the clock is ticking in the background!

[ZombiePanda]

Originally posted by roggek:

I think most of the suggestions are ideas of "low level players" under level 20.

Yeah, this. The game becomes very easy when you get to level 20. To a point where I wish they would implement some kind of rush mode, or just more costumers.
Hey, maybe that's already a thing, but since Kassim's mission is currently bugged, there's no way for me to advance through the story.

[greyphoenix]

Originally posted by GGLoner:

- Add after-service time for new/practicing recipes
- Add option to change keybinding for the Cooking Details and the Give Orders key
- Ability to cancel certain tasks (e.g. Selected wrong cutting method, Cancel order for kitchen staff)
- Add office interactives (computer, Request Panel, Catalog) either nearer to the kitchen or in a menu.
- Add tracker to challenges/requests so we can see how close we are to completing.
- Option to also show AVOID tips when cooking (e.g. Avoid Heat too high/low)
- Option to toggle decor's theme permanently visible when choosing decor (instead of mousing over to see which theme it belongs to)
- Ability to preview recipes before learning/upgrading
- On the menu, highlight dishes already on the menu and allow removal of 1st/2nd/3rd dishes.
- Allow corner Prep Station to also order Kitchen Staff during service and/or 'V' to order kitchen staff during prep time (doesn't make sense it's only used during prep time and you use 'V' during service)
- Game time should be paused when customizing plating
- Ability to change plating design WITHOUT creating a new design
- Maybe add a way to discard 'ruined' food without having to finish cooking or letting it chill to ruined
- Show progress/experience bar for recipes to next upgrade
- Ability to quick reorder yesterday's ingredients

I edited your quote to highlight the ones I concur with. The V key trips me up a lot especially during service. At first I didn't even realize there was one key for two things.
It would be super great if we could have a tracker added to the challenges/request board to know how close we are to completing them. My biggest pet peeve, besides the V key for cooking details/give orders, is that we can't practice dishes after service, trying to practice before service takes up prep time.

[BiffaBakes]

Originally posted by nygirl976:

Would also be nice to be able to have the ability to have chefs do dishes or clean kitchen during service and not just stand around if you don't need them. Not having it be locked in from the beginning of service as sometimes roles change in a kitchen. Either that or just give us a dishwasher.

+1