Head chef's main job is washing dishes.

[Gex]

Sous chefs should clean their dishes after using them instead of standing there like idiots saying "I can help you, I'm not doing anything".
Most of the time I'm just cleaning pans, which takes forever

[Snufkin]

Yeah it would be great if by default they'd revert to cleaning if there is no specific task for them to do

[raYUU]

I feel that doing the dishes yourself is actually faster than them.. takes them about a whole minute to wash one pan/pot lol might as well do it yourself

[dandanxxiii]

Originally posted by Gex:

Sous chefs should clean their dishes after using them instead of standing there like idiots saying "I can help you, I'm not doing anything".
Most of the time I'm just cleaning pans, which takes forever

agree...while prep i asked them to boiled pasta, after they make it i take the pasta from stockpot...i want to give orders again to make another pasta...but they told me "i can't do that no cookware" so i must wash the stockpot 1st for them LOL

while prep what im doing is as a headchef 30% prep + make sauce and 70% i'm as a steward to clean the cookware

i think dev should fix this problem with put some another commands "clean up cookware"

1 things...don't walk bump into them head-to-head, because they will push you backwards LOL scary kitchen staff..me as a headchef scared to them

[roggek]

You can assign one of your chefs for "wash dishes" when you start the evening service, at the front door.

[dandanxxiii]

Originally posted by roggek:

You can assign one of your chefs for "wash dishes" when you start the evening service, at the front door.

when prep...the headchef must clean up the cookware for them, if not they don't want to work. they complain don't have a clean cookware.

some of kitchen rules is: "if you dirty it, you clean it"

[Gex]

Also this gets worse as the sous chefs get better, coz after level 20 you let them do a lot of dishes, so they use so many pans that I spend the service cleaning pans. If the cleaning animations were istantaneous it would be more bearable, but between the washing taking like 7 seconds and putting the dish away takes 4 more seconds, it gets frustrating and the game even with "calm" customers is starting to feel like hard work

[roggek]

Originally posted by Gex:

Also this gets worse as the sous chefs get better, coz after level 20 you let them do a lot of dishes, so they use so many pans that I spend the service cleaning pans. If the cleaning animations were istantaneous it would be more bearable, but between the washing taking like 7 seconds and putting the dish away takes 4 more seconds, it gets frustrating and the game even with "calm" customers is starting to feel like hard work

Well, running a restaurant is hard work....

[StormBorn]

Originally posted by Gex:

Also this gets worse as the sous chefs get better, coz after level 20 you let them do a lot of dishes, so they use so many pans that I spend the service cleaning pans. If the cleaning animations were istantaneous it would be more bearable, but between the washing taking like 7 seconds and putting the dish away takes 4 more seconds, it gets frustrating and the game even with "calm" customers is starting to feel like hard work

when they reach lv 20, I just order them to serve the final dishes. That way no dish needs to be cleaned...and they even cook faster than you do...then you find yourself just a waiter/waitress.

[dandanxxiii]

Originally posted by StormBorn:

Originally posted by Gex:

Also this gets worse as the sous chefs get better, coz after level 20 you let them do a lot of dishes, so they use so many pans that I spend the service cleaning pans. If the cleaning animations were istantaneous it would be more bearable, but between the washing taking like 7 seconds and putting the dish away takes 4 more seconds, it gets frustrating and the game even with "calm" customers is starting to feel like hard work

when they reach lv 20, I just order them to serve the final dishes. That way no dish needs to be cleaned...and they even cook faster than you do...then you find yourself just a waiter/waitress.

yes its true...but depends on the situation...sometimes we need a challenge..we want make a dish..we want to cook

it's not interesting if the movement just stays in place and gives orders, it will quickly get bored and not interesting anymore, feels like an uncrowded restaurant if only that

[Great Sage Equal of Heaven]

Originally posted by roggek:

Originally posted by Gex:

Also this gets worse as the sous chefs get better, coz after level 20 you let them do a lot of dishes, so they use so many pans that I spend the service cleaning pans. If the cleaning animations were istantaneous it would be more bearable, but between the washing taking like 7 seconds and putting the dish away takes 4 more seconds, it gets frustrating and the game even with "calm" customers is starting to feel like hard work

Well, running a restaurant is hard work....

Sure, but if you wanna play that game (so to speak) and start making comparisons to industry, it's worth noting that the head chef employs dishies to do this job so they don't have to!

[Great Sage Equal of Heaven]

Man I noticed this as well, not only do they churn through your kitchenware, they also leave the stuff in pots so you have to drag it to a free stove to get the product out.

Am I playing this game wrong or something because it feels absurd that you can't take, say, a pot of beans or pasta to an empty, spare, non-stove bench, put it down, and then take the product/s you want out from the pot. There's no reason not to be able to do this

[sacref]

Originally posted by Prosecutor Godot:

Man I noticed this as well, not only do they churn through your kitchenware, they also leave the stuff in pots so you have to drag it to a free stove to get the product out.

Am I playing this game wrong or something because it feels absurd that you can't take, say, a pot of beans or pasta to an empty, spare, non-stove bench, put it down, and then take the product/s you want out from the pot. There's no reason not to be able to do this

If you place the pot on an empty workstation you can then use the workstation, select the pot, and take whatever is in the pot out. Much like you do with sauces and such on the warmer. I have an empty workstation to the left of the prep shelves just for this reason. I also have the sink on the block to the left of that so I can minimize the travel from the workstation with the dirty pots and pans to the sink. the cookware is to the left of the sink which has 2 stoves to the left of that. I also move the meat cutting station to that spot between the sink and the prep shelves in the morning so I can grab a piece of meat and just turn around and cut it. I then move it to another spot before service because I generally do not cut meat during service and need that empty workstation for prepped dishes.

[dandanxxiii]

Originally posted by Prosecutor Godot:

Man I noticed this as well, not only do they churn through your kitchenware, they also leave the stuff in pots so you have to drag it to a free stove to get the product out.

Am I playing this game wrong or something because it feels absurd that you can't take, say, a pot of beans or pasta to an empty, spare, non-stove bench, put it down, and then take the product/s you want out from the pot. There's no reason not to be able to do this

to be effective you need a sink near the table where they put things you need like a stockpot, saucepan, etc. my kitchen layout uses 2 sinks & 2 station cookware after level 15 and above