Do you need to be in the tavern even with employees?

[Lystra]

I've been playing for a while now, but since hiring workers I've been really confused. I thought I would be able to gain money while running around, but if I'm not inside the tavern I seem to barely gain any money at all, even if I fully stock all my taps and kegs and the book with food. Plus it seems that if I'm not inside then things don't get cleaned properly? It seems to spawn floor and table messes that only I can clean. Am I missing something?

Edit - Thank you everyone for your notes! I will keep that all in mind now :)

[Endora]

You should be able to leave the tavern wihout loosing profit.

Your income is directly linked to your max customers capacity. On my experience, you'll need at least two big tables and 4 medium ones to get profit when using the employees.

Aside from that, you can try to max. the bargain skill to make the price of your drinks/food greater and the things you buy to cost lest (this will increase the number of angry customers though).

If any of this works, you can look if there is a new employee with less salary expectation on the outside tavern's panel.

[ChaosLegion]

Originally posted by Endora:

You should be able to leave the tavern wihout loosing profit.

You absolutely can and it'll be mostly the same revenue but in my experience, leaving the tavern entirely to employees equals missing out on some profit. In my case it's around 10-15% or ~45-ish gold for the week.

My bouncer has the "Speedy" perk which gives "30% customer eating and drinking speed" and the housekeeper has the "Popular" perk for "+15 max occupancy" which puts me at 59 max at level 30. I keep the tavern open from 6:00 AM until 2:00 AM and I've noticed at around afternoon I start getting bottlenecked at the bar. Bartender will have to pour like 5 or more drinks while 1-2 customers are waiting for food which if I give it to them, I open up the queue up to other customers to come order. All in all if I start helping at around 4-5PM I do see a noticeable increase in profit. Also if I am around I can see staff taking breaks and stop them, lol. Though thankfully they rarely do.

[Philtre]

Note that the table cleaner can't clean the floors. You need a Magic Broom for the floors. If you have a lot of customers, you may need more than one broom (you can buy them in the mailbox).

[Hana]

Waiters will clean floors but it's usually not high priority for them, I have also run into that bug where floor messes spawn that neither the broom or the waiter will notice, usually right next to benches. You can make money if you leave the tavern but it does seem a lot slower for some reason and if your bouncer takes a break at the same time another employee does, you're screwed, because either the bouncer or the other employee will simply ceace existing.