Restaurants and Food Stalls alternating between 85% and 4% Access

[Grimbot]

I'm hovering around 2,000 population and was wondering why the stream dried up, so I checked my food status and discovered that I'm only getting 1-5% on Access for the food stalls under Services. This seemed weird to me, since this is my third-ish full game and I decided to make everything a little bigger this time. Most apartment blocks have big food stalls in the center, and you can't scroll across a screen without hitting a few others. But apparently nobody can get to them in time, so I resolve to build a bunch of smaller food stalls in between.

This helped, but then the numbers flipped. My restaurants, which had been riding in the 80s, were now hovering around 1-5%. Adding a few more restaurants tipped it back the other way. There seems to be no in between.

Anyone else experiencing this? Might it be caused by a jam-up somewhere else?

[NoBel]

What size restaurants do you have in terms of service capacity?

Since the two accesses are shared, it could be that the availability of 1 is great enough that your pops are going to it more often than the other. Since restaurants offer higher access satisfaction, they should gravitate towards those instead? Could also be that there are not enough workers bringing food at one type of service while the other had enough.

[robtock216]

The restaurant stats are iffy to say the least, i tend to build mine big and i build a dedicated store room connected to it set to fetch all different foodstuffs, i staff that with about 5 dudes and my restaurant with at least 10-30 chefs

this way they only have to walk next door to grab food and "available services" which is what you actually need for a citizen to decide they want to visit and get food, remains high.

Same thing with stalls, they all need at least 2 workers even tiny ones, if no one is working it at the time then no one can use it.