Automated Restock

[Naschfuchs]

Is it normal that my employees dont fill up air fryers and pastry shelves? Is there a way to hire someone to refill everything?

[FalseGiraffe]

They should, I think, refill at the end of the last shift of the day if there are (full?) crates to do so..but I also feel like I haven't seen this sometimes. Also, a delivery will stock the shelves (whether placing a crate on the shelves or just dropping a stack of crates on a wheeljack on the store floor and walking out and back in)

[clem]

They only refill at 0

[IIBuxy]

workers will restock the shelves at the end/beginning of their shift, as for warehouse deliveries it seem to happen at 00:00

[Naschfuchs]

Originally posted by RAW (gaming):

They only refill at 0

hmmm i was in several stores of mine at midnight and only the storage shelves filled. But not the fryers or pastry thingys. It only works flawless in the Giftshop. When the employee goes home after a shift the rounded shelves are filled up. I also noticed i make the same money even if the fryers and soda can coolers arent filled up... Maybe its a bug? i dont know

[FalseGiraffe]

Originally posted by Naschfuchs:

Originally posted by RAW (gaming):

They only refill at 0

hmmm i was in several stores of mine at midnight and only the storage shelves filled. But not the fryers or pastry thingys. It only works flawless in the Giftshop. When the employee goes home after a shift the rounded shelves are filled up. I also noticed i make the same money even if the fryers and soda can coolers arent filled up... Maybe its a bug? i dont know

I have noticed this same discrepency. My gift shop would restock everything at closing time.
I especially noticed it in my donut shop, donuts would notoriously run out no matter how many I had stocked...and they've always been popular. I've somehow got it working now, I think it must be happening on my warehouse deliveries at midnight now.

Also, to devs or anyone that knows: Is there a limit to how much the delivery drivers can handle? Can they deliver everything they are asked if the warehouse has them or eventually are they asked to do too much? I finally split up my warehouses, with a one-slot handling paper bags deliveries to the other warehouses, and then the following breakdown:
o Wearables (8 types of clothes)
o Luxuries (Jewelry, cigars, wine)
o Foods (all the expected)
o Gifts (gifts and flowers)
All four then supply their particular stores with paper bags, distributed from the bag warehouse, which gets topped off every night. I'm sure this network will grow...

[Jeza]

First time I played in story mode I noticed that the employees restocked at end of shift or when the displays/machines were empty
However since then I started 3 new games and at least in the last 2 they never restock anymore unless it's empty.
I thought at first it was because the shop was open 24/7 so there was no real end of shift but I removed one hour from the opening times and still nothing is restocked.
Hope this gets looked into because not only is it ugly to have all those almost empty displays it also forces you to have way too many shelves in the storeroom if you don't want the deliveries to fail for lack of room. Of course if most of the stock is in storage instead of on the displays there is no room left on the shelves. Not only can it be expensive in early game but also some shops have a very small storeroom compared to the size of the shop and you can't physically fit enough shelves no matter what.


Edit :
Thinking about it I'm not even sure it's the employees that restock at 0, if you set up a new display or empty and re-assign an already existing one while you have the relevant items in stock on a shelf in your store the display will fill automatically.
I'm wondering if when a display sells out and becomes empty the automatic restocking doesn't come from the storeroom functionality and not the employees themselves.

All this to say that employees are bugged they don't restock as they should.

[Nightwolf]

so how do the individual restocking work the cookers, fryers etc, not the storage shelves and deliveries. do they just restock when it runs out if their are boxes in storage? i watched the shift start and nothing restocked inside.

nvm they do, i watched the grill auto refill when it ran dry

[David Estes Creations]

Originally posted by Nightwolf:

so how do the individual restocking work the cookers, fryers etc, not the storage shelves and deliveries. do they just restock when it runs out if their are boxes in storage? i watched the shift start and nothing restocked inside.

nvm they do, i watched the grill auto refill when it ran dry

Exactly - currently they refill once they fully reach 0!