Stopping villagers from using raw food before it can be used in production?

[Avensara]

Hello, sorry if this has been asked before. Is there a way to prevent the townspeople from using, for example, raw lamb before it can be butchered and turned into better food? It's hard to butcher the meat for fat and then eventually turn it into BBQ or something when the townspeople eat it before the butcher can get to it.

[Jeffus Maximus]

Supposedly the Priority setting is supposed to solve this, but I haven't found that it actually works. My people still eat beef before looking for processed meat meals.

[Avensara]

Is that where you can tick them on the top left where it shows resources? If so I'm dumb, I just assumed that was so you could track a particular item instead of showing all. I'll give that a go and see if it helps at all, thanks. :)

EDIT: Oh, I just found it under the menu when you press I. I'll see if that helps, thank you!

[Skinpopper]

IIRC the supply station allows you to tell it items to stock (like the grocery store) and these items can then only be used by production buildings.

[Midas]

supply station has the same issu as warehouse, it must be grabbed before market guy gets it :D

[GM]

Originally posted by Avensara:

Is that where you can tick them on the top left where it shows resources? If so I'm dumb, I just assumed that was so you could track a particular item instead of showing all. I'll give that a go and see if it helps at all, thanks. :)

EDIT: Oh, I just found it under the menu when you press I. I'll see if that helps, thank you!

It isn't a great fix, but it helps. What I am told is the priority only works on each building. (though it is a global setting) So if there isn't any other options for them when they arrive to take food they will still take the stuff set at 9. I have 3 BBQ shops across the road from a Gourmet shop steadily feeding it steak. It still struggles to get enough steak to make consistent production, some homes will have 45 steak even with it set to 9. The warehouse (supply station) that has a delivery guy helped the most. He will scoop up the steak and take it back to his private warehouse and deliver it when needed, citizens and marketplace workers are not able to take from this area.
He is a bit slow to deliver at times though, but that may be because my sprawling town forces him to walk a long way for supplies.

[Kalisa]

i find as long as i set my raw basic foods to priority 9 and higher tier foods to 1, they rarely touch the basic foods, theres always some that take but its minimal, that along with supply stations picking up stuff usually works quite well (tho i still think the system can be impoved allot)