Has anyone ever made a franchise with all 22 franchise cards?

[Kev]

To clarify, in order to get all 22 cards, your franchise would have to survive 22 full games of 15 days each. Since nearly every franchise card adds +30% customer count, you'd probably have to keep doing autumn maps to unlock new base recipes so that you can constantly get cards to introduce more recipes to keep the customer count down, otherwise you'd end up with an insane situation of having like +200% customers. Would we even be able to FIT every ingredient in the game into our floorplan? I'm curious to try it, so I'm wondering if anyone else has done it already? I did a few quick Google searches but I haven't seen anyone talk about this.

[IcedMilo]

Many people have done it. Reason you don't see much talks about high/max tier franchises is because, spoiler, it's not fun.

Franchising makes the run more difficult in the first handful of tiers. It gets exponentially easier after Tier 4-6, making it a simple "grind to make tier number go up" game.

Also, sidenote. There are 27 franchise cards in the game (6 variety cards), not 22. You have to take variety in the first 6 tiers to hit 27. Which means you need a variety seed. If you don't have 6 variety by tier 6, you won't be able to hit 27; assuming you are going for max franchise cards.

[IcedMilo]

It's also not necessary to go for Autumn setting since there is at least 1 dish card during card days regardless of setting.

Most dish cards are -15%. Including the fact that most base dishes also have reductions, it is trivially easy to offset the +30% on franchise cards and start your Day 1s with very few groups.

[Kev]

Originally posted by IcedMilo:

It's also not necessary to go for Autumn setting since there is at least 1 dish card during card days regardless of setting.

Most dish cards are -15%. Including the fact that most base dishes also have reductions, it is trivially easy to offset the +30% on franchise cards and start your Day 1s with very few groups.

But if you don't take seeded runs to guarantee the variety card, then you'll end up running out of food cards if you don't get the other initial mains from the Autumn setting, right?

[IcedMilo]

Originally posted by Kev:

Originally posted by IcedMilo:

It's also not necessary to go for Autumn setting since there is at least 1 dish card during card days regardless of setting.

Most dish cards are -15%. Including the fact that most base dishes also have reductions, it is trivially easy to offset the +30% on franchise cards and start your Day 1s with very few groups.

But if you don't take seeded runs to guarantee the variety card, then you'll end up running out of food cards if you don't get the other initial mains from the Autumn setting, right?

For the reasons stated above, variety seeds are the only way to go. Plus max tier franchises were a thing people were doing prior to Autumn even existing (Nov 2022)

[Kev]

Originally posted by IcedMilo:

Originally posted by Kev:

But if you don't take seeded runs to guarantee the variety card, then you'll end up running out of food cards if you don't get the other initial mains from the Autumn setting, right?

For the reasons stated above, variety seeds are the only way to go. Plus max tier franchises were a thing people were doing prior to Autumn even existing (Nov 2022)

Ah, I see. Thanks for letting me know it isn't impossible. I'm going to try attempting a high tier franchise without seeding by trying my luck in the Autumn setting, just out of curiosity. Maybe I'll find my own run seed that will at least give me good initial recipe gains on the first run, in case I need to start over often.