Do you always sell everything on your menu?

[Stretchytall]

Will customers always keep coming until you've sold everything you put on your menu? Or could some dishes not sell and go back into inventory?

[Honorable_D]

I defs have things end before everything sells. Yes, I watch the wasabi.

Don't think you get it back either? Don't know why or how to get everything to sell.

Many questions about this.

[703joe]

You cant always sell everything. But many dishes can feed more than one person at a time. So best way to minimize loss is to only supply one serving, then just set it to auto-supply. Additionally, selling only meals that serve 1 person, will make you always use the exact amount + 1, so you only ever waste 1 serving of every option.

Or, if you just want to sell limited supply, without having to waste one serving of all menu options, just dont use auto-supply, add one serving of each option, and then simply manually add more as you run out. But try to not add things, especially those options with multiple servings, towards the end of the shift when you replace the options that have sold out.

[Avanish]

usually i make dishes in 5 menus at first (because it makes more money)
so customers forced to buy it. when the stock almost gone i put in sushi with auto supply.
all items sold with one sushi remaining.
if you didnt sold all menu. the remaining dishes will be gone because bancho didnt want keep leftovers.
so makesure you plan your menu well, maybe you will find good strategy that suit your gameplay. have fun

[Excellion]

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

Will customers always keep coming until you've sold everything you put on your menu? Or could some dishes not sell and go back into inventory?

I believe the amount of guests you receive is static, and tied to your current Cookstra ranking. At gold rank i would always get the same amount of 28 guests, whereas at Platinum i always see 36 guests enter the shop. (There is no variance. As long as i prepare exactly that amount of dishes they sell out without leftovers. Prepare 1 more and it's always a leftover).

Any dishes not sold are wasted - you don't get the dish or the materials for them back.

[Lancebringer]

At the end of the night, all unsold but prepared (on the menu) sushi is discarded. You do not recover it.

Faster staff means faster service to customers, the faster a customer is serviced, the faster they can be replaced.

I haven't gotten to the glacier yet, am Gold rated, and average about 30 customers a night. I only sell the most expensive dishes I can, and basically all I have Dave do is make wasabi, serve a couple people near the chef's, and if its really dirty, clean up the mess. I have one staff that serves drinks, the other cleans.

I keep an eye on my menu and my customer count, I'll add things and at the most I'll have 1 to 2 items left over (lost) at the end of the night.

[Stretchytall]

You guys are blowing my mind. You're tell me I can modify the menu MID-SERVICE?! Where do I do that?

[Stretchytall]

I figured it out. For anyone who doesn't know, you can continue to use LB and RB with the A button to access your menu/staff etc. during dinner service. Plus, toward the ceiling of the restaurant, there are wooden placards that show you how many of each dish are available.

Before today, I didn't realize how important menu control is for maximizing your money and prestige. I only now realize I've been wasting crazy amounts of food and allowing customers to buy cheap, low-prestige dishes instead of directing them to high ones. As I was figuring this out, I made one last screwy menu. I ended up wasting most of my Queen Clione Soup. It makes ten portions. Because I put other cheaper options on the menu, I only sold three portions. The remaining seven were wasted. I realize now that you shouldn't provide cheap dishes so that customers will have to buy your expensive dishes.

[Melbac]

Originally posted by Excellion:

Originally posted by Stretchytall:

Will customers always keep coming until you've sold everything you put on your menu? Or could some dishes not sell and go back into inventory?

I believe the amount of guests you receive is static, and tied to your current Cookstra ranking. At gold rank i would always get the same amount of 28 guests, whereas at Platinum i always see 36 guests enter the shop. (There is no variance. As long as i prepare exactly that amount of dishes they sell out without leftovers. Prepare 1 more and it's always a leftover).

Any dishes not sold are wasted - you don't get the dish or the materials for them back.

THIS! ALL OF THIS!

[IntrepidFool]

Don't try to figure out how many you need of an item. When you add it to the menu, just choose a quantity of 1. Then, on the menu, select the item and choose AUTO-SUPPLY. This will allow the quantity to be updated as needed. There is ZERO waste this way. It does not add any time to the cooking. (This is mentioned very briefly by the game, but not in detail. I found a guide that explained it better.) It is odd that this is not the default. (I can think of very few reasons why you'd want to specify a quantity.)

[Sterling ARCHER]

Originally posted by IntrepidFool:

Don't try to figure out how many you need of an item. When you add it to the menu, just choose a quantity of 1. Then, on the menu, select the item and choose AUTO-SUPPLY. This will allow the quantity to be updated as needed. There is ZERO waste this way. It does not add any time to the cooking. (This is mentioned very briefly by the game, but not in detail. I found a guide that explained it better.) It is odd that this is not the default. (I can think of very few reasons why you'd want to specify a quantity.)

correct me if I am wrong, but there is at least 1 of each dish as waste doing this method. That is why some people don't suggest doing it on your most expensive/limited dishes, even if extremely useful overall.

[tagteam]

i was selling 40+ on both sushi and the branch

[phrozzy]

Originally posted by Vorino:

Originally posted by IntrepidFool:

Don't try to figure out how many you need of an item. When you add it to the menu, just choose a quantity of 1. Then, on the menu, select the item and choose AUTO-SUPPLY. This will allow the quantity to be updated as needed. There is ZERO waste this way. It does not add any time to the cooking. (This is mentioned very briefly by the game, but not in detail. I found a guide that explained it better.) It is odd that this is not the default. (I can think of very few reasons why you'd want to specify a quantity.)

correct me if I am wrong, but there is at least 1 of each dish as waste doing this method. That is why some people don't suggest doing it on your most expensive/limited dishes, even if extremely useful overall.

That's correct. Auto Supply means the chefs will always "resupply" that menu item. So if you added a dish with 1 quantity and enabled Auto Supply, the chefs will always try to keep 1 of that dish on hand ready to be ordered. The game explicitly says any quantities you don't sell by the end of the night is thrown away, so with Auto Supply you'll always be throwing away at least 1 order you could've saved for another night.

[Stretchytall]

Originally posted by Excellion:

I believe the amount of guests you receive is static, and tied to your current Cookstra ranking. At gold rank i would always get the same amount of 28 guests, whereas at Platinum i always see 36 guests enter the shop. (There is no variance. As long as i prepare exactly that amount of dishes they sell out without leftovers. Prepare 1 more and it's always a leftover).

Any dishes not sold are wasted - you don't get the dish or the materials for them back.

Where do you find the number of guests you have each night?

[MagicHp]

Originally posted by phrozzy:

Originally posted by Vorino:

correct me if I am wrong, but there is at least 1 of each dish as waste doing this method. That is why some people don't suggest doing it on your most expensive/limited dishes, even if extremely useful overall.

That's correct. Auto Supply means the chefs will always "resupply" that menu item. So if you added a dish with 1 quantity and enabled Auto Supply, the chefs will always try to keep 1 of that dish on hand ready to be ordered. The game explicitly says any quantities you don't sell by the end of the night is thrown away, so with Auto Supply you'll always be throwing away at least 1 order you could've saved for another night.

I'd say that you would throw away AT MOST 1 order ^^
Losing one dish at the end of the night is nothing compared to losing a customer because that dish wasn't on auto-supply.

When you throw away a dish, you throw away a few (often a single) ingredient, nothing else.
When you miss a customer, you don't grab the money that was just waiting for you, losing profits.
Ingredients like meat you can get by the twenties with a single capture......... Losing a dish at the end of a night is nothing ^^

Actually, I think it would be a good QoL to automatically set up selected menus as 1 on Auto-supply, since that is what I have been doing for every menu so far except the unique ones of course.
Put everything you sell as 1 on auto-supply, and choose well the nights were you sell those unique recipes. Those always end up making several servings (you set it as 1 in the menu, since you only have one unique boss part, but usually can be ordered 5 to 10 times depending on the recipe) so they should be used when you are low on "usual" orders and never after a night dive.

[♡Bastard™]

There are multiple issues with setting things to auto-supply on your menu.

As already mentioned, every 'auto' dish will waste 1 serving of that item, including all the ingredients required to make it (so it is recommended to set only cheap dishes or those you have high amounts of ingredients for to auto).

The above counts for every dish added to auto supply, so if you have 5 dishes on menu and 4 are on auto, you are wasting 4 dishes every time with that setup.

What really annoys me about auto supply is that even if you only set ONE dish to auto, if your customers choose to order the auto'd dish rather than your expensive, limited supply ones, you are losing out on both money AND expensive (usually multiple) ingredients.

If there was an option to put auto-supply as like, "prepare and sell this dish automatically when the limited menu is out of supply, and ONLY then", it would be great and I'd have no problem wasting 1 serving's worth of a dish for that safety net, in case I miss adding another menu item before extra customers order. But that's not how it functions. So I don't use auto supply anymore and instead memorize the amount of customers I get under which circumstances and keep an eye out when I'm out of servings so I can add something to the menu if another customer drops in.