endgame recipe recommendations?

[AZNBeefcake]

What are you guys cooking to grind out those last few staff levels? I can hit around 20kish selling narwhals and then whatever random stuff I have on hand.

[ska.one]

I like the narwhal for sure, Deep Sea Tempura, enhanced Puffer Fish Stellate (oldie but goodie), and the Shrimp Rice Krispie Squares (sorry, don't remember the name) off the top of my head.

Next time I play I'm going to sort by ingredients so I can have four or five recipe dishes that spread the use of rice, wheat, miso, etc. so I'm not running short on ingredients. Fish you can make up for; ingredients are tougher.

[DFogz]

So far I've been selling mainly the Tropical Sashimi Platter, just because I have so many of the fish it needs in my fish farms.
It's just 3 Titan Triggerfish, 3 Coral Trout, 3 Harlequin Hind, and 3 Rice. The fish are super easy to get in shallow water. Currently my recipe is at level 6 and I sell each dish for nearly 1k. One recipe makes 7 or 8 dishes.
I just unlocked the branch location. I stocked them with fish and rice for that recipe, and between my branch and main location, I made a little over 50k on opening night only selling that one type of sushi. None of my staff are currently higher than level 8.

The only trick is keeping enough rice. Make sure to use fertilizers. Nutrient boost on days there's no harvest, and the yield boost on days there is.

[Jeff]

The Leadership achievement says "trained staff to lvl 20"...is that one staff or more than one?

[AZNBeefcake]

Originally posted by Jeff:

The Leadership achievement says "trained staff to lvl 20"...is that one staff or more than one?

I'm almost certain it's just one. But it's still quite expensive.

[c452h82]

Tropical Fish Sashimi Lvl 10 is OP. The fishes necessary are all swimming in shallow waters and there are lots of them. Never needed to manage the branch or even serving cocktails to swim in money.

[Reflexion]

@Jeff - It is only one, I can confirm as I got it recently. The levels seem to jump by about 50% in cost each time for each training session. But I do think it's something like 300k-ish to train one to 20. The final level alone is 99k.

[Coelacanth]

Originally posted by c452h82:

Tropical Fish Sashimi Lvl 10 is OP. The fishes necessary are all swimming in shallow waters and there are lots of them. Never needed to manage the branch or even serving cocktails to swim in money.

This and sheep's head curry are good, and then you can just use hammerhead at the branch or something.

[Jeff]

Get Tohoku to level 15. He unlocks something called Roasted Tropical Fish & Garlic.

clownfish
pyramid fish
blue tang
garlic

All 4 of these are extremely easy to get. Sells for more than tropical sushi set, and with a max garden garlic is faster than rice.

[Unoffensive gamertag]

Tropical Fish Sushi (Max Price: 1461) is a great one to max and maintain early game (drawback is that it takes a lot of rice to max). Usually most people get this early (forget how)

Crimson Fish Roll (Max Price: 1480) is good one as it is one of the few that only requires fish and no other ingredients (drawback: Red Bream/Rhinochimaeridae spawn in very low numbers making it take a while to max but easy to maintain)

I haven’t maxed Roasted Tropical Fish but it looks like an easy one to get and maintain

Recipes to avoid like the plague: Anything that requires egg of any kind or special seaweed that takes over a day to grow (e.g., southern bull, black coral). While yes these can make you some of the most money (e.g., Boiled Sailfish) they are not maintainable as you would use more ingredients daily than you acquire. If you tried to only sell this dish at both locations for max profit, you would eventually run out of materials and/or devote your farm to only growing this.

My winner would be Dumbo Takoyaki (Max Price: 1554). While Dumbo is a pain to get and only attainable late game, it is easier to maintain (requires 3 Dumbo, 2 Wheat, 1 Mayo) AND serves 9. I found it easy to maintain despite selling it at both locations. The most customers you can have is 45 at each location (or 90 daily). So if selling only Dumbo Tako to all customers at two locations this requires 30 Dumbo, 20 wheat, 10 mayo used per day. I am very close to max profit possible for recipes in this game (roughly 140 to 150k / day on Dumbo alone). Someone correct if I am wrong but I believe the highest any dish can go is 1572 (and every dish that I have seen so far that can achieves this is not maintainable for max profit), so 1554 is close enough.

[Tiddalik]

I focus on the ones that are over $1000 a dish and require one items from the three sources available so a fish source / a farm source / a dispatch source and have multiple serves.

For me my current top is the Humphead Parrotfish Curry (fish: green humphead // farm: onion // dispatch:Turmeric ) at max level it's $1387 a dish. It has a taste rating of 347 and serves 6. When you have an average of 45 per restaurant (sushi + branch) with 100% clearance on a good night you're looking at over $100k a night outside of a party if both restaurants are only selling that.

I also like the dumbo takoyaki (fish: dumbo // farm: wheat // dispatch: mayo), the Ice fish curry (fish: ice fish // farm: bean // dispatch: curry block) and Antarctic Octopus Cappaccio (fish: white octo // farm: onion // dispatch: olive oil) all are over 1100 a dish and have multiple serves. After the humphead curry the cappaccio is probably my next big money earner outside parties.

I find, with focus on the three sources, it's easier to grind a dish, just focus on one until you have dozens over max available then work on the next one then the next. There are quite a few good dishes that you don't have to farm a heap of ingredients for.

[AquaX]

Deep fish tempura is one of the easiest endgame dish. It is a vip dish and it goes to 1461 maxed. It starts w serving of 6 in early levels but goes to 7 when near maxed fitting pretty well w the diamond 42-45 customers range.

Kelp takes only 1 day to grow so underwater farm will always push 30 not counting the 6+ u find diving.

The vampire squid and barreleye are all in the glacial passage and there are loads. They also have their own fish farm section with no other major fish fighting for space so they can multiple indefinitely.

Cookiecutter shark is where it gets iffy. You need to be catching these alive as soon as you meet them to stockpile as early as you can. The daily dives should get you 6 meat per day to fit the selling quota so you need it to breed to raise its flavor level if you start on it late. Also this dish can be used as a shark event dish so it can bring in some serious income.

[SayakiArt]

how do you guys get the dumbo takoyaki recipe?
im done with the story
is it from training a specific servant?

[♛Pika♛]

Originally posted by SayakiArt:

how do you guys get the dumbo takoyaki recipe?
im done with the story
is it from training a specific servant?

It will be unlocked when you get your restaurant to platinum rank.

[SayakiArt]

Originally posted by ♛Pika♛:

Originally posted by SayakiArt:

how do you guys get the dumbo takoyaki recipe?
im done with the story
is it from training a specific servant?

It will be unlocked when you get your restaurant to platinum rank.

oh i see, thanks

[Halabaloo]

Dunk is pretty easy to catch with the final Hush upgrade and has a 430+ taste