Will the Branch location serve party-appropriate foods automatically?

[ohener]

I've got a shrimp party coming up and i've sent a bunch of shrimps over to them.
They're currently set up to sell dishes based on the highest price and when i press m shrimps aren't listed as one of the menu items. Will they still serve shrimps to people who want shrimp? Or should i remove all other ingredients until there are only shrimps available?

[Jeff]

I'd assume that the party is only happening at the main restaurant. idk for sure though.

[ohener]

Origineel geplaatst door Jeff:

I'd assume that the party is only happening at the main restaurant. idk for sure though.

No, i had the cucumber party last time and it turned out the cucumber people got really mad at me because there were no cucumbers at the secondary location.

[Schalimah]

If you provide the ingredients necessary they will serve it.
You may have to do some micro management.
I had mine set to highest price and it was the highest value dish they could make with the ingredients provided.
Just check their menu before the night.

[Turjak The Destroyer]

There seems to be a glitch where you need to reset the serving priority remotely from the main restaurant or it doesn't stick.

[Rallianto]

The way you manage the Branch is handled poorly. The UI is really bad, you have to click each individual ingredient and send it over. We should have a share button, maybe with a procentage slider, so we could share all ingredients with Branch.

[♡Bas™]

Origineel geplaatst door Rallianto:

The way you manage the Branch is handled poorly. The UI is really bad, you have to click each individual ingredient and send it over. We should have a share button, maybe with a procentage slider, so we could share all ingredients with Branch.

I'll say. I also wish we could send ingredients by dish instead of individually. Because right now I have to keep going back to HQ menu to see what dish requires what and how many of what, and then go send each amount of each ingredient to the branch. Like just let us select a dish and choose to send the amount of ingredients necessary to make X amount of that dish.

[Zeyphersan]

Here’s an extension of this question: will the branch serve more than one party-appropriate food? I sent over the ingredients for 3 expensive shrimp dishes on shrimp party day and the branch only ever showed one (the most expensive, since I set by price) in the top spot and then used the ingredients I sent for the two other dishes individually, in really inefficient ways. No matter what combination of ingredients I sent over, I could only ever get the branch to offer one themed dish, never more.

[SeaGroomer]

Yes, they will serve one meal that is part of the party if they have the ingredients. Though they will still sell other stuff that isn't party food so if the other recipes are higher 'taste' level then they won't actually sell any of the party food.

But yes the party happens at the branch and they do cook a single recipe as long as they have the ingredients.

[Jeff]

Shark Party:

I gave them ingredients to make 10 deep fish tempura, they made either 1-2 tempura and then sold the raw ingredients as plain sushi for the rest. Priority was set to price.

The recipe calls for 1 of each fish and 3 kelp, so I gave them 10 of each fish and 30 kelp.
Attempt 1-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006276513
Attempt 2 did even worse, same parameters -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006276596
Attempt 3 - Gave them ingredients for a second dish, only other dish sold during party. This is weird because the tempura is worth more at current level, even before party price boost.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006286960
Will sort by taste next time, and give them a second high profit dish with less taste
Attempt 4 -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006299632
Also noticed that tempura taste is 280 at branch but 298 at main restaurant. Not sure if this has anything to do with having difficulty selling the dish.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006299143
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006298592
Results: Not amazing at selling party dishes. I tried setting the serving priority remotely like Turjak said but it didn't seem to help. Maybe I need to do it during the shift instead of before...maybe attempt 5 coming lol

[Schalimah]

Origineel geplaatst door Jeff:

Shark Party:

I gave them ingredients to make 10 deep fish tempura, they made either 1-2 tempura and then sold the raw ingredients as plain sushi for the rest. Priority was set to price.

The recipe calls for 1 of each fish and 3 kelp, so I gave them 10 of each fish and 30 kelp.
Attempt 1-
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006276513
Attempt 2 did even worse, same parameters -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006276596
Attempt 3 - Gave them ingredients for a second dish, only other dish sold during party. This is weird because the tempura is worth more at current level, even before party price boost.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006286960
Will sort by taste next time, and give them a second high profit dish with less taste
Attempt 4 -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006299632
Also noticed that tempura taste is 280 at branch but 298 at main restaurant. Not sure if this has anything to do with having difficulty selling the dish.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006299143
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006298592
Results: Not amazing at selling party dishes. I tried setting the serving priority remotely like Turjak said but it didn't seem to help. Maybe I need to do it during the shift instead of before...maybe attempt 5 coming lol

Customers seem to order the dish with the higher taste value first or at least with higher probability.
The option you have in the branch determines what the manager puts on the menu.
It does not effect which of the three items the customers order.
However, your Tempura test don't make sense, because for those numbers, there would have had to be 4 dishes on the menu and as far as I know, the branch only sells three at a time.

[Jeff]

That doesn't explain why in attempt 3 they bought ONLY the tropical sushi set and no base ingredients. It was as if there was only 1 dish on the menu which is what I want to do with the tempura.

My goal is to make 150k+ from selling only tempura that night at the branch (or close to only tempura). I can sell only tempura at the main restaurant.

So far my best result was selling non-party dishes only.

[Schalimah]

I did some further testing myself:
1) There definitely is a fourth dish on the menu in the branch
2) Even though I gave the branch ingredients for the sailfish and the marlin dish and they were the two most expensive dishes available to make, they only put one of them on the menu
4) the fourth item on my menu ended up being greenlandshark sushi, which was not even close to the next highest in price.

If you want to make sure you get 150k per night, I guess you need to supply the branch with the ingredients for at least 3-4 high value dishes.
Even during party nights, not everyone wants the party dish.
In the main restaurant you can see the people with the star.
Those are the ones that want the special dishes and pay more for them.
The same is true for the branch, I guess.

[Jeff]

Non-party goers should also be happy with the tempura dish. I did try putting out a second dish and even a third dish but they still rarely want the tempura.

Also for some reason they want the base ingredients for the tempura instead of the dish, which is abnormal for the branch.

Edit: maybe the problem is they see the cookie cutter shark as a shark dish, and are buying it up early instead of waiting for the next tempura to be made with it. I have no solution for this. My cookie cutter sushi is level 1, low price and low taste.

[Schalimah]

If you put the Tempura and its ingrediants on the menu in the main branch you will see similar outcomes, I am sure.
The difference between the tropical platter and the tempura is that the ingrediants of the tropical platter have much lower taste compared to the platter.
Depending on levels of course.
But for me the ingrediants for the tempura are much closer or even at the same taste value as the tempura itself.

[Jeff]

Not the case for me

Coral - 17 taste
Harlequin - 18
Trigger - 40 (my only leveled dish at lvl 2)

Cookie - 27
Barreleye - 28
Vamp Squid - 34

Generally all in the same low ballpark of taste, under 50
The platters are all over 200+ taste

I still think my theory is correct about them wanting the cookiecutter because it is a shark on shark party night. I will watch them exclusively the whole night to see if it is happening.

Edit: nope, I was wrong. They bought Vamp squid first, which is the highest taste base ingredient at $115, 34 taste, and then Barreleye at $70 28 taste, and cookie last at $75, 27 taste. They did buy in top-down order of taste. I was set to taste because of the last test, but even if I set to price they still buy vamp squid first which doesn't solve my problem.

I can add more vamp squid but then they are still just buying half vamp squid and not the tempura.

I think what we need is just a re-programming of how the branch prioritizes selling to customers during parties. Until then, just sell your best non-party dish for max profit as usual.