Why would someone not use auto supply?

[Kmarad]

So apparently using 1 fish on the menu + auto supply, you can use all your fish while not having any waste.
Is there a scenario where you shouldn't use auto supply?

[Onyx]

Because you still do waste one set of ingredients of a dish on auto-supply. The number of customers per night is fixed based on your Cooksta tier, so once you get into multi-serving dishes, it makes more sense to put only as many servings out as there will be customers; that way you aren't wasting 7 servings of a dish.

[Salty Waffles]

How do you know how many customers you will be getting each night, even if you know your Cooksta tier?

[rolly_k]

Not sure about others I find a good turn over on non-event nights being 4 or 5 dishes of each menu item works well for turnover.

Keep an eye out on how many servings are provided for each item. Some you only need to add 1 to the menu as it will provide e.g. 5 servings.

TIP: Hunt the Sailfish (found it easier to locate than others and farm as well) when you find it, max the level on the dish and you will never be broke :D

Few more hours and I am done with this game, it has been a fun title to forget the real world for a while.

[Onyx]

Originally posted by Salty Waffles:

How do you know how many customers you will be getting each night, even if you know your Cooksta tier?

Spoiling in case some people don't want to know:
Beginner 8
Bronze 15
Silver 22
Gold 29
Platinum 36
Diamond 45

It also depends on how fast your staff are - if they're too slow, they won't be able to serve the max number of customers you can have in one night. That can give the appearance of variability. On event nights, the max number stays the same.

You can check the number of thumbs up in the end of night summary for the number of customers you successfully served. For it to be fully accurate, of course, you need to not have a customer leave angry.

[Kmarad]

A few other things :
- customers will prefer to order high taste food
- if you fish at night you get 2/3 customers, So like gold is 29, if you fish at night you get about 20 customers.

What I'm doing now is getting close to the number of customers with great dishes, and for the last ones I put just one mediocre dish (lesser than others "taste") in auto supply