Cooks won't collect food to store in fridges, neither do they cook

[Scav]

My Cooks used to cook normally, they got ingredients and they supplied food to the normal canteen and the staffing canteen. My guards are getting so angry they are starting to kill every single prisoner I currently have in my prison.

The cooks have a direct way from the kitchen to the canteen and the path to the road is also open. Prisoners can't escape by walking through a door and I don't know what to do anymore. I tried making paths, looking at the distribution and placing more fridges but nothing helps. The cooks only go on break, every 5 minutes. (My kitchen has 10 cookers, 12 sinks and 14 fridges.)

[The Queen Salis]

so where does your staff food arrive? is it perhaps stuck somewhere between delivery and storages?

[Scav]

The staff food arrives at the road with the normal food, but I dont know if its stuck or not. They wont collect it and there are 2 prisoner trucks waiting behind like 20 trucks. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

[Le_Busher]

i have experienced the same bug. for resolve it i have remove all (cookers, sink, fridge) and replace in others placement and the cooks beging to work for me

[The Queen Salis]

make sure the kitchens and canteens are connected in logistics. get more storage space and hire some workmen. if you order "search cell block" on items in delivery and storage, your guards should ruffle them all, making some temporary space too

[edumacacion]

do you have mods enabled. either way you should research micromanagement in bureaucracy. its possible when you have multiple canteens that you don't have enough prisoners assigned to a specific canteen and food is being wasted. if you check the number of meals a kitchen is preparing and it is enough then if the canteen its assigned to isn't getting enough meals. this means you need more guards. this allows the cooks to spend more time preparing meals and the guards can serve the prisoners instead. canteen demand will go up if there aren't enough guards. do not waste too many guards with patrol routes as guards on patrol routes don't serve prisoners.

When I modified my games main.dat file I ran into a problem where I had one kitchen cooking so much food that it created a supply shortage. you may need to increase the size of your supplies and garbage areas. also open up reports and check the jobs tab that should tell exactly what task is messing up. that fixed things for me and I made a mod which essentially allowed cooks to supply 200 prisoners per kitchen. one last thing you can't have multiple kitchens serve a small canteen they won't get fed. for 200 prisoners you should have about 4 serving tables and multiple benches.for reference this is a canteen that would cost 25,000 to build. and im thinking about this with the mod I made normal games probably will require more. don't download my mods for having kitchens cook infinite food.
there not as stable as my other mods. they work great for me but it took a lot of trial and error. to be thorough if you modified main.dat. delete it and verify steam file cache. if you are using mods copy them from appdata local introversion mods to a new folder then delete the mods located in the mods folder. then unsubscribe from all mods. Using micromanagement can definetly be one of the more aggravating things about prison architect. I try to split my canteens to serve 200 people. im not sure if this is true but buildings built before a canteen is created tend to not be assigned to the new canteen. however buildings built close to the new canteen tend to be assigned to it after it is built. however sometimes buildings close to a new canteen that were built before the new canteen existed get assigned to the canteen they were previously assigned to.