what are the advantages and disadvantages or assigning a chef to a recipe ?

[PCPlayerZero]

Do their skill improve over time ? Is the food better ? And does it interfere in time to make the food ?

[Jet City Gambler]

Yes, their skills improve over time. They'll prepare the meal every time it's ordered. With a good chef that can become your signature course at one of your restaurants.

[Lonesomepoet]

Simply put the better a chef is at making somthing the higher the quality the dish will be when served meaning higher satifaction/competition scores . You want to be careful with high traffic dishes though or your chef will fall behind .Early on its a good idea to have Armande specialize in dishes with 2 or more flags since you'll be moving him around a lot. The better a chef is at a particulare cuisine the better they will make individual dishes in said cuisine even if they've never made one before .

[Cat on Linux]

there's also another benefit. When one of your chefs masters recipe to 100% you can assign this recipe to another chef and he will learn that recipe much faster, in 3-4 game days. if you'll let them to cook it together with 30-50% skill it will take ages to master it because there will be no boost. I ussally assign 5-6 recipes to 1 chef till they master it, then I reassign it to less skilled chefs and so on. This way your chefs will be skilled in no time

[Panahasi]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

there's also another benefit....

Excellent tip!

[FlyingVespa]

Positive: Skills improve , thus quality of dish improve which causes customer satisfaction improvement.
Negative: It can cause a back log of dishes needed to be prepared. So keep an eye out if that dish is very popular. This causes food to arrive late.
I found most dishes come in sets - appetizers/soups --- mains -- deserts. THus try and spread out designated dished. DOn't have one chef doo all deserts etc.

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by FlyingVespa:

Negative: It can cause a back log of dishes needed to be prepared. So keep an eye out if that dish is very popular. This causes food to arrive late.

definitely, you can't assign all recipes, assign 1-2 recipes per category to 1 chief and leave other recipes unassigned, that way even if the dish is popular your 2d/3d chef will have something to do.