Staff Always Hungry

[Gainer .44]

I have a 10 employee pr. office setup and i have six of these offices in a row and down the hall in one direction (not far away) i have a kitchen(staffed by two cooks) and a medium/large'ish canteen and down the other direction from the offices i have a quite a roomy lounge and all the stuff to telp them relax. Yet my quite a few of my staff are always hungry/starving and as i am watching them they do not go and get them self something to eat or drink, there is alot of food on the serving plate in the canteen and planty of room. How can i fix this?

[Coredumping]

Are your rooms assigned to specific teams disallowing them from entering the canteen?

[Gainer .44]

Yes they are a part of the core team and no i have not specified anything like that, i only have designated the room for the canteen to be a canteen but not to a specific team. Those that are starving are only like five or six of the whole team of like 50 or 60 but these guys are always demanding a pay raise because of it

[Coredumping]

And you're sure there are enough food on the serving plates each day for everyone? You can send the save file using the in-game reporting tool if you want me to check it out, if you haven't already.

[Gainer .44]

yes. One and a half plates

[Gainer .44]

i will try and send it. Thank you

[Gainer .44]

I have Send it

[Coredumping]

At a glance it seems like you're not filling up the serving plates quick enough, only one of them is being filled, so by the time your last employees get to eat a plate, they have to go home. You could try having having the cooks come in so all the food is ready when your employees get hungry.

[Gainer .44]

I have hire about six more cooks and made them come two hours before the core teamcomes and there are cooks few hours after the team leaves and two of three plates are filled and the cooks can keep them mostly filled over the day and yet the staff just sit at their desk hungry

[Coredumping]

Having 8 cooks, all meeting at 6 AM, adding enough fridges so that they don't idle waiting for a fridge and adding 3 more serving trays seems to have mostly fixed it when I tried your save. I'll see if I can optimize food queuing a bit for the next patch.

[korac]

Originally posted by Gainer .44:

I have hire about six more cooks and made them come two hours before the core teamcomes and there are cooks few hours after the team leaves and two of three plates are filled and the cooks can keep them mostly filled over the day and yet the staff just sit at their desk hungry

One trick to help feed a lot of people over a short period of time (e.g. the lunchtime rush) is to place the serving trays on separate small tables with space between them so they have open access from two or three sides, instead of using a solid row of small tables or the larger tables (such as the one that holds three platters) which have access on just one side. This allows more people to access that serving tray over a shorter period of time.

Bear in mind also that if there are no free seats available at the very moment someone is about to pick up a plate, they will instead head back to their desk. For those busy times you should aim to have 3-4 seats for every serving tray in the canteen.

Originally posted by Coredumping:

I'll see if I can optimize food queuing a bit for the next patch.

One possibility is when a cook attempts to place a new plate on a serving tray but another cook has just beaten them to it and taken the last spot, that cook will return to their stove and dawdle for a while, plate in hand, until they head to another tray (at which point the same thing may happen again, in a very busy canteen). If they could instead just head to another serving tray with space when thwarted at the first tray, that might help keep things flowing a little better... Might be easier said than done, though, but I figured it was worth a mention.

[Gainer .44]

Thanks for your time good sir :)