Thoughts on the new restaurant?

[grampers62]

Just wondering what others are thinking about the new restaurant. I'm undecided myself. good concept but the execution? Walk down the hole and warp to a table? Always the same inside walls? Using only the one table or booth?
But I do like the shop counters fairly well.
Give your thoughts on it.

[Varick]

"Beam me up an ice cream Scotty ." :D

I would prefer that the guests walk to a table and have a waiter bring their food. I know it allows table placement on terrain, etc. and less code work but it seems weird. Also, given the mechanics, the toilets have to go outside the restaurant but they could still be in the same building- no different from food courts. Still, it is better than just a pure rabbit hole and I am glad they added a restaurant. Since I like to do my own building, I do not mind changing the way the inside looks to fit a theme and then just blueprint everything.

[Loganer]

Yeah, it's odd to say the least... better than a pure rabbit hole, but not by much.

I've been wondering if the guests even 'know' where they are. Like, if you put the tables on the roof with a cooler set at freezing... do the guests come out of the warp blue and complaining? If you set up the most complex, gorgeous place ever conceived, do they 'know' that and come out of the warpaurant all happy?

I like that you don't have to have a path to the tables (allows you to put them on a top floor of a building without screwing around with the janky path system, but at the same time, the 'poof' to and from the tables... meh.

I guess I'm also undecided. There are good parts to this set-up and bad.. but personally I think I'd rather mess with flooring than to have them spawn/despawn/spawn again.

[Jaggid Edje]

They definitely know what's around them because they get happy thoughts about scenery if it's a lovely restaurant and they also comment on the animals they can see if you have the tables inside a habitat or in a viewing area.

I've not tested the temperature thing though... lol

[audiolady]

Hope the warps work right. Or else....help meeee, help me!
Or the whole blob glitch stay permanent!

[Varick]

hmm.. I think I will test underwater dining. :)

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Varick:

hmm.. I think I will test underwater dining. :)

Scuba gear makes it really hard to chew, so I'd go with serving stuff like ice cream and pudding.

[audiolady]

How big can burrows be?
Dinner with badgers anyone?

[Ellorien]

I haven’t tried the restaurant yet (been playing other games) but setting a restaurant with underwater viewing sounds like a great idea.

Where the hell is my fish, Frontier?!
Wouldn’t it be nice to order lobster from the aquarium, lol. We need a seafood restaurant.

[rajirrah]

I haven't played with the restaurants yet but it seems to be a big step up from the ones in Planet Coaster where the guests just go in, eat in a microsecond, come out full and you don't even see them enjoying the food. I'm looking forward to playing with the new additions. I usually wait to play with it until the first "fix" for the update at least... After they find the new bugs introduced by the additional content.

[audiolady]

The stuff....are you eating it, or is it eating you?
Anyone remember that movie?

[MIGHTYANDYMAN]

Having spent several hours making a restaurant, there are good and not so good points.
I don't care much for the wall and roof in front of the serving hatch, would be good if the whole thing was editable, the guy chopping carrots is not great would prefer something more animated, such as cooking in a pan.

[Jem]

extremely disappointed.. no shells for them. i was expecting minimum a new world theme or something. but no. just the void hole, which would have taken devs 2 seconds to copy paste from planet coaster.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Jem:

extremely disappointed.. no shells for them. i was expecting minimum a new world theme or something. but no. just the void hole, which would have taken devs 2 seconds to copy paste from planet coaster.

Go into the blueprints menu and type "restaurant" in the search box. There are actually 2 blueprints for them which came with the DLC, not just the void hole, you just have to research the theme from the DLC with a mechanic first to unlock them.

Of course, if you didn't buy the DLC...you don't have them. But at that point you are complaining about not getting something which was a free update, so it would be a little silly.

There are also around a dozen that people have uploaded to the workshop already.

I agree though that it would have been nice if they had included a few more blueprints for the various base game themes too (New World, Classic, etc).

[Protus]

I used two of the premade ones and together they raised income 2-3k or so per year.

They are not that bad for a start and later on who knows they might update it.

I added 3 tables more to each restaurant and have 8500 guests.

[Merc]

I love it :)

https://ibb.co/gg1RMWx

I'd imagine that there was a reason or two behind the implementation of the teleporter.