Restaurant Story: Rate of Selling Food

[dewey1025]

1,878,000 dishes of food.

Based on the fixed sales rate of up to 30 dishes per minute, it would take me approximately 43.5 consecutive days of neither cooking food nor accepting gifts before I sell all my current dishes:

Dishes sold per day = (30 dishes/min)*(60 min/hr)*(24 hr/day) = 43200 dishes/day

Unless you exclusively cook a short list of foods with long cooktimes every day, you'll almost always end up producing more dishes than you sell each day, given that you don't have excessive downtime. Thus, the types of food I'm serving might change as I cook different foods, but my current 1,878,000 dish total will only increase as I accumulate more dishes each day.

Because of the fixed sales rate, I will have at least 1,878,000 dishes sitting in my restaurant and never be sold. If you look at dishes as an investment (i.e., you put in time and coins and get XP and coin profit), the 30 dishes per minute sales rate bottleneck keeps many dishes (1,878,000 dishes for me) from becoming coins and pretty much keeps you from ever receiving the returns on your investments.

Additionally, the fixed sales rate also restricts the profit of your restaurant. Calculating the profit per hour -- the difference between the gain per hour for my restaurant and the cost per hour of cooking a given food -- 14% of the foods make you lose money and many others give you marginal profit.

Gain per hour for my restaurant = (Average price per item of my 12 foods)*(30 dishes/min)*(60 min/hr) = 4985 coins/hr

Cost per hour of cooking a food = (Cost of dish)*(number of appliances)/(minutes to cook food)*(60 min/hr)

Personally, I lose money every day, and I am forced to go out of my way to cook long food items to gain any money. I've pretty much been unable to expand for the past 40 levels because I have millions of dollars worth of food tied up by the limited sales rate. I know that some people struggle to keep food on their counters and others like to stockpile their restaurant with all sorts of food, but in both cases, people have control over their dishes (e.g., having the option to close your restaurant by blocking the door with a chair).

Does anyone know if Team Lava is open to providing some means to increase your sales rate (e.g., purchase more host tables to draw more customers)? Raising the sales rate's ceiling would work, too.

[clhs]

I really agree with you. Once you've unlocked about twelve appliances, it's really difficult to sell anything like as much food as one can produce.

I have been a qualified accountant for seven years and I absolutely salute your incredible calculations and analysis. Bravo.

[MaineItalian]

Same thing happened with my bakery....but if you really want them to run out faster...don't cook anything! Put all the appliances in storage...for as long as you like...I had like 900,000+ plates of cannoli and it took more than a week to run out...

[cwmw]

the amount of food you cook really depends on how many appliances you have, originally when i just started i had to close the door all day long because there was not enough food to reach 30/min.

of course when you have heaps of appliances that is true~~~

[xSnowyOwlx]

The only thing is I've noticed that when you get a push notification everything resets so even if they are eating that doesn't get sold so there's still actually probably a longer amount of time.

[mattdiner]

I personally think the solution to this would be higher level foods giving you more profit per serving. Basically, lower the number of servings in the new foods. For example, maybe stuffed mushrooms should only give you 1310 servings. That way you would get 10 coins every purchase.

[Mogwai4111]

The only thing is I've noticed that when you get a push notification everything resets so even if they are eating that doesn't get sold so there's still actually probably a longer amount of time.

This is just a graphical thing, it doesn't affect sales.

[mattdiner]

This is just a graphical thing, it doesn't affect sales.

I understand what xSnowyOwlx is saying. When the app is open, you are making money for literally everything you see happening, but when the app is closed, you are consistently making the same amount of money over time. So if you leave the app open and looking at your restaurant, there will be a gap in sales.

[redbites]

I make 150,000 coins every 3 hours and my food sells at a resonable speed

[Mogwai4111]

I understand what xSnowyOwlx is saying. When the app is open, you are making money for literally everything you see happening, but when the app is closed, you are consistently making the same amount of money over time. So if you leave the app open and looking at your restaurant, there will be a gap in sales.

I'm not sure, but am guessing that's not how it works. I think there's a constant equation the figures profit and food loss, and that the people entering your restaurant to eat food are just 'graphical flavor', even if you see your total coins increase as meals are finished. I think coin/food totals get adjusted little by little to compensate for things like customers disappearing when you leave your restaurant, and get adjusted big time when you block your door for a long period of time and then unblock. That huge loss of food/gain of coins is the work of this constant equation catching up to where a restaurant would have been had the door not been blocked.