How much food is on your counters?

[nmishii]

If I had to pick, I'd rather things sold too slow rather than too fast.

My bakery story items seem to sell at a decent pace. I'll go from having every counter full when I log off for the night, and come back to about half of them empty. I honestly don't want mine to sell any faster because I enjoy having sumptuous goodies sitting about the store and I'd be heartbroken if they all sold out every night, like the items in my Restaurant Story seem to. I had the same problem in Fashion Story - I'd close the store, make thousands of things for every rack and when I'd reopen the next day, the store would be picked clean. It made me so mad I uninstalled FS. What's the point of a fashion store with no clothing in it? The same holds true for a bakery. I don't mind the restaurant selling out every night, as that fits the theme of a restaurant alright (I'd rather they didn't all sell, but it's not a game-breaker for me).

Never thought about it like that, but yeah, I'd rather it sell slower. I used to have to think about checking my bakery to see if the food was getting too low so that I'd have to close. Now I don't have to do that. And I went on vacation, didn't bake anything for 9 days, and was open 24/7 and didn't think once about running out of food.

What I'd really like is no rate change, and for the weekly updates to include recipes with a low number of plates and a high number of XP.

[casadolce]

But slow to a point that your amount of coins remain unchanged? What if TL decide to open up another expansion and you don't have enough coins?

[nmishii]

The last expansion was 5M. They were going up $1M for each expansion. If the next one is $6M, I can expand that day and still have too much money. Plus I have 2M plates on my counters, and eventually I'll get $8M for those.

[nmishii]

My coins were remaining unchanged once because I kept cooking, and the cost for the new dishes are higher than normal (about 2000 or more), and so everytime I looked at my coins they were close to the same number all week. I just stopped cooking, let the coins build up, get my last expansion (this was on RS), and went back to cooking. Not ideal, but it worked.

[nmishii]

After 24 hrs:

38548 plates sold (26.8 plates/min)
172457 increase in coins not counting tips (ave 4.5 coins/plate)

I sold weekly update items (4 coins/plate) and cappuccino gifts (10 coins/plate)
I did not bake or serve food during this time
I went into the bakery 6 times to get the plate count, tip neighbors, collect gifts, gift neighbors.

So it seems okay for me. I probably shouldn't have gone into the bakery at all, and if I hadn't my sell rate would have been higher. But this is the rate I should be getting with everyday play.

[joyirene]

I understand what you're saying if half your counters empty overnight. But for me, I have 15 full counters and about 1 empties every week. That is far too slow, we should have an option of how fast we want things to go.

[nmishii]

I had 11 full counters to start and at the end had 9.

The sell rate is still the same whether you have 5 counters of food or 20. But if you have 5 counters each counter will sell close to 8000 plates a day, whereas if you have 20 each counter will sell close to 2000 plates a day.

I had a problem earlier where I had too many counters of food. So I didn't bake and eventually the counters started clearing. Now I try to keep the number of counters with food to a minimum, but each counter may have a lot of food on it. Right now I have 10 counters with 1.8M plates of food and 8 counters in storage. Two counters have >500K of food and will take forever to clear. The rest will eventually clear.

[joyirene]

I'd be really annoyed if I had that much food. Im not going to stop playing and not bake because that's the point of the whole game other than tipping. I honestly cannot believe TL will not respond to any of these threads.

[nmishii]

I'd be really annoyed if I had that much food. Im not going to stop playing and not bake because that's the point of the whole game other than tipping. I honestly cannot believe TL will not respond to any of these threads.

Well, I can believe TL won't respond to any of these threads. The thread is too civil and its not a game. Why don't you send a VM or PM to GM?

[Cestnomen]

If you don't want your food piling up, make fast money by baking Red Velvet Cake.
...and only Red Velvet Cake.

That is exactly how i found out the slow down. I used to cook only RVC, nothing else, but i dedicate 1 serving table per oven to increase avg price. Everyday my RVCs would sold out before 2nd batch completed (22 hours cycle). When slow down started, then i'd have up to 3 days worth of RVCs (day 3 RVC finish cooking and 1st batch not sold out yet). Thats when i had to break it with pumpkin pie every couple batches

Now i dont care for coins anymore, i just keep cooking for gems (any recipes im not at lvl 4, regardless if i cant sell the food)