Man, that's a pound and a half of sugar alone.
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 16:07 |
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I can't wait until we get an eclair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmrJEB8tdEk&t=47s
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lofi posted:
Parfait!
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Episode 10: Nah, that's too obvious, how about "Hardy Johnson"?![]() ![]() ![]() Restauranteur, entrepreneur and, going by his name, retired porn actor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh God drat it, this stupid game has an anti-GMO angle? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Um, Armand, you do realise that we're working for the mafia, right? I don't think Don Corleone's going to be very happy if you cut him out of… Welp. ![]() MR. STEELE HAS GIVEN YOU THE LOCATION OF THE WAGONS HO! STEAKHOUSE. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, Armand has decided to cut the Don out of our American business and has joined up with restaurant entrepreneur Dick Steele instead. Looks like we'll have to start cooking with a bulletproof apron. On the plus side, Dick gave us a new restaurant: Wagons Ho! It's our first American-style restaurant, a steakhouse. The game has three types of American restaurants: steakhouses, seafood restaurants and one last type that's so stupid I won't spoil it. The difference is purely cosmetic – you can serve any American recipe in all of the three restaurants, so you could conceivably run a steakhouse filled with seafood and a seafood restaurant that only serves steaks if you're feeling particularly rebellious. Now, before we set up this new restaurant, it'll need a head chef. Dick told us we needed to hire a woman chef, so let's go talk to the only female character in this game! ![]() ![]() ![]() The only time we met, in fact. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Man, compared with how easy it was to recruit all our other chefs, that was like pulling teeth. Now we need to find someone to take Delia's place at the shop, and luckily Armand managed to think of someone ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wait, what? Armand, no, that's not even close to what you agreed with Richard. Did you forget the terms already? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() UNCLE MICHEL HAS AGREED TO WORK IN DELIA'S MARKET! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO NOW IS TO TELL DELIA THE GOOD NEWS! Armand talking about OmniFood's unethical practices is a bit rich when he's trying to guilt his poor old retired uncle with the ailing back into moving from his house in Paris to Los Angeles in order to work a crappy retail job just so Armand can hit on Delia in his restaurant. In fact, I don't think Armand even mentioned that Delia's shop was in America – looks like Uncle Michel should have read the fine print! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Armand, the restaurant doesn't have any staff yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a little interesting. In this scenario, since you are the one hiring Delia to run a restaurant for you, you get to set one of the mission objectives yourself! It's a small thing, but I always thought that this was a pretty cool inversion. I don't care about star ratings or customer satisfaction, so let's go for that customer spending goal! ![]() ![]() ![]() So, Wagons Ho! is another monster restaurant with way too much space. Also, I've been to one or two American steakhouses, but I don't remember the incredibly shiny reflective brown tile floors. I'll do a basic setup for the restaurant for now, then delegate the decoration to the wisdom of the thread. ![]() There we go. The gnarliest possible Restoration Hardware distressed wood tables, cow skulls everywhere and a wallpaper that looks like we're in the Hell dimension from Silent Hill. ![]() I haven't shown off the recipes we got from Bruce "Big Red" Allen yet. They were peaches with shortcake topping, tuna steaks with tapenade and crunchy chicken cutlets. Above is the first one, the peaches with shortcake topping. This is a good quality dessert with an acceptable profit margin. It's not good enough for competition use, but it's excellent for use on our restaurant menus. A good recipe. ![]() Tuna steaks with tapenade. The rating isn't very impressive, but look at that sexy gross margin! With a default price of $18.20 and a cost to make of $1.87, this thing is 89.7% profit! I don't know if this goes in the oven. If it does, it's a pretty pointless recipe, but if it's quick to cook, then man is this a moneymaker! A good recipe. ![]() The crunchy chicken cutlets. No thanks. They're low quality and have a poor profit margin, but since Bruce's other two recipes were pretty good I'll give him a pass. Bad recipe. ![]() Now that Wagons Ho! is up and running, I go and check up on Gentille Alouette. The restaurant is well-regarded, having earned a four-star rating, and its monthly profit is a modest $30,000 a month. Big props to lofi whose design I used for this beautiful menu cover! ![]() A customer calls me back to La Cosa Nostra to sell me a secret recipe ingredient. I decide to quickly pay him off, then flee the restaurant before any of the Corleones notice I'm here. ![]() Shortly after, a customer at Wagons Ho! sells me a new recipe. It's terrible. 39% quality isn't even good for the beginning of the game. A bad recipe. ![]() As if on cue, another guest brings me another recipe. At least this one SOUNDS nice, even though in game terms it's completely useless. Mediocre recipe. ![]() And another one. Is this some devious OmniFood plot to bankrupt our restaurants? Buy a stack of cookbooks, then sell me the recipes one after the other for ~$20,000 a pop? Bad recipe. ![]() Armand, NO! You CANNOT cook fish in the microwave! I'm not even going to allow you to do that! A don't-even-try-it recipe. ![]() At the end of the month, we haven't met the objectives yet. Wagons Ho! made a loss of $2,627 for the month. However, this includes a $20,000 liquor license and $50,000 in staff training, so actually, things are going great. Once I'm satisfied with the staff's skill, I can just stop the training and win the mission. ![]() Before I do that, though, there's also a new cooking contest. It's the same premise as the previous contest, except you're only allowed to bring two chefs. ![]() Mario Corleone is our heavy hitter, so he'll obviously be attending. Armand's bulletproof apron is against regulations, so just for fun I send Delia in his place. ![]() Mario is crushing it, and since we're well-ahead after the second round, I actually let Delia cook in the American round, where she makes a stuffed spider crab. ![]() We win! ![]() Oh what the gently caress she doesn't even get to do the dance, her animation is to just bashfully wave! Explain yourselves, Enlight Software! ![]() We win this bad recipe. That's no good, let's try again! ![]() Oh my goodness, ONE chef has to cook both French, Italian and American? But how could we ever find… ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the second recipe we get is also a bad recipe. Oh well. ![]() And with that, the mission's won! Next time, we'll be getting yet another new restaurant and maybe meeting some new chefs. But for now, our new restaurant needs a makeover! ![]() Thread poll: what décor should we have in Wagons Ho! Vote on wall, floor and table design. For example, to vote for wall type C, floor type D and table type B, vote "CDB". The winning combination will be whatever has the most votes when I play the next mission. ![]() The wall decoration options for steakhouses are pretty predictable. Saddle, lasso, cowboy hat, cow skull, you know the deal. There are also a lot of black and white Wild West photographs that we can edit if anyone is feeling creative. ![]() The floor decoration options are pretty paltry and mostly Indian-themed. Some handwoven rugs, a tipi, a canoe and… is that a loving corn-on-the-cob column?? ![]() It is. Wow. I'm not even trying to push for this, I'm just baffled. Anyway, let me know in the thread if you have any good ideas for the decoration! Otherwise, I'll just keep covering the walls in skulls. ![]() Here's the tiny, tiny texture file for the Steakhouse photos. Post an edit in the thread if you have any ideas for good posters or paintings! Enchanted Hat fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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I don't even care what it'll end up looking like, but again - EDF! EDF! And uh... How can we manage an American restaurant when we don't know how to make burgers? In fact... we don't even have a steak recipe for this steakhouse???
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Of course you only hire a woman chef for "equal opportunity" reasons. Sheesh. BFF for the interior. I like what you had going with the cow skulls, and we definitely need to involve those corn columns somehow.
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Let's go with the wood paneling and brick floor...and I don't really care about the tables, so I'll just take D. BAD.
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CFF
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Let's go with the wood paneling and brick floor...and I don't really care about the tables, so I'll just take D. BAD. I'm down with this.
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A 256*256 png, that's harsh.![]()
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Let's go with the wood paneling and brick floor...and I don't really care about the tables, so I'll just take D. BAD. ![]()
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This is about where I finally quit, this or the next mission. Having his ailing uncle play grocery man after at least a 10 hour flight had strained my suspension of belief too much. Didn't even catch the anti-GMO nonsense.
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cugel posted:A 256*256 png, that's harsh. Yeah, they developers were really, excessively stingy about the painting textures for some reason. Each individual image is like 50x50, it's crazy. Robindaybird posted:This is about where I finally quit, this or the next mission. Having his ailing uncle play grocery man after at least a 10 hour flight had strained my suspension of belief too much. I have no problem at all believing it, it seems like exactly the kind of thing Armand would expect his poor old uncle to do for him.
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I mean, being a massive exploitative dick is refreshing honesty in a game based around building a business empire.
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Did you miss the bit where he told his uncle "Yeah I gotta hire a female chef for diversity reasons, but no worries I have just the hottie in mind."? Armand is not the best of people.
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Let's go CFF. And we definitely need lots of corncob columns. Also, let's put the lemon and herb fish on the menu in our steakhouse. Then we just invite Gordon Ramsay in, have him explode on camera when he finds out we're microwaving it, and boom! Free marketing!
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Microwave fish dinner, what an amazing aroma for our steakhouse restaurant that would create. We should force it back onto the menu just to punish everyone for making such an awful suggestion. Going to have to go with the BAD vote, too. Nothing says class like parquet flooring. Also, I swear when I was a kid we had some family friends who's basement looked almost exactly like this - sans all the tables. They also had at least one wagon wheel hanging on the wall. And a wooden cable spool table. It hadn't been redecorated since the 70's.
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quote:We're microwaving whole skin-on, bone-in fish. In a steakhouse. Three of them, in fact, but only enough to total 113.5 grams of fish somehow. Is there a white fish small enough for that? Did the developers ever cook a meal in their lives? Put it on the menu
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Enchanted Hat posted:
The reason it's so cheap to make is that the "steaks" weigh a lousy 50 grams! Indeed, there seems to be hardly anything to this recipe; 5 grams each of olive and capers, 20% of a lemon, some garlic, 7.5mL of olive oil, a quarter-onion, and the aforementioned 50g tuna. I have to think that the actual dish involved multiple tiny steaks, or something; the proportions don't seem that awful but the portion size is terrible.
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Aesculus posted:We're microwaving whole skin-on, bone-in fish. In a steakhouse. Three of them, in fact, but only enough to total 113.5 grams of fish somehow. I get the feeling they subsisted entirely off of fast food and cup ramen.
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Aesculus posted:We're microwaving whole skin-on, bone-in fish. In a steakhouse. Three of them, in fact, but only enough to total 113.5 grams of fish somehow. 113.5 grams is four ounces. Basically a single portion that would take maybe 3 bites to eat.
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Microwaved sardines in lemon sauce, sounds delish!
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All MUST BE CORN Also starting to notice some price irregularities, Snow pea salad comes with ~FREE~ Brown sugar for example. SergZpartan fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The reason it's so cheap to make is that the "steaks" weigh a lousy 50 grams! Indeed, there seems to be hardly anything to this recipe; 5 grams each of olive and capers, 20% of a lemon, some garlic, 7.5mL of olive oil, a quarter-onion, and the aforementioned 50g tuna. I have to think that the actual dish involved multiple tiny steaks, or something; the proportions don't seem that awful but the portion size is terrible. This is Restaurant Empire, you either have illogical proportions or mediocre portions in pretty much every recipe. Also ignored in the wake of the "WTF"??? microwaving fish recipe. (which I was waiting for this thread to encounter because of just how disgusting that is) YOU DON'T loving MAKE CHICKEN CUTLETS IN A FOOD PROCESSOR!!! Seriously that recipe is apparently turning the chicken breast into a paste then making chicken nuggets? and also not frying them no wonder the recipe is so bad. This gets me because chicken cutlets are really easy to make! Get those cheap frozen chicken breasts, thaw them out and pound them flat. season them coat them with some salt, get some breading i like using panko and making like a chicken katsu, and then just pan fry them in a skillet. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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Jack2142 posted:Seriously that recipe is apparently turning the chicken breast into a paste then making chicken nuggets? It's the most authentic national cuisine so far. ![]() SergZpartan posted:All MUST BE CORN Was it not said that this restaurant is oversized? Regardless, I know in my heart of hearts that what it needs is a MAIZE MAZE
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![]() Armand may not know much about America or its cuisine, but he knows that they love football. Also, seconding maximum corn. On the menu and for the decor.
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![]() An all-American classic. Is he crying at our restaurant's menu, or at our decor/theming? Also, is it just me or does that canoe look kind of like a coffin?
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I'd like to request to make the decor as Canadian as possible. That is all.
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We gotta change one of those pictures to The Man With No Name. Or Mr. Ernest from "Hey Dude." Or one of the player characters from Sunset Riders.
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Ibblebibble posted:I'd like to request to make the decor as Canadian as possible. That is all. You gotta help me here, man, I know next to nothing about Canada. Oh, and add some Canadian culture to the texture file! Snorb posted:We gotta change one of those pictures to The Man With No Name. Get on it! You have MS Paint on your computer.
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Snorb posted:We gotta change one of those pictures to The Man With No Name. holy poo poo I had completely forgotten "Hey Dude" existed
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Let's go with the wood paneling and brick floor...and I don't really care about the tables, so I'll just take D. BAD. This and also lots of maize columbs and tents to simulate being lost in a cornfield.
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I wish there were wagon decorations so that we could make an Oregon Trail diorama. Maize maze is a good alternative though. Also, “Wagon, Ho!” is a terrifically terrible name for a restaurant. Out of curiosity, is it possible to modify the floor decoration rug textures?
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Nondevor posted:I wish there were wagon decorations so that we could make an Oregon Trail diorama. Maize maze is a good alternative though. Also, “Wagon, Ho!” is a terrifically terrible name for a restaurant. Oh sure, I'm pretty sure every texture can be modified. ![]() ![]()
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If you're going corn, might as well brighten the kernel texture to a nice bright yellow to make it more obviously so at first glance.
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Let's low rent steakhouse this place up! BFC Create a MAIZE MAZE for the kids, leading to a not at all culturally appropriated tipi. Also, can someone turn this into an image on the walls? ![]() eta: also, I feel like this should be our exterior.. ![]() habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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Look, I made my reasonable offer, I was told "I had MS Paint on my computer," I complied!![]() A cheesy show from the 1980s posted:YIPPIE KAI-YAI-YAY
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To really simulate being in a cornfield, I figured we needed some better flooring besides plain ol' wood for the maize maze.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just place a bunch of grass and/or dirt carpets between the corn kernel pillars as needed.
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Too bad you can't put whiskey (or is it bourbon?) barrels in there to make it more authentic. Whiskey/bourbon is made from corn, right?
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 16:07 |
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Nondevor posted:To really simulate being in a cornfield, I figured we needed some better flooring besides plain ol' wood for the maize maze. I'm really getting tired of these loss edits
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