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The sugar is caramelized and burnt though, and they call it "basque glaze"
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^ Better than my idea. Mmm, nothing like a Basque Glaze.
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We'll be fine so long as we get the customers so drunk that the decor freaks them out.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:The sugar is caramelized and burnt though, and they call it "basque glaze" You have to burn the sugar after applying it to the prawns so you get that charred flavor that people still think is a good thing.
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paragon1 posted:We'll be fine so long as we get the customers so drunk that the decor freaks them out. I'm surprised Gordon Ramsay never spent much time talking about getting your guests wicked drunk on Kitchen Nightmares. If this game has taught me anything, its that selling your guests as much alcohol as possible is the surest way to a successful, profitable restaurant.
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I'm honestly surprised that a professional chef who has never seen this game before has not been presented with these 'recipes' and his reaction to this absurdity recorded to put on youtube.
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Pharohman777 posted:I'm honestly surprised that a professional chef who has never seen this game before has not been presented with these 'recipes' and his reaction to this absurdity recorded to put on youtube. probably because this game is really obscure,
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Pharohman777 posted:I'm honestly surprised that a professional chef who has never seen this game before has not been presented with these 'recipes' and his reaction to this absurdity recorded to put on youtube. I've been collecting them, and I'm planning to cook them all in my restaurant
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:I've been collecting them, and I'm planning to cook them all in my restaurant But are you recording our hot interior decoration tips?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:But are you recording our hot interior decoration tips? This game's decoration pallet is actually based on my restaurant so
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:I've been collecting them, and I'm planning to cook them all in my restaurant Judging by the going rate, you probably owe the op a couple hundred thousand dollars by now
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:I've been collecting them, and I'm planning to cook them all in my restaurant A man flying Southwest Airlines on an important business trip to Idaho stops in the restaurant before dawn and asks for whatever's quickest for breakfast. He's given a plate with half of an egg over easy, a small pyramid of cinnamon, and five cloves.
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chitoryu12 posted:A man flying Southwest Airlines on an important business trip to Idaho stops in the restaurant before dawn and asks for whatever's quickest for breakfast. The punchline is that the egg was cooked in the microwave for 12 seconds, and only then after did the cook prepare the cinnamon and cloves.
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He asks for dessert, figuring there's no way to gently caress that up, and gets a seafood quiche for his trouble.
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We don't have a microwave, furthermore
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:We don't have a microwave, furthermore ![]()
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Enchanted Hat posted:I'm surprised Gordon Ramsay never spent much time talking about getting your guests wicked drunk on Kitchen Nightmares. If this game has taught me anything, its that selling your guests as much alcohol as possible is the surest way to a successful, profitable restaurant. as a professional, gordon ramsay knows the difference between a restaurant and a bar
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luxury handset posted:as a professional, gordon ramsay knows the difference between a restaurant and a bar What is the difference? ![]()
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Enchanted Hat posted:What is the difference? One focuses on food, the other on drink. Either one can have the other included. A restaurant with a bar, or a bar that serves food.
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But what about gastropubs? ![]()
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habeasdorkus posted:But what about gastropubs? whether you're loading up on food or drink, you're paying 1.8x
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habeasdorkus posted:But what about gastropubs? A restaurant serves food. A bar serves drink. A gastropub serves hipsters.
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Need to get Jon Taffer in here
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And, caught up! @Enchanted Hat: Thanks for this LP! I'm really enjoying it!! I played RE1 as a kid, and while I didn't have an understanding of finance and profit maximization to purposefully trim and adjust those menus the way you do, I did beat the game eventually (and boy was it a rather abrupt ending). Will be voting along, and please, do RE2 once this one is complete! I haven't played the sequel! ***** e: Vote: DBE For decor, we need a ship's wheel at every table to match the children's disposable paper place mats (complete with maze and matching the sea-life game); every guest is the Captain of their food experience!!! Also, line the entrance with a double column of dolphins, so that everyone will feel like they're Neptune themselves when the enter the premises, and, every inch of floor space needs to be covered in the aquarium carpet. Also Also, Sea Turtles, Mate. CourValant fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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this is pretty great, i'm looking forward to seeing what other insane quantities of ingredients get put into food in this restaurant chain
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Episode 12: My, my! At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, finally we have an actually important mission objective: getting Armand laid. Now, if I know anything about women, it's that the way to win a woman's heart is with an impressive, meticulously planned and slightly obsessive public stunt. On no account should you actually talk to her or ask her out or anything like that. We'll get to Delia in a minute. But first, let's check out the renovated Hope & Anchor! ![]() At the bottom of a dark and deep ocean trench, the Goonship sails in search of treasure and delicious entrées! Sailing all alone with only the company of frolicking dolphins and vicious shark rugs, will our guests find what they're looking for, or will they be trapped forever in Davy Jones' locker? ![]() There were a lot of requests for this restaurant, and I've done my best to incorporate as many of them as possible. The wall and floors were the biggest problem, as the only thing people could agree on was that we needed to keep those awesome fish tables. In the end, I had to pick between the three most popular options at random, ending up with the DEE décor. ![]() And yes, I even added the disgusting microwaved lemon and herb fish. ![]() Now, before we get on with our objectives, Dick wants to see us in Treize à Table about some business objectives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() YOU SHOULD TRY THE COOKING CONTEST IN LOS ANGELES AND SEE HOW YOU STACK UP AGAINST THE COMPETITION. ![]() ![]() I can't make heads or tails of this company. We're listed on the stock market, but we're raising money from venture capital investors? What do we even need the VC funding for? ![]() MR. STEELE GIVES YOU THE ADDRESS OF ROBERT CALLORAN, OWNER OF THE HYDRO SHOP. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The game cleverly sneaks in a bit of mandatory, unskippable tutorial here – I'm trapped in this conversation! I've written out the rest of the conversation, but just skip the rest of it – there's nothing funny in it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally. So, Richard gives us an additional objective, and it's a really annoying one. We have to get five customers to leave Wagons Ho! and the Hope and Anchor with 100% customer satisfaction. I've pulled up a customer's details in the screenshot above. At the top left, there's a little icon with of a smiley face in front of one of those bell-shaped food coverings you sometimes see in old cartoons (apparently called a "cloche"). If you click that, you have the option of offering to cook the customer's favourite food, even if it's not normally on the menu. This is the only way to 100% satisfy a customer – if you don't do this, satisfaction is capped at 99%. This is a pain in the rear end, because: 1. You need to personally micromanage every single customer you want to 100% satisfy. 2. Usually you can't even offer the customer's favourite food because you don't have the recipe, so you need to wait to find eligible customers. 3. You can only offer to cook the favourite food right after the customer has entered the restaurant. If the customer has already ordered, he will refuse your offer to cook his favourite meal because he already has enough food. 4. Even if you offer a customer's favourite food, you still need to reach 100% satisfaction normally by serving food far in excess of his expectations. If your food isn't good enough, you won't get 100% satisfaction. 5. If a recipe isn't normally on your menu, your chefs will probably be bad at cooking it, making it harder to reach 100% satisfaction. This is especially a problem if the favourite food is a dessert, because a bad dessert can drag the customer down from 100% satisfaction. 6. If you offer to cook a customer's favourite food, it will be automatically added to the menu for everyone, so you have to keep going back to the menu and remove the recipes from the menu after they've been served. In short, this objective sucks. ![]() It pains me to do so, but in order to make it easier to get those 100% satisfied customers, I offer a 50% discount on the entire menu at Wagons Ho! and the Hope and Anchor, which should lower our customers' quality expectations. Ugh. To think it would come to this. ![]() Armand deals with stress by spending money, so I buy another recipe. Neither the quality nor the profit margin is terribly impressive, but it's not that bad. Despite the recipe being grilled lamb chops, it doesn't actually go on the grill, which is convenient. It's a thoroughly mediocre recipe. Also worth noting on this picture: the 100% satisfied customer counter in the top right showing zero out of five totally satisfied customers. It's going to be a long day. ![]() Here's a customer I missed while I was dealing with something in one of the other restaurants. She has ordered her favourite food, she's been impressed by the food quality relative to her expectations, but her satisfaction is capped at 99.00, because I didn't personally offer her her favourite food. ![]() ![]() One of our guests at Wagons Ho! is a chef who is looking for a job. We're doing OK on chefs, but I noticed that he's a Corleone. I hire him and put him in one of our American restaurants to keep him far away from Armand. ![]() I buy another recipe, the almond cookies. I think this is the lowest baseline recipe profit I've ever seen in this game, only $1.46. Disgusting. A bad recipe. ![]() After a lot of micromanagement, I manage to get five satisfied customers at Wagons Ho! and the Hope and Anchor by lunchtime on the second month. I immediately cancel the 50% discount and clean up their menus. After you get the five satisfied customers, the game updates the counter in the top right with an optional challenge to get eight additional 100% satisfied customers. Yeah. I'll get RIGHT on that. Now we just need a recipe to impress Delia and win the cooking competition. Before that, let's check out that hydroponic herb shop that Richard mentioned. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Dabbled with some genetics"? The only moral GMO is my GMO. But now let's get down to business and ask him the important question: YOU SHOW THE FISH WELLINGTON TO ROBERT. ![]() ![]() ![]() ROBERT INFORMS YOU ABOUT THE *HEALTHY* INGREDIENTS – NOW YOU HAVE A COMPLETELY NUTRITIOUS, HEALTHY AND DELIA-FRIENDLY FISH WELLINGTON! ![]() GOT THAT WRITTEN DOWN, ARMAND? YOU DON'T WANT TO ADD IN THE WRONG INGREDIENTS… Man, the narrator's gotten really sassy. Also we do totally forget two of the three ingredients that Robert suggested; Armand's an idiot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "What is this 'tofu' and 'stir-fry' of which you speak?" – a culinary school honors student. Anyway, we followed Robert's advice and added 0.08 tablespoons of paprika to our fish wellington. Let's hope it's not too spicy for the cooking competition judges! We forgot the bay leaves and coriander seeds, though. Hopefully that won't leave too many of those "cellulose-inducing enzymes" in our fish Wellington – we wouldn't want Delia to catch cellulose from our special dish! ![]() Here we are yet again at the Los Angeles cooking contest. One round, Fish Wellington only. I'm not sure how the judges will feel about us making up our own recipe, but since the only difference is 0.06 tablespoons of paprika, they'll probably let it slide. ![]() Slight problem: Armand's not actually very good at cooking fish Wellington. I'll give it a try, and if we lose, I'll have to have Armand practice the dish at Treize à Table. ![]() Hey, wait a second… this guy is not even cooking fish Wellington! What is this trickery! ![]() Uh… I've never seen this happen. What happens now, do we settle this with pistols? ![]() Oh, it's fine – we're the protagonist, so we win. ![]() We win the recipe for these cute heart-shaped blueberry muffins! Actually, these are higher quality than the fish Wellington. We should just dedicate these to Delia instead! They've got a good rating, but not good enough for competition use. I'm concerned that these will probably go in the oven, so in game mechanics terms, it's probably a mediocre recipe at best. Now let's go and claim Delia, as is our right as the victors of the cooking contest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Is there any way we can get their models a bit closer? Maybe a tender embrace or something?" "No, sorry, we tried that and got all sorts of clipping errors. This is the best I can do." ![]() ![]() You know, one thing I'll say for Delia, I have to respect her business acumen. ALWAYS Be Closing. ![]() ![]() Well, that's Delia well and truly wooed. To celebrate, let's doll up the Hope and Anchor. ![]() The first one to say I've gone overboard is gonna be walking the plank from my boat-roof! ![]() And with that, we've won another mission! The next mission is going to be a pretty straightforward one. But the final showdown with OmniFood is fast approaching. Enchanted Hat fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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As an American chef, Renato presumably needs a nickname. "The Cleaver" seems... multipurpose. Also, I love that the Fish Wellington was made lighter not by making any substitutions for the breading or sauce, but by adding minuscule amounts of three herbs. MaxieSatan fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Aug 1, 2018 |
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It's strange how every said Omnifood is steamrolling everything in the culinary world but haven't even attempted to stop you as of yet
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No Armand. You are the Omnifood. And then Armand was the CEO of a mega-corporation.
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Would I be too far off base in assuming the final boss rush is a string of oven only cooking challenges? "Tables for 4, ovens only, 80% customers served. Get to it" ![]() Enchanted Hat posted:Here's a customer I missed while I was dealing with something in one of the other restaurants. She has ordered her favourite food, she's been impressed by the food quality relative to her expectations, but her satisfaction is capped at 99.00, because I didn't personally offer her her favourite food.
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Omnifood is going to partner with Corleone who will backstab Armand and kidnap Delia and the only way to save her will be to give the food critic 100% satisfaction, make 100k in one month and win the final cooking competition
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MaxieSatan posted:As an American chef, Renato presumably needs a nickname. "The Cleaver" seems... multipurpose. It looks like it's lighter because it has barely any calories. 3.5 ounces of fish!
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Gorgeous. Now everyone gets to feel like Aquaman when they walk in, complete with a double column dolphin salute!! Also, I'm surprised there weren't more overt 420 jokes with Robert the hydroponics guy.
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I think you'll find that Robert clearly stated that the herbs would break down non-essential fats and cellulose-inducing enzymes. ![]()
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0.08 tbsp of paprika? Armand clearly knows he's operating in a market terrified of actual flavors, and will spread his restaurant dominance into the great plains in no time.
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It'd be cheesy but kinda cute if he chose a dessert for that stunt. ![]() But no, he went with a loving fish. I don't know what he's trying to say here.
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Dire Chinchilla posted:But no, he went with a loving fish. I don't know what he's trying to say here. She's a great catch! ![]()
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Added Space posted:She's a great catch! That's much, much, muuuuuch better than where my mind initially went with that line of thought.
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Oh man, that giant sail is such a bad idea for so many reasons. I loving love it.
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Hey if they're hard up on money, they can turn the sails into billboards
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