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This game is like a fever dream.Enchanted Hat posted:
I'd say you haven't gone far enough. There should be rooftop seating and a plank for bad tippers.
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So did Armand’s uncle never fly off to Los Angeles? He seems to be relaxing just fine in Paris. I guess Delia returned to the grocery store too quickly for Armand to make flight arrangements.![]() Also, I just noticed the ![]() In terms of other texture edits, I do enjoy the pirate sea turtle in Hope and Anchor. Still great that barely anything had to be modded for that one!
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Nondevor posted:So did Armand’s uncle never fly off to Los Angeles? He seems to be relaxing just fine in Paris. I guess Delia returned to the grocery store too quickly for Armand to make flight arrangements.
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Dire Chinchilla posted:It'd be cheesy but kinda cute if he chose a dessert for that stunt. "I named my crepes after you because, much like a pound of cinnamon, I choke and cough every time you get in my mouth."
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Nondevor posted:So did Armand’s uncle never fly off to Los Angeles? He seems to be relaxing just fine in Paris. I guess Delia returned to the grocery store too quickly for Armand to make flight arrangements. He did run it for that one mission, there's just really no reason to go to the shop if you've already bought all the ingredients (and he doesn't say anything funny). ![]() Nondevor posted:
Added that just before the last mission, just a little easter egg!
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Haifisch posted: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. It will go well with the pile of cinnamon with a hint of crepe dish. Too much flavor and too little flavor should cancel out.
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Just caught up with the lp, and it’s been a great ride so far. One thing that stuck out was Tyrone said he lost his reputation because the critic hated his spicy food, only for Secundo to insist (and love) our same recipe. Maybe he thinks we still work for the Don.
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Kitala posted:Just caught up with the lp, and it’s been a great ride so far. One thing that stuck out was Tyrone said he lost his reputation because the critic hated his spicy food, only for Secundo to insist (and love) our same recipe. Maybe he thinks we still work for the Don. Maybe it's racism.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Maybe it's racism. Most likely. I was giving Secundo, supposed man of integrity, too much credit.
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Episode 13: There is no spoon![]() ![]() YOU CAN NOW ENTER THE FRENCH NATIONALS! ![]() ![]() ![]() Another cooking contest? All right, why not. This is a four-round French cooking contest for two chefs. It seems a little pointless to let us bring two chefs if we're only cooking from one cuisine, but it's actually a good idea to specialise your chefs. In Wagons Ho!, for example, Tyrone Simpson is responsible for all the appetizers while Bruce Allen cooks the soups and desserts. That way, they'll get cooking XP in their respective recipes twice as fast, increasing dish quality. However, we've had Armand for so long that he's pretty much maximally experienced in all French recipes that matter, so we don't really need a second chef. ![]() We get very few customers at the Hope and Anchor, so I've brought Blood-in-his-veins Mazowski to Paris to observe the competition. I notice that he's actually competent at making stuffed spider crab, so maybe we'll even let him cook something. ![]() Nah. Armand has those really good ingredients that I've been buying from Dmitri, Delia and various other people, so he'll be the one doing all the cooking here. I don't know if there's a way to share those ingredients with your other chefs, but even if there were, ![]() ![]() We're clearly nearing the endgame. Armand's score of 95 is only five points from 100, which is the absolute maximum recipe quality. If we could get our hands on a recipe that'll let us score 100, we should be guaranteed to win every cooking contest. ![]() We're not going to get there with a soup, but the cream of red bell pepper soup should be OK here. This is the only one of our starting recipes that I'm still using for contests, mostly because our French soup repertoire is awful. ![]() We're still comfortably ahead. This game's pretty easy when you don't have to deal with your terrible customers. ![]() We follow the spider crab and the red pepper soup with a nice beef daube. ![]() At this point, because you can get a maximum of 100 points for your dish, it's pretty much impossible for us to lose. ![]() I was going to go with the cinnamon à la crepe in the final round for old times' sake, but I had forgotten that the contest forces you to make this fruit gratin. Way to try to spoil my fun, Restaurant Empire. ![]() ![]() We win the French nationals! I'unno, didn't we just recently win an international cooking competition? This feels like going down a step. ![]() But we also win the Lobster ![]() ![]() I go back to win the contest again. Thanks to all his hard work, Stan Mazowski is now the fourth-greatest chef in the world! And Armand is number five, I guess. Whatever. ![]() The second win got us the recipe for duck with coriander. Duck with 2.5 grams of coriander seed, to be more specific. This honestly feels like false advertising. This is duck with apple with a slight impurity of coriander seed! And chicken broth, for some reason. Similarly to the lobster Thermidor, it's got a mediocre quality and a good profit margin, so I guess this is a fairly good recipe. Shortly after, I get called back to the kitchen of Treize à Table by a mysterious figure with a mysterious beard. ![]() "OmniFood are definitely cheating. We have no evidence whatsoever, but we know for a fact that they're cheating, because they're winning and we hate them!!!" ![]() Wow. This sounds important. I'd better go with Morpheus right away, and not spend a couple of months stalling in case I get offered some more recipes. It sure is a shame they can't get any evidence of OmniFood's wrongdoing. Imagine the fallout if people discovered that OmniFood has developed their own super-ingredients which allow you to make incomparably delicious food that you can't buy anywhere other than OmniFood restaurants. Their franchise would be doomed! ![]() I bought this new French/American recipe for $50,000. It's really high quality, though its profitability is pretty poor. Still, though, very good recipe. Although I'm disappointed they didn't use the foot-long langoustine model from the langoustine crepes recipe. ![]() This recipe was also just over $50,000. Our customers are getting REALLY greedy lately! Still, this is another recipe with excellent quality and poor profitability. I'll make low-quality versions of both of these recipes and add them to the menu. After the first month, I stop getting new offers from our customers, so I head over to Uncle Michel's house. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm a little uncomfortable with this conversation. They can't even politely pretend that Delia is anything other than decoration? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() YOU START PACKING FOR THE JOURNEY. FORTUNATELY, DELIA AND MICHEL WILL HELP OVERSEE YOUR OPERATIONS WHILE YOU'RE GONE. DELIA WILL START WORKING IN YOUR RESTAURANT! WHILE UNCLE WILL TAKE HER PLACE AT THE MARKET. ![]() Oh, now Delia is back? Then why didn't you just have her stay in the restaurant when she joined the first time! Sometimes this game just mystifies me. ![]() Oh well. The rest of the month passed uneventfully. I normally don't show off the end-of-month P&Ls, but the Hope and Anchor somehow managed to make a profit of precisely $1. Mazowski!!! ![]() Next mission, we'll be following the adventures of Delia Delecoeur as she runs our restaurant empire! Hopefully she'll do a great job and not immediately screw it up.
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You know for all this talk of omnifood being EVIL I’m surprised there hasn’t been any direct antagonism from them
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Enchanted Hat posted:
Well, it's so cheap because it clearly isn't a lobster. That's a shrimp or prawn.
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113 grams is around 1/4 lbs. Or the size of a lobster tail. Considering the weight and price, this is clearly a prawn with delusions of grandeur.
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Zurai posted:Well, it's so cheap because it clearly isn't a lobster. That's a shrimp or prawn. Maybe it's a langoustine
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Enchanted Hat posted:
The one person who will not put up with Armand's poo poo or the nicknaming nonsense. ![]()
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I hate the way Armand stands. I want to slap the poo poo out of him.
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Aesculus posted:The one person who will not put up with Armand's poo poo or the nicknaming nonsense. That's the best exchange in the game so far.
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eating only apples posted:Maybe it's a langoustine It's cheap because there's more loving onion in this dish than actual lobster. Seriously. One yellow onion weighs in at ~4 ounces when unprepared. So the 2 onions weigh in at ~8 ounces, or 226g in total. There is twice as much onion in this than lobster for what the dish is named after. What kind of con job is Armand running here and why does he keep getting away with it? Psychotic Weasel fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Aug 4, 2018 |
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Can we get the menus of the various restaurants when you have a moment, EH? I want to ruin your profitability some in the name of THEMING.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:It's cheap because there's more loving onion in this dish than actual lobster. I like onions
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I like onions, too. But not an entire plate of them; especially when I order something that isn't centered around onions. Armand could be serving people couch foam in an empty lobster shell and you'd never taste the difference. Maybe that's why it's so cheap?
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I think I get what bugs me about RE: any other tycoon game and Armand's the villain, for all the talk of Omnifoods being bad, they're a nonentity, while Armand has: -Getting cozy with the mob -Use mob connections to make a critic give a favorable review -Going to other places and poaching chefs (not illegal, but frowned upon) -Cutting out said mob in a deal with a company apparently doing some shady financing. And it's more due to the weirdass way they made recipes, but possibly fraud and deceptive advertising. Like this is the rise of a villain.
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Not to mention serving up $0.23/100g imitation 'lobster' in his lobster thermidor! I'm feeling more sympathetic towards the evil GM megacorps with every update!
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Don't forget that even Michel and the Don admit that Omnifood has good, cheap food cooked by chefs who have talent and passion. That's more than you can say for Armand, who hires chefs who have blood in their veins and serves the cheapest, shittiest, quality 0.5 stars food to his customers.
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Aesculus posted:Don't forget that even Michel and the Don admit that Omnifood has good, cheap food cooked by chefs who have talent and passion. That's more than you can say for Armand, who hires chefs who have blood in their veins and serves the cheapest, shittiest, quality 0.5 stars food to his customers. Oh yeah, I don't think there's any question that we're the bad guys. But we're the bad guys who are going to win!
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habeasdorkus posted:Can we get the menus of the various restaurants when you have a moment, EH? I want to ruin your profitability some in the name of THEMING. Sure, here it is! It's a pretty long list, so I made it a link: https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=151739 Treize à Table's menu is weird because I've been adjusting it to make sure Armand keeps getting cooking XP from cooking new recipes. All the other menus are based on thread requests plus some recipes that I just think are really good. Our recipes should be linked in the OP, let me know if any of you want me to add any recipes to the restaurants. I generally won't remove recipes from the menu, though, because they might have been previous thread requests, and I need at least a few good recipes to be able to beat the missions!
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I really hope that we see more of Spice T. as the game progresses. He's got a Superfly Johnson quality that I'd hate to see wasted.Psychotic Weasel posted:It's cheap because there's more loving onion in this dish than actual lobster. He can't keep getting away with it
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Zurai posted:Well, it's so cheap because it clearly isn't a lobster. That's a shrimp or prawn.
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Whybird posted:Maybe he thinks that Armand is a vampire. It would explain his complete ignorance of food.
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These recipes remind me of those neural network generated recipes that were made a while back. Actually, this whole game feels like it was made by a computer observing human interactions and trying to understand this thing they call "food".
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A world run by AIs is a lot more terrifying than I thought it would be... https://twitter.com/superdeluxe/status/883761791125209088 ![]()
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Episode 14: No, strip mine our customers HARDER![]() Isn't it a little early for Delia to be calling him "uncle Michel"? ![]() I can't believe that the game is still making me sit through these long tutorials. We're getting near the end of the game! Michel really wants Delia to go to Wagons Ho! for some reason, so I transfer her there. Stan Mazowski is our most celebrated chef, so I send him to take care of Treize à Table in Armand's absence. ![]() Set lunches and dinners are pretty useful. A lot of our lunch guests don't go for a full four-course meal with appetizer, soup, main course and dessert, but if we offer them a package deal with a small discount they're more likely to go for it. The lunch pictured above would normally be sold for $79, but I'm offering it for only $74.80 (the game wouldn't let me set it to $74.99). I'm normally loath to give any discounts at all, but with an ingredient cost of $20.07, $74.80 in revenue is acceptable, I guess. For dinner, guests typically do order a full meal, so set dinners are slightly less useful, but it's a way to encourage guests to order high-margin recipes that are quick to cook. This means I can use the set dinner to try to steer guests away from any terrible dishes that I've been asked to put on the menu! I've added similarly exploitative set menus to the other restaurant. ![]() A customer sells me the recipe for steamed clams with wine for $55,000. Pretty good quality, although the profit margin is poor, but we can just reduce the ingredient costs by buying cheap, expired clams. A pretty good recipe. ![]() Shortly after, I get a pop-up telling me that a ~dapper chef~ is approaching! ![]() DELIA HAS HIRED DAPPER CHEF SERGIO. I'm normally against hiring these useless chefs with no skills or experience, but I very much like this intriguing "no salary" arrangement. Is that a thing in the culinary world? Being hired to work "for exposure"? Because I must say, I'm a fan! DELIA HAS GIVEN SERGIO SEVERAL RECIPES FROM ARMAND'S RESTAURANTS FOR HIS LEARNING KNOWLEDGE. IT SEEMS THAT DELIA HAS HIRED A VERY WILLING CHEF. HOPEFULLY HE WILL LIVE UP TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS! ![]() The rest of the day passes uneventfully, but the next day, Sergio mysteriously disappears. Those damned fickle millennials! Doesn't he realise what a great opportunity it is to work for free in our restaurant? ![]() A very mysterious and short mission. Next mission, we'll be getting our final restaurant, which is also by far the stupidest restaurant in the game!
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Enchanted Hat posted:A customer sells me the recipe for steamed clams with wine for $55,000. Pretty good quality, although the profit margin is poor, but we can just reduce the ingredient costs by buying cheap, expired clams. A pretty good recipe. I think this restaurant could have made much better use of a steamed hams recipe.
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Next time: Omnifood Corp mysteriously shuts down after using a bunch of stolen recipies, unaware that stuff like putting a pound of cinnamon in a dish was just there to catch people stealing the recipe.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I think this restaurant could have made much better use of a steamed hams recipe. Yeah, it does seem a little odd to have a steakhouse without a recipe for steamed hams. Hopefully we can buy the recipe off a customer before restaurant critic Chalmers arrives.
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Poor Delia, Armand hires every random he encounters, but the moment she does the same thing, things immediately go wrong.Enchanted Hat posted:A very mysterious and short mission. Next mission, we'll be getting our final restaurant, which is also by far the stupidest restaurant in the game! I think you meant "by far the raddest restaurant in the game" ![]() Fun fact: if you offer your customer their favorite dish after they ordered a lunch set or a dinner set, they might agree, but they won't pay for it ![]()
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Do you have to hire Shady Sergio?
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I'm 90% sure that Sergio didn't quit because he was stealing recipes for OmniFood or anything but because he realized he wasn't being paid anything and stuck microwaving sardines and pouring cinnamon onto a crepe and just noped outta there. Speaking of microwave fish, where is it on the Hope and Anchor's menu? ![]()
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eating only apples posted:Do you have to hire Shady Sergio? You think this game allows the player to make meaningful choices? C'mon man. You're forced to hire him no matter what. Aesculus posted:I'm 90% sure that Sergio didn't quit because he was stealing recipes for OmniFood or anything but because he realized he wasn't being paid anything and stuck microwaving sardines and pouring cinnamon onto a crepe and just noped outta there. I just checked my last save, and it's on there, so I must have missed it when writing down the menu! Here's the actual Hope and Anchor menu: Breakfast Baked eggs with cheese Cinnamon streusel buns Appetizers Stuffed spider crab Prawns with fried snow peas Poached salmon with truffles and shrimp Artichoke crepes with langoustines Soups Spicy tomato and corn soup Creamy potato soup Main courses Lemon and herb fish Louisiana deviled crab cakes Fish burgers with spicy sauce Tuna steaks with tapenade Macaroni and cheese with tomatoes Crispy lamb chops with almond Desserts Mango fans with vanilla ice-cream Seafood quiche Peaches with shortcake topping Guilt free cappuccino sundae
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