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When I saw the box art for this one, I was excited about the spunky female lead we’d have. Alas, it’s an even worse Armand instead. rear end in a top hat who made his girlfriend leave her job to run his restaurant can’t be bothered to make coffee for a week.
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I'm now imagining Armand was killed by Omnifoods and Delia is talking to the giant painting. Because Armand, for all his idiocy, knows drat well how important dumb sidequests for specialty ingredients are.
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Sep 5, 2018 07:33
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Considering how often Armand ran off somewhere and had someone take over for him in the first game, it seems especially mean of him to not even suggest asking his Uncle or someone else they trust for business stuff. Also, since we seem to be focusing more on Delia in this game, I kinda hope, but doubt, that we'll see her aunt and maybe get the old grocery store in our wholesale lineup (though looking back at the first game, her aunt is also named Deila, so that pretty much throws that slim chance right out the window).
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Sep 5, 2018 07:47
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lofi posted:
They force-feed them the coffee to farm it? But I thought the whole rationale behind the poop coffee wasn't the fact that passing through their digestive system made it better? I could've sworn I heard some reasoning like... the wild civets were doing all the intensely detailed manual work to select the best-looking or ripest ones to eat for themselves, so picking the beans out from what they ate was this awesome selection process or something. Is that right? I mean, it would not be surprising in the least if someone noticed that "poop coffee = expensive gimmick" and then proceeded to do this ridiculous process that spoils the whole point for no tangible benefit other than their profit... but goddamn
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Sep 5, 2018 07:48
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...and the civets, I guess.
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Enchanted Hat posted:French breakfast Let's have: Coffee Shop Tea Coffee Shop Food American Soups American Desserts French Desserts
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Sep 5, 2018 10:11
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Bifauxnen posted:I mean, it would not be surprising in the least if someone noticed that "poop coffee = expensive gimmick" and then proceeded to do this ridiculous process that spoils the whole point for no tangible benefit other than their profit... but goddamn  I'm trying very hard not to comment on the story speculation, because seeing it unfold when I played this for the first time was just incredible.
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Sep 5, 2018 10:27
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Does Armand still have his bored Midwesterner voice?
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Sep 5, 2018 11:39
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Coffee shop hot coffee Coffee shop iced coffee Coffee shop food French appetizers French main courses I'd also like to negative vote for breakfasts, breakfasts are awful especially since people in this world have apparently never heard of mimosas, bellinis, or bloody marys. Lastly, holy hell is Armand even worse than last game. Which is impressive, given what a douche canoe you already were, Armand!
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Sep 5, 2018 13:16
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Bifauxnen posted:They force-feed them the coffee to farm it? But I thought the whole rationale behind the poop coffee wasn't the fact that passing through their digestive system made it better? I could've sworn I heard some reasoning like... the wild civets were doing all the intensely detailed manual work to select the best-looking or ripest ones to eat for themselves, so picking the beans out from what they ate was this awesome selection process or something. Is that right? Wikipedia posted:In the coffee industry, kopi luwak is widely regarded as a gimmick or novelty item.[16] The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) states that there is a "general consensus within the industry ... it just tastes bad". A coffee professional cited in the SCAA article was able to compare the same beans with and without the kopi luwak process using a rigorous coffee cupping evaluation. He concluded: "it was apparent that Luwak coffee sold for the story, not superior quality...Using the SCAA cupping scale, the Luwak scored two points below the lowest of the other three coffees. It would appear that the Luwak processing diminishes good acidity and flavor and adds smoothness to the body, which is what many people seem to note as a positive to the coffee.” DariusLikewise posted:Armand is definitely going to try and bang the heiress
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Sep 5, 2018 15:29
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As crazy as that seems, Ive heard the actual story is nearly as bad.
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Sep 5, 2018 15:58
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queserasera posted:Does Armand still have his bored Midwesterner voice? The voice actor they used for Restaurant Empire 1 must have cost them upwards of twenty or even twenty-five dollars to hire, and I guess they just couldn't afford to re-hire him for Restaurant Empire 2, as there are no voiced cutscenes. I like to imagine that the answer is "yes", though.
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Sep 5, 2018 16:56
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Oh man, my local game store actually has a copy of this. Physical media copy........ Talk me outta buying this
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Sep 5, 2018 17:00
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bunnyofdoom posted:Oh man, my local game store actually has a copy of this. Physical media copy........ The Steam version is only like $5 from shady keysites, so unless it's that cheap, it's probably not a good deal? idk, I'm probably a bad person to ask, I think this game's pretty great.
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Sep 5, 2018 17:05
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Did you just try to weasel out of making you gimped? No no no. Besides, we can only imagine the horrors that await. all the breakfasts and the tea
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Sep 5, 2018 17:29
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So can you get at other, non-picture textures? Just... just wondering. No reason. e: 
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Sep 5, 2018 18:10
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WAIT WHAT HOLY poo poo I only just noticed the thread tag! When did that get made?  I can't believe I created such a huge loving thing by not recognising those things as shrimp.Can we get one of our restaurants to serve this? 
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Sep 6, 2018 09:56
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^ The ingredients list is too realistic for that to ever fly.
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Sep 6, 2018 14:10
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lofi posted:So can you get at other, non-picture textures? Just... just wondering. No reason. Yeah, we can edit basically any texture in the entire game! The problem is that most of the textures are wrapped around complex polygons, so if you just replace them with flat textures, it's going to look weird. I also don't want to go too crazy and edit absolutely everything, as I'd like to actually show off the game as it is. What the hell are those little curly things on top?
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Sep 6, 2018 15:52
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Enchanted Hat posted:What the hell are those little curly things on top? Shrimp. They're like langostinos but smaller.
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Sep 6, 2018 15:54
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Enchanted Hat posted:Yeah, we can edit basically any texture in the entire game! The problem is that most of the textures are wrapped around complex polygons, so if you just replace them with flat textures, it's going to look weird. I also don't want to go too crazy and edit absolutely everything, as I'd like to actually show off the game as it is. A small pastry.  Edit: Actually I did genuinely learn one new thing from that whole saga which was that shrimp and prawns are the same thing -- I thought they were two similar but different species of small edible crustacean.
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Sep 6, 2018 16:04
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And they have kings!
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Sep 6, 2018 18:08
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Ah yeah, very happy to see the sequel get a LP; this will be my first time seeing it, so, can't wait to experience the top-flight D-Baggery that's about to go down with Armand. Vote: American appetizers Italian main courses French desserts Coffee shop iced coffee Coffee shop food
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Sep 6, 2018 20:35
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Episode 4: The one that's 90% recipes Sweetie, I'm home! Hey you. How was your trip? Pretty good. Got some good work done so, yeah, overall I'm happy. Did you get what you were after? Uh huh. I was able to set up a contract with this local bean exporter over there. And they've promised a steady shipment of their Kopi Luwak beans to us. And customs? I've spoken to them as well. All's good. I don't think they'll give us much grief. How are the coffee shops? They're fine. Shops practically run themselves. I was thinking on the plane over here that since everything seems to be coming together rather well lately – with the new coffee supply, furniture store and whatnot – I thought this might be the perfect time to set up a third café. What do you think? Well I think at this point, you don't really need to ask for my permission. I wasn't asking for a go-ahead. I just want to know what your thoughts are. I think that… as long as the shops are doing well, then you should do whatever it is you feel is right… …ok… Honey I'm sorry again that I had to dump my responsibilities on you the other day. I didn't really mean to ; it was just that I didn't have much choice at the time and… No, no. It's fine. I'm just glad everything worked out for you. … Well umm, I gotta go… Ok… I'll see you later? Yeah. Bye hon. Well, that was unusually awkward. Here's the new café! It's pretty much the same as our last café. Don't worry, though, the game is going to slow down with the cafés now, and we'll soon get to see some new cool stuff.  This is the default look of our new café, "Delacourt Rodeo". It's far too sensible. Let me see what I can do.  Okay, I was kind of stumped here, there really isn't much you can do with the modern coffee shop decors. I settled on "vaguely sci-fi library".  I kick Armand out of Delacourt Sunset and put Delia back in her post. I also update all our coffee recipes.  I've replaced our four-star Colombian coffee beans from Laurent's import business with the new five-star Kopi Luwak that Delia sourced. Now absolutely all our coffee is made with Kopi Luwak. That sounds awful, but the game disagrees with me, and now all of our coffee recipes have significantly higher quality ratings.  This is fortunate, as our objectives this mission are to raise the "food" (coffee) ratings of Delacourt Sunset and Delacourt Rodeo to 3.0 and 2.8, respectively. The Kopi Luwak should help us a lot in doing that. In addition to that, we also need to record the first episode of Armand's TV show. Also, is there some famous French person named Delacourt that these cafés are named after, or are they seriously trying and failing to spell Delia's last name, Delecoeur? I have no idea.  I looked at the suggestions in the thread, and the five most popular recommendations for recipe research were: - French desserts - American desserts - Coffee shop other drinks - Coffee shop tea - Coffee shop food I interpreted votes for the most profitable coffee shop drinks as votes for "other drinks", as they do tend to have excellent profit margins, and I'm hoping that we'll get a recipe that isn't slow to prepare so I can ditch all the other ones. Speaking of recipes, we got a handful of new recipes when we opened Delacourt Rodeo, which I have included below.       The decaf espresso and iced Americano are really nice, and they'll be even better once we replace the regular coffee beans with Kopi Luwak. The default profit margins are bad, but the really high quality will let us raise our prices, so it should work out pretty well. The orange splash gets an honourable mention for mixing orange juice and milk, which seems like a fantastic idea that absolutely won't result in a disgusting curdled mess.  Now that we've been to Richard's furniture store, our guests will start giving us tips about other furniture wholesalers. At least they'll tell us for free.  This is another new thing introduced in Restaurant Empire 2 to drain your money. Guests will now offer to sell you guidebooks that increase your cooking skill.  While guests in Restaurant Empire 1 would offer to sell you tips on how to prepare specific recipes, this guidebook will increase a chef's skill with every type of coffee shop recipe by 5 percentage points. That's a much better deal, and I'd pretty much always recommend buying these. Delia's our top coffee shop cook/barista, so she gets the bonus.  I buy this ginger cake recipe. Or should I say, this ginger sour cream recipe.  A customer gives me a tip about putting orange wedges and whipped cream in the iced espresso. One the one hand, why? On the other hand, that is 74% recipe quality, I'll happily ruin an iced espresso for that.  Shortly after, I buy this. I have never heard of a "Lamington", but this is by far the worst recipe I've ever seen in this game. And I'm not even sure why! The ingredients are butter, egg, flour, sugar and vanilla, I don't see how you could possibly go wrong with that! It's a mystery.  The month ends, and we're not quite there yet with the quality. Our recipes are quite good at this point, but the barista at Delacourt Rodeo is brand new, so she'll need a couple of months to build up her cooking skill. But, now that a month has passed, we've gotten one new recipe from each of our research investments!  This is our new American dessert recipe, the very cute heart-shaped blueberry muffins.  This is our new French dessert, the French apple tart, which is a loving insult. Never put this on the menu, ever.  This is our new rose tea. They forgot the tea. This is literally just rose petals in water.  This is the new mixed drink. The quality rating kills most of these recipes, but if we keep investing, we should see some better stuff.  Finally, the new coffee shop food recipe. Wwhen I saw the name "bacon 'n ham cheese sandwiches", I wasn't expecting feta cheese. The first recipe in any given category only takes a month to research, then each additional recipe takes a bit longer than the previous. We'll probably see another wave of research recipes during the next mission.  Now that we have a bunch of new recipes and the new café is well underway, let's do the TV show!   So Armand, are you ready for this? As ready as I'll ever be George. Good, good. You nervous? As nervous as I'll ever be George. Haha, don't worry Armand, I'm sure you'll do fine. Just remember that the whole show's future rests on your performance today. Do badly and we'll all blame you. We'll all be out of a job if I do badly anyway, we probably won't see each other after. Haha chin up, Armand. Go get 'em. Good morning everyone! Today marks a very exciting time in my life. My name is Armand Lebouf and this is the inaugural episode of my cooking show… Of course many of you likely don't recognize me. Don't worry though, that's ok. Right now we may be strangers to each other, but I'm sure we are not strangers to the taste of good food. Hopefully, as we move along, we'll get to ride on a journey together, a wonderful journey through the world of marvelous-tasting dishes… Today we will be looking to France for the inspiration for our dishes. And the first meal I will be introducing to you is my delectable mussel appetizer with salmon filling. It's a personal concoction of mine that has been gaining fans in my restaurant lately… TV means more Bejeweled with a slightly smaller play area. Thankfully, it's not that hard.  One of the more popular dishes in my restaurant is the Beef Tenderloin with Red Wine Sauce. At my house, this dish is a particular favorite of mine whenever I want to impress guests with my cooking. And by freezing the sauce ahead of time, it can make a dinner party at your home an easy yet elegant experience. More Bejeweled. Strangely, the previous Bejeweled board had me matching big slabs of beef, even though we were making mussels, and now that we're making beef tenderloin, we're matching mussels? :gamedesign:  Well that's it from all of us here in the studio. I hope you enjoyed our show today and please tune back in with us for our next journey through the world of good food. Just remember this little train of thought: a dash of creativity and a pinch of variety is the wonderful blend to a satisfied stomach! Good night everyone! Such a memorable sign-off. With the first episode of the TV show taken care of, I switch the barista from Delia's First Coffee Shop in to sort out the food quality issues at Delacourt Rodeo, and sure enough, it helps us win the mission! Next mission, we'll be going back to our roots and focusing on Treize à Table. Armand was actually mostly okay this mission, so hopefully he'll keep that decency up for the next one and not do exactly the opposite! Enchanted Hat fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Sep 24, 2018 |
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Sep 7, 2018 21:20
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sincere  at that bacon, ham, and feta sandwich
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Sep 7, 2018 22:21
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Enchanted Hat posted:
Armand, you're not a bot, are you? As robotic as I'll ever be George.
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Sep 7, 2018 22:39
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Lamington is an Australian thing, or so Australian cooking shows tell me. I think it's chocolate cake with coconut around the outside? It sounds better than that miserable rating score, in any case.
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Sep 7, 2018 22:42
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As an Australian I am intimately familiar with lamingtons! Once of there distinguishing features is that they are covered in coconut sprinkles. Which that recipe contains none of. 
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Sep 7, 2018 22:49
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there's no cinnamon in the cinnamon butter cookies either.
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Sep 7, 2018 23:01
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I think the orange splash is supposed to be Morir Soñando, which has the same ingredients, and a lot of ice to stop the curdling. Of course ice doesn't exist in the game world, so please keep serving that horrible curdled milk juice drink to people.
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Sep 7, 2018 23:25
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I can't believe that french guy came in the espresso
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Sep 8, 2018 00:13
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Mathwyn posted:As an Australian I am intimately familiar with lamingtons! Once of there distinguishing features is that they are covered in coconut sprinkles. Which that recipe contains none of. As another Australian I concur with these statements and propose the reason the quality of this Lamington is so poo poo is that these French snobs didn’t put any coconut on it. See, and if it was a proper lamington recipe you’d have the optional jam and cream, but I suspect it’ll be the coconut which is not, in fact, optional for a lamington. It’s just a sponge cake with a little chocolate coating without the coconut really.
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Sep 8, 2018 00:30
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Robindaybird posted:there's no cinnamon in the cinnamon butter cookies either. Cinnamon doesn't exist anymore. Production couldn't keep up with us in Restaurant Empire 1 and now it's extinct.
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Sep 8, 2018 00:43
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Its the reason why Armand & Co lost all their property and money between now and then, they just couldn't cope with it. I'm surprised Treize à Table wasn't torched by our mafioso friends after the first game for the insurance money.
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Sep 8, 2018 00:46
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MaxieSatan posted:Cinnamon doesn't exist anymore. Production couldn't keep up with us in Restaurant Empire 1 and now it's extinct. Not true, the blueberry muffins have a whole .1 tsp of cinnamon in.
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Sep 8, 2018 00:53
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Enchanted Hat posted:The orange splash gets an honourable mention for mixing orange juice and milk, which seems like a fantastic idea that absolutely won't result in a disgusting curdled mess.  : CURDLED ORANGE MILK. IT SPEAKS TO ME, I MUST HAVE IT.Enchanted Hat posted:This is our new French dessert, the French apple tart, which is a loving insult. Never put this on the menu, ever. : LOVELY, I WILL NO DOUBT WIN CHOPPED WITH THIS RECIPE! FART JOKE! STUPID CALLBACK! TIRED REFERENCE! IGNORE HOW I'M BASICALLY BILL SIMMONS WHILE I poo poo ON BILL SIMMONS. ps, we totally need to change the background picture in the food show to Hypnotoad in order to ensure viewers sticking around.
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Sep 8, 2018 00:57
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Maybe it's me, but a grilled feta cheese sandwich with ham and/or bacon doesn't really sound all that bad. (Full disclosure: Is not really sure if feta will melt when grilled.)
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Sep 8, 2018 01:10
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Snorb posted:Maybe it's me, but a grilled feta cheese sandwich with ham and/or bacon doesn't really sound all that bad. (Full disclosure: Is not really sure if feta will melt when grilled.) Feta won't melt, it's a very dry cheese. but honestly, sprinkling feta on top of a toasted bread with a few slabs of crisp bacon does sound good, just feta is one of the worst cheeses to use in a grilled sandwich
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Sep 8, 2018 02:44
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One thing that's baffling me is that they make a big hubbub about coffee shops in this game, but the coffees themselves are so lazy. Two of those coffees are literally just the beans and nothing else, and Enchanted Hat already pointed out the rose water deal. Why are so many of the recipes just one ingredient?
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Sep 8, 2018 02:49
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Keldulas posted:One thing that's baffling me is that they make a big hubbub about coffee shops in this game, but the coffees themselves are so lazy. Two of those coffees are literally just the beans and nothing else, and Enchanted Hat already pointed out the rose water deal. Why are so many of the recipes just one ingredient? Not to mention, they're uniformly terrible in ratings and profitability
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One of the beverages consists of what I presume is boiled rose water that is then served to the customer and called a tea. For $2.00 extra the server will pitch it in the customer's face while it's still hot for extra insult.
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