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Voting for AEF, the star shaped tables, and by golly, I really like that pink and white large table. Also more star shapes on the wall. Let's go as tacky as possible, dangit! Oh Armand, one day, you'll get what's coming to you. And it'll be glorious.  I wonder why the game pretty much forces a patisserie on you. You'd think between managing a restaurant, a coffee shop, and a tv show, you'd have enough to do, in addition to recipe research. Though the recipes are getting steadily more entertaining.  I honestly get a kick out of them. Here's hoping you don't go completely into debt trying to keep that pastry shop afloat. By the way, is that the ONLY furniture supplier in town? Or is it the only one that the game felt like showing?
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Nondevor posted:Getting some major Red Room I'm backing this horse. It's drat fine pie.
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I just had the horrifying realization that I had voted the first thread a 5, but hadn't done that for this thread yet. I fixed that immediately. My vote is for AED. For the decor, let's go for a The Sprial nightmare interpretation of a Barbie Dream House. Put pink and glitter everywhere, but make it horrifying Comedy guess for where the story is going: Armand gets both Delia and Michele pregnant at the same time, Delia divorces him and Michele breaks up with them, then Armand flees to America to avoid having to pay child support. 15 years later two girls meet in an American culinary camp. Despite looking so similar, they don't know each other and don't get along, until they are both put in the same remedial lessons for wanting to put too much cinnamon in anything and everything. That's when they discover that they are actually half sisters. Through wacky teenage detective style hijinks, they meet up with Armand, who is running a French restaurant on the down low in Utah, which he has named "Armand N'est Pas Là." They convince him that he should try and make one last gesture of love to try and win Delia and Michele over at the same time, entering the family Cinnamon Crepes Marcie and dedicating it as the Delia-Micele Crepes Marcie. This of course, works wonderfully, and they all end up as one happy family; Armand of course being the happiest because in Utah, not only will he not be prosecuted for polygamy, now he has two minors he can use for endless marketing opportunities AND be shielded from having to pay because of United States family business laws! Catalina fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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I'd love to see it, but given last game, I think whoever wrote this is one of those guys who can't see why cheating on your spouse is a bad thing.
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Definitely agreed with AEA. And speaking of massively overpaying:  Nine dollars. For a bagel. MaxieSatan fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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MaxieSatan posted:Definitely agreed with AEA. Don’t be silly. With that recipe it’s $9 for cheese covered in flour, sugar, and cinnamon.
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I tried looking up bagel recipes to see if you could actually make anything and the answer is: it's almost midnight and I have work tomorrow and god drat it now I want a bagel. Going to drive me crazy all night now.
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Honestly Pastries have hilarious markups so that should maybe actually be profitable if people actually visit? (dammit now I miss my last job which was right next door to a french bakery run by an actual french person and their poo poo was way to expensive, but ridiculously delicious) On the 4 seater tables, I am not sure if you know there is a restaurant toggle that lets you have customers share tables... so those 4 man booths might have 4 rando's being forced to eat dinner together. Oddly enough the only complaints in RE1 were due to noise... not you know I was forced to eat dinner with people I don't know for $100. My vote is we stuff the restaurant full of those ugly pink booths and force people to sit together to get served their loving cake.
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Jack2142 posted:Honestly Pastries have hilarious markups so that should maybe actually be profitable if people actually visit?
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oh so we can specify cheese, feta on the bacon ham and cheese sandwich but the cream cheese bagel just gets... cheese  also, how long until armand tries to gently caress julia
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I still wonder if the whole affair subplot won't turn out to be a fakeout, because I can't imagine the game devs consciously portraying the protagonist as an rear end in a top hat. Maybe Delia will think something's up and leave Armand in tears only for him to later reveal that he's been just meeting up with his long lost sister or some other bullshit that will make Delia look hysterical and guarantee a saccharine ending.
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System Metternich posted:I still wonder if the whole affair subplot won't turn out to be a fakeout, because I can't imagine the game devs consciously portraying the protagonist as an rear end in a top hat. it is probably a fakeout but i trust these devs to come up with something equally as dumb as "armand blatantly and repeatedly cheats on his pregnant wife"
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Music Junkie posted:By the way, is that the ONLY furniture supplier in town? Or is it the only one that the game felt like showing? It's the only one they bothered showing. I haven't been showing it off because it's not that interesting, but each mission I get 3-4 guests with hot tips about a new furniture supplier, so we're steadily getting new décor options. Jack2142 posted:Honestly Pastries have hilarious markups so that should maybe actually be profitable if people actually visit? Patisseries are actually very similar to the cafés in that prices are usually below $10 per dish and guests take a really long time finishing their meals. So even if we had enough customers, we'd still be scraping by. Treize a Table is basically propping up all the other restaurants. Oh, and of course you can't serve alcohol here either. I've never actually tried forcing guests to sit with strangers because I figured they'd lose their poo poo. If we get a restaurant later where we're struggling for room, I'll try it out. luxury handset posted:it is probably a fakeout but i trust these devs to come up with something equally as dumb as "armand blatantly and repeatedly cheats on his pregnant wife" Whatever happens, at least we can all agree that it'll be Delia's fault.
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Another vote for AEB Then fill the place with those wrought-iron screens, which will be almost impossible to see against all the spirals.
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Enchanted Hat posted:It's the only one they bothered showing. I haven't been showing it off because it's not that interesting, but each mission I get 3-4 guests with hot tips about a new furniture supplier, so we're steadily getting new décor options. "Delia you're pregnant!? I thought you were just fat! I'm going to go bang my slim, sexy heiress, peace!" -Armand
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DariusLikewise posted:"Delia you're pregnant!? I thought you were just fat! I'm going to go bang my slim, sexy heiress, peace!" -Armand "Oh Armand, you're such a wonderful husband!" -Delia
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Enchanted Hat posted:Patisseries are actually very similar to the cafés in that prices are usually below $10 per dish and guests take a really long time finishing their meals. So even if we had enough customers, we'd still be scraping by. Treize a Table is basically propping up all the other restaurants. Oh, and of course you can't serve alcohol here either. So basically both Delia's and Julia's places have to be supported by Armand's restaurant. In a way, it kinda fits in with how the game treats Armand as the Savior of the culinary world. And how badly the game shits on Delia.
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Nyeehg posted:What are the odds that Armand gets his mistress pregnant? Julia too. Its not enough drama until you get your sister-in-law preggers.
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CourValant posted:Julia too. Its not enough drama until you get your sister-in-law preggers. I'll be honest, when Julia showed up my first thought was "oh god, Armand's in a harem anime"
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Episode 8: A DIFFERENT castle?  That is out of the question! Why? What's the problem now? Look, I DON'T LIKE IT! I'm not signing up for something that I don't like. Period! So, just like that huh? You're going to just put your foot down?! Yes. I'm putting up the money, I have final say. You'll have your say once it's your money that's on the line. I can't believe… Tell me you did not just say that?! In case you haven't noticed, my coffee shops are almost earning as much as your high and mighty restaurants… Now you tell me who's giving what in this relationship… … if I didn't support you in the first place… Alright, ALRIGHT! Do whatever you want… I'm tired of this constant arguing. If you want it to happen, then do it. I'm not going to stop you… *whispering to himself* God knows you'll just nag me to death anyway.  So guys, did you get the chance to look over the designs I left here? What do you guys think of my proposal, neat huh? … We love it. We think it's fantastic actually. Right honey? Riiight… So you guys are up for it? Oh yeah definitely… In fact, I think this is going to be our most unique establishment yet!! Well, that was uncomfortable. What's worse is that Armand didn't stand his ground, so now we have a patisserie castle!  Wait a second. This isn't I Heart Cake. So Jules and Delia didn't convince Armand to refurbish our existing patisserie, they made him build a new ghastly castle for a second patisserie. I now have to use the profits from Treize à Table to keep TWO patisseries afloat  .gently caress this, I'm going to do a TV show instead.  Well, I'm off… Don't wait up for me Del… I'll probably be home late. … fine whatever… I'm tired of your constant irritating attitude. God knows I didn't sign up for this when we got married. … whatever, just go… It's pretty clear where your priorities are anyway… I'm sorry, what did you say?! You of all people should understand how important this is to us… how important this is to me! If you can't see that then… Please Armand! I'm tired of this and I'm sick of your excuses… You know what I see? Nothing. NOTHING Armand! That's what I see in this house. You spend all your time in that TV show of yours; you practically see stars in your eyes! How long have you been in this house the last few weeks, huh? How many? I'll tell you how many: eight days. You know how I know that? BECAUSE I'M HERE! If you care so much about that show of yours maybe you should just… I'm… going. Just go… just go…  You don't look so well today… It's a routine, or don't you know it? Chin up Armand. You're in Hollywood. Just remember how many people would love to be in your shoes right now. You've been on a roll lately, especially when Tim guested here last time. Keep your eyes on the prize and remember why you're here. Just a little more Armand and you'll be a certified star. Yeah George… I'll see ya. Break a leg son! You may have noticed that for the last few episodes, we've been very much focused on main courses as our theme. Well that certainly does not mean that I prefer the main course above all the others; in fact, the smaller dishes have a very special place in my heart as well as my appetite. I've been receiving a boatload of mail lately asking me to do a show focusing on appetizers. Well, for the viewers who wrote in, you guys are in luck. Not only are we focusing on appetizers today, but I've invited one of the most well-known chefs in the world to join us in our appetizer-a-thon. Please welcome, my good friend and colleague, Chef Thierry Perregaux! Today, Thierry and I will each make our own appetizers. Mind you this is not a competition. God knows I won't be able to compete with someone as talented as him… Hahaha… don't listen to him everyone. Mr. Armand Lebouf is more of an expert in appetizers than he is letting on. Much of what I know now actually comes from him so… I will be introducing my very own Langoustines with Asparagus. The trick with this dish is in the ingredients. With a dash of Parmesan cheese and… Hey, Thierry from the first game is back! Good to see him and his ridiculous moustache again. As I recall, I stuck him in our French restaurant in LA, so it even makes sense for him to be around.  And now I shall reveal my own little appetizer secret. My dish is the Duck's Liver Tart. In this one, my secret is to use high-quality cognac to strengthen the flavour of the… I like how the writers cut Thierry and Armand off while they're describing the cooking process. It's like they're acknowledging that they really don’t know anything about cooking and all their recipes are preposterous.  I had a strange glitch during this minigame. Game, I know you're very impressed that I got a COMBO, but if you make the writing that big I can't actually see the game board.  We've once again come to the end of our show. Again I'd like to thank everyone for watching and continuing to support us. I'd also like to thank the people behind the scenes, from the producers to the people at wardrobe, that make a show like this possible. And of course, Chef Thierry Perregaux for sharing his time and recipe with us. Always a pleasure Chef Armand! Just remember that whenever you're in the kitchen, a dash of creativity and a pinch of variety is the wonderful blend to a satisfied stomach! From all of us here: good night everyone!! All right, before I deal with Jules' new castle, let's take a look at the redecorated I Heart Cake!  Yeesh! Those flan tables do not go very well with the spiral nightmare background! I had a bunch of different requests for large tables, so I tried to accommodate all of them, which just made things way worse. This is ghastly.  Because the flan tables and benches take up so much space, I've moved the whole operation to the second floor.  I needed an excuse to get out of the patisserie, so here are the results of our recipe research! This is the best American dessert that we can research, the almond waffles. I don't really understand how this recipe works? However, it's very high quality (71% is excellent), and we can serve it in both our French restaurant and our patisseries! I won't serve it at Treize à Table because we already have an amazing French dessert, but it'll be great for Jules' patisseries.  This is the ultimate tea that we can research. Surprisingly, it's not a nice Earl Grey, but rather an "iced mint-green tea". 77% quality is incredible, and naturally I'll be serving this in all of our cafés. Even our kopi luwak-boosted coffees aren't that good.  This is our ultimate mixed drink. I'm very sceptical of this ingredient list.  This is our ultimate coffee shop food recipe. Isn't this what Ozkan was cooking which Armand told him was loving awful? Not that I mind - look at the gross margin on this bad boy! We'll be earning $13.39 per serving, making it one of our most profitable coffee shop recipes in addition to being one of the highest quality recipes. Our research into French desserts hasn't finished yet, but we should see the results of that later this mission. Now that we've finished our research into our original research topics, it'd be a good idea to start researching something new. Now, I have this strange feeling that I'll really, really want to fully research all of the patisserie recipe types before reaching the endgame unless I want to have a bad time. So let's put all the money into patisserie recipe research!  Speaking of patisserie recipes, someone sells me this recipe. Almond tart is right, it's literally just almond, flour and sugar. I don't think this tart is cooked, I think it's forged like a bar of steel. All right, I've put it off for long enough. Let's go to the patisserie castle.  This is the new patisserie, Amo La Torta. According to Google Translate, that means "I Love the Cake". Instead of picking a décor style, I've just used every kind of table available to us to show them all off. I kept the default wallpaper, but I switched to the pepperoni carpet for obvious reasons.  Promisingly, it seems Amo La Torta is more popular than the old patisserie, so it shouldn't be quite as painful to get the place operational. Since this patisserie is doing better than the old one, I'm going to switch Jules to this restaurant to give her more cooking experience.  I briefly pop back to Treize à Table where a customer sells me the recipe for tuna gazpacho, which is an incredible French appetizer. It's a bit unfortunate that gazpacho isn't classed as a soup, as we also need good soup recipes, but I'm definitely not complaining about picking up such a good recipe.  Once I go back to Amo La Torta, I'm immediately sold an incredibly poor recipe. What is this game's problem with the Delecoeurs, seriously?  While checking up on I Heart Cake, I notice that nearly all of our guests have that little green nauseous indicator over their heads. Looks like your plan to disgust them with the décor worked perfectly!  This is a little concerning. In order to pass this mission, Amo La Torta needs to achieve a monthly profit of $18,000. I'm not surprised that I didn't get it this month because I spend $50,000 a month on advertising, but even if we exclude that, Amo La Torta would have made a loss of $10,683 this month. Why is it doing so poorly?  While I look into that, here are our first researched patisserie recipes! Patisseries have five recipe categories: - Cakes, pies & tarts - Cookies & pastries - Ice cream & soberts - Pudding & gelatin dessert - Beverages The above is the first cookies & pastries recipe. Not only is it a terrible recipe, but it's cooked in the special café blender which means it'll cook really slowly. Awful through and through.  This is the ice cream & soberts recipe. They actually spelled "sorbet" properly in this recipe, and the picture looks pretty cool! I don't know why this is rated so poorly. I'd try it.  Our pudding & gelatin dessert. This is just a really strange, deconstructed latte. We started with one recipe from the beverages category already researched, so we don't actually have anything new from beverage research yet. We do research a cakes, pies & tarts recipe, but that recipe is temporarily classified  .Suffice to say that I won't be using any of these researched recipes, but eventually the research should pay off with new ultimate recipes.  This month turns out far better for Amo La Torta. Subtracting the advertising spend, it made a profit of around $14,000, which is almost enough to reach our very low profit target! As for why the first month went so poorly, I may have added a couple of recipes to the menu which Jules was unable to cook because I didn't buy her the necessary cooking equipment. Sorry, Jules!  We finally get the ultimate French dessert, nougat parfait with honey! I never managed to buy this recipe in Restaurant Empire 1, which is unfortunate, because I promised we'd get an awesome strawberry-based dessert. But at least we have it now! It has 1% less quality rating than our fruit gratin, but it's really fast to make and has a better base profit margin. I'll definitely add it to the menu at Treize à Table. What's more important is that this can be served at patisseries! Since most of our current patisserie recipes are awful, this is a godsend.  I've been meeting a number of furniture wholesalers during this mission, which unlocks new décor options. While playing through this month, I notice that one of the new wholesalers lets me buy pineapple lamps! I do.  A few months later we just barely meet the mission objectives. We win! Now, what are we going to do with this new patisserie?   These are the wall, floor and table options.   These are the wall- and floor-mounted decorations. Thread poll: what décor should we have in Amo La Torta? 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. Also, let me know if you want me to add any of the floor or wall decorations.
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That arguing makes me uncomfortable.  Let's go full burnt pepperoni. BEC
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There's so many things I could say about what's going on here, but I'm going to focus on the waffles that don't involve any flour. It's just a bunch of almonds and strawberries floating in oil & whipped cream, with sugar sprinkled on top and water added for even more moisture. And I'm going straight for the most baffling options with ABE. Also add as many of those pineapple and...grape?...lamps as possible.
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BAC as a break from the eyesores, and line the walls with those dipped strawberry fences, and as many fruity lamps as possible. And eesh, that's the leadup to a divorce type argument,
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Every update it astounds me how much worse Armand is in this game versus in the prequel. Too self-absorbed to even do his little shuffle dance anymore  But yeah, what an rear end in a top hat!As for the cake castle, I like the pseudo-beach theme of CCD. The pineapple and grape(?) lamps remind me of palm trees.
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There's a lot to be said about the subtext of him not spending nights at home anymore. Armand really does not come off well in those arguments. 'I'm the man and it's my money so I get the say'. Christ. I also like how he can't say what's really going on when she blames him and his TV show aspirations for his absence.
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Sep 21, 2018 23:53
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Let's hit the beach with CCF.
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Ibblebibble posted:That arguing makes me uncomfortable. Seriously, who was expecting this after the fun, goofy story of RE1? I was baffled. Like, where are they even going with this?
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No wonder the quality is so bad, people order a banana split, and they don't get bananas, fudge, whipped cream, OR ice cream! I like the beach idea, CCF Also, Delia, make sure to divorce Armand in California. Take him for everything he's worth!
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Given Armand's the one with the mini games I think we're stuck with him, but how did they think we'll be on his side? He belittles Delia, sulks and whines about doing her a favor he had no problems demanding from others, he not only let whatherface continue to flirt with him - he fully reciprocates, and hell I'm not even sure if she even knows he's married and she's the other woman since that never got brought up, gleefully rips some apprentices apart, and now pulls the 'I'm the man with the money you obey me!' and refusing to acknowledge that she's feeling neglected.
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I miss making deals with mob bosses to train their son as masters of the culinary arts  But at least we have pineapple lamps 
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Zanna posted:Wait. Didn't Armand and Delia just get back from their honeymoon at the start of the game? And he's already cheating on her? Our protagonist, ladies and gents. This thought seems even more relevant now.
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Zanna posted:This thought seems even more relevant now. How far are we in the game calendar wise, Enchanted Hat? I don't think a year has even passed.
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They took a scene where they could sorta make Delia look bad as well (She makes decisions without informing him etc) and instead used it to make Armand even more of a dick. 
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Haifisch posted:
You take almond flour (finely ground almonds) and mix it with the oil as some sort of binding agent or something, then compress the flour into a waffle shape. And presto - enjoy your chalk waffle. habeasdorkus posted:
Anyway, going to need to vote for ECE for our latest culinary horror show. Maybe Armand saw the blueprints to our new waffle palace before the conversation and had a panic attack. Can't say I'd blame him. edit: also just noticed something:  Armand is cooking with Orangina on his TV show. Classy. Psychotic Weasel fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 22, 2018 |
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Wow that's um...quite a tonal shift from the first game. I kinda assumed Restaurant Empire 2 would be even more zany that the first game. With all the new features, it seems like kind of a waste. Anyway, let's go with CEC, a vision I like to call "Burnt Pepperoni Under the Sea."
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Sep 22, 2018 01:46
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CCC I was going to comment on how much of an rear end in a top hat Armand is, but then I saw this: My God. I have pretty low expectations for how close the recipes from this game come to things you'd actually want to eat, but this. This is taking it to a whole different level. It really looks like two different recipes put together. Mango, lime juice and club soda could work. Condensed milk, peppermint syrup and unflavored yogurt could work. But all of that in one drink?
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