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Holy crap this game is terrible on the ladies thing. Armand does lots of stupid poo poo, but it's Delia they have making the utterly dumb mistake of hiring the shill that likely has consequences alter on.
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Keldulas posted:Holy crap this game is terrible on the ladies thing. Armand does lots of stupid poo poo, but it's Delia they have making the utterly dumb mistake of hiring the shill that likely has consequences alter on. eugh, I was thinking the exact same thing, there's surely going to be an awkward scene of her apologising profusely about it, isn't there
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Bifauxnen posted:eugh, I was thinking the exact same thing, there's surely going to be an awkward scene of her apologising profusely about it, isn't there Of course. And to be forgiven, she’ll have to marry him.
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Aug 6, 2018 05:20
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 Of course I forgive you, Delia! But only if you run this new Delia-themed restaurant I just bought in Japan and get 60% customer satisfaction.
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Keldulas posted:Holy crap this game is terrible on the ladies thing. Armand does lots of stupid poo poo, but it's Delia they have making the utterly dumb mistake of hiring the shill that likely has consequences alter on. Bifauxnen posted:eugh, I was thinking the exact same thing, there's surely going to be an awkward scene of her apologising profusely about it, isn't there Not only do they have Delia make the dumb mistake, it's actually way, way dumber than it appears, for reasons which the game clarifies in the next mission.
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Aug 6, 2018 08:03
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 Steamed clams with pork in them? Sounds like a better fit in the burger restaurant.
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The optimistic reason for banishing Delia for most of the game, would be to challenge you with a designated chef without several tournaments worth of culinary grinding while Armond if taken away. But that's probably giving this game too much credit. I don't suppose a White wine+Red Wine set would sell? You could call it the classic beverage set, from your franchise humble beginnings of drink wine or gently caress off. Please tell me Sergio is a spy. I need chef espionage in my life Haifisch posted: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. Section Z fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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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. "Armand, we have to stop OmniFood! They've gone too far!" "What have they done, uncle? Have they begun using slave labor? Have they done hostile takeovers? Assassinations of rival chefs?" "Worse! They're using science to create far superior food for a lower price instead of selling customers expired seafood in red wine for way too much money!" ".....those bastards!"
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chitoryu12 posted:"Armand, we have to stop OmniFood! They've gone too far!"  I am eagerly anticipating the restaurant empire 2 LP.More bizarro recipes, more absurd plotlines.
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Episode 15: A restaurant for a king  Delia! Aren't you excited? Armand is coming back any minute now! How time flies! I wonder what Armand has learned all this while… And you see, that wasn't so bad, was it? What do you mean? You fared stupendously in maintaining Armand's restaurants – they are still cooking as much as ever! Even Armand will feel a bit envious at your entrepreneurial skills once he finds out!Michel and Delia managed to implement outrageously profitable set menus and not paying your employees while Armand was away. It's hard to believe, but they might actually be even MORE ruthless than Armand is.   Well, don't just stand there! How about a hug? ARMAND! ARMAND! Delia! Uncle! Boy, how I missed you all! Michel, thanks for helping Delia out in my absence. Think nothing of it, Armand. We are family, and that's the least I can do to help. And Delia. Thank you so much for overlooking my restaurants. I knew you had it in you! Oh, Armand! I must thank YOU for the opportunity you have given me, and the confidence you have inspired in me! Do you want to introduce us to this new chef? Yes, Armand! Why don't you show some manners? Oh, sorry… Let me introduce you to this young phenom that I encountered during my trip… Meet Carlo. Carlo? Carlo! Come over here! Don't be shy! You'll have to excuse Carlo here. He's a great chef, but he's also quite timid… Bon Giorno, Signore LeBoeuf. Bon Giorno, Signorina Delia. His English is not that great, either, but the boy's got true talent. He can cook French as well as any Parisian. But not just that – he can cook Italian, American, heck, he can cook most anything! I've decided to give him a job with us. Carlo also has some bright ideas when it comes to restaurants. Really? Yes, and he mentioned to me on the trip back that we should look into diversifying our restaurants. What do you suggest, Carlo? Is good idea, I think. We open music restaurant in entertainment capital of the world. This is very good idea – many people enjoy music and entertainment. We take opportunity. Hmmm. I guess he is suggesting to open up a music restaurant in Los Angeles?A what. Well, that's a splendid idea! Just think, Armand – music restaurants – a new concept in the food and beverage industry! And placing one in Los Angeles is almost a guaranteed success, with all their big stars and bigger budgets! What'd I tell you about the kid? He's a bright young talent. Maybe someday he will enjoy the same luck I have during my career – he's definitely got the potential. So… What has happened all this while? How are you? I couldn't be better – first my trip in Europe, and now I am back home with uncle and you! You know, after learning all I could from that fabulous master chef, I gained so much knowledge and insight into the culinary universe! Now I have much more skills to advance the business. Not only that, I toured Europe giving speeches and lectures and even found a young and talented chef that knows quite a bit of American cuisine. All in all, a great experience! So, Armand, what are you going to do, now that you are back? Well, I feel I am on a roll. I want to establish this music restaurant, and I can't think of a better way to start getting a foothold and consolidating my position in the US, and whittle away OmniFood's dominance. And I plan to have the restaurant running within a year. A bit defiant, now, aren't we? I can't help it, Delia. First, OmniFood tries to blow us out of the water. Then they bully us with their money. I want payback. And with you and Delia supporting me, I feel like I can take on the world.Armand, OmniFood has done literally nothing to us. The worst thing they've done so far is run an ad campaign, and we've been spending millions on advertising for our own restaurants. That's a good idea. OmniFood has been hammering in some deep stakes in Los Angeles during the time you've gone. I believe they're up to no good, and are employing their usual underhanded tactics again. There's many strange happenings going on recently in the industry… Yes! The other day, while you were away, well, I hired this chef in purple clothing, and he suddenly left without a trace! You WHAT! NO! Delia, I might not have mentioned this to you, but purple uniforms are synonymous with OmniFood!Oops. You – didn't give this chef any recipes, now, did you? Actually, I did, but how was I supposed to know that he was OmniFood? You're right. No sense flinging mud on the fan right now. Those creeps! I can't believe they have resorted to stealing our recipes in an effort to gain the upper hand! If that's the case, let's all go and take our positions – I feel a war looming on the horizon, and this is one battle that I do not plan on losing! I guess OmniFood FINALLY did something underhanded! On the other hand, is it really underhanded if one of their chefs visits our restaurant wearing his highly distinctive OmniFood uniform, says "please could you show me all your secret recipes?", then leaves with the recipes completely legally because we can't write a proper non-disclosure agreement? That's not even cunning on their part, we're just really, really dumb.  Anyway, this is OH MY GOD WHAT THE gently caress  Okay, I'm going to try that one more time.  So this is our  If you're highly observant, you may already have noticed our new restaurant's name at the top of the screen. This new restaurant is the "Funky Elvis". Because "funky" is a word you want associated with the food you serve in your restaurant. Our goals are very simple: win a cooking contest and turn the Funky Elvis into a highly rated fine dining establishment. Armand's already a celebrity chef, so Richard doesn't have to bug us about that this time.  As usual, I set up a pretty basic temporary layout for the restaurant. Unfortunately, there are no ridiculous options for the tables like chairs made out of melted guitars or anything like that, so I just go with some fairly modern sets.  Since Armand is already really good at cooking French food, I decide to switch it up and put him in the Funky Elvis along with that new chef he hired. Apparently, when Armand was telling us how Carlo "can cook most anything", he must have meant "knows how to cook six Italian recipes, poorly". Still, we'll get the two of them up to speed with American cuisine soon enough. What do you even serve in a music restaurant?  Apparently, it's very similar to what you serve in a steakhouse and a seafood restaurant.  Just after I open the Funky Elvis for business, a guest at Treize à Table sells me this foie gras tart. It's very low quality, so there's no reason to ever use it. Bad recipe.  Around lunchtime we have a slight problem: the intersection of people who enjoy expensive fine dining and people who would be interested in eating at a "music restaurant" is pretty small. By half past twelve, we only have a single lunch guest. Even Armand's star power isn't helping to attract customers to our restaurant. I crank our advertising budget as high as it'll go and hope the situation improves in the coming months.  A guest sells me the recipe for something called a "garden salad". Never heard of it, but its profitability is awful. Clearly a bad recipe.  At some point during the dinner service at the Funky Elvis, we manage to fill a whole three seats!   I'm starting to think that starting a music restaurant was not the best idea we've ever had.  Okay, new plan. Rather than having two chefs wasting their time at the Funky Elvis, I transfer Armand to Wagons Ho!, which is highly successful and could actually use a third chef.  Carlo, you'd better get this place profitable, or I'm sending you on special assignment to our Italian restaurant.  Speaking of Italian, I bought a new Italian recipe, the pork roast tangerine*. The profit margin is incredible, at $20.31 with an ingredient cost of $1.69, but at this point it's just not a great idea to put these low-quality recipes on the menu. I've been cranking up the prices of our most popular dishes around the different restaurants, and I'm getting away with it because the food quality is so good. At this point in the game, this is a bad recipe. *Does not contain tangerine.  I'm getting near the time limit, and I'm a little concerned. One of the mission goals was to get the Funky Elvis to four stars, and it's still not there yet. The main problem is the low food quality – Carlo's cooking is just awful, and we get so few guests that he isn't able to practice and become better. I'm going to switch Carlo with one of the skilled chefs from Wagons Ho! and see if we can't get to four stars. Otherwise, I'll have to use a secret weapon.  Meanwhile, we also have a cooking contest to win! This is a dessert contest. One round is for any American dessert, the second round is for blueberry muffins specifically. And who has spent the last four months making blueberry muffins non-stop?  This guuuy!  Out of contempt for the judges, Armand will be cooking our classic seafood quiche for the first round of the dessert contest.  For round two, delicious blueberry muffins.  ez  Surprisingly, we win a high-quality breakfast dish. Breakfast dishes are almost entirely pointless because you get so few breakfast guests, but thanks, I guess. Good recipe.  I go back and beat the contest a second time just to rub it in, and they give me this recipe for a disgusting-looking asparagus and cheese omelette. Bad recipe.  We reach the end of the month, and Bruce "Big Red" Allen's cooking skills really managed to pull us through, as he single-handedly pushed the restaurant's rating up from 3.5 to 4.5/5. We beat the mission!  And the Funky Elvis finally managed to make a tiny profit.   You know the drill by now: I need some décor advice! Continuing the trend of restaurants with very few but totally great decorative items, these are the only wall- and floor-mounted items available at the Funky Elvis. Beware the heavy metal guardians of the sacred television! Also there's a giant log for some reason. The TV has a resolution of - several pixels - and cycles through various high-fidelity concert pictures. Let me know what you think I should add to the restaurant!  Because the floor and wall options this time are just so extraordinary, I've made this collage showing what each option actually looks like in our restaurant. Wall option B really hurts to look at, which would probably bother our customers if we had any.  These are the table options. Option F is really bad in gameplay terms, the rest are fine. Thread poll: what décor should we have in the Funky Elvis? 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.
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Section Z posted:The optimistic reason for banishing Delia for most of the game, would be to challenge you with a designated chef without several tournaments worth of culinary grinding while Armond if taken away. Afraid so - Armand's only gone for one mission where you don't have to beat any contests, so it's pretty much pointless from a gameplay perspective. Section Z posted:I don't suppose a White wine+Red Wine set would sell? You could call it the classic beverage set, from your franchise humble beginnings of drink wine or gently caress off. I'd love to do a set menu of white wine with red wine with white wine with red wine with white wine, but unfortunately the game only lets you add one beverage to a set.  However, I could make a set menu of white wine and nothing else, which might be very profitable if we could get guests in and out of the restaurant quickly enough. Just forget about cooking and turn the place into a bar.Section Z posted:Please tell me Sergio is a spy. I need chef espionage in my life 
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Aug 7, 2018 19:18
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Enchanted Hat posted:Thread poll: what décor should we have in the Funky Elvis? Vote: B C B Because I want to see if this last decor set will finally drive you insane. 
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Aug 7, 2018 19:37
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Elvis. Elvis EVERYWHERE! At the tables, in the kitchen, in the shitters, on the stairs and around the whole restaurant. All over.
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Enchanted Hat posted:
Christ almighty what aim I looking at?! We have some very stain resistant rug patterns to choose from, which is good I guess since I think we'll be making a lot of patrons motion sick by just looking at them. I think I'm going to have to go with... I donno, options FCC this time around. That way can at least look at the restaurant we're trying to manage (in disgust, of course). Elvis must also be present at every table; that way guests can feel like they're getting personal attention from The King.
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CDA Also someone call JC Denton and tell him that someone has stolen his likeness to use as the head of a sexed up lady elvis statue.
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Aug 7, 2018 19:53
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Its too bad the floor texture can't cycle between each style so we'd have the tackiest color changing disco floor in existence.
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BCF! God those are all horrible though, appropriately tacky for a "music restaurant" I guess. I feel like the weird Elvis mannequins could make our guests incredibly uncomfortable, we absolutely need as many of those as possible.
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Aug 7, 2018 19:58
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CBA and what the hell is with the mannequins, put them everywhere.
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They're not even Elvis mannequins, they don't look anything like him! According to the game, the generically heavy metal-looking one is called "Authentic 'Primal' Costume" and the lady with her boobs out is a "Glittery Spears' Glam Costume". EDIT: I finally remembered what they remind me of, those statues are totally ripped from Unreal Tournament player models. Pharohman777 posted:Its too bad the floor texture can't cycle between each style so we'd have the tackiest color changing disco floor in existence. I guess I could do that manually, but it'd get pretty tedious after a while! Maybe I should cycle the different floor designs between each screenshot of the Funky Elvis. Enchanted Hat fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Aug 7, 2018 |
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Enchanted Hat posted:
So basically a quarter of a leaf, a quarter of lemon, pepper and the oak-leaf lettuce, there's more of the dressing ingredients
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BCB, mannequins everywhere of course. Is the TV freestanding or wall-mounted? If the former, we definitely need to make a TV box and put a table in it. Otherwise, I'm inclined to just mindlessly spam guitars all over the walls, honestly the wall decorations are pretty boring compared to everything else.Robindaybird posted:So basically a quarter of a leaf, a quarter of lemon, pepper and the oak-leaf lettuce, there's more of the dressing ingredients I
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i do like what is presumably a quarter of a lemon, sliced, in the salad since it also calls for lemon juice excellent addition to a salad, a slice of whole lemon
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Aug 7, 2018 20:36
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A tangerine dish without tangerines.
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DCF, who you would call if someone ever took a family here.
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Enchanted Hat posted:They're not even Elvis mannequins, they don't look anything like him! According to the game, the generically heavy metal-looking one is called "Authentic 'Primal' Costume" and the lady with her boobs out is a "Glittery Spears' Glam Costume".  Enchanted Hat posted:EDIT: I finally remembered what they remind me of, those statues are totally ripped from Unreal Tournament player models.
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Maybe the tangerine dish originates from Tangier, theoretically, in a world where it's actually a real recipe and not some bizarre nonsense?  e: Maybe we're pretending oranges and tangerines taste exactly the same?
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If that's what the restaurant looks like from inside... What does Funky Elvis look from the outside with all 'tasteful' upgrades applied?
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Poil posted:I fail to see how that is in any way relevant. Now get to it or I'll cook your balls in a microwave and serve them in cinnamon. Woah, what the gently caress.  Did the Corleones send you?Aesculus posted:If that's what the restaurant looks like from inside... Buying all the upgrades was going to be my secret weapon to push the restaurant past four stars. Since I didn't have to resort to that, I'll show it off in the next update.
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Guys, it's The Funky Elvis, not The Funky Elvises. Let's show some restraint with one Cyborg Elvis, one Big Titty Elvis, and too many guitars to count. Also, voting ABD for maximum clash.
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So the TVs and Elvis statues aren’t a paired setpiece? They fit perfectly together though. If we’re gonna plaster TVs all over, might as well change the images to some Or whatever Armand’s evil corporation is nowadays.
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Aug 7, 2018 22:57
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Armand not giving a poo poo about Delilah's plot mandated mistake is probably the nicest thing he's ever done If only because he's probably thinking "Oh, thank GOD I wasn't there to fall for it."
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Armand would have shown the spy the spare dishwashing water used in the soup and the boxes labeled “FRESH CROB?!” that’s used for crab dishes
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Is wall B is supposed to look like that? It looks like it just grabbed a single column of pixels and stretched it across.
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CourValant posted:Vote: B C B Also, are there texture files for what's shown on TV? I wanna be on TV!
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