Welcome to yet another Kitchen Confidential, my good old carbon-based friends!
Today I am going to be sharing some of my top tips so you can be successful entrepreneurs, taking over the world of fast food, just like me.
Things can get very tricky under certain conditions, so it’s important to pay attention and make an effort to increase the efficiency of your kitchen in order to deliver food to your beloved customers as quickly as possible. Here are some of the common pitfalls and some thoughts on how to get them sorted out, so machines will continue serving us, humans, in a predictable and non-world-conquering way.
- Adjusting the time between ingredients in your dispensers can be an easy way to get the ingredient ratios right and avoid the use of expensive order readers. If your recipe, for example, requires two patties but only one bun, make sure that the time between ingredients in the bun dispenser is set to twice the one in the patty dispenser. You can also adjust the timing based on the number of customers that you are expecting.
- Restaurants with more than one type of customer (like drive-thru and take-out) can get tricky sometimes. In those cases, it might be a good idea to have a constant flow of dishes being stored in a storage unit. Then you can use order readers to control a robotic arm to take the food from the storage unit and redirect it to the proper conveyor belt to be delivered to the correct section of the restaurant.
- A good way to handle rush hours is to have a small buffer of production in a storage unit. You can even use a counting machine to turn dispensers on or off depending on the number of dishes you have in your storage unit, so you won’t overproduce.
- If used properly, programmable computers can end up replacing up to four different order readers. They are particularly good if you combine them with repeaters in order to increase the number of effective outputs. Remember you can find the reference guide for computers on our website.
- Are you experiencing frequent blackouts because you exceed the limit of power consumption? Besides setting machines so they use the power saving mode, you could also use a computer to turn assemblers, grills and other high power usage machines on and off alternately, so they are not all on at the same time.
- You cannot deliver dishes quick enough because your good old assembler is taking a long time to make them? Consider replacing it with an advanced assembler, which is significantly faster!
Now go forth my fellow organic lifeforms and become the automated kitchen entrepreneur you've always dreamed of being!
