[Shrek]

@coffedocol: there is more about this than what my brother-in-law (little fish) said. i have a txt file that came with the game i have with some hints; i' ll try to post a few here:

SOLVING COMMON PROBLEMS:
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1. No customers come to my restaurant!

* Make sure you create enough (at least three) recipes that
have decent values on the popularity screen AND have
non-negative trends (shown in the status window when looking
at recipes).

* You need some floor covering, tiles or carpet - just
something people can properly walk on. If you leave your
restaurant with no floor covering (the way the restaurant
looks when you first see it) you'll get poor restaurant
popularity values; check 'customer ratings' in the
furnishing sub menu.

* You may be addressing the wrong ages. Check customer
statistics in the restaurant statistics sub menu, to see
which customer groups are in this area; the yellow bar
shows the potential customers for each group.

* Take a look at your furniture and ask yourself what kind
of people will feel comfortable here. Check 'customer
ratings' in the furnishing sub menu.


2. I keep getting the message, 'There aren't enough supplies
to satisfy the demand,' but I'm sure I've bought enough.

* You may have put a new recipe on your menu, causing a
need for ingredients not yet bought.

* Demand changes frequently. There may be a new trend
causing greater demand for a certain ingredient. Check the
demand value in your menu for each pizza selected and look
at what each Pizza needs.

* Supplies may be rotten, so would have been thrown in the
garbage. So check on the quality of each ingredient.


3. My manager is not going shopping properly, and I don't
know why!

* Make sure that in the manager menu you set the option
'Supply shortage' to 'act yourself' AND the option
'Shopping if needed' to 'yes'.

* Take a look at the motivation of the manager. The value
is equal to the probability in percent that he/she will go
shopping each day. So if your manager has a motivation of
only 75%, the probability for him/her to go shopping is
only 3 in 4. Give the manager more money to increase
motivation.

* The manager may be sick, like anybody else. This will
be shown in the manager menu.

* If your manager is on a course, he/she obviously cannot
go shopping. Again, this will be shown in the manager menu.

* If the option 'staff shortage' is set to 'act yourself'
and the manager has to assist either the cooks or the
waiters at their work, the manager will have no time to go
shopping that day.

* On rare occasions, it may be that the Supplier you told
the manager to use is temporarily out of stock. You can
check this if you have a central warehouse in that city or
if you try buying from the supplier yourself.

4. After you have bought some chairs, you may find that your
seating capacity does not match the number of chairs you
have. If this occurs, check to see that all of your chairs
are close enough to the tables.

People cannot eat at tables they cannot reach!

I hope this can help you a little more. enjoy the game k: