Louise’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2015)

Louise’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Customers have been fed, 1 pensioner and 39 teenagers were left hungry

Round 3
Let's get romantic


November is known for...
thanksgiving
topaz
almost summer
almost winter
veterans day
all saints day
rain

It all depends on where your restaurant is located. So for MRR, November is all about Romance (hey, why not?)

Your placing at the end of round 2 gives you the option of certain additions to your meals to better attract Adult customers when you open in round 3.




Place Round 3 Additions

Top 3 Congrats! Now is the time to think about what your niche market is looking for to maintain your popularity
Meals with the word "lobster", "pasionfruit", or "brie" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

4-7 Keep up the great work, but perhaps get a bit more creative in round 3 to increase popularity.
Meals with the word "prawns" (shrimp is acceptable), "cherry", or "gelato" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

8-10 Try some new, more popular, dishes to attract your target group for round 3.
Meals with the word "chocolate", "gold", or "scallop" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

11-14 It is time to try something new for round 3.
Meals with the word "salmon", "mango", or "paste" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

All done for round 2; rejigged a few books.
Round 3 starts in just under 3hrs
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

LaurLa wrote: "Louise - not sure what happened, but there's a huge gap in the tracking sheet between rows 175 and 980. I'm not going to try and fix it because I don't want to mess things up further, just thought ..."

I think it's where I've filtered the list and not removed the filter once done. All fixed now :)

All books are now on the official sheet. We have space for 5 more books :)

Laura wrote: "Louise, I don't want to mess up anything you're working on, but there are no blank lines on the Tracking sheet, so I can't put in the book I just finished."

I forgot to remove the filter should be ok now

Yes please Laura

No need to look for any more kid activities we’re maxed out

Laura wrote: "I just posted one that I was ridiculously excited about. They started making rogan josh, which I had to look up. It’s a type of curry! And then they talked about the ingredients. And later they mad..."

Sound lush. Love Rogan josh

Laura wrote: "I read Big Bad Beast, but I purchased it as part of a 4 book bundle of Shelly Laurenston's books. It's book #3 in the bundle. So the locations are all screwed up.

Louise, is it okay..."

That’s fine Laura. I’m going to spend some evenings this week to log our books and food and get rid of my “post-it” notes

Vinegar does pop up in the most random of places. Although this month with more kids we won’t need as much vinegar

Laura wrote: "While reading In a Badger Way I happily highlighted every instance of the word Bamboo. It wasn't until I was nearly done that I realized we can only use the book 8 times, so any mor..."

🤣

Kira wrote: "For a meal, do all the ingredients have to be EITHER scavenger or spell it out, can they not be a mix of both?

For eg I have a sandwich with JAM spelled out using a different book and other ingre..."

Has to be one or the other

Heading back home today, thank you Stacie for your help with the sheet while I was away. After we have fed everyone bar a few hungry teens, although by their very nature teens are always hungry, we are currently in 5th place.

@Laura Rock, paper, scissors can definitely be used to entertain the kids. My brother and I used to play as kids although it would end up in an argument as one of us would inevitably accuse the other of cheating.

Team lettuce read have requested customer swaps for BOM’s but they haven’t arrived yet. 😞

I’ve allocated meals and requested customer swaps (teens for adults). Once we’ve received the swaps I’ll finalize the customer meals and move the alcohol and preserved over to R2

Round 2 More Info

• Month 2 Special

• Kids love chicken nuggets and waffle fries! This is your FRESH Special for month 2
◈ Chicken nuggets and waffle fries (chicken, bread or bread crumbs, salt, egg, flour, potato, oil
Must contain chicken, potato and oil.

• Month 2 Bonuses
Use your spell-it-outs and scavenger hunts to find items to keep kids entertained. Think board games, crayons, toys, books, peg games, tablets, face painting, clowns.... use your imagination!!
You can find up to 20 items in total and these are listed as "FRESH BONUS" within your spreadsheet



• Month 2 Customers

Your "look at the crowds" placing may impact the types of customers you receive more of for round 2. You can counteract this for round 3 and attract more adults by finding the special ingredients

Round 2
Round 1 Complete - what to expect for round 2

Thanks cooks, chefs and kitchen hands - you have survived the opening of your restaurant and round 1 customers. Phew!

Frozen Meals from round 1 not consumed
Can be used in round 2. You should copy and paste these from your Shop Front Round 1 to the Shop Front Round 2 tab (Note: column D on the round 2 tab won't populate - don't worry we will fix it up)

Desserts, Drinks and Cocktails from round 1 not consumed
Can be used in round 2 or round 3. You should copy and paste those you want to use in round 2 from your Shop Front Round 1 to the Shop Front Round 2 tab (Note: column D on the round 2 tab won't populate - don't worry we will fix it up)

Fresh Food from round 1 not consumed
Fresh food not used will be rotten unless you received tips from adults to preserve.
The amount of tips you have from round 1 is directly attributable to your "Look at the crowds!!" Place.

Place Tips
Top 3 20% of adults tipped

4-7 15% of adults tipped

• 8-10 10% of adults tipped

11-14 5% adults tipped


Adults were pretty crumby tippers in round 1, but now your doors are open and you have media buzz, expect much higher tip rates in round 2!

If you have Fresh food from round 1 you are preserving by using a tip, copy and paste those you want to use in round 2 from your Shop Front Round 1 to the Shop Front Round 2 tab (Note: column D on the round 2 tab won't populate - don't worry we will fix it up)

Look at the crowds!! Place
All teams have received a placing which is available on the Status Sheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

• In round 2, enter the word you find (if doing a scavenger hunt) related to your Place in the justification column on your kitchen tab ; and then when creating the meal tick the highlighted box (column G) on the shop front tab.

• Books read cap
For round 2, it is 90 books per team

• Customers round 2
The exact number of customers won't be known until they arrive, but be sure it will increase for round 2 as your restaurants gain in popularity!!

• Favourite customer meals for round 1 - just for fun and team kudos

Please send us your nominations - we will also post our favourites :)

Our Customers

Children - 28
Teenagers - 71
Adults - 31
Pensioners - 30

We have created 148 meals and have 2 BOM’s giving 4 customer swaps.

Laura wrote: "Now if we can convince Jackie to pick Shelly as our author for Amazing Race!"

That would be good 🤣