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My Restaurant Rocks 2020
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Not sure if there is maybe an issue with the spreadsheet for the second round, but I just added a couple of Spell it Out options, at 4 letters each, and after adding them to the shopfront, it says that each meal has one ingredient. I checked the shopfront in round one, and sure enough, it indicates the number of ingredients equal to the number of letters used.So either I entered something incorrectly for all three postings, or something’s off with this spreadsheet in the second round.
CB, I think they switch things up in around 2. I’m not sure, will have to review the rules.
I don't see any changes in the rules and it looks like you entered everything correctly to me, so I'll ask a mod to check it.
Jenn wrote: "I don't see any changes in the rules and it looks like you entered everything correctly to me, so I'll ask a mod to check it."That's good than.
The 3 books I've entered, I listened to on Audio. I have borrowed ebooks from the library so I can list the food items. It might be a little later.
We got a score of 17 with the restaurant critic!Round 2 Additions
17-20 You're the hottest place in town this week and everyone wants to try your meals. Now is the time to think about what your niche market is looking for to maintain your popularity
Meals with the word "ube", "watermelon", or "legume" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2
That's great news!! Nice going team!!
Jenn wrote: "We got a score of 17 with the restaurant critic!Round 2 Additions
17-20 You're the hottest place in town this week and everyone wants to try your meals. Now is the time to think about what your ..."
That is great! Nice work everyone.
I’ll admit I just had to google “ube” - I have honestly never heard of it before 😆
CB wrote: "Jenn wrote: "We got a score of 17 with the restaurant critic!Round 2 Additions
17-20 You're the hottest place in town this week and everyone wants to try your meals. Now is the time to think abo..."
LOL ...yeah, I didn't either...LOL
Congrats everyone!Yeah, I too had to google ube.
I noticed something else - row K under the Meals and Points tab is not tabulating the number of meals for Round 2 like it did for Round 1, which would help us keep track of how many type of each meal we have
CB wrote: "I just asked about it in the Q&A"Make sure you give the link for the spreadsheet in your message
On the spread sheet do you always check the box for graphic novels? I read Pumpkinheads which isn't the most dense of things but I wanted to be safe.
Vianvamp wrote: "On the spread sheet do you always check the box for graphic novels? I read Pumpkinheads which isn't the most dense of things but I wanted to be safe."
There is a special rule with Frozen meals:
No graphic novels, cookbooks, poetry or childrens books unless audio version is more than 5 hours or wordcount can be verified with arbookfind as more than 40,000 words
So unless Pumpkinheads has more than 40,000 words according to arbookfind or the audio version is more than 5 hours, you do need to check the box. And since most graphic novels won't meet either of those requirements, it's pretty safe to assume you'll always need to check the box for them.
Thanks Jenn.I entered it as Fresh, a sandwich, so I shouldn't need to change anything.
I have a couple of graphic novels that have been hanging out on my TBR forever so I'll keep that link close.
Way to go team!! I’ll try to get through these books in a timelier fashion this round! So mad I missed out on that last one.
For some reason when I go to enter my books on the Kitchen Meals tab, it does not automatically populate if it’s scavenger or spell out, and the meal category that can be used. I tried a couple cells down the page and was still having this issue, for 2 different books I was entering. Is there another issue with the spreadsheet (Or is it user error)? Don’t know why this is always happening to me 😂
CB wrote: "For some reason when I go to enter my books on the Kitchen Meals tab, it does not automatically populate if it’s scavenger or spell out, and the meal category that can be used. I tried a couple cel..."You do seem to keep finding all the errors lol! I tried putting a book in line 63 and it worked fine so not sure what happened with your lines. It did let me change it manually though so I put scavenger on them for you.
I'm working on the questions for Truly Devious, but here they are for when we need them.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Vianvamp wrote: "I'm working on the questions for Truly Devious, but here they are for when we need them.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"
Awesome, Vianvamp! So because you read a BOM and participated in a BOM discussion, we can switch out one customer, correct?
I think I might do one of the November BOTM. Has anyone else looked at them?
I've been wanting to read Cemetery Boys so I might read that. I gotta get through some of my tbr backlog first.
I feel like anytime I read a book from my TBR, I’ve already added 10 more to it. Never enough time...*sigh*
Hi Team,I'm sorry but I'm going to have to bow out of this challenge. I had fun but personal and work are being a hindrance right now. I won't be able to read or contribute anything.
Sorry to hear that Namita. Good luck with the rest of 2020!
Namita wrote: "Hi Team,I'm sorry but I'm going to have to bow out of this challenge. I had fun but personal and work are being a hindrance right now. I won't be able to read or contribute anything."
Hope everything works out and I wish you all the best ♥
Namita, I'm sorry you're having to drop out, and that everything works out .
I was watching a tv show where someone said 'pumpkin' and I immediately thought "I need to write that down for the challenge" lol!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has fine tuned hearing for it haha
also i finished a big book but had to use spell it out because there was like 3 food items and it felt wasted on all the water haha. the next one i will finish is blood and honey.it has vinegar in the text so if anyone is planning on a scavenger fish & chips, I can add my vinegar result for it for extra points!
Kim wrote: "also i finished a big book but had to use spell it out because there was like 3 food items and it felt wasted on all the water haha. the next one i will finish is blood and honey.it has vinegar i..."
I haven't used anything from my book Sliced Up because I was looking for 'vinegar'. Sliced Up has all 4 ingredients needed for fish and chips.
Of course after I say that I find 'vinegar' in the book I just finished. Should I just add it to a fish and chips meal that's already made?
Jenn, I’ll hold on to my vinegar. That way yours will be all set. I won’t be able to finish blood and honey until Sunday at the earliest.
Kim wrote: "Jenn, I’ll hold on to my vinegar. That way yours will be all set. I won’t be able to finish blood and honey until Sunday at the earliest."Ok then
I'm totally unhelpful in all of this, none of the books I've been reading have good food options.
Vianvamp wrote: "I'm totally unhelpful in all of this, none of the books I've been reading have good food options."Spell-it-out's are still helpful. I'm reading a manga series that has quite a few vowels so if you need to use one just say so :)
Thanks! So far I've been able to do ok, but I might take you up on that offer for my next two books. Dracula had more food in it than I remembered so I was able to use that as a scavenger.
Vowels are the hardest part for spell it out!
I'll be doing the BOM for Farenheit so should i post the link to my comments on here? or just the number for my DQ posts?
Spell it outs have been a fun challenge - I’m trying to get as many of the special words as possible so when I have “u” I’m aiming for “ube” or “legume”. I was able to spell out “watermelon” one time but it used so many letters. “Kale” has been a good easy one. I’ve found “mushroom” a couple of times in the scavenger and one time “pumpkin”, but nothing else of the special words, they’re pretty tough to find.
I thought we were only looking for/spelling the three words ( legume, ube, watermelon)?
From the Rules, this was posted:Score Round 2 Additions
17-20 You're the hottest place in town this week and everyone wants to try your meals. Now is the time to think about what your niche market is looking for to maintain your popularity
Meals with the word "ube", "watermelon", or "legume" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2
13-16 You're now on the list of places to try for young singles and DINKS. Keep up the great work, but perhaps get a bit more creative or reduce your waste for round 2 to increase popularity.
Meals with the word "mushroom", "bamboo", or "tumeric" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2
6-12 Now known as "cheap and cheerful" you attract families which mean messy children. Try some new, more popular, dishes to attract your target group for round 2.
Meals with the word "kale", "avocado", or "truffle" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2
0-5 Your chef quit. Try a new theme for round 2. Pensioners will be attracted to your restaurant, but you will need to work to get other groups in the door
Meals with the word "tuna", "soy", or "pumpkin" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2
So the top ones will help get us a higher restaurant rating, but it looks like adding any of these will help attract adults, to serve more meals and get additional points. But watermelon, ube, and legume are the best it seems.
CB wrote: "So the top ones will help get us a higher restaurant rating, but it looks like adding any of these will help attract adults, to serve more meals and get additional points. But watermelon, ube, and ..."I thought it was because we scored a 17 that we're in the 17-20 one? And because we scored that high is why we have harder/rarer words like ube instead of tuna. The teams that scored lower get a little extra help to catch up with the easier words.
Ok yeah, according to the challenge page:Swinbourne Score
All teams have received a score which is available on the Status Sheet.
In round 2, enter the word you find (if doing a scavenger hunt) related to your Swinbourne Score in the justification on your kitchen tab ; and then when creating the meal tick the highlighted box (column G)
Our Swinbourne Score was 17 so our words are ube, watermelon, and legume. Right? Or am I reading it wrong?
Ok, I think I misunderstood how that worked - thanks for clarifying, and sorry for any confusion.
Jenn, thats what I was thinking. I thought that you had three words depending on your score.
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At this point she's been gone for two weeks so is she really still participating? We might as well put feelers out into the looking group...."
I agree - let’s go ahead and see if we can get a replacement player.