Team Nacho Problem

[Alaina]

Nice! I definitely took a break after creating the last meal so I can see if we can start or finish something else sometime today.

[Annalisa]

I wasn't able to complete both unfinished meals with my book. I did finish one of them. I started two other meals though. We have Frozen Curry, a Fish and chips (with or without vinegar I picked with), and a Special unfinished.
I have some books that didn't have any food so I'll be doing some spell outs with those.

[Kira]

Meals finished

Salad x4
Coffee x13
Sandwich x5
Tea x4
Quiche x5
Fish and chips with vinegar x3
Curry x4
Pasta x4
Alcoholic Drink x3
Non alcoholic drink x3
Dessert x4
Monthly Special x4
Fish and Chips x1

[Kira]

We need more pasta!

[Annalisa]

Started a couple spell outs. I need a C to complete carrot. I saw there was another book for spell out but not sure of the characters. I used the author for an R but we still have one letter left.
I also started a spell out of Salad.
Letters we need to complete spell outs:
C, S, L, and A

[Char]

I've completed a couple of books, Ill update them tonight!

[Kira]

Annalisa wrote: "Started a couple spell outs. I need a C to complete carrot. I saw there was another book for spell out but not sure of the characters. I used the author for an R but we still have one letter left. ..."

I completed them!

[christene_littlelibrary]

6 days til the end of round 1
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

[Alaina]

This week has been crazy work wise. I’ll be able to go through my books and recipes this weekend. I was supposed to be on call but was told that I had off. So yay.

[Annalisa]

I’ll get my two pending books on this weekend. I was traveling for work and couldn’t do it.

[Annalisa]

I've started meals for my books.

We have a started sandwich, curry, and fish and chips with vinegar.

I was reading over the question and answers and we want to make sure our descriptions are exciting and enticing to improve our rating. For future rounds our rating is going to determine our customers.

[Kira]

I am so bad at this!!!! Annalisa, if you have some creative descriptions in mind please feel free to edit them as you wish!

[Kira]

Annalisa wrote: "I've started meals for my books.

We have a started sandwich, curry, and fish and chips with vinegar.

I was reading over the question and answers and we want to make sure our descriptions are exci..."

Ok so I finished the already started meals and added a few new as well. I used all the outstanding scavenger and spell it out books! We only need two more books for this round.

[Char]

I can do that!

I've read about 6,7 books this round, tho I couldnt get around to updating them

[Kira]

Woohooo! We ended up at 2nd place in the voting!

Top 3 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 "saffron", "truffle", or "caviar" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 2

[christene_littlelibrary]

Kira wrote: "Woohooo! We ended up at 2nd place in the voting!

Top 3 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 lo..."

Yey! Congrats team time to search for book for round 2... lmao

[Kira]

I am currently replacing some of my <300+ pages books with Alaina's longer books to get more ingredients lol!

[Kira]

Charanya wrote: "I can do that!

I've read about 6,7 books this round, tho I couldnt get around to updating them"

I updated them for you!

[Kira]

Round 1 Final Meals have been updated in the spreadsheet! We have a total of 136 finished meals for this round.

[Annalisa]

Thank you, Kira

[Kira]

I am now going through our customers and feeding them meals! :)

[Alaina]

So sorry for dropping the ball everyone! It was end of fiscal year this month and I just got slammed work wise. I’ll definitely be able to keep everything more up to date moving forward. September is typically my busiest month and everything else is a breeze.

[Kira]

No worries Alaina! September was trial and error since we all were first timers in the challenge, I think we'll do much better in October now!

[Kira]

Round 1 Meals Served

We had a total of 136 meals for 160 customers so 24 customers unfortunately left hungry.

We were able to serve all of 27 children, 31 teenagers and 29 adults. Meals were also served to 49 of 73 pensioners.

We don't have any leftovers, we also didn't use the 2 BOM meal swaps which will be carried over to round 2.

[Kira]

For Round 2, We should try and get all books with >301 page counts since we'll need atleast 180 meals judging by the customer count of round 1!

[Kira]

Round 2 Update:

What a mess!!!


All those pensioners eating the special... and they brought along their grandkids!!

Your restaurants are a complete mess and instagramers and tik-tok-ers are getting ready to move on. The only way to keep adults coming back next month is to create items to keep children entertained and quiet!

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 2 and attract more adults by finding the special ingredients as per your placing. Details here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Alaina]

Kira wrote: "For Round 2, We should try and get all books with >301 page counts since we'll need atleast 180 meals judging by the customer count of round 1!"

Okay sounds good. I can look for books with that page count or higher for sure.

[christene_littlelibrary]

All my recent books didn't reach 300 lmao I'll put them on ss at the end of the month if we still lack books to give space to higher pages books

[Annalisa]

My first read didn’t hit 300 either. I think we get more books this month so I think we should use everything we read to try and maximize the number of meals.

[Kira]

Yes, we should put everything on the ss for the moment atleast and if we go over 90 books, we'll start replacing shorter ones for 300+ pages!

[Annalisa]

Kira I was going over the meals so far. My reading of the rules is that a meal is either scavenger or spell it out. If spell out you would pick a word “sandwich” and spell that for your word. You would not have half a meal as spell out and half scavenger. Same goes for our books they should either be used for spell it out or scavenger but not both.

[Kira]

Oh I didn’t realise there was a rule like that, I’ll confirm in the qnA thread!

[Annalisa]

For scavenger books make sure you are checking for our words: caviar, saffron, and truffle. We will get more adults with meals that contain those words.

[Kira]

So far I haven’t found a single word in any of my books :((( but we’ll get more adults than the rest anyway because we placed second in “name and description” , I was thinking maybe we should make only 10 or something specials. Although they are 80 points for mere 3 ingredients, they also only feed children and will go to waste if we can’t find customers:(

[Kira]

I'll move around the meals to follow the spell out or scavenger rule! :)

[Kira]

Annalisa, I used your murderbot book for a different meal since we get 80 points for total of 20 games, it didn't seem wise to use 4 spell outs for a single game!

[Annalisa]

Kira wrote: "So far I haven’t found a single word in any of my books :((( but we’ll get more adults than the rest anyway because we placed second in “name and description” , I was thinking maybe we should make ..."

I think we are all going to get a mix of customers. We want to make sure we have meals for children as well as adults. I don't think the meals for kids will go to waste.

No problem moving things around.

[Annalisa]

I have three books that have letters for Spell outs. I'm having trouble creating works so I'm going to post here characters that haven't been used for each so they can be fit in. I'll think about it some more but not coming up with anything tonight.

Madness of the Horde King: (5 letters left)
Davik - character
Vienne - character
Viola - character
Eli - character
Maxen - character
Hedna - character
Rath Kitala - character
Lokkaru - character
Rath Tuviri - character
Rath Okkili - character

Broken by the Horde King: (2 letters left)
B - title
Z - author
Kiran - character
Addie - character
Maeva - character
Laru - character
Nevier - character
Gabe - character
Okkili - character

In the Garden of Beasts: (8 letters left)
i - title
Eric - author
Larson - author
Stephen Hoye - Narrator
William Dodd - character
Martha - character
Bill - character
Rudolf Diels - character
Hitler - character
Göring - character
Goebbels - character
Boris - character

[Kira]

I used them all and created a curry and a salad!

[Annalisa]

Thank you, Kira. I was really struggling to come up with food words that I could spell out.

[Kira]

We placed #5 after round 2 so

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

[Annalisa]

Hi Kira. Thanks for the update and all your doing to hold the team together. I was looking last night and saw we had a player who hadn’t posted in a while and was going to ask if anyone had heard from but I see you posted for a replacement already. Thank you!

[Kira]

Hi Annalisa! I realised we may not be able to complete our quota for this month and people were still requesting players so I went ahead and did it as well. I feel like we fell really short on the team aspect of this challenge sadly but as we know it, life happens and this is at the end only a challenge so..I hope all our team members are doing good.

[Alaina]

Hi everyone, I'm excited to a be a part of this group! I've never done this challenge before and while the directions are pretty confusing, this looks like a lot of fun and I hope I can get the hang of it :)

[Annalisa]

Welcome to the team Alaina!

[Kira]

Hi Alaina!! Feel free to add your books to the spreadsheet :)

[Annalisa]

I am absolutely horrible at the spell outs and I do not understand it. In case we need to fill in here is my book that isn't used yes.

Taken by the Hoard King by Zoey Dvaven (Horde Kings of Dakkar #5)

Characters:
Tess, Valvik, Benn, Wrune Rowin, Mina (nickname Sarkia), Kyl, Jacques, Emmi, Taylor, Hukri, Olin, Besik, Drokka

[Kira]

Thanks Annalisa!! I'll use them :)

[Annalisa]

I thought this would be a book with food but it isn't so here is another for spell outs.


Title: B
Author: Sarah McLean
Characters: Sesily Talbot, Sera, Haven, Caleb Calhoun, Jane Berry, Peter, Adelaide Frampton, Maggie O'Tiernen, Imogen Loveless, Duchess of Trevescan, Coleford, Fetu, Thomas Peck, Johnny Crouch, Oliver, Adam, Rose, Lorna, Seleste, Sophie, Seline

[Kira]

Added!