Employees waste money by overwriting items already on sale with newly produced items

[EllaEstella]

• Game Version: latest

• Platform: (Steam windows)

• Mods: none

• Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

• Steps to Reproduce: have an employee in your shop with the task to restock baked, cooked goods and if the display cases are only partly empty they overwrite the items already on sale by newly produced items. This is waste of money as the already produced items also had material costs and cannot be sold anymore through this action.

• Please provide the entire save file(s) from the date when the issue occurred.

  20260407-232437.zip (8.5 MB)

• Details:
  I would expect an employee to start cooking, baking etc. once a display case is empty and not permanently make new dishes and overwrite the ones already on sale by newly produced ones. Unfortunately this is what happens now quite frequently. The business has an increased cost for materials this way without the possibility to sell all produced goods as these are lost by the action of the employee. Thus I assume this is a bug and not intended behavior.

• See screenshot - employee with a newly cooked dish on her way, in the marked display case there are still 2 items for sale:

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• And now she is overwriting these items by placing the newly produced dishes in the display case:

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[NyushaDm]

The same thing is happening in my game. New save. No mods ever. There’s a food display stand in the flower shop. If Zoi has nowhere else to put finished bouquets, he puts them in the food display. On the wooden flower display, he puts food and removes finished bouquets. It looks like the game doesn’t distinguish between flower and food displays. Food that is divided into portions can no longer be displayed on the stand as a whole. New food or flowers are placed on the filled display and overwrite it.

[EllaEstella]

Exactly this. I also have the same with flowers and dishes / baked goods placed randomly in flower or food displays and the worst part is the overwriting.

If you look at the material costs of the business vs what has been sold it partly is not worth it as a lot of the food gets wasted. Also as the big food display only becomes available after reaching 4 stars you waste even more in the early levels of your shop as you always place only 4 portions for sale instead of the 8 which you cooked and the rest is simply gone. When the employee then overwrites it, even more.

As we cannot place whole dishes / cakes for sale anymore we also make less money per purchase per se.

Without doing lectures or massages in addition the shop would not be profitable anymore.

[NyushaDm]

This is a serious error that breaks the foundation of the game. The error needs to be fixed urgently. The business is non-functional. Broken.