There's no
need to go shopping every day and tear your hair out about unreliable suppliers
and ingredients you can't get hold of. Just open
your own central warehouse. You'll find it on the city map. Having a central
warehouse of your own makes you independent of suppliers. You can store all the
ingredients you need in large amounts and distribute them to your various
restaurants when they need anything. The
warehouses are cooled, so the ingredients stored there won't go off.
Opening a
central warehouse opens up even more interesting possibilities. You can start
to trade internationally, and as soon as you have a warehouse in two cities you
can start to import and export between the cities.
You enter
your warehouse in the same way as you enter a restaurant, with a double click.
The stock control is done in the same way as the stock-keeping at your
restaurants. You'll also find a warehouse book which shows the total capacity
of all the warehouses you own in this city.
As well as
the keys for the groups of ingredients, you will see another key for weapons.
Click on one of the keys to open the page to the required category. As well as
the ingredients themselves, the quality, the amount stored, the total demand
from all the restaurants and the value are also indicated. You also
have two further keys, SHOPPING and SELL. These keys allow you to choose your
suppliers, as you did at your restaurant.
After you
have chosen a supplier you will move to the Central Buying or Selling Menu. As you did
when you were shopping for the restaurants, you can choose the amount you
require by using the left and right mouse button and then confirm the purchase
by clicking on the OK (THUMBS UP) key. When you are setting the amount with one
mouse button, the other one speeds up the rate at which the amount changes. When you
sell goods you will get approximately 80% of the retailer's purchase price. You
can only sell goods to a retailer that is equal to or better than the quality
of his own goods.
3.9.1 Export
Choosing
the EXPORT key brings up the map of Europe. Click on the city to which you want
to export goods from the last category you chose. Before you can export goods
you must already have a central warehouse in the city. The
contents of the warehouses in both cities will now be shown. Select the amount
you want to export or import. Transport costs are S200 per 100 km.
You can
only export a product if it is free from any export restrictions.
3.9.2 Delivery Priority
With the
DELIVERY PRIORITY key you can choose the order in which you want the different
restaurants of your chain to be supplied. The first restaurant on the list will
receive deliveries first, then the second and so on. This priority will become
important when certain goods in your central warehouse start to run low. Click on
the restaurant which you want to be supplied first.
3.9.3 Weapons Store
If, after
clicking on the central warehouse, you press the CACHE key instead of choosing
any of the product groups, you will move to the secret store of weapons in the
warehouse. You can
install one secret store of weapons in each of your warehouses. You can store illegally
acquired weapons and collect them from the warehouse. You should only carry
weapons on your person when you need them for immediate use, or intend to sell
or export them.
