Primary tool

Restaurant Bottleneck Advisor

Check what can be handled now and what would still be waiting. Use the two queue results to decide what to inspect before making a purchase.

Shift inputs

Read four counts from your restaurant

Use the current screen, not remembered values from an older server.

Check shop affordability Optional

Enter the prices shown in your current shop. These values are never saved.

Queue snapshot

Your queue checks appear here

Enter the four required counts, then analyze. Empty fields stay unknown.

Seating gap = max(waiting customers − open usable seats, 0)
Cooking gap = max(waiting orders − idle usable stoves, 0)

Spare seats do not cancel a separate cooking queue. These counts do not rank upgrade value.

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Item references for your next purchase

Use the equipment and ingredient catalogs on GamesDataHub alongside the restaurant planning tools.

Player-input planning tools

Five planning tools with visible assumptions

The Grocery budget can load dated reference prices only after you choose them. Other tools use your entered values; missing fields never become a hidden zero.

Grocery budget

Choose items, then edit the quote

Select an item and its listed package. Enter your current Cash price, or deliberately load the catalog's September 14 reference quote. This tool does not fetch live shop prices or silently assume an older quote still applies.

Quantity means purchases of the selected listing, not servings or customers. Leave unused rows empty; finish or remove any row you have started before calculating.

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Item 1

No price entered

Item 2

No price entered

Item 3

No price entered

What the total means

Basket cost = the sum of each entered Cash price multiplied by the number of purchases. It excludes unentered items, Robux conversion, recipe profit and any promise of stock availability.

Reference-price example

Two Rice (25 kg), three Condiments and one Eggs (2 dozen) purchases: 180 × 2 + 120 × 3 + 120 × 1 = 840 Cash. This is an arithmetic example using archived quotes, not a current offer or recipe recommendation.

Are the reference values automatic?

No. Choose Use Sep 14 reference price to load a quote. Editing it marks the row as Your entered price. Clear basket removes your entries and result. Values are not sent to a site database or saved in browser storage.

Worker contract cost coverage

How many completed customers cover the contract?

Estimate how many completed customers would generate enough net Cash to cover an entered contract cost. This does not measure the extra profit created by hiring a Worker.

Customers needed = contract cost ÷ observed net Cash per completed customer, rounded up. Use net Cash after ingredient spending; do not subtract the one-time contract cost again. A hiring-payback comparison also needs comparable results with and without the Worker and the contract duration. Hypothetical example: 300 ÷ 20 = 15 customers.

Blank values stay unknown. Results appear only after every required field is supplied.

Time to cash

Project from your own observation window

The rate comes only from cash gained over minutes you observed.

Blank values stay unknown. Results appear only after every required field is supplied.

Decoration budget

Protect an operating reserve before buying cosmetics

You choose the reserve. The tool does not claim a correct amount or a decoration return.

Blank values stay unknown. Results appear only after every required field is supplied.

Transparent formula

Two queues, two checks

Seating gap = max(waiting customers − open usable seats, 0)

Cooking gap = max(waiting orders − idle usable stoves, 0)

Seating gap is the number of waiting customers left after the open usable seats are filled. Cooking gap is the number of waiting orders left after the idle usable stoves are assigned. A larger raw count does not establish which purchase would earn more or save more time.

Worked example

Seven customers and three seats

Seven waiting customers and three usable open seats leave four customers without seats after assignment. Two waiting orders and two idle usable stoves leave no unstarted order in this simplified snapshot. Check the seating queue after the open seats are used.

More seats than waiting customers

Two waiting customers and five open seats leave a seating gap of zero. Three waiting orders and one idle usable stove leave a cooking gap of two. Spare seats do not cancel the separate cooking queue.

Before you buy

What this advisor deliberately leaves out

The tool does not estimate cook speed, customer patience, profit per minute, payback time, star gain, or a guaranteed outcome. Those values are not stable enough to claim. Use the result as a shift check, then compare it with the current shop and your restaurant layout.

FAQ

Calculator questions

What does this calculator measure?

It estimates the work left in each queue after the immediately available capacity is used.

Should I buy the upgrade for the larger number?

The numbers describe different queues. First use available capacity, check blocked paths or unfinished tasks, and see which queue keeps returning.

Which stoves should I count?

Count idle stoves that can start a waiting order now. Leave out stoves already cooking.

Is this official Karinderya game math?

No. It is a transparent operational heuristic based only on the counts you enter from the current shift.

Does the calculator know current shop prices?

No. The Grocery budget offers an optional dated catalog quote, clearly labelled and editable. It is not a live shop feed.

What if both queues have the same remaining count?

Treat them as separate observations. Use available capacity and check which task keeps waiting; equal counts do not mean equal waiting times or upgrade value.

What other Karinderya calculators are included?

Menu progress, a named-item Grocery budget, Worker contract cost coverage, time-to-Cash and decoration budgeting. They do not model hidden game rules.

Are my calculator values saved?

No. The tools run in the current browser page and do not send the entered game values to a site database.