CHEF! September 16, 2026 CHEF! Day 4 Iteration 22

A Dishwasher in the Default Crew

A new game now starts with a dishwasher (the blue apron at the kitchen sink) alongside the hostess, two servers, the busboy and two cooks.
Before this, only a dishwasher was allowed to wash dishes, but the opening crew didn't include one, so a default game never washed a single plate and its clean-plate stock drained to zero within ten minutes. Across ten test games, the lowest the stock now gets is 22 of 30.
Worth knowing: running out of plates doesn't yet stop anyone being seated, so the dishwasher doesn't change how many guests get served; it keeps the dish pit sane and costs its $6/min wage (about $60 less money after ten minutes).