CHEF! September 16, 2026 CHEF! Day 4 Iteration 37

The Dishwasher Is a Machine You Place

The dishwasher machine is now its own one-tile station. Buy it with "+ Dishwasher ($60)" in the furniture card, place it and turn it like any other station. It used to be a small item you put on a counter.
When one is placed and its front is clear, the dishwasher (the worker) loads each batch into the machine instead of washing by hand at the sink. The machine washes twice as fast. Its window fills with suds and a green light comes on while it runs, and the worker shows "RUNNING THE DISHWASHER".
If the machine's front is blocked, the dishwasher goes back to the sink.
The rest of the dish round is unchanged: dirty plates from the bin, washed, then into the rack by the sink.
The default restaurant doesn't include a machine, so a normal game plays exactly as before: about 61 guests served and 9% lost. With one placed in the kitchen, the same test games serve about 62 and lose about 6%.
In the before shot (090), the old counter-top dishwasher sits unused while the sink does the washing. In the after shot (091), a placed machine runs a load.
The animated clip (113, recorded on v0.0.50 with a machine built into the back counter) follows one round: four dirty plates fetched, the machine running with suds in its window, and the plates racked.