CHEF! September 17, 2026 CHEF! Day 5 Iteration 46

Cooks Share the Prep Stations

Fixed a kitchen jam. A cook who leaves food on a prep station to fetch a plate keeps that station. Other cooks used to queue in front of it even when the second prep station was free, and could block the first cook from getting back for minutes.
Cooks now pick a free station when there is one, and switch to one that frees up while they wait.
Over 40 games of 15 minutes each, the kitchen got much faster: about 64 guests served and 5% lost, up from 61 and 9%. No game lost more than 15% of its guests, where the worst used to lose 31%.
The screenshot shows both prep stations in use: one cook preps a salad on the left while the circled cook brings a plate back to their own salad on the right.