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Managing your Tavern inTravellers Restcomes with its challenges. The way you respond to your customers will make or break your reputation. You need to tend to their needs and provide them with the best service if you don’t want them badmouthing your place.
Building up your reputation is important as it will allow you to further develop your bar with Skill points and Recipe fragments. As your place grows, you will find pleasing your customers much harder. There are various factors that you need to take into consideration if you are trying to run a well-reputed place.
Keep Your Tavern Clean
It’s important toensure cleanlinessin your Tavern, as no one will want to enjoy their meals surrounded by filth. Keep your bar hygienic as soon as you see dirt, even before you see your customers complaining about it. A dirty Tavern willnegatively affect your reputation.
If you have built some guest rooms, you should also keep them clean to increase your reputation.Guests will refrain from stayingin dirty rooms.
To quickly clean your Tavern while it is open for business, ensure to have your mop equipped at all times.
Manage Your Tavern’s Temperature
Customers won’t want to stay in a place that is uncomfortable for them. So, make sure that yourbar temperature isn’t harshon your patrons. Watch out for thehotandcold icons on the bottom right of your screento know your Tavern’s temperature. If it is cold, light up the fire by using Firewood in the fireplace.
Firewood can be obtained by chopping trees and then crafting it on the Stump With Axe.
Ensure Customer’s Comfort
Get some comfortable decorations for your tavern. An embellished place will be more appealing to your customers. You also need to make sure that yourdining tables are well-lit. You can craft some simpleCandle Holdersat your crafting table for additional comfort. We also recommend you havea few candles in your toolbarbelow, so you can lighten up the table again if your candle runs out.
you’re able to also read texts that appear over customer’s heads to know their feedback on your services.
Do Not Get Too Many Customers
It is best tokeep only a single tablein your Tavern until you get used to the gameplay. Managing two tables loaded with customers can be very hard. If you areunderstaffed, a lot of your customers willend up waitingfor your services, which will negatively impact your reputation.
Do not hesitate to call for “Last Orders” during rush hour. It’s better to focus on the service for your current customers for a better reputation, instead of taking in new orders. Never close your restaurant with customers around, as forcing them to leave decreases reputation
If you have two or more tables, we recommend youhire some waiters or bartendersto help you manage the bar.Hire some housekeeperswho will help you with additional duties that come from managing guest rooms.
Deal With Unruly Customers Quickly
Unruly customers can be a real pain to deal with, asthey can disturb other customersaround them. As soon as you see an upset customer, you need totend to themandtry to calm the situation down.If they are still unsatisfied and try to cause a scene, do not hesitate tomake them leave your Tavernby hitting them with your mop.
Expand Your Menu
You cannot rely on gruel and water forever, and to truly become a fine dining tavern, you need towork on your menu. Selling better wine and food will also improve your reputation greatly. Focus on gettingadditional equipment from Amos' Tavenin the town so you’re able to start trying out recipes that require processed ingredients.
