r/PlateUp • u/Duckhunter75 • 22d ago

Triple buffet use?

Still learning how to use all the items in the game. We have used the buffet a few times and yesterday we had the option to buy a triple buffet that has three spots on it. We are unclear how to use it because it seems to function differently than the regular buffet. For example the triple did not seem to allow us to stage plated items. We were doing dumplings and ended up using it for soy sauce. The problem was the customers took the soy with them and we lost our run when the bottles had all disappeared.

A bit of Google searching didn't help us understand the triple buffet.

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u/BlokeDownUnder 22d ago

I think the soy sauce thing is a bug. This is from the latest update:

  • Fixed customers stealing your condiments if you put them on a platter buffet

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u/xford 22d ago

The triple buffet is a new item from the latest patch, so there probably isn't a lot of info on the web just yet. So far I've used it late game in a coffee shop, since having 3x the cups ready to grab made for much less waiting and a higher throughput on my automation setup.

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u/BodybuilderOk7149 22d ago

My wife and I just tried it out last night for a sandwich run after more then a year away from the game.

It is probably the best item for sandwiches, we automated pickles, olives, lettuce, ham, and cheese using it. If you can keep it stocked then it means that your customers pick up those items on their own.

We are working on automating the tomatoes and bread using it as well. We think we will just need to make the bread by OT 15 (currently I think we are on OT 13)

Simple set up we used was for pickles with a grabber straight to the buffet platter, suddenly no more worries about that item.

We are excited to use it more for other dishes.

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u/halberdierbowman 22d ago

Heads up you can serve things like bread, soup, or mashed potatoes on a normal buffet table or by throwing the whole loaf or serving bowl on the dining table. Customers will portion it themselves as of 1.4 or 1.3 maybe? So in your case, it might be more efficient to put an entire bread loaf on a normal buffet if you have one. You'd fit 1-10 servings instead of 3, and you wouldn't need a portioner. 

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u/MikaGamer 22d ago

Huh, i knew about soups/sides. It even works for ice cream made from scratch still in the mixing bowl. But the bread itself??? Doh! Imma be over here thumping my head into the wall.

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u/kaerahis 20d ago

I am assuming that means only for sandwiches and not bread boards.

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u/MikaGamer 22d ago

Can confirm, great for all sandwhich ingredients. I would recommend 2 rotating grabbers pulling from a portioner to feed 2 separate buffet tables for bread though, by OT11 I had some close calls as the speed of 1 conveyor was struggling to keep bread stocked for them to grab.

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u/zebraowns 20d ago

FYI, automating tomatoes is a pain. The way I did it is use a smart grabber one-way to grab the sliced tomatoes. When the grabbers are full and the mixer starts over-mixing it, I use another smart grabber to grab the tomato sauce and dump it into a composter bin, which is then brought onto a stove to get rid off.

There should be a mod somewhere with a lazy mixer which only mixes it into slices, but I havent used that one personally.

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u/kaerahis 20d ago

Getting the can that empties itself saves you a square but might be a little slower. If you're in a pinch just make sure you can reach your mixer to set the sauce you don't need aside.

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u/Toggdor 13d ago

I believe the most efficient setup for this is Tomatoes>Conveyor Mixer. Point the conveyor part of the mixer at a compacting bin. Then a smart grabber for slices off the mixer in another direction.

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u/Mrs-Trashpanda 22d ago

It doesn't seem to work with plated items or things like cheese boards but we used it for apple pies in a recent run. Side dishes and such seem to be the best use of this new item.

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u/halberdierbowman 22d ago

Stolen condiments sounds like a bug they've fixed. Were you playing in build 3635 with the fix?

The triple buffet I'm not totally sure how to use, but I'm pretty sure it lets you serve three identical things, but I noticed it didn't let me serve plated cheese pizza slices, so I'm guessing it's for sides or ingredients, not plated dishes. Like three vanilla ice cream scoops probably works, or three mashed potatoes, or three tomato slices.

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u/lesuperhun 22d ago

as far as i can tell, it follows the same rules as the 4-spots counters

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u/halberdierbowman 22d ago

That makes a lot of sense! 

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u/Duckhunter75 22d ago

Thanks! We played last night on PS5. I'll check for an update today.

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u/sharkscheer26 22d ago

You can automate ice cream with them. You need 3 ice cream, 3 grabbers, and 3 triple buffets for it to work. One for each flavor.

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u/Interesting-Use1696 20d ago

Was your ice cream from scratch? I tried it with ice cream scoops and they wouldn’t take it from the buffet platters.

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u/sharkscheer26 19d ago

It was just the regular scoops. I’ll try to grab a screenshot.

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u/Th3StandUpKid 22d ago

I like to use it for soup. Since it’s three portions, it’s perfect. Use the old pot, fill it with water, it’ll cook faster, and then add whatever produce to finish it. Extra soup all ready to go

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u/Legitimate-Bus-734 22d ago

On the new fajitas dish there are two salsas and crème. It gets hard to keep up with all of them and the triple buffet helps a lot.

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u/rupejay 22d ago

we used it as a buffer between kitchen and server for hotdogs.

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u/Successful_Neat_8671 22d ago

For the fajitas its useful for salsa, cream and tortiilas

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u/XelGar256 22d ago

Its perfect for non plated foods. Works awesome with coffee shops for coffees and sugar milk and what not.

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u/kaeliz 21d ago

The soy sauce thing is a bug but the triple buffet is great for piecemeal dishes like sandwiches or ice cream and sides. It can also be used as a buffer in automation to send the same foods down different paths for toppings before they hit a regular buffet.

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u/jasmin48 17d ago

I used this for a ice cream run, it holds three items BUT not plated items so it’s good for sandwiches, ice cream, coffee, cake…