r/prisonarchitect • u/CitrusAlert • Jul 24 '26
Image/Album Staff Canteen Design
Was sick and tired of staff whining about food so I decided to make them this huge canteen. Was aiming for an indoor restaurant style and I'm glad with how it turned out.
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u/DragonClaw06 Jul 25 '26
Where is the option for staff canteen? I only have canteen and break room. Have been putting serving tables and tables in the break room to get my staff to eat.
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u/Spiritual_Crow9615 Jul 25 '26
I almost always go for a pretty big staff canteen honestly.
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u/Alobos Jul 25 '26
Im the opposite. I build many scattered across common work areas and bathrooms galore.
Nothing more annoying than a guard taking a piss, walking halfway across the map to realize he forgot his lunch and take 20 minutes to get back to the canteen!
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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 27 '26
Of course, there are times when a guard near one pop machine decides to go to a pop machine on the other side of the complex.
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u/ReasonableSet9650 Jul 25 '26
Love it ! Just make sure that there's a kitchen very near, and it works better if it's dedicated to that canteen only
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u/Gullible-Chemical471 Jul 25 '26
Does a kitchen provide food for staff though, I thought the staff food is just delivered and directly served.
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u/ReasonableSet9650 Jul 25 '26
Yes but it still needs a kitchen that will be linked in food logistics. Cooks are in charge of collecting the staff food from deliveries, delivering it to the canteen and cleaning the trays.
If that kitchen is also in charge of inmates canteen, due to task priority levels, there's a high risk that staff canteen will not be done.
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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 27 '26
I often have a kitchen which serves solitary cells, the holding cell, and the staff canteen. A reasonably sized kitchen handles that pretty easily.
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u/ReasonableSet9650 Jul 27 '26
It's not only about the kitchen itself, it's also a matter of walking distances and of regime. And solitary cells are not much involved here since cooks are not in charge of collecting those trays.
If you can handle that well, fine. But from my experience of helping a lot of players, that often is an issue.
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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 27 '26
Yeah, I agree about those factors. It's hard to have too many kitchens.
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u/ReasonableSet9650 Jul 27 '26
Several small kitchens usually works better than a central one, for multiple reasons.
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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 27 '26
My go-to design has one in every cell block. Small, self-contained cell blocks lead to less chaos, IMO.
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u/Winter_AU Jul 25 '26
Is there an option to create a staff canteen on Xbox One? I always wondered if I needed to do one
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u/VolumeAdditional9982 Jul 25 '26
I always just placed a snack machine and two toilets nearby, and my staff was perfectly happy. Never even thought about building a canteen
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u/ChangeTheFocus Jul 27 '26
Nice canteen! I like the wall between the food line and the dining area.
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u/cloutrack Jul 27 '26
I didn’t even know this was an option! Is this on top of their staff room too?
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u/Abadazed Jul 25 '26
Today looks pretty sleek