Returning Food items to not be vendor registers [Opinion]

[Pendred]

Hello,

Once upon a time we removed the ability for properties to have food registers, in place of that we set up Shipment NPCs where people could order in food items (in bulk obviously), and then transport them to the property, and store them for selling to people. At the time, this was somewhat unpopular due to a few issues. Such as:

- Storage entities were frequently being wiped, which would mean people would spend many hours organizing stock and arranging deliveries, just for it to be wasted. This is no longer an issue as storages permanently persist.

- Having to have millions of storage lockers to store them in, making it difficult to effectively organize.

- Lazyness. But this is a task that should be delegated to lower ranking members.

- The old shipment system had dogshit configuration, so you couldn't order multiple at once.

- Whatever else, it was years ago I don't remember.

 

So we eventually reintroduced property vendors, but with a limit of 15 items. Today, I was reminded that we once had this system. Thinking about it, I realize that its reintroduction would come with many benefits, such as.

- Not having to rely on me or Canadian to get on and change vendors when you want something changed. Which is a lengthy process, getting approval from FL, making the UA ticket then waiting for us to change it.

- Being able to sell a wide range of food and drink items, instead of being limited to 15 pre-selected options.

- Boost of available roleplay - new hires can be assigned as delivery boys, restaurants will have to organize their stock and have dedicated people managing it, ensuring supplies stay available, and much much more.

 

We would make the following changes with this:

- We would create a new type of storage item, that has a much larger inventory space, but in return it would only be able to store food items. Thus resolving the issue of having to have 100 storage items. 

- We would update the Shipment NPC UI to have organized categories so it isn't all cluttered together (like it is now). There would be tabs, nice and organized.

- Shipment timing for food would also NOT be the same as drugs/guns. They would spawn immediately for collection.

 

So I wanted to see what you all think - would this be something you'd like to see? I cannot see any real downsides to this, other than lazyness / not wanting to RP. But maybe there are some - so by all means let me know if there are. Or perhaps there are other things that would need to be done alongside what I have proposed. Either way, please let me know your thoughts.

[Burner_xo]

Its aids waiting for people to get on to have to buy the baked goods I need for my bakery. HUGE +++++++++1

[KingJewMonaclu]

[calink]

More restaurant focused RP is always good

Also would love to see better vendor UI in general, categories and whatnot - assuming this would extend past just the food NPC?

+1 

[Bullets]

+1, I could actually use my company truck for pick ups/deliveries. 

[bingus]

+1 Bring back shubert trucks for this as well (possible lobster racket return??)

[Medinator]

45 minutes ago, Pendred said:

We would create a new type of storage item, that has a much larger inventory space, but in return it would only be able to store food items. Thus resolving the issue of having to have 100 storage items. 

just being safe and sure remember that there is a health department please make the storage a "Deep freezer" or something thats meant to store food obviously much love thx 

+1

[yummekoo]

30 minutes ago, Medinator said:

just being safe and sure remember that there is a health department please make the storage a "Deep freezer" or something thats meant to store food obviously much love thx 

+1

i thought they all got fired but yes +1!

[vasectomy]

2 hours ago, Pendred said:

Hello,

Once upon a time we removed the ability for properties to have food registers, in place of that we set up Shipment NPCs where people could order in food items (in bulk obviously), and then transport them to the property, and store them for selling to people. At the time, this was somewhat unpopular due to a few issues. Such as:

- Storage entities were frequently being wiped, which would mean people would spend many hours organizing stock and arranging deliveries, just for it to be wasted. This is no longer an issue as storages permanently persist.

- Having to have millions of storage lockers to store them in, making it difficult to effectively organize.

- Lazyness. But this is a task that should be delegated to lower ranking members.

- The old shipment system had dogshit configuration, so you couldn't order multiple at once.

- Whatever else, it was years ago I don't remember.

 

So we eventually reintroduced property vendors, but with a limit of 15 items. Today, I was reminded that we once had this system. Thinking about it, I realize that its reintroduction would come with many benefits, such as.

- Not having to rely on me or Canadian to get on and change vendors when you want something changed. Which is a lengthy process, getting approval from FL, making the UA ticket then waiting for us to change it.

- Being able to sell a wide range of food and drink items, instead of being limited to 15 pre-selected options.

- Boost of available roleplay - new hires can be assigned as delivery boys, restaurants will have to organize their stock and have dedicated people managing it, ensuring supplies stay available, and much much more.

 

We would make the following changes with this:

- We would create a new type of storage item, that has a much larger inventory space, but in return it would only be able to store food items. Thus resolving the issue of having to have 100 storage items. 

- We would update the Shipment NPC UI to have organized categories so it isn't all cluttered together (like it is now). There would be tabs, nice and organized.

- Shipment timing for food would also NOT be the same as drugs/guns. They would spawn immediately for collection.

 

So I wanted to see what you all think - would this be something you'd like to see? I cannot see any real downsides to this, other than lazyness / not wanting to RP. But maybe there are some - so by all means let me know if there are. Or perhaps there are other things that would need to be done alongside what I have proposed. Either way, please let me know your thoughts.

someone already made that suggestion dumbass

 

[DiscreetRavager]

I would like to see the ability to pick the amount of the ordered item.

+1

[Marshal]

+1 , more RP = Good , heard someone suggest a while back that factions should be locked out of eating their own food, not sure if thats possible but think it would enforce people actually going to restaurants instead of just eating from their own lockers

[B00STED]

With these changes, would we still be required to have either a restaurant or a repair shop? We  have the garage behind vacant shop #5, but don’t want to give up the food vender 

[Barry]

And we can have government shutdowns that prevent SNAP benefits for whiteshirts

[Zeus]

Seems like alot of work

[Eviddy]

Could make racket npc overflow with gun/attachment rackets would you keep the register (or some other npc) to order from?

like the old oil npc?

Edited November 4, 2025 by Eviddy

[Bullets]

2 hours ago, Eviddy said:

Could make racket npc overflow with gun/attachment rackets would you keep the register (or some other npc) to order from?

like the old oil npc?

Me when I don't read:

[Dick Grayson]

On 11/4/2025 at 2:13 PM, Eviddy said:

Could make racket npc overflow with gun/attachment rackets would you keep the register (or some other npc) to order from?

like the old oil npc?

+1 seems like a good idea 

can you read 
 

[eddiejohnson]

+1 

This is an incredible idea. It's sometimes rough being locked to only a few selections when you want to try and have specials. Would be great!

Edited November 6, 2025 by eddiejohnson
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[bioswales]

+1 
was thinking that this should be available to shitizens of new york (including working classes) 
however citizen classes would need to pay  more as they don't get a 'distributors price' not owning/working for a business, to keep restaurant prices competitive 

Edited November 10, 2025 by bioswales
adding more without a whole ass new post

[Omerta]

On 11/3/2025 at 3:44 AM, Marshal said:

+1 , more RP = Good , heard someone suggest a while back that factions should be locked out of eating their own food, not sure if thats possible but think it would enforce people actually going to restaurants instead of just eating from their own lockers

Problem there is that many of us would be eating from hotdog carts daily because 2/3 of the factions running restaurants are begging for conflict and don’t seem to grasp how the levels work. They refuse service, randomly kick people out after metagaming (knowing/assuming where they work) and kicking them out for no fucking reason with zero RP to precede it. Many of us try to “go out to eat” to absolutely no avail because there’s no incentive or necessity for these people to properly run their restaurants. You have to be at the mercy of whether or not people play in good faith and actually RP running their restaurants.

[Kyle Waladang]

On 11/5/2025 at 5:23 PM, Dick Grayson said:

+1 seems like a good idea 

can you read 
 

Grag is illiterate its ok its a work in progress. Anyways I think this is a cool idea it allows for more options and variety and gives newer employees and others another thing to do besides grind bricks or oil. It also pushes more resteraunt rp as others have said. +1 I think this could be a cool change

[Yoon]

+1

[BritishBarry]

+1 Bring the old days of getting shipments of watermelons back

[disco otsego]

I WOULD DEFINITLEY SUPPORT IT

[V1KING]

+1 Bring back the good ole days