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The Smoothie Market

JordanDMK

JordanDMK

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Everybodies favourite go-to meal. But do we all take forgranted how much of a curse it is to make them?

Currently:
4 Apples and 4 Oranges make 1 fruit smoothie sounds fair in the small numbers. But when you multiple these 4000 apples and 4000 oranges for just 1000 smoothie, it suddenly isn't very fair.
For a different perspective it will take 32crates of fruits to make 1000 smoothies.

For those of you who have spent time picking fruits and turning them into smoothies you know by now the time it takes for the value of the smoothie is not worth it. The only reason we still do it is because everybody wants smoothies.

I also want to point out we are drinking 4 apples and 4 oranges (obviously made into a smoothie) with one vicious gulp.

I propose:
2 Apples and 2 Oranges to make 1 fruit smoothie.

Aswell as taking away un-ripe fruit item. What is the actual point of this? If you fear people are going to survive off picked fruits then they're sacrificing their inventory space for like 10 apples when they could just have 2-3 smoothies.

Let me know your thoughts!
 
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I agree with experience Managing Limey's Juice & Smoothies, I believe the amount of time it takes to pick the vast amounts of fruit is not worth the efforts, or resources due to them being valued for so disgustingly cheap across the all stores, especially when comparing to how inflated the economy is; in the time it takes to pick 500 worth fruit smoothies (4000kg fruit), I could of made a lot more Banana and/or Limey's Smoothies.

I've even gone as far as to stop producing Fruit Smoothies as a whole due to this; and any stock we do have is ordered in, being sold above market avg.
JordanDMK said:
the time it takes for the value of the smoothie is not worth it.
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+1 This has been an issue with in our business for ages now. Fruit smoothies are just a ball ache. People wouldn't appreciate fruit smoothies to be more expensive than other smoothies, even though the time and effort is way higher to produce fruit smoothies than others.

My suggestion would be to reduce the fruit smoothie recipe to half of what it is now.
 
But halving the amount needed for the smoothies therefore doubling the amount of fruit smoothies would that not just make them cheaper?
 
the unripe is to add RP, the idea being if you want to ripen it you need to ask a shop to do that for you and then it gives that extra step

also if your going to do this you need to make a smoothie much much less effective unless you are going to add to the making of them like

2 apple
2 orange
1 water
1 honey
 
+1 fruit smoothies should be lowered to 2 of each fruit and maybe a water? to make it beneficial to us smoothie makers. Currently 32 boxes of fruit for 1000 fruit smoothies is quite frankly ridiculous imo. Hopefully we see some light at the end of this dark tunnel soon.
 
-1 I like the idea and do agree that 8 peices of fruit for one smoothie can make it extremely difficult to produce in bulk. but at the same time lowering that amount needed would just make it even cheaper and easier for businesses to lower their prices making what is arguably one of the only food items people buy turn into quite literally the only item of food places will want to stock as it is the meta and always has been, if this were to be put in place i would hope there is a nerf to the hunger and thirst smoothies give as without a nerf, smoothies would inevitably be sold for cheaper just making all other food items more pointless for players that just want something that fills their hunger and thirst with the least effort
 
Samuel Shire said:
the unripe is to add RP, the idea being if you want to ripen it you need to ask a shop to do that for you and then it gives that extra step

also if your going to do this you need to make a smoothie much much less effective unless you are going to add to the making of them like

2 apple
2 orange
1 water
1 honey
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Fruit smoothies are already less effective then other options, it just doesn't make sense considering the newer flavours (banana and limeys) are better and a lot easier to make. The water and honey sounds like a good alternative imo.
 
Larry Bones said:
But halving the amount needed for the smoothies therefore doubling the amount of fruit smoothies would that not just make them cheaper?
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the prices would obviously stay the same...
I was already contemplating boycotting fruit smoothies because it doesn't make sense no more
 
Samuel Shire said:
the unripe is to add RP, the idea being if you want to ripen it you need to ask a shop to do that for you and then it gives that extra step

also if your going to do this you need to make a smoothie much much less effective unless you are going to add to the making of them like

2 apple
2 orange
1 water
1 honey
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you still need to rp to make it into a smoothie?

I don't see why that is needed, Smoothies are the bread and butter of RPUK they shouldn't take a crazy time to make them for what little benefit you gain.

Just no, why complicate it. Smoothie prices would most likely stay the same they're already dirt cheap
 
JordanDMK said:
you still need to rp to make it into a smoothie?

I don't see why that is needed, Smoothies are the bread and butter of RPUK they shouldn't take a crazy time to make them for what little benefit you gain.

Just no, why complicate it. Smoothie prices would most likely stay the same they're already dirt cheap
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they should be made less usefull, people should need to eat and drink more normal foods
 
Make smoothies less good give other foods a chance to be up there and not just full englishs either. Pizza is like the only other food that gives and food and drink and its about the cheapest thing you can make or get in general. Big up Penguins pizza for the best pizza on the server :D
 
Not sure how I feel about this one, I think reducing the quantity of ingredients would be a nice QOL change.
I don't think removing the unripe fruit is the way to go as this would mean anyone can make smoothies without the need to build relationships with shop owners and then there is less RP needed.
 
Business owners should stop fighting to be the lowest and increase the price if the labor isn't worth the end product? Not sure the cost of a smoothie but the price has only decreased over the past 6 months, increase the price and you'll maybe then start making more on the production side? Lowering the receipt would only make the price drop lower no?

Maybe staff could create a similar scenario to the gas shortage but with fruits? Making other food/drink options more chance to be seen and used.
 
Jack Smith said:
Maybe staff could create a similar scenario to the gas shortage but with fruits?
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Or players could do it themselves. Organise as many shop owners as possible, met with other shop owners and fruit suppliers etc… try to agree on something. If 60% of shop owners were on board you’d need see a change and eventually others would realise people were willing to pay a higher price and put theirs up as well. …half the shop owners are crims anyway, anyone that’s not board could do with some convincing. All you need to get it started is a few shop owners that a fairly well known or likeable people
 
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