Nivalis Nights restaurants, menus and staff

Restaurants need ingredients, recipes, equipment and staff to work together. Before expanding your business, check that the dishes you offer can actually be prepared from the supplies in that venue’s kitchen.

Build a menu you can supply

The food selection includes meat, fish and seafood, salads, sandwiches, pizza, soups, desserts, snacks and drinks. Each dish requires its recipe, ingredients and appropriate equipment. Official examples include Cola Chicken, Summer Salad, Meridian Pizza and VegCoffee.

Treat the menu as a shopping checklist: inspect the recipes you want to serve, then stock the kitchen for those dishes. Buying something into your personal inventory is different from supplying a venue.

For each dish, check three things before spending on a larger menu:

Check	What to look for
Recipe	The dish you want to prepare and its required ingredients
Kitchen stock	Those ingredients in this venue’s inventory, rather than another kitchen or your personal inventory
Equipment	The equipment the recipe needs in the venue that will serve it

Start with dishes you can keep supplied reliably. Adding variety is useful only when the kitchen can prepare the new orders; a smaller working menu gives you fewer supply problems to track while learning the business.

Hire help as the venue grows

The April 2025 development blog described managers becoming available when a venue reaches level 3. Their responsibilities include restocking ingredients, supporting staff efficiency and morale, and collecting greenhouse goods. Budget for their salaries when deciding whether to delegate.

Managers complement the work of your other employees; they are especially useful when your time is split between several locations and story quests.

Before hiring, decide which job you need help with: buying ingredients, supporting the staff or using your greenhouse produce. Then compare the salary with the money you need for stock and the next venue upgrade. Delegating supplies can free time for quests, but check the kitchen after a manager’s purchase instead of assuming every ingredient shortage has been resolved.

When a kitchen runs short

Start with the affected dish. Check its ingredients and equipment, then look in that venue’s kitchen inventory. If the supplies are in another inventory, buying a second batch may leave the original problem unchanged.

Choose the replacement supply that fits the dish: visit an ingredient vendor, use suitable greenhouse produce, or keep a fish catch for seafood recipes. Compare current prices before shopping; the January 2025 blog describes newspaper reports about fishing seasons and droughts affecting availability and prices.

What changed on October 1

The first post-launch patch improved the workflow for staff taking orders, including repeated orders when ingredients required restocking. It also improved how managers buy ingredients and corrected business and barter skill levelling.

If your staff appeared to repeat an order or your skills did not progress as expected, first check that Steam has installed this update.

For another supply route, read greenhouses and ingredients.

Sources: official menu introduction, manager development blog, January 2025 blog and October 1 patch.