So the staff canteen runs out of clean trays for guards to use. Languages: A tray upon which a prisoner places food. I built a whole new prison (unlimited funds) and included a staff canteen. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. The problem is, none of my kitchens clean the dirty trays so they. . That's if there. In the Kitchen, cooks also wash. One of the goals that shows up in your checklist is to feed all your prisoners. Cooks are automatically. . But my cooks are not collecting/cleaning the dirty trays. I feel like this has been brought up a number of times. Loading the December 2018 version of Prison Architect (still provided in the Steam beta branch) has neither of these issues; loading the save in this version causes the guards to immediately start moving, and the Tazer Certification problem does not happen. eg. My staff start beating people to death because of this. I've noticed a food worker bringing a food tray to a deathrow inmate, no worries i continued on with what i was doing, next day i noticed 2 food workers back to back with food trays, then i noticed those food trays were coming from the tables during cleanup, i watch where they are going with it, and on top of the toilet in one of my deathrow inmates cells, is 50+. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their food need. Theres around 15 cooks just roaming idle in my kitchens not doing anything. The problem is that now, the pile appears to be stuck. You can remedy it by dumping trays. The. #2. . I have done everything possible, but it doesn't work. you can place a bin in your kitchen, where your cooks and workers can collect the waste first. I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. - I have enough staff/sinks - sinks are not blocked in any way Any tips/fixes? Thanks!Hey, i have the Problem, that some of my prisoners take their tray after eating with them and throw them everywhere in my prison (visitor room, outdoors, floors. So the staff canteen runs out of clean trays for guards to use. The best mods to add to Prison Architect that are only slightly deviate from vanilla gameplay without major new industries such as manufacturing, limo garage and server racks. Ingredients arrive in a delivery truck and are then transferred from the deliveries to the fridges by the cooks. It is stated in the tooltip of the "Prison Labor". I'm having a problem with dirty clothes. Languages: A tray upon which a prisoner places food. I also only have 5 workmen. A Cook is a staff member of the prison whose main task is to cook food for the Prisoners. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour). I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. 1. . Īfter a prisoner has finished eating, they will leave their dirty food tray on the table and, if the eat regime is over, will proceed out of the. Trixi Jul 30, 2016 @ 10:30pm. . I tried a few of the solutions (check if the laundry room is correctly enclosed, put every path between. Prison Architect How to: Get staff to eat! Prison Architect 2. This is kinda buggy. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty. I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. cooks keeps pilling the tray's in the middle of the room instead of washing them or throw them away! and even if i give the order to dump them and cant sell them, i was able to unglitch two others stacks i add pilled up in a door ways by demolishing evrything around, well i think thats what made it unglitch, but this middle room stack i. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. it is connected just no sink. . In my prison, the employees' dirty trays are regularly piled up, at some point individual trays are no longer picked up and suddenly the queue is in the task list. I know that this has been a bug for a long time, but it really bothers me that I can literally catch the Cooks just dumping trays randomly in hallways or near the walls of my staffroom. BC Corrections operates 10 correctional centres throughout the province that house an average of 2,400 individuals at secure, medium and open security levels: Alouette. You can see a chef bringing another one to add to the. Frazzledragøn the Trustworthy Jan 22, 2016 @ 2:23pm. So my chefs aren't collecting the dirty trays in my staff area. Members Online • migueldasrussia . Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. from Yard, Laundry or just random hallways. All Discussions. The used trays are piled up after the meal and get cleaned by a Cook if there is time. So as several players have noticed. The prison has 2 canteens and the other one is not having this problem, could having 2 have caused it somehow? Also this has occured on multiple prisons. There are dirty food trays everywhere and my Prisoners stopped eating. This modpack has officially been released to the public after 8 months and 5. Jump to latest Follow Reply. 11. Your WORKMEN bring food to staff canteen, NOT cooks. . . Forums. I've tried unselecting dump and reselecting it. PotatoeTater • 6 yr. My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. Prisoners keep carrying their food trays out of the canteen and eating in common rooms and the yard etc, basically wherever they can get to that has any kind of seating. They hold up the break rotation for everybody else, which pisses them off. If there are not enough clean trays at the serving table, meals will not be. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty. For whatever reason, I continue to get dirty trays in both my yard and my common room, and I'm unsure how to get them to be automatically picked up and either dumped or brought back to. Dumping them seems to not work, it says . I know that this has been a bug for a long time, but it really bothers me that I can literally catch the Cooks just dumping trays randomly in hallways or near the walls of my staffroom. Mighty Mar 22, 2015 @ 12:43pm. Cooks won't take aways the dirty trays, guards won't take the food, the serving tables are not getting filled even if I have only one staff canteen. Lets start solving that problem. zach@ruardveltmanarchitecture. Add a sink. Ingredients? [verification needed] Needed in the Kitchen to cook meals. after manually dumping stacks and stacks of used food trays I increased the amount of cooks to get rid of the used food trays before the next mealand wash them and then the problem sort of diminished/disappeared. Empty trays left wherever I have seating…. I've. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their food need. Also subscribe if you do not want to m. Either they were still designated to the canteen and so the canteen was over the maximum trays for the size of canteen, or it was so crowded there it was. Games. . Basically, have 1 serving table per 40 prisoners, 4 cookers & 1 sink per serving table, 1-2 fridges per cooker, and 1 cook per cooker/sink. -Regular, long breaks. and after Eat time the cooks will start collecting the dirty trays and wash them. Felyne • 1 yr. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. The cons will help you prepare the meal and also help clean up afterwards. But my cooks are not collecting/cleaning the dirty trays. Jul 19, 2020. All of which with. Oak benches finally working - yay! But oak tables don't really. But my cooks are not collecting/cleaning the dirty trays. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. I do think it's the trays because there is loads of them left in the canteen with eaten food. Does anyone else have this problem?Cooks will not collect dirty trays from the staffrooms to wash them in the kitchen. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. In Prison Architect, when the AI gets unhappy it starts a riot. . Cooks don't clean trays just because they are dirty, I think they are just topping off what the serving tables need. DeDodgingEse • 2 yr. ago. - I have 6 cooks and it is enough - cuz they just stand when there is no work for em - Cooks do clean food trays from Canteens - There is enough sinks for tray cleaning - Yes, I do have cook labour - I found that I need. My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. But my cooks are not collecting/cleaning the dirty trays. EPISODE 10 in this Lets Play for Prison ArchitectPrison Architect. She has turned out to be a junkie meth using, lying, blackmailing, cop calling, thieving S1V+ with a huge gambling addiction! Watch out Sarnia, as when this one doesn’t get her way,. . Cooks don't clean trays just because they are dirty, I think they are just topping off what the serving tables need. . So these abandoned food trays are just sitting there, and they arent being picked up again or cleaned or dumped. So as several players have noticed. So the staff canteen runs out of clean trays for guards to use. No trays for my staff or prisoners, I have already had 2 riots because lack of food for both. Your staff will prefer to eat in the Staff Canteen, but can eat their meals in a Staff Room until you have all of the prerequisites for one. EnigmaticRose4 Jan 2 @ 5:08pm. They pile up (but not as stacks, just as separate items so no easy dumping) and nobody takes them to clean at the kitchen. What it should do in my opinion, is have a minimum of example 50% staff food of your total staff. Solved. I know that this has been a bug for a long time, but it really bothers me that I can literally catch the Cooks just dumping trays randomly in hallways or near the walls of my staffroom. • 3 yr. . Prison Architect Calculator (Version 2. A cook (or prisoner if prison labor is enabled and qualified prisoners are available after mealtime) will walk up to a sink carrying a stack of dirty food trays and proceed to clean the trays with what appears to be scrubbing brush. Then, I installed a sink in the. No Food Delivery - Help Please : (. After hiring about 15 of them they all rushed my staff-room en masse and started organizing dirty trays and taking them to the cooks. I feel like this has been brought up a number of times. . I know dirty tray not being cleaned by cooks has been asked multiple. I have to manually delete and reinstall the water surface beneath the bridge so that the. . My prison has 2 kitchens and both. Either to your kitchen or a tiny staff sink room next to the staff canteen. Make sure all is connected properly and add a sink to the staffroom. The meal quantity will affect the amount of food each hungry prisoner will consume and therefore the amount of meals your Cooks will have to prepare. So as several players have noticed. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. When a cook is carrying a dirty food tray back to be washed in a sink, if they drop it for any reason (going on break being the most common) they will drop the food tray. There are plenty of cooks to clean them and washing sinks. Otherwise they will be disposed of and clean ones bought after every meal. Prison Architect. So I have about 3 canteens and 2 of them never get enough trays! This has been a problem that I've noticed for a while now. Prisoner will take a clean food tray and put cooked ingredients on it. Does anyone else have this problem?If your canteen is littered with trays, you need at least one more trash bin in the area. I do this adding/linking on pause to prevent the canteen from going active without demand, which consequently keeps all the trays in the new canteen from immediately getting transfer orders to the old canteen, which does show a demand. Bug report: staff meals, luxury need and more. My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. from Yard, Laundry or just random hallways. Prison Architect - Support & Bug reports. Consider placing a Tray Dispenser in the canteens to avoid running out or trays Female prisoners will eat at a nursery instead of a canteen. I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. #1. . Sinks are required in every Kitchen and need a Water Supply. The workaround: Assign the floor, with the piled up food trays to the kitchen and cooks will jump from everywhere and remove it / clean it. Either to your kitchen or a tiny staff sink room next to the staff canteen. Spoiled ingredients will be put in bags of garbage. THE PROBLEM: cooks stack dirty trays to a big stack (usually a stack of 14 or 18 trays) on top of a table in the canteen, but never haul that stack to the kitchen sink. Now even before the prisoners have arrived, I have about 300 dirty trays that I don't need. mod. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their food need. I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. I've noticed a food worker bringing a food tray to a deathrow inmate, no worries i continued on with what i was doing, next day i noticed 2 food workers back to back with food trays, then i noticed those food trays were coming from the tables during cleanup, i watch where they are going with it, and on top of the toilet in one of my deathrow inmates cells, is 50+. Dumping them seems to not work, it says . Don't warn me again for Prison Architect. any ideas how to solve this?I feel like this has been brought up a number of times. . . Observations: 1. 1 Lowers N/A Requires: Water Yes Sinks are used by the Cooks to wash dirty food trays . they still need a staffroom to rest but now I don't have loads of dirty trays all over the place and my staff members aren't constantly pissed off even though I let 40% of them take a break at a time. The second issue, which I mentioned in my previous post, also affecting my previous save as well as this new one, is that the Guard Tazer Certification is supposedly "outside a valid Work regime" when I change the timeslot despite being in the same room, when guards are supposed to be unaffected by this (with them having no work regime). THE PROBLEM: cooks stack dirty trays to a big stack (usually a stack of 14 or 18 trays) on top of a table in the canteen, but never haul that stack to the kitchen sink. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty. By: murgh. Each of the following objects increase or decrease its grading by 1 point: 2 if canteen serves high quality meals. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. . I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. Cooks likely to ignore the fact, that the staff canteen ran out of trays, and they won't refill it. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty trays. Hello, folks! I've created a giant staffrom, however, they are unable to eat. The Reception room is where your prisoners will be sent when they arrive at your prison. . Dumping them seems to not work, it says . One meal consists of one to three ingredients, depending on the Policy settings. temporarily. Cooks don't clean trays just because they are dirty, I think they are just topping off what the serving tables need. The. Or check it out in the app storesI've noticed a food worker bringing a food tray to a deathrow inmate, no worries i continued on with what i was doing, next day i noticed 2 food workers back to back with food trays, then i noticed those food trays were coming from the tables during cleanup, i watch where they are going with it, and on top of the toilet in one of my deathrow inmates cells, is 50+. When staff are eating at regular tables, dirty trays are stacking on the tables. I had enough cooks because they were standing around with nothing to do in nonpeak periods while these dirty trays laid around outside. Prison Architect Second Chances Expansion, The Pit Update Available Now . However, fence walls can be climbed by strong prisoners on their own, whilst perimeter walls always require a rope. Yes, the food is fully stocked. - I have enough staff/sinks - sinks are not blocked in any way Any tips/fixes? Thanks!I feel like this has been brought up a number of times. Okay, earlier on I had the trouble of getting my cooks to clean up all the dirty trays in the staff room. Reason: The limited amount of food trays in a staff canteen don't get cleaned. try the spare foodtrays mod - it spawns a bunch of dirty trays on a single tile, they get collected, washed and you have more trays to put on serving tables #9 < > Showing 1-9 of 9 comments62 votes, 24 comments. Hello, I made this account to especially post on the forum here about the state of PA. any ideas how to solve this?My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. 0005835: [AI & Behaviour] Piles of dirty clothing not being dealt with. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty. I even tried different tools for the problem but the dirty objects can't be removed no matter what I do, whether dismissing cooks, tearing everything down and. When the Regime says it's time for a meal, the prisoners will rush to the canteen, grab a Food Tray with food and head to the benches. A cook (or prisoner if prison labor is enabled and qualified prisoners are available after. A subreddit dedicated to the game Prison Architect, developed by Introversion Software and sold to Paradox Interactive. New comments cannot be posted. . Found a fix for staff canteen trays. Any sort of exterior fencing, when complete, will mark an area as secured. Prison Architect > General Discussions > Topic Details. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. Cooks don't clean trays just because they are dirty, I think they are just topping off what the serving tables need. [SIN7] jacojarek56 Dec 28, 2016 @ 8:35pm. THE PROBLEM: cooks stack dirty trays to a big stack (usually a stack of 14 or 18 trays) on top of a table in the canteen, but never haul that stack to the kitchen sink. Oct 4, 2022 @ 1:46am. Hire like 100 janitors and your prison, will be sorta clean. any ideas how to solve this?Hey, i have the Problem, that some of my prisoners take their tray after eating with them and throw them everywhere in my prison (visitor room, outdoors, floors. I've checked the forums a bit but all the posts I see are more than a year old. Feb 9, 2023. Sep 19, 2015 @ 3:04pm I deleted all the trays I had in my prison once cause of similar issue, it sorted it out for me, maybe try that? #5. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. The. Low quantity meals are composed of 1 ingredient. . Job done. If you attach the staff room to a kitchen then the trays will get cleaned. - I have enough staff/sinks - sinks are not blocked in any way Any tips/fixes? Thanks!So I have always alot of food but there is never enough trays so they can't eat i have lots of sinks and lots of staff any ideasI have a staff cantina before any prisoners and before a kitchen, and I ended up with a hallway of dirty trays. This modpack contains a set of modules, which are intended to provide working the player with an exhilarating experience. Yes, there is a bench and tables. I've got lots chefs that just mill around while the size of the stacks increase. Your WORKMEN bring food to staff canteen, NOT cooks. My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. Spawning a lot of cooks into the staff canteen solves this problem, but after a minute they will go idle again. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Your prisoners will be strip-searched and any. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. Hey, i have the Problem, that some of my prisoners take their tray after eating with them and throw them everywhere in my prison (visitor room, outdoors, floors. The. I feel like this has been brought up a number of times. If i dump them a new one will be served and it will work but they dont get cleaned automatic. I recently came out with a problem on my prison I built a staff room but the cooks leaves dirty dishes on the floor outside the staff room I placed some sinks but they still leaving dirty dishes on the floor I would like to know if there's a solution for this The only way to get them unstuck is by either forcing them to move to a different location, or firing them. CryptoMy prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. Ingall. Please fixcooks keeps pilling the tray's in the middle of the room instead of washing them or throw them away! and even if i give the order to dump them and cant sell them, i was able to unglitch two others stacks i add pilled up in a door ways by demolishing evrything around, well i think thats what made it unglitch, but this middle room stack i cant find a way to. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. I've got 493 inmates, does that mean that there will be 493 food trays and I haven't got enough serving tables?So as several players have noticed. The prison has 2 canteens and the other one is not having this problem, could having 2 have caused it somehow? Also this has occured on multiple prisons. Food Tray Dirty Grass Turf: $5 Needed to place Grass. Some will eat in the canteen and some wander off and eat elsewhere. So I've been playing for a bit, the game is quite entertaining. Jump to latest Follow Reply. Solved. Dumping them seems to not work, it says . lissa_981. Edit: found the fix. Try rezoning the kitchen and canteen again. Observations: 1. I'm having a problem with dirty clothes. Solved. Reason: The limited amount of food trays in a staff canteen don't get cleaned. yeah I know that god damn bug. you don't need cleaning rooms to hire janitors. So, in order to feed my inmates, I've built a kitchen and canteen. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their food need. There’s a mod on the steam workshop that fixes this bug. 2. I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. Cooks work in the Kitchen using Ingredients and a Cooker, and wash dirty Food Trays after each meal in a Sink. any ideas how to solve this?THE PROBLEM: cooks stack dirty trays to a big stack (usually a stack of 14 or 18 trays) on top of a table in the canteen, but never haul that stack to the kitchen sink. If you're unaware, there is a beta feature that turns on 'staff needs'. . I know that this has been a bug for a long time, but it really bothers me that I can literally catch the Cooks just dumping trays randomly in hallways or near the walls of my staffroom. A cook must wash the dirty trays in a sink and put them back on the serving table. Prisoner will take a clean food tray and put cooked ingredients on it. Area Too Dangerous. #2. A native of Charlotte, he received his Bachelor of. Also subscribe if you do not want to m. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. ) but noone is cleaning them, so i have to remove them all by myself, which is pretty annoying after a while. I even tried different tools for the problem but the dirty objects can't be removed no matter what I do, whether dismissing cooks, tearing everything down and. Sillls Feb 3 @ 1:27pm. There's a bug in the beta that prevents guards from fulfilling their food need. By clicking View Page, you affirm that you are at least eighteen years old. 271 votes, 20 comments. I've got 493 inmates, does that mean that there will be 493 food trays and I haven't got enough serving tables?Okay, I have posted this problem before but never got a clear answer of why it starts to happen. If your staff room (with serving table) or staff canteen (a regular canteen marked as staff-only in deployment) is small and/or the benches/sofas are near a wall, the staff may leave the dirty trays somewhere just outside the staff room. Dumping them seems to not work, it says . So the staff canteen runs out of clean trays for guards to use. More sinks for sure, you need 2-3 for even rhe smallest kitchen. Once it has been dropped, they nobody will pick up the dirty food tray again. I've got 493 inmates, does that mean that there will be 493 food trays and I haven't got enough serving tables?67K subscribers in the prisonarchitect community. Prisoners not getting clean clothes. They aren't eating because there are no clean food trays on serving tables (as you see they are all dirty lying on tables in piles). Check. Perhaps an addition with the latest patch, but I had to go into logistics and then food distribution and actually connect my kitchen to the staffroom. Hey, i have the Problem, that some of my prisoners take their tray after eating with them and throw them everywhere in my prison (visitor room, outdoors, floors. I feel like this has been brought up a number of times. Observations: 1. Reason: The limited amount of food trays in a staff canteen don't get cleaned. Are you talking about the event when staff. Prisoners will take one food tray each, along with cooked ingredients. The problem canteens have no difficulty with food delivery, just tray removal. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. 66K subscribers in the prisonarchitect community. . Neither fences nor perimeter walls can be climbed by default, unless escape plans are on, in which case both are climbable. cooks keeps pilling the tray's in the middle of the room instead of washing them or throw them away! and even if i give the order to dump them and cant sell them, i was able to unglitch two others stacks i add pilled up in a door ways by demolishing evrything around, well i think thats what made it unglitch, but this middle room stack i cant find a way to. But if your Eat times are too close, there might not be enough time for them to deal with the staffroom as well. I have one massive Kitchen and a small kitchen. Leading 💔. . I figured out the problem. Check logistics and ensure that your staff room is connected to a kitchen. Food trays will be placed on the serving tables. However, fence walls can be climbed by strong prisoners on their own, whilst perimeter walls always require a rope. No mods, just a chill build. I've got 493 inmates, does that mean that there will be 493 food trays and I haven't got enough serving tables?My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. EnigmaticRose4 Feb 22 @ 8:31am. My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. from Yard, Laundry or just random hallways. Sinks are used to clean dirty Food Trays. for some reason over-occupied guards means the cooks dont wash trays (?) guards get hungry, get angry, start killing prisoners. 5. I've got 493 inmates, does that mean that there will be 493 food trays and I haven't got enough serving tables?Business, Economics, and Finance. ok. any ideas how to solve this?A Workshop Item for Prison Architect. Now, when you hover over the trays, it will say "wash in staff room kitchen" or another kitchen and is fixed. So the staff canteen runs out of clean trays for guards to use. Guards getting stucked. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. Support Stuff+ on Patreon: LINKS and. Also schedule a work block for your kitchen graduates just before and after meal times. It's not even that they're not bothering to take away his meals when he's done with them - they're bringing them from a canteen half way across the prison. Hey, i have the Problem, that some of my prisoners take their tray after eating with them and throw them everywhere in my prison (visitor room, outdoors, floors. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. Reason: The limited amount of food trays in a staff canteen don't get cleaned. I just noticed a big problem with dirty tray, and I am not sure if it's a bug or not. Reason: The limited amount of food trays in a staff canteen don't get cleaned. Observations: 1. The new trays will get delivered to active canteens with demand as per needed. Feb 9, 2023. My prison keeps getting extra food tray, enough to fill up the sinks and start backing up on the tables in the canteens, every now and again I dump every food tray but it keeps getting to the stage that they are overflowing again. Hey, i have the Problem, that some of my prisoners take their tray after eating with them and throw them everywhere in my prison (visitor room, outdoors, floors. Without clean trays, guards can't pick up a meal. Wardens, We hope that you’ve had a great weekend and that you are enjoying Cleared for Transfer so far! We have seen several reports of bugs from you. 1. So, I've been running into two issues I don't know if they are connected or two seperate bugs. Cooks will not collect dirty trays from the staffrooms to wash them in the kitchen. I've checked the forums a bit but all the posts I see are more than a year old. In logistics there is a food management button, if you click on the kitchen and (while holding shift to keep the current assignments) click on the staff room, a yellow line should appear. Cause: Only cooks (and prison labour) clean dirty. Today my chefs have decided that kitchen sinks are no good for dirty food trays, oh no! This poor guy's death row cell is where it's at. A Screenshot of Prison Architect. Your staff will prefer to eat in the Staff Canteen, but can eat their meals in a Staff Room until you have all of the prerequisites for one.