Running the Tavern
Summary
With enough Brass, the Tavern in Homesteads can be purchased by interacting with the ledger sitting on the shop counter . The Ledger only appears once you have met the Grandmasters in The Circle as part of the Seek the Grandmasters story.
Once purchased the previous owner will leave, gifting you any food and drink that were in stock at the time. These items will remain for you to sell.
Interact with the sign outside to open and close your store. The store will automatically close if you leave the region and have no workers currently working.
General Tips
The important thing about running the tavern is keeping up with customer orders. Drinks are stocked in the barrels on the left and food is stocked in storage on the right.
Two workers are necessary, one for the drinks and one for cooking the food. If you take on the role yourself you will have to balance grabbing drinks from the left with a small minigame to serve, and a small minigame cooking food and serving to customers with the icon.
Perks can help improve the rep and gold you earn per hour. Entertainers are an way to provide extra interest for customers (additional entertainers are unlocked via perks).
Ledger
The ledger on your counter has tabs with various helpful pages for running your business
Accounts
Check your profit and loss on a weekly/yearly level, and look at your previous transaction and Rep gains
Staff
You can hire workers from here. You can change their pay and see their stamina.
To regain stamina, give them breaks or gift them food. A tired worker has their Stats affected.
You can also see a worker's happiness level. Pay and stamina can affect this, as well as Friendship level.
An unhappy worker is more discourteous to customers, affecting service reputation and will not gain exp.
This page also allows you to fire an employee.
Worker Stats
Each worker has 10 Stats, and 4 of these come into play when working in the tavern.
Barter
Charm
Speed
Stamina
The worker Stats are affected by age but additionally, gain experience to level up the Stats used in their current job.
Certain recipes and items may also increase (or decrease) the worker's Stats.
Rota
The employees' hours may be set here, and who works on which day
Reputation
You will gain reputation when a customer is pleased with your service and price.
This fills in for the current region you are in and will give you a perk point when full.
Any further reputation will keep adding up and will spill into the next region. This means that customers will start to appear from that region as they have heard about your shop.
Once that region's Rep has been filled, you again get a perk point, and the Rep spills into the next region.
Any perk points gained can be spent on perks within the Ledger. Every perk comes with a small description and many have multiple stages to upgrade.
Your earned shop REP adds to your Grandmaster total, building up your Renown levels.
Entertainment
Entertainers provide amusement for customers and some extra rep for any food/drink served. The Entertainment Bonus perk also gains you brass from any orders served while entertainers are active.
Stock & Ordering
Food storage on the right allows you to store food for the tavern. You or workers can then use the food prep station to make the food ready to serve.
After opening the stock cupboard you'll be able to see the items you currently have in storage as well as the items in your inventory.
If you run out of cooked food, order from the list and wait until the delivery day.
Drinks can be refilled at any time to a maximum level of 250 uses. A greater range of drinks are unlocked via perks which offer extra rep + gold at a higher cost to fill.