Luna Verto
Just from a customer's point of view, the bake sale has kinda of been empty, other than me and ball staff. If you want more people I would suggest you move or restart the thread in a different forum or get some people to go out and advertise like crazy.
Change your staff up a bit. You have 9 waiters...when you only really need 4 or 5, and I've noticed a lot of the ball staff is really busy, so maybe use people who aren't as involved in the ball as some people currently listed as waiters.
Just don't do RP, or do it in the guild. I like RP personally, but I know a lot of people who will totally avoid RP place no matter what. The bake sale is there to fund raise and advertise for the 8th Annual Ball, so just tell people that, and they'll stay and chat. Many people love the ball and will gladly keep the thread up and donate if it means helping the ball, but many of them won't want to go through RPing.
Keep a list of orders somewhere on the front page. It's much nicer for customers to be able to see that their order has been filed, rather than just hoping that someone has noticed it. (hint hint: I'm still waiting on an English Muffin ^.^))
As for getting orders filed, just have waiters PM the order to the mule (so they can be added to the front page) and the least busy baker (maybe put them on rotation for orders?). Have all trades go to the mule, who will send the funds to wherever the funds for the ball are being kept when the bake sale has fulfilled it's job and can be closed.
I hope this helps. biggrin
Change your staff up a bit. You have 9 waiters...when you only really need 4 or 5, and I've noticed a lot of the ball staff is really busy, so maybe use people who aren't as involved in the ball as some people currently listed as waiters.
Just don't do RP, or do it in the guild. I like RP personally, but I know a lot of people who will totally avoid RP place no matter what. The bake sale is there to fund raise and advertise for the 8th Annual Ball, so just tell people that, and they'll stay and chat. Many people love the ball and will gladly keep the thread up and donate if it means helping the ball, but many of them won't want to go through RPing.
Keep a list of orders somewhere on the front page. It's much nicer for customers to be able to see that their order has been filed, rather than just hoping that someone has noticed it. (hint hint: I'm still waiting on an English Muffin ^.^))
As for getting orders filed, just have waiters PM the order to the mule (so they can be added to the front page) and the least busy baker (maybe put them on rotation for orders?). Have all trades go to the mule, who will send the funds to wherever the funds for the ball are being kept when the bake sale has fulfilled it's job and can be closed.
I hope this helps. biggrin
lol yes we've touched on almost all of your suggestions. the rp has already been taken off of the title along with the grammatically incorrect shop name. i think we plan to fire everyone and rehire waiters, cut the baker list to only those who have something in the store.
currently discussing how the trades and orders will be done so they may be faster and easier to complete. thinking about having a single trade mule that the waiters will have access to while keeping it separate from the shop mule since we do not want our waiters secretly changing the store without permission
need to think about the orders being posted on the front since that wasnt discussed/thought of at all.
thank you for your input and sorry but you may have to wait even longer for your dear muffin. if anyone else would like to suggest changes go right ahead and post them.
and @ lectern: everything is fine for your leaving. we figured that a few of our waiters would have to disappear to work elsewhere in the ball already.
we also figured most of them have lost interest in the shop since i havent really seen anyone there when i sat in the shop for awhile and that is the reason for firing everyone and getting new waiters/rehiring old waiters should they still be interested. we will proably cut down the amount of waiters this time round and be very picky about who we hire.
we will probably hire only waiters that can edit the premades to attach customer names to the premades so it would be more difficult to steal the art.
we will open a hiring thread once we finish deciding things and yes we will probably open a new thread for the bake sale since the old one is filled too many bumps which isnt a very good sign to customers for a shop.
