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What Eateries are in YTU

This information is sent to the "kitchen" where a multi-ingredient maker system synthisizes your meal.
If you want to put the tech to the level of ST Food Synthesizers, or that scene in Fifth Element where the girl puts the pill in the machine, and 2s later out comes a lovely roast chicken dinner, then fine.

But, until then, folks are going to cook with the best ingredients they can get their hands on.
 
If you want to put the tech to the level of ST Food Synthesizers, or that scene in Fifth Element where the girl puts the pill in the machine, and 2s later out comes a lovely roast chicken dinner, then fine.

But, until then, folks are going to cook with the best ingredients they can get their hands on.
Well, what's a food synthesizer but a 3D printer for printing food? We've got 3D printers today (arguably early TL8), making food synthesizers can't be that far off. I would say TL9 or at the very latest TL10 that should be doable.
 
Well, what's a food synthesizer but a 3D printer for printing food? We've got 3D printers today (arguably early TL8), making food synthesizers can't be that far off. I would say TL9 or at the very latest TL10 that should be doable.
The printers are working, the feedstock manufacturing is already done to get that to work. May need a bit more TL to get to galley countertop, or actual meat proteins.

 
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Why? The space for galleys comes out of the collective 4T per passenger. Small ships with 1-2 cabins might get a food prep nook. 100-passenger liners get a full kitchen sort of thing.
From New Era 1248 Ships 2: Scout Ships -

"An additional component has been defined for these designs: A 2 ton Galley, costing MCr 0.1. This component is defined because of the very real need for such a component in any kind of starship, and so has been added to these High Guard designs."

I personally like this idea, but find myself frustrated at the lack of even minimum details. I leave it to others to decide whether they would like to use it or not in their own games or ship designs. Just sharing.

Stewards are a part of Traveller, one for every eight High Passengers. I feel that there is room for more use of Stewards on a ships crew, but that's just me, and goes beyond the minimum requirement for Traveller High Passenger needs.

I'm sure most games/campaigns have cooking in the background, so it should only be a concern when it's an important part of play and/or Character development.
 
Very nice, elegant, deeply comfy leather chairs with high backs.... which contain full metabolic scanners, FMRI, fPET, the whole enchelada of scanning.
When you sit down, it does a full body scan, including the pathways in the brain that have to do with taste
No-one is quite sure why it does this, though, as it invariably produces a cup of liquid that is almost -- but not quite -- entirely unlike tea.
 
It's the job of last resort for PCs who need Working Passage. Even if you've gor no other "space" skill, Steward will get you on board.
It's thinking like this that makes me think that High Passengers must be shaking in their suits as they remember their last trip on a 'Tramp Trader' being 'serviced' by a so called 'Steward' with the barest hint of 'required training', and all the 'advice' they gave to said 'Steward' to hopefully improve the 'service' so that there wouldn't much of a traumatic memory of the trip to awaken from in the weeks ahead. And of course, the 'advice' was taken the wrong way by the 'Steward' and was reflected in the 'service'. Possibly. Maybe.

Of course, there are those few Stewards on Tramps that are in high demand, who prefer Tramps to all the rule & regulations of the Liners on regular routes.

Just my Cr 0.1 worth of opinion.
 
I'm totally putting Seth Skorkowsky's Shwarma Cat ("feed the Warrior") into my Traveller Universe!
In most Starports of Class C or better there is a franchise named "Ivan the Edible". It's been around for decades, sort of a neighborhood bar style restaurant like a TGI Fridays, or Applebees, serving cheap well drinks and a menu the size of the Moot Roster (mostly appetizers). Their signature appetizer are deep-fried, parmesean dusted, bacon-wrapped bacon. Basically salty cheese on cured fatty meat all deep fried in a carbohydrate batter. Perfect for snacking with a frosty-foamy fermented grain brew! It might be able to clog the arteries of a warrior Aslan.
I am TOTALLY stealing both "Shwarma Cat" and "Ivan the Edible"!!!!
 
It's thinking like this that makes me think that High Passengers must be shaking in their suits as they remember their last trip on a 'Tramp Trader' being 'serviced' by a so called 'Steward' with the barest hint of 'required training', and all the 'advice' they gave to said 'Steward' to hopefully improve the 'service' so that there wouldn't much of a traumatic memory of the trip to awaken from in the weeks ahead. And of course, the 'advice' was taken the wrong way by the 'Steward' and was reflected in the 'service'. Possibly. Maybe.

Of course, there are those few Stewards on Tramps that are in high demand, who prefer Tramps to all the rule & regulations of the Liners on regular routes.

Just my Cr 0.1 worth of opinion.

Going by popular culture, flight attendancy might actually be a pursued profession.
 
It's thinking like this that makes me think that High Passengers must be shaking in their suits as they remember their last trip on a 'Tramp Trader' being 'serviced' by a so called 'Steward'
I love that point you're making, mate!

If you exchange your TAS travel voucher for passage on an Empress Marava free trader...well, you know full well that "high passage" means that the steward (e.g., the off-duty gunner) will wipe the grease off the forks with their apron when setting the table.

I've seen AI generated images of Traveller ship crews in their overalls, sleeveless denim vests, Hawaiian shirts, shipsuits, and weird hairstyles. I can't really find the purser with steward skill who is going to care of high passenger Lord Dorwin on the SS Murderhobo. IMHO Lord Dorwin is going to stay on planet and wait for the next noble yacht, unless they need to move fast and grad the next free trader. And if they do board the SS Murderhobo, they'll be whining. Ha ha ha.

Cheers, mate.
 
A 2 ton Galley, costing MCr 0.1. This component is defined because of the very real need for such a component in any kind of starship, and so has been added to these High Guard designs."

I personally like this idea, but find myself frustrated at the lack of even minimum details.
To help you with minimum details for the 2-ton galley, may I offer you my Frugal Starship Autochef randomizer? Sad, random meals for starship captains on a budget.
 
To help you with minimum details for the 2-ton galley, may I offer you my Frugal Starship Autochef randomizer? Sad, random meals for starship captains on a budget.
The minimum details I was looking for is more about how many crew/passengers can it serve for how long. My little bit of research looked at military ships and vacation cruise ships.

The largest ship in the Scouts I mentioned above is 1,000 dtons with a crew of 20 that only has one Galley on the ship. I prefer designing 1k dton ships and smaller, but I am a little interested in designing something up to 25k dtons in size sometimes, and I'm sure their crew/passenger sizes may require two or more Galleys, like a separate officers mess & enlisted crew/passenger mess..
 
My little bit of research looked at military ships and vacation cruise ships.
Hey, mate. I see where you're coming from now. You asked an interesting question that led me down an interesting rabbit hole: yacht galleys. I think you'd find a lot of inspiration with those keywords. Cargo ship galleys aren't restricted by space; neither are cruise ship galleys, but yacht galleys are and the ship size is more adventure class, under 500 tons? What I saw online matched my mental vibe. Hope that helps and cheers.
 
The minimum details I was looking for is more about how many crew/passengers can it serve for how long. My little bit of research looked at military ships and vacation cruise ships.

The largest ship in the Scouts I mentioned above is 1,000 dtons with a crew of 20 that only has one Galley on the ship. I prefer designing 1k dton ships and smaller, but I am a little interested in designing something up to 25k dtons in size sometimes, and I'm sure their crew/passenger sizes may require two or more Galleys, like a separate officers mess & enlisted crew/passenger mess..
The US Coast Guard buoy tender Bramble, which I inspected with the idea of purchasing it, had a galley of 15.5 feet by 15 feet, and could feed 80 men or so 3 meals a day on a 24 hour basis. Converting that into Traveller dTons comes out to 4.5 dTons, so round it up to 5 dTons. Then you have the galley used on long-range patrol planes by the U.S. Navy at the end of World War 2. You can find a downloadable description here on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/FeedingInFlight
Based on the descriptions of equipment given in that, I would say that a galley adequate for 12 men, at a minimum, could be contained in One Traveller dTon of space. That should furnish adequate space for a grill top, oven below the grill, a microwave mounted about the grill, some refrigerated space, along with washing up facilities. You could replace the grill with a standard stove top if desired.

The U.S. Army assumes that 3.98 cubic feet of freezer and refrigerated space per man per month. One cubic meter converts into 35.314667 cubic feet, so each cubic meter of freezer and refrigerated space would be more than adequate for 8 men per month. (The actual figure is 8.79 men per month.) The Army Field Ration A, using both perishable and non-perishable foods, weighs 6 pounds per man, including packaging, and occupies 0.183 cubic feet of space. This would comprise both freezer, refrigerated, and shelf storage space. A cubic foot of combined space would hold food for 5 men for one day, with some space left over. You can do the math for whatever sized crew that you want.

If you go with non-perishable food, requiring no freezer or refrigerated space, equivalent to the Army Operational Ration B, when each ration weighs 6 pounds, included packaging, and occupies 0.1269 cubic feet of space. That means that one cubic foot of rations would weigh 42 pounds and supply food for 7 men per day. (The actual figure is 7.88.) Again, figure how much ration space you would need for your desired crew and for how long.

By ration, I mean that amount of food required to feed one man for one day. Now, the Army rations are figured on about a 4,000 calorie a day basis, so the food allowance for a ship's crew would be quite generous. For sedentary individuals and women, the food requirements should be less than the 4,000 calories.

For a rule-of-thumb calculation, one long ton, 2240 pounds, of rations will occupy 94 cubic feet of cargo space. Based on that, one Traveller dTon of space will hold 5 tons of rations. Assuming one man eating 6 pounds of rations per day, the man would eat 2190 pounds of food per year. Five tons of rations will feed 5 men for a year, assuming about 4000 calories per ration. Again, sedentary personnel are apt to eat less than 4000 calories per day, so that food allowance is quite generous.

All the data cited is taken from U.S. Army Field and Technical Manuals, which as a Quartermaster Officer, I would be using them for planning purposes.
 
If you go with non-perishable food, requiring no freezer or refrigerated space, equivalent to the Army Operational Ration B, when each ration weighs 6 pounds, included packaging, and occupies 0.1269 cubic feet of space. That means that one cubic foot of rations would weigh 42 pounds and supply food for 7 men per day. (The actual figure is 7.88.) Again, figure how much ration space you would need for your desired crew and for how long.

Or perhaps more meaningfully for Traveller purposes, it supplies ONE MAN for ONE WEEK (with the 7.88 figure as a buffer allowance for Jump-variance).

Multiply that figure by the number of crew (and perhaps passengers, depending), and you have a basic/easy Low-TL emergency rations rule of thumb for a week. Multiply by 4 for a 1 month value.

Easily restockable by most worlds at most Starports.
 
Thanks everyone who shared their insight, research, and expertise.

Also, if you look at it a certain way, a Galley can be personalized by it's ships crew and thus become an 'Eatery' in it's own right. Be ship with a Galley that has a reputation. 'I was one of the passengers on that gastronomic terror that wasn't hospitalized. Actually got a plaque commemorating it from the Captain!' or 'It was worth it going to a place I didn't need to go to eat such exquisite cuisine, and on a tramp no less! Only four months on the waiting list.'
 
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