Ramen Shop Simulator fax machine store is a mail-order store that lives inside your shop: you use the fax machine to order food, decorations and more, and the order is delivered to the door of your restaurant. In the demo the delivery is immediate and the delivery fee has been waived; next-day delivery for fax machine orders is what the full game is planned to use.
Ramen Shop Simulator fax machine store: how ordering works
The routine is short:
- Open the fax machine in the shop. It is the machine in the back, next to the Storage Shelf.
- Pick what you need. The catalogue covers food, decorations and more, so it overlaps with the konbini but is not the same list.
- Send the order. There is no delivery address to type and no courier to wait for.
- Collect the parcel at your door. The order is delivered to the door of your restaurant rather than to a warehouse you then have to fetch from.
Small Gas Canisters are listed under the Misc category in the fax machine, so the machine can keep your stove running even when the konbini is closed — which it never is, but the walk to the konbini still costs you time during a rush.
If you would rather pick the same stock up over a counter than wait for a parcel, the konbini guide covers the convenience store where nothing is posted.
What arrives at your door
The difference from the konbini is the timing, and it is the only real difference. The konbini hands stock over the counter immediately, while the fax machine is a post-order shop whose parcel arrives at your restaurant.
In the demo both are instant, so the practical difference is the walking. Something from the konbini costs you the walk to the convenience store and back. Something from the fax machine costs you a short walk to your own door. The full game is planned to flip the fax machine over to next-day delivery, which is exactly why the konbini keeps instant delivery — and it means the shop you order from depends on whether you need the thing today.
If you are wondering what the konbini offers instead, the konbini guide compares the two shops side by side.
The Storage Shelf next to the machine
The Storage Shelf next to the fax machine is where decorations are kept. It is the holding point for anything decorative you order, and it is also where you sell things back: pick a decoration up from that storage and right-click it to sell it.
There is one catch with big orders. If you order more than four decorations they arrive in a box, and that box has to be placed on the Storage Shelf first before the decorations can be taken out. It is easy to order a bundle and then wonder where the contents are, because the shelf is holding a box rather than the decorations themselves.
Once a decoration is out of the storage and in your shop, it still has to be positioned, and that is done in Creation Mode — the move decorations guide has the controls, and the decorations guide covers where they come from in the first place.