Ramen Shop Simulator ingredient storage is a slot-based grid rather than a plain list, and there are several kinds of storage to spread across. The rules are not complicated, but two of them catch people out: not every box stacks, and you cannot put an item you are holding straight into a fridge.
Ramen Shop Simulator ingredient storage: the four steps
- Pick the right kind of storage for the item. Fridges, delivery boxes, noodle boxes and shelves all behave differently, and the tutorial hands you white delivery boxes that are the odd ones out.
- Fill it by slot, not by stack. Every storage holds a fixed number of slots, so a full fridge is full whatever order you put things in.
- Put things down before you put them away. You can only carry one item at a time, and an item in your hand cannot go straight into a fridge — it has to be dropped and picked up again first.
- Check the Shelves page. The Notebook lists what you have put on the shelves, which is the easiest way to find a box you have forgotten about.
Step three sounds like a bug and is not. It is a deliberate handling rule that makes you drop an item and pick it up again, so plan your route around the sink and the shelves rather than trying to carry a stack.
Stored food still has a shelf life, and the check for that happens at the end of the day rather than the moment you put it away — the ingredient freshness guide covers how that works.
Four kinds of storage
| Storage | What it does | Stacks? |
|---|---|---|
| Fridge | Keeps ingredients cold | No |
| Delivery box | Holds delivered stock, and you can return items to it | Yes, except the white tutorial boxes |
| Noodle box | Holds noodles and can be carried | Yes |
| Beer keg | Holds beer and can be carried | Yes |
| Shelf | Holds things on it, not just in it | Shelves stack nothing |
The change worth knowing is the shelf. Shelves can hold things on them now instead of only storing them, which turns a shelf from a box into a display surface you can put a bottle or a bowl on.
The white delivery boxes handed out by the tutorial are the exception to the stacking rule. Noodle boxes and beer kegs stack and can be carried; the white boxes cannot be stacked at all. If you are trying to build a tower of stock and one box will not go on top, that is the box the tutorial gave you.
The Shelves page in the notebook guide is where the game itself tells you what is on your shelves, so it is the place to look before you go hunting through the kitchen.
Where the Notebook fits
The Notebook has a Shelves page that lists what you have put on the shelves, so the same panel that holds your recipes and objectives also tells you what is where. That is the fastest answer to "where did I put the noodles" without walking around the shop with a pan in your hand.
The Notebook also holds the cooking station view, which shows the pot you are working with and the ingredients already inside it, and the inventory list where each ingredient carries its freshness rating. The notebook guide covers the panel in full, and the ingredient freshness guide covers what happens to the stock once it is in the fridge.
Storage is only half of it. A correctly stored ingredient still has a shelf life, and the check for that happens at the end of the day — which is the next thing to know.