Hello hello, I just dropped in to tell you that your game is one of the best games I have ever played on Itch. I'm secretly hoping for a steam release at some point, that would be awesome.
I know you are going to revamp the brewing process, I read it below in one of your replies, and I wanted to chip in with my feedback.
For me the ordering of the good for the brewing process got so tedious that I used the cheat chicken to fill up my stocks. In my opinion this could be solved with a few upgrades as a way to eventually have access to some sort of stock management system. This gives the player a feeling of progression and makes the process easier so the player can focus on the more important gameplay, if you know what I mean "wink wink".
The progession could look something like this.
Ordering goods: Manual ordering at first, similar to the current system --> buy an upgrade to order in bulk, available when you have 3 different drinks on the menu --> upgrade to set a minimum stock and let the system place orders for you, available when you have 5 different drinks on the menu.
Brewing: Manual brewing at first, similar to the current system --> hire chuds to run the brewing process, but there is a chance that they make the wrong drink OR maybe they can't help themselves and drink one of the portions before bringing the drinks to the bar, because they are chuds afterall (or maybe they do something naughty to a drink and give it to Catherine to "sample") --> ability to train or "train" the chuds to do a better job --> ability to order a limited amount of drinks from a special supplier, but this is very expensive.
Keep up the awesome work my friend, you are doing an amazing job and you should be proud of yourself!