Check what your manager will buy on the shopping list

Reconcile a single ingredient first

1. Choose the venue you are investigating and record its target and daily budget.
2. Find a shopping-list ingredient needed by the active menu.
3. Check the same ingredient in venue storage and the transfer window.
4. Inspect existing deliveries and your main inventory if storage is full.
5. After changing the target or menu, compare the list again with the venue configuration.

Separate the list from deliveries

The patch calls the shopping list a useful check of what managers will buy. It does not describe the list as a completed-purchase receipt. If you manually buy everything on it without checking deliveries, you may fail to identify where an already delivered ingredient went.

Update 4 cleans up stacked deliveries automatically. Items go into venue storage when there is room; otherwise they go into main inventory. Follow the delivery and storage check before assuming that no purchase happened.

If the list contains surprising ingredients

Inspect the current menu. Expand a recipe’s red icon for missing ingredient or processor details. The inventory and transfer window also marks whether an ingredient is used by meals or drinks on the menu.

These markers help separate required stock from leftovers. They do not identify an optimal menu or prove that every listed ingredient is sold by a vendor. The official reminder guidance specifically warns about ingredients that cannot be bought.

Finish with a specific next action

If the target and list agree but a required ingredient stays at zero, check vendor availability and budget. If it is in main inventory, restock it manually. If a recipe lacks a processor, purchasing more ingredients alone cannot satisfy that missing requirement.

Record any continuing mismatch with screenshots of the venue settings, menu, list and inventory from the same save. A setting that only appears changed after loading has a separate documented UI issue.