I do 
, newfood is important in my eyes
Onto my actual thoughts on chefs, food and roleplay, I’ve said these a million times before but:
Currently a big issue in my eyes is that most the crew have 0 reason to actually visit the cook. Vendor junk food does exactly what most of them want (human favourite food is actually ‘junk food’, so they are mechanically encouraged to eat vendor food INSTEAD of cook food), and even if they do visit the cook, a few bites from any good dish will fill them up for almost the entire shift, meaning they never visit again.
My ideas were making vendor food taste worse and be less nutritious, or temporarily nutritious… somehow. Making species preferences matter more would also improve the experience IMO, since the crew would have more reason to ask for personalized dishes, and y’know, actually talk to the cook.