Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
For me, alternatively, allow us to pay some kind of gil fee to "Restock" consumed uses of food.
Exactly! I've said before that when you reach the 'empty tray' state, instead of clicking to eat it, you get a prompt about whether or not you want to restock (and you can do, say, 1 serving, 5 servings, or 10 servings worth of restocking).

Mind you, I also think that, given that event foods are a thing that sticks around forever for real money, they ought to scale. So, for instance, a Crit/Vit/SpSp food would, right now, give a bonus equivalent to normal quality Twilight Popoto Salad, the current raid tier food that buffs Crit/Vit/SpSp. For serious raiders, it wouldn't replace the HQ stuff, but for folks who aren't serious raiders and still want a nice food buff, it'd make it actually a meaningful consumable (and worth restocking for more than just visual value). And you could set up a crafting area in the FC house, and put out some decorative crafter food; it might not be HQ chili crab, but it'd be better than zero food buff, and the ability to eat a crafter buff food that's laid out there right by the work-table would provide incentive for FC crafters to gather there when crafting stuff.

Thus making the FC house a sensible gathering spot, because those food buffs are worth picking up (if you aren't a raider prone to carrying around your own HQ raid food in the first place, anyway).