Where does food go?

[Apothicus]

There's a production chart somewhere around.
In short, very often you might get a little bit more food out than what you put in, BUT you'd get more food if the workers you assigned to that food processing chain were assigned to fields for direct food production.

In the end the main reason for making fancy food is often "because I feel like building that stuff in this city". As a cake addict, I usually set up a bakery chain, and sometimes some butchering because it feels right to have that in a atown, but I rarely bother about the rest.

OK.
Next question.

I'm now seeing a couple of starvations even though I have food, vendors even soup and BBQ kitchens. I watch these people walk right past fully stocked food vendor and the soup kitchen yet they keep on walking and die before they get to wherever it is they are going. This isn't a mass starvation just a bother.

Most of them are labourers but the last one that died was a vendor ....... at a full food market!!

Is there something I can put on their route (it always seems to be the same each year) to make them stop and eat?