Dupes not getting food morale bonus consistently

[StarSquid]

I have more barbecue and mushroom wraps than I know what to do with, but at any given point it seems that about 3-4 dupes simply aren’t getting the morale bonus, and it’s making the difference between adequate and inadequate morale for them. At first I thought it had to do with the duration of the effect, but according to the wiki it lasts for over a cycle. What is happening? Are my dupes not burning enough calories to eat every cycle?

[Chthonicone]

1 hour ago, StarSquid said:

I have more barbecue and mushroom wraps than I know what to do with, but at any given point it seems that about 3-4 dupes simply aren’t getting the morale bonus, and it’s making the difference between adequate and inadequate morale for them. At first I thought it had to do with the duration of the effect, but according to the wiki it lasts for over a cycle. What is happening? Are my dupes not burning enough calories to eat every cycle?

I have the same issue at times, and I suspect it's because of timing on when they get back to eat. Like if there's less than a cycle between meals, it doesn't extend the morale bonus. Even if it's seconds less than a cycle.

Dupes don't wait to eat until their morale bonus wears off, and it seems that it doesn't extend if they eat again before it has worn off, so in the end it looks like you risk a dupe spending a day with missing morale. It really is annoying and makes their morale levels unstable.