Duplicant wont eat food

after doing some more tests, it seem to have to do with some food not being accessible to specific dupe, they appear to pick a random fridge when they look for food, and if that fridge happen to not be reachable, they complain they cant reach food even tho theres a fridge next to them with food in it. 

 

emptying a fridge on the ground seem to reset that process and since it add a ton of individual food on the ground makes it much more likely that theyll end up picking one they can access to. 

I have the same problem. All my duplicants have all eat permision, but even if they have a fridge near they dont eat. I have to put that food on the ground.

Ran into the same/similar issue.  Made a farm and restricted who could enter the farm area.  Had 3 guys harvesting and moving food to the mess hall where everyone had access.  Dupes starved.  Once I gave them access to the farm they ate fine.  I think the problem is that if there is food on the ground a dupe will try to eat the first (which is nice), but if they don't have access then they give up and don't try to look for another source of food.  All my duplicates have all eat permissions.

Edited January 26, 2018 by Mpavlis

Did some more testing, I stopped the harvesting so no food was ever on the ground and sure enough the dups started using the fridges.

Yeah i have the same problem(somehow it's still a thing), but there is one catch:

THE DUPS DON'T EVEN EAT THE FOOD FROM THE FLOOR, AND IF THERE IS NO FOOD ON THE FLOOR THEY WON'T USE THE FRIDGE, WTF