Ah I see. The big issue I had was that I built the basics first (in the middle of course) and then everything that comes later got built further and further away. This means that the final step to build the hot dog had to be the furthest away which was less of an interesting choice and a frustrating realization. I initially did the strategy you suggested, but since everything has 0 reach, I used up all of my increase cards connecting earlier bits together and had nothing left for the kitchen, and just had to start the run over :((