I have been playing it for a month and has since gained some insight to pass on some tips and tricks to new comers and those who has no time to digest the game properly.
Today, Restaurant City has introduced a new group of recipe, Drink, from level 15 onwards to the other 3 groups i.e. Starter, Main and Dessert.
What is Restaurant City?
It is a game developed by Playfish on Facebook.
How to get started?
Once you have opened an account you will get a head start for one recipe each at level 1 on the 4 group of recipes and some ingredients and money.
How do you get ingredients?
You can get ingredients in 4 ways. The first is the daily freebie which is automatically given to you as soon as you log in each day. The next is the daily quiz. Each day, you receive a food quiz in your inbox. If you answer the food quiz correctly, you get a free ingredient. The 3rd when you visit a friend’s restaurant FOR THE FIRST TIME ONLY. The last way is to buy from The Ingredient Market. Each day, there are 3 random items for sale and it is between 2 to 5 thousand dollars each! You can also exchange ingredients with your friends.
How do you get GP?
You get GP only when the game is RUNNING. You can minimize and switch to other windows for other works in your computer. While you can gain money even if you’re offline, GP can only be gained when the game is on.
GP
GP means gourmet points. That’s the little status bar on the top of your screen that lets you know when you’ll level up next for a new employee or bigger restaurant.
Quick Coins
Get quick coins by picking up trash and shaking trees. While you’re in restaurant view, scroll around your lot. Click all the trees and some of them will drop coins. Trash appears when you open your game each time. Although, you can shake the trees from other restaurants it is not advisable because your GP stops once you leave your restaurant. A better way is to pick-up trash because there are more and you could get awarded.
Trash
You can collect trash by visiting restaurants at Random Street and also rate them. Spot the restaurants at Gourmet Street with the most trash. The position and trash at these restaurants can move and you should learn to identify them! The maximum number of trash in these restaurant is 15 pieces and they are sometimes hidden from view!
Awards
Awards level are from Bronze, Silver to Gold. You get these awards from a doing a few things like picking trash, visiting friends, exchanging ingredients, beautifying your restaurant, giving gifts, rating other restaurants etc.
Recipes Level
Your restaurant can only serve one dish from each group (starter, main, dessert and drink) at a time. So, choose one recipe, click to make sure it’s the recipe being served, and level that up. The higher the level of the recipe being served, the higher GP you get. Concentrate on each recipe until you reached level 10. Level 1 starts with 1.0 point and every next level has an increment of 0.2 point. Therefore at level 10 you will get 2.8 points from the customer. So stick to one. Unfortunately, a recipe’s level has no effect on money gains which is 2 dollars from each customer.
Update
Restaurant City has allowed the number of recipes to be served as from today! At
level 15 the recipes will be 2 for each group and 3 from level 20 onwards but you still
stick to one each to get maximum GP point!
The ratio of Cook, Waiter and Table
The ratio of Cook to Waiter is about 2 to 1 respectively. Arrange your tables in a way that your waiters don’t have to walk too far to serve to cut time. The waiters can serve tables diagonally so as long as the square they’re standing in has contact with the table. The number of tables depends on the complaint received as you progresses to a new Game and Satisfaction levels.
Number of tables required
Right now I am working on 15 tables and chairs plus 4 Arcade Machines and 2 spare chairs. When the 15 tables are occupied the next customers will go to the spare chairs and then the Arcade Machines if tables still not available. They will leave after that without complaining. If there are too many tables, they will go to the tables and complain when food and drinks are not served and your popularity will drop.
Complaint
The common complaints from customers are: no table, no chair, no toilet bowl, floor dirty, table dirty, food slow, drink slow etc. Once they complaint, your Popularity rating drops.
Popularity Rating
The maximum level is 50 where you have the most patronage. Customers’ arrival will drop as the level drop.
How to keep your Employees Happy?
Monitor your employees’ happiness. The higher the level the faster they work. Once the level drops to below 80% your Popularity rating will start to drop too.
Rest or Feed?
You can rest about half of your employees and feed the other half to 75% level. And, you will get a maximum of 2000 dollars if you close your game and come back again in about 3 hours time. At present, you can engage a maximum of 8 employees after a certain level. If you feed all of them a maximum of 200 each, you will get a balance of 400 dollars only from the 2000 you received. Therefore, feed them a banana each at 160 dollars X 4 equals 640 dollars and you get a balance of 1360 dollars! If you feed them too little or came back too soon you would get less than 2000.
Can I close my shop?
Yes you can. Simply block the door with something like a chair, table or your mailbox. Or you can just remove the door itself.
