This is the biggest contributor to the environment score. The next biggest contributor is comfort. This is handled solely by your tables. This is basically how comfortable the seating in your restaurant is. The more comfortable the seating, the higher this score.
Again, you won't exactly have the best in terms of seating in the beginning, but as the secret furniture suppliers come along, you will get more in terms of comfortable seating. The next contributor will be exterior and outside appearance.
This is handled by your location in the city, the best locations will get a better score. This is determined by your view rating of your lot, and the next are the restaurant upgrades. These are obtained by a higher star level, and they continue up to 4 Stars. The more stars, the more upgrades. These will upgrade your exterior appearance, for a small fee. Finally, there is the live performance. This is another new addition.
First, you will find that all restaurants will now have performance stages. The stage will initially be empty, but again, there will be performers that will turn up to your restaurant and offer their services.
With the stage, you can set their performance times, their hours, when they start, etc. The rating is based on the rating of the performer, the more stars they have, the higher the rating. However, higher stars means more money to pay for their services.
And that covers the Environment rating. Price is the biggest factor, this can single handedly take down a rating like no tomorrow. Basically, this is the price of your menu, the more expensive the food, the higher this rating, regardless of how good your food is. This means that you want a high food rating to cover the price rating.
This is determined by your discount rating. The higher the discount, the lower your price bar. How you want to play the game is fine, but price is a nice way to increase the rating, but at the cost of some profit. Your choice. Though you can charge a higher price if that leads to more profit, and then offer a discount. Well, really, it isn't much of a discount.
Complaints are the general grumblings of the customers. There are many things to comaplin about, including the quality of the wait-staff, the time it takes for the food to arrive, anything and everything.
The most common complaint, when you have a well established restaurant, will actually be several. There will be complaints ranging from how noisy your restaurant is, how long it takes for the food to arrive, how cold their food is, and how bad the food is. Noise is a tricky problem, mainly because if you think about it, you need to use partitions between every single table to reduce the noise rating. However, to do that, you will cause a lot of slow food as your waiters and the customers, due to poor AI scripting.
So you can't win either way. And before you say have less customers, you will make less money, not enough to cover your expenses. Long food is something you really can't handle.
Again, there is just too much stuff blocking the way of the waiters, and the poor AI to boot. To be honest, you might as well ignore this one. It will only effeect you in the beginning, but it is more or less useless later in the day.
Again, it is a contributor to your rating, but again, your rating, after unlocking all the exterior upgrades, is useless, more or less.
Lets go through who can possibly visit your restaurant. First of all, you will have offers for you to access secret suppliers. These are one of the most important visitors that you can get, mainly because you get to access higher quality ingredients through these people.
The next sort of event comes in the form of the secret furniture suppliers. Another event would be performers. These are people who will come and offer their skills as performers, and this is quite useful if you are looking to boost that live performance bar. These generally don't cost anything to access however, which is nice. Now, moving from those who can improve your restaurant to those who can improve your dishes. For a fee, your guest can teach you and your fellow chefs in the restaurant techniques to improve a dish.
The cost of the boost will depend largely on the amount of points the dish is improved by, the more you have it improved, the more it will cost you. From bad dishes to good dishes, there will be customers that will ask for your chefs to teach them secret skills, how they make a dish delicious. This will apply to dishes that are well done, and the better your chef's skill in preparing the dish, the more they are willing to offer.
Basically, it is a reverse on the above visitor. Next are the visitors that are selling ingredients. These ingredients are necessary if you are planning to make favourite dishes for customers, and want to make it perfect, as to attain the luxurious max happiness rating.
This will be done for a fee, and stored in your chef's inventory, and you can access it when you are cooking for a favourite dish. Finally, there are visitors that are selling mysterious items. These are normally cookbooks, that will improve the skill of chef in a particular type of cuisine. But that is not all they will sell, they will sell morale boosting items that you can use on any member of staff and you can purchase books that will increase skill of non wait-staff.
Keep your eye on these visitors, they will sell you items for a food fee. And on the cookbooks, they will boost your skill in all the recipes for a certain type of cuisine, listed on the cookbook, all recipes for a cuisine, so it is really useful.
But these guys don't come often. In terms of which visitors will come often, it will likely be something like this. The top two will vary depending on the age of the restaurant, a new, established restaurant with new chefs will have the second visitor pop up more than the first, but established restaurants will see things a bit differently. For now, let me classify the original French, Italian and American restaurants as Cuisine based restaurants.
These restaurants are simple, you will have access to have 5 menus, a Breakfast, Appetizers, Soup, Main Course and the Dessert menu book. One of the new restaurants is another Cuisine based restaurant, the German cuisine.
It will have it's own breakfast, appetizer, soup, main course and dessert recipes. However, there are two different restaurants as well. There is the Coffee House and the Dessert House. These houses are not as time based as the Cuisine restaurants, but more on that in the next section. The Coffee House specialises in drinks mainly, so as a result, profits will be low, but customers will be high and there will be a quick seat turnover, which means that customers are in, eat quickly, and are out faster.
The Dessert House specialises in sweet dishes, desserts. This will always make some money, but again, it won't make a lot, but, like the Coffee House, it has a high customer turnover. Cuisine restaurants are the best ones to own if you are trying to make money. You can get ingredients cheaply and set high prices.
Your main source of income will be in the main dishes, the rest will have a slightly lower profit margin. However, customers are slower to get out, so you'll need to compensate for that with more tables. So how you want to play this is up to you. More profit means you'll head to the more cuisine based restaurants, but if you want a steady flow of customers, you'll be more inclined to choose the Coffee and Dessert Houses.
It's your call. This will be useful in knowing what your profits will be. Timing is key, because you will then be able to understand why your restaurant is empty at some time, whilst others are full. Between the hours of 6AM, which is the earliest time you can start, and until about 10AM, it will be classified as breakfast. This is the time your breakfast menu will kick into effect, so expect high sales in terms of your breakfast menu, and breakfast-type beverages, such as coffee and tea.
This is where it will start to be mixed, there will be some still using the breakfast menu, with the breakfast beverages, but it will start to move into the lunch service. From 12PM to about 4PM, it will be lunch time. This is where your diners will come in for lunch, and they will generally order an assortment of dishes, normally a soup OR appetizer, main course and then dessert. Drinks will be a cheaper alcohol, so it will be a good time to make money.
The peak of customers will hit at about 2PM, check the capacity of your restaurant of this time to see how well you are doing. Between 4PM and 6PM will be afternoon tea, it will be interesting. Normally, you will get soup and appetizer requests, very few main courses and desserts will be ordered. This is a time for you to check up on any problems that may have taken place during your lunch service. This is the time, for most people in the hospitality industry, to take a break.
Between lunch and dinner, you need a break, before things get hectic. After 6PM, it will be dinner time. This is where you will make a hell of a lot of money, and capacity will be an issue, especially around PM. Your customers will order an appetizer, a soup, main course and then dessert, with some drinks, most likely to be wine. However, this timing is about cuisine based restaurants. For the Coffee and Dessert Houses, the timing is irrelevant.
For all coffee houses, it will generally be 2 drinks with a food dish, and for dessert houses, it will be a range from 1 to 3 desserts. But by and large, success is obtained the same way, you need to cut down expenses whilst making as much money, gross profit, as you can.
That should not come at the cost of popularity however, remember, screw them over too much, and the customer flow may stop. Generally, you can only start to make money when you have fully trained staff, so you will need to have fully trained staff before you can do much.
Next is the advertising cost. This will raise customer awareness, which is quite important, but I'll talk about that later. Now, what to put on your menu. You can do the easy thing and put everything on your menu, but that leads to too much diversity. If you want to limit what you put in your menu, then up the dishes that offer the most money based on the cost price.
So find the dishes with the highest default prices and the lowest cost prices. So find dishes that make a lot of profit and offer then to the customers. When you use new secret ingredients, make sure you compensate the cost of the ingredient and a little extra.
That way, you maintain the amount of money you will make on that dish, perhaps a little more. That way, you don't lose money on making your dish better. Now, your most important thing is capacity. You want to have a restaurant that has about 90 seats, and you need to ensure that about 8 tables are the 4 seaters, the rest can be paired tables. As long as you have enough seats, you will be able to make some money.
Now, you need to split your servers and captains. Splitting your staff will depend on your restaurant and capacity layout. You will need 2 captains on both floors, so there doesn't need to be an uneven split, but servers will be different. Depending on your capacity, you will need to adjust accordingly, and if you have both your kitchen and restrooms on the ground floor, then you might want to have either 3 or 4 servers on the ground floor with 6 to 7 servers on the top.
With that aside, you should be able to run a smooth restaurant. You can use complaints as a general guide to what needs to be done, server impoliteness is based on training, whilst things like poor food means you need to increase the quality. However, you should ignore complaints such as sound and wait time, mainly because in a large restaurant, it is impractical to have partitions to seperate all tables, which slow down delivery time, whilst there is nothing you can do with delivery time, less you cut down the amount of tables, which is not a key to success.
As with other staff, you only need as many receptionists as you have reception desks. That would often be one, seeing you only need a single reception desk whilst you will need 2 for the Coffee House, seeing that there are two sections. For Chefs in the kitchen, you will need to have all the slots occupied, that is, you need to have 5 chefs inside the kitchen.
You should start off with 2 chefs, hiring more if you see that there seems to be a lot of waiting customers. They will gain skill over time as they cook, so be patient in terms of skill. Finally, the last member of staff, the Kitchen Porter. This one is interesting because you only need at most, 2, but if you want, seeing that they are not too expensive to hire, you can hire more. You will only need them to use the dishwasher and operate the kitchen porter.
Now, the last part of success, pricing. You need to price your food so that you will make money, but not to drive off customers. If you want to maximise profits, restrict the choice of your menu to make the most money you can, dishes with high profit margins.
However, this game is a learning experience, you will learn what works and what doesn't, and that can't be written down. Just raise customer awareness, which is how aware the public is of your restaurant, and that will lead to more customers, and that leads to more money overall. Use this guide with combination of the manual and in game campaign in order to get a good understanding on how this game works.
These are all the default ingredients and optional ingredients, let me explain in my template below. So a clock roughly equates to 3 minutes. Each dish will only have one piece of equipment that they needed to create it.
Anyway, let us begin. Don't blame me, this game is riddled with such tiny errors. Gelatin 1. Remove the commas. Never on that c,h,e,a,t,c,c. Before you Email me, read everything in this Contact Information section and! If the information is already listed, your email will be! E-Mail Me, and for the love of all that isn't sacred, make sure that the title of the game is smacked into place.
Also, email with courtesy. If you just hurl abuse, I will promptly hurl more abuse back, and save it so the entire world can abuse you and see your stupidity. When you write the Email, you have to do so in English, and English only. Essential Ingredients Quantity Artichoke 90 g Butter 7. Offered with healthy servings of artichoke hearts, olive, and salami.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Black Pepper 0. Essential Ingredients Quantity Carrot 0. A slice of toasted bread is added in each bowl before ladling the soup over. Served with grated Parmesan cheese. Simmered clams are added to this delicious broth. This is a great entree for a special weeknight dinner for your family or just to enjoy the true flavors of Italy Essential Ingredients Quantity Arugula 2 bunch Bacon 3 slices Butter 30 g Cheese, Parmesan Essential Ingredients Quantity Bacon 2 slices Butter 7.
Served with pasta of your choice. Served with hot tomato salsa. Essential Ingredients Quantity Arugula 1. Essential Ingredients Quantity Butter 2. Essential Ingredients Quantity Blueberries Essential Ingredients Quantity Almond 6. Light, aromatic and refreshing.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Egg Whites 0. Using only savory Italian ingredients, this supreme dessert is a blend of contrasting sweet and bitter tastes. Ideal for one-course meals. Essential Ingredients Quantity Avocado 0. Served with garlic, olive oil, vinegar and honey dressing. Served hot with fresh bread rolls. Essential Ingredients Quantity Butter 3. Served with chopped bacon rashers and russet potatoes. Essential Ingredients Quantity Broccoli 90 g Carrot 0. A delight for the more intrepid diners among us.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Bacon 1. Polenta made from fabled Fontina cheese and Parmesan round off this traditional Italian dish. Cooked in a frying pand with vegetables. Essential Ingredients Quantity Brown Sugar Essential Ingredients Quantity Garlic Clove 0.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Cream, Heavy 7. Served with a helping of coleslaw or a green salad Essential Ingredients Quantity Butter 21 g Cayenne 0. Seasoned with a little salt and lots of freshly ground pepper. Essential Ingredients Quantity Bread Crumbs 4. A wonderful dish. Do not be intimidated by the amount of hot pepper sauce in the marinade; the chicken will only pick up only some of the heat.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Bread Crumbs Grilled for tenderness then glazed with sweet and smoky barbecue. Served with seasoned herbs. Essential Ingredients Quantity Baking Powder 0. Complete with blueberry and orange peel garnish. The creaminess of the quark plays a beatuiful contrast to the crunchy pine honey cookie. The perfect dessert for the diet-conscious. Essential Ingredients Quantity Almond 1. Toasted pecan glaze round off delicious these hand-rolled buns.
Vegetable confetti is served with eggs of your choice. Essential Ingredients Quantity Cliantro 8. Seasoned witn salt and pepper. Now everyone can enjoy this Euro-American dish with its delicate fusion of tastes. Chopped chives as garnish rounds off this spectaular way to start the day.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Arugala 0. A great accompaniment to any breakfast. Our biscuit-dough buns are faster to make yet just as delicious as traditional cinnamon buns made with yeast. Served with a medium-sized fresh langoustine. Essential Ingredients Quantity Apple 0. Served with sauteed shallot and herb sauce. Chasselas grapes round off this outfit. Essential Ingredients Quantity Almong Small flavorful bonito marinated in olive oil combines with grilled and marinated eggplants, patiently grilled to perfection.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Caviar 20 g Dill 0. Spider crab roe tops off this delicacy. Essential Ingredients Quantity Fish Stock Essential Ingredients Quantity Asparagus g Basil 0. This tropical recipe is served chilled. Essential Ingredients Quantity Cliantro 0.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Brown Sugar 2. Garnished with blueberries and lemon. Essential Ingredients Quantity Blueberries g Celery 0. Essential Ingredients Quantity Brown Sugar 1. Asparagus tips are served as a garnish. Essential Ingredients Quantity Asparagus g Butter Essential Ingredients Quantity Bacon 1 slice Basil 0. Essential Ingredients Quantity Bacon 0. Garnished wtih basil. Boiled with stock and cream. Essential Ingredients Quantity Butter 30 g Carrot 0.
Lightly browned pearl onions and potato slices with finely scattered chopped chives round out this excellent dish. Served with parsley and lemon wedge garnish. Essential Ingredients Quantity Mussel Garnished with rosemary sprigs. Essential Ingredients Quantity Bread Crumbs 5. Essential Ingredients Quantity Brown Sugar 3. Served with fresh steamed vegetable and sherry wine gravy with remaining basting oil. The pastry-wrapped salmon is the ultimate dinner-party fare.
Essential Ingredients Quantity Butter 28 g Egg 0. A sprinkle of pine nuts top off this great recipe. Served with sliced tomatoes. Garnished with lemon wedges. Essential Ingredients Quantity Cream, Heavy Served with a healthy helping of fruits and berries. Topped with encrusted with bay leaves. The perfect recipe for hedonistic palates, where calorie count comes second to sheer flavor.
Made with fresh peaches. Made with imported buttercream. A refreshing way to enjoy tropical fruits. Served with vanilla ice cream. Essential Ingredients Quantity Egg Yolk 0. Anyway, the monthly revenue isn't all that much if you think about it. Use some advertising to create more customers to your place. It isn't too hard yet. Make sure you have about 2 servers and captains to solve the dinner chokepoint and one porter, if not two to quicken things up. Hire a receptionist if you think you need one.
Also, start training your staff, it will pay dividends later on, trust me. You should start to expand your restaurant upstairs now, and to do this, you will need some dumb waiters. Two should do incase things get a tad hectic. Anyway, you should also improve the decor of the restaurant with some more decorations, a few cheap paintings should do. In the kitchen, add the mixer, microwave use a dishwasher if you haven't already. This is due to the fact that you can start making favourite meals for the customers now and as such, you get more practice for your chef as well as satification.
The satification is by far the sore point in this. Make a profit here to make sure you survive. And hire a few more staff due to the expansion upstairs. Hire one or two more servers to serve the demand. You need to start making a profit here so don't spend too much or maintenance will go up. Remove training and advertising if you can't afford to pay it. You also need to have a high amount of revenue as well. Make sure you can do both. The cooking competition can be viewed through the little adventure mode.
Use your best recipe, the absolute best and win those mini-games, win them, do not lose them. Try your hardest, you have plenty of time so do not fret. Keep the food prices up, do not drop them as your have to make a profit as it is your main goal. Because it is good and it is now a bit more famous. Improve that recipe and rake in even more. The profit goal is now doubled.
If you have too many staff, that are not needed, such as an extra porter or server, or your find upstair is not being used, then fire them as the profit is quite high.
You should use the set menus as this can be a money raker if you use the correct combination. This is good timing as if you serve only the lunch and dinner meals, you can make more money through the drinks such as wine, which you can set. For the Don's wish, meet with your uncle quickly and attain the recipe he asks for.
Increase food prices if you can't manage but not too much. Furnish the restaurant, but not too expansive furniture. Basic decor with furnishing for the tables as well, for some light. Raise the prices to cover the costs of the second restaurant as well. Customer satification should not be a problem, check for the problems and solve them.
Meals served on time might pose a problem but hire one to two more servers to fill out the gap if need be. You are going to need new staff for both restaurants, more in second than the first. The second is larger and you get to plan the layout, so choose wisely. Sack staff or knock off the rate of training or advertising that you do if the profit doesn't get high. Do as you would do above.
Meet your uncle and go to the grocery shop like ordered to. The soup contest is itself, hard however. You need some help through selling soups but no one will buy it. How to solve this? Duplicate the soup, drop to price to a very low level and this increases demand so train on that.
Improve both restaurants to make it more attractive and this will pay off in later months. You will need more staff in both restaurants and more expansive decor to increase the comfort level. While meeting with your uncle, you can unlock the address of the grocery shop, the regionals and meet some chefs, Thierry and Pierre. In both restaurants, hire more staff to cost with demand and replaces the old tables with ones that you can afford that can provide more comfort.
This is need for the stars. Buy some more expansive decor and remove the cheaper ones. Improve the exterior views on the restaurants as well. Start to hire more servers in both restaurants and max out the amount of captains.
When the little special event turns up, go to the address the gave you, in adventure mode, and exchange recipes and after a bit more banter, he will give the address of the chefs Stefano and Marco. Send the latter to the French Trezze restaurant for some work experience. Get Armand to win with the Mixed Casserole of Pork to promote him a bit. Run the Italian restaurant a fair bit and let Stefano win the stadium event with the exchanged Macroni recipe. After that, if you have the stars, next chapter.
Chapter 8 Goals: Overall Rating 3. Now that you have the money to play around with, hire staff, the best possible and have some nice new decor to play around with. Make sure the kitchen is big and send two chefs to help on the workload there. Destroy the decorations on the wall and sell them to replace them with lights or some nice decorations.
Make sure the restaurant and exterior is good before you go around and open. Now, for the cooking competition, you need to have two chefs for three rounds, with Italian food, an appetizer Italian and a special dish. Find the chef that specialises in this dish and use Armand to promote him a tad more. The stars might be problematic but nothing you can't achieve yet.
Upgrade all your restaurants at the same time to ensure consistancy while maintaining training and advertising for all restaurants but make sure you have profit leftover to expand. Decorate the restaurant and don't be skimpy on the decor, since by now, if you have been running surpluses, it should be ok. Meet your uncle as usual and meet Delia and go buy some stuff as well as the grocery store.
Build the kitchen upstairs and use dumbwaiters to transport and move the toilets downstairs as this will ease conjestion a fair amount. Use the training and advertising to promote your newest venture as well. Get your contest winning chefs to LA to start the cooking contest.
This is different as you need a French, Italian and American recipe. Even though you might win the contest please win the mini-games, they are important , you still need to improve the rating. Promote exterior as well as that is important as well. Do not ignore the exterior or interior. Hire as many staff as you need. Lower prices if things aren't working out.
Learn some more about OmniFood. Transfer the chefs that you like to work at the new joint to gain some more work experience in terms of food.
Don't place tables and such upstairs, as the restaurant itself is quite large and there is plenty of table space downstairs. Build up the kitchen and the restrooms, which is obvious by now. Hire a few staff, 2 captain and servers to round out the service. Build the menu, enable beverages and update the exterior. After you talk to Delia, she needs someone to manage the store, and that would be your Uncle in Paris. Open store and start the competition. You need two chefs and one recipe of each cuisine.
Use the chefs that you think fit the bill, but let Armand be there to promote him. Win the contest, and move on. The first one is the overall 4 stars that is required of you. It is quite hard to do this unless it has been a good restaurant and that results in pouring a large amount of money. Use your best chef to improve food. Lessen conjestion to improve service and erect barriers to add to comfort. To impress Gordini again, you need to have a decent restaurant.
Use the best that you can afford in the current point in time. Only the best will do. Use a large menu and beverages and use the best chefs upon his arrival. Use lamps, add decor and reduce the amount of complaints that you receive.
Improve the exterior and hire as many staff that you can to reduce conjestion.
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