Restaurant City Strategy

Restaurant City Strategy

Collect ingredients – There are several ways to get Restaurant City ingredients such as visiting other friends’ restaurants, the daily freebie, winning them by correctly answering the daily food quiz, buying them (although I wouldn’t advise it in the beginning), trading ingredients with friends, and by planting seeds in your Restaurant City garden to grow ingredients. Collecting new ingredients allows you to learn more recipes which in turn permits you to earn more coins.

Learn recipes – After collecting ingredients you need to learn more recipes. While you can only serve one dish per course (i.e. starter, main course, dessert), each recipe is worth a different amount of gourmet points. So as you unlock and learn new recipes, you should select the one that generates the most gourmet points when served. Generally speaking the higher the recipe, the greater the gourmet points.

Don’t over/under staff – I would suggest you assign one waiter and one chef for every three tables. You can do more or less depending on the way you’ve designed the table layout. Just make sure that you’ve aligned the tables so that the waiters can easily access them.

Create an optimal table layout – Placement of your tables is crucial for fast and efficient serving by your waiters. Many people like to align their tables in a row formation with chefs positioned at each end so waiters can quickly pickup orders and serve them fast. In contrast, others like to arrange their tables in a maze format to allow their staff more time for clearing tables. Another table strategy is to arrange your tables in a horseshoe formation and put your chef in the center so waiters can quickly serve customers. Ensuring that you table layout is optimal helps increase customer turnover, thereby increasing your profits in a given amount of time.

Keep your employees happy – Keeping your workers happy is important because they work faster. If their energy level gets to low the slow down and eventually stop working. As discussed previously you can increase their energy level by resting them or feeding them. If you rest them, they can’t work and feeding them costs money. You can always close your store to allow them to rest but I would suggest your feed your workers instead so you can continue to serve food and make more coins.

Keep your restaurant clean – Hire a janitor to help keep your restaurant sparkling clean so your rating doesn’t decrease. The janitor will ensure that trash is cleared and all bathrooms are clean.

Focus on earning coins – You can earn Restaurant City coins by serving meals, shaking trees near your restaurant, picking up trash, or buying coins via Playfish cash (obtained with real money). The best return on your investment is ensuring that your restaurant runs like a well oiled machine. However, there’s always time to earn extra coins by shaking those trees and picking up trash. Even though it’s a fast way to earn Restaurant City coins, I wouldn’t recommend buying coins with your own money.

Keep that browser window open – Returning to play Restaurant City is beneficial as you can earn more gourmet points. When you close your window it limits your earnings potential; you will only earn a maximum of 2000 coins and gourmet points are capped as well.

Don’t buy expensive stoves or arcades – All stoves have the same cooking speed so buying fancier, more expensive ones is a waste of money. Arcades are sometimes used to preoccupy customers while they wait but some Restaurant City players have reported that they can bring down ratings.

Increase your restaurant’s rating – You want to keep your restaurant’s rating high so the flow of customers continues and you can earn more coins, level-up, and earn more gourmet points. You can improve restaurant popularity by maintaining a highly productive eatery. Thus, you need to ensure employee energy level (a.k.a happiness) is always high by letting them rest or feeding them. When you’re not playing the game, let them rest and remove the door to your restaurant or simply block it with a chair. This will prevent customers from coming in and giving it a poor rating while your wait staff is resting.

Level up for high profit recipes – As you gain more gourmet points and level up, you should try new recipes that are more profitable. Remember you can only serve one item per course so make sure you choose your starter dish, main dish, and dessert dish wisely. Generally speaking, the higher the game level, the more profitable the recipe.

Plan around your schedule – Employees last about 3 hours fully energized so it’s important that you return to the game to feed them before they slow down and your restaurant’s popularity suffers. If you can’t return to the game before then, you might consider resting your crew and removing the door to close your restaurant.

Remodel your restaurant – Adding on to your restaurant allows your to increase the number of tables to seat more customers and earn more money. You can also use remodeling to get better ratings and find better table arrangements to increase productivity of your wait staff.

Be a good friend – Giving gifts and helping your fellow Restaurant City members encourages them to do the same for you. Moreover, you are rewarded for carrying out such acts of kindness with gourmet points and awards.

Skip the bragging – As you accomplish new goals and reach new levels playing Restaurant City you’ll be given the opportunity to post such accomplishments to your profile thereby notifying your friends. If it’s not a huge achievement, hit the skip button as many Restaurant City players and Facebook friends find this to be very annoying. That is, every time you post such things they appear in your friends’ news feed and if you’re doing it often they may just unfriend you. To prevent annoying your friends you can change the default permissions for Restaurant City, and all Facebook games, as well as change your Facebook profile’s privacy settings with our Facebook Guide.

Change web browsers – The most commonly used web browser is Internet Explorer which can be incredibly slow at times. If you find yourself waiting around for Restaurant City to start or the game occasionally lags, you might try using a faster browser like Opera or Google Chrome.

Befriend correctly – Adding new Restaurant City friends is an important aspect of the game but there’s a right way to invite someone and there’s a wrong way. A simple “add me” will not suffice and is not considered proper etiquette. The proper way to invite someone is to include a message like “Restaurant City” or “Restaurant City add” with the invitation.

Become a fan of Restaurant City – Adding new Restaurant City friends is one of the most important parts of the game as it can help you win more Restaurant City coins, unlock ingredients and awards, as well as help you gain more gourmet points to level up. Hence, Restaurant City groups and fan pages on Facebook can be a great source for finding more friends.