RESTAURANT CITY TIPS

[Min_Hay 0]

Just a compilation of useful tips and facts about RC! If you have
anything to share, please let me know so I can add to this list!

Also, if you haven't already, do read the FAQs (created by the lovely Sonya) as it contains a lot of great info! Restaurant City - FAQs

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USEFUL TIPS AND FACTS

1. To scroll around your restaurant and its surroundings, hold onto your left mouse button and drag it. [Inside the restaurant]
   
2. You can shake trees (found outside restaurants) for money by
   clicking on them. So go around to your friends' place and shake their
   trees too. [Inside the restaurant]
   
3. Earn extra cash by clearing up other people's trash. To clear trash, click on it with your mouse. [Inside the restaurant]
   
4. To avoid over-exhausting your employees when you leave the game for
   more than 3 hours, simply remove the door or place an item (such as a
   deco tree or mailbox) in front of your door. The place will be empty.
   [Inside your restaurant] - Submitted by Tweak
   
5. If you wish to let your restaurant run while you sleep or head out
   for over 3 hours or so, you'd get an earning of 2000 coins when you log
   back in. And contrary to popular belief, your popularity rating will
   NOT go down despite your employees lying there exhausted (Please note
   that you MUST log out first. It will still run when you have logged
   out.)
   
6. Missed out on an ingredient cause you didn't get the daily food
   quiz question right? oumsker has compiled a list of questions and
   correct answers for you! Check it out here! Please help contribute if you can!
   
7. Don't waste your money on more expensive stoves as they all cook at the same rate (At the moment anyway)
   
8. You can distract the extra customers with arcade machines! They
   will play and then leave the restaurant without decreasing your
   popularity points - Submitted by oumsker (discovered by Bodhi)
   
9. Apart from the arcade machine, the other deco items are currently
   not interactive so spend your money wisely on items that you need -
   Submitted by nicachanxd
   
10. Think twice before buying an item because although they may be
    cheap (such as windows), don't get them yet if you have your eye on
    something more pricey. Just save up since how you decorate the
    restaurant does not affect the number of customers or your popularity -
    Submitted by mochinez23
    

TIPS TO LEVEL UP QUICKLY

• Focus on leveling on ONE type of starter, main and dessert. Be
  open to trading so you can collect items required to level up your
  chosen specific meals. You will get more gourmet points when customers
  order dishes of greater level - Submitted by Vanity
  
• Arrange your tables in this manner; where everyone is seated close to the cooks so the waiters do not have to waste time walking
  
  
• Due to my preference of the seating arrangement above, I would add two or three tables for each cook I have.
  At the moment, I have 4 cooks, 2 waiters and 10 tables.
  You will have to make your own judgment by adjusting the number of tables, seating arrangement but as a rough guide:
  With 1 cook, 1 waiter = 3 tables
  With 2 cooks, 1 waiter = 6 tables
  With 3 cooks, 1 waiter = 8 tables
  With 4 cooks, 2 waiters = 10 tables
  
• Go to the trading forum and try trading for ingredients and items that you want!
  
• If possible, try to find someone who wishes to level up dishes
  completely different from yours (of which require different ingredients
  to yours) so you can trade and help each other to advance!
  
• Want to tell your friends the items you need? Use your restaurant
  name to leave a message such as "Need Leeks and Potatoes". It's a
  simple, clever and effective way of saying what you want! - Submitted
  by Cstix
  
• Can't decide whether to bar the door or leave your restaurant run
  while you sleep? Just let it run anyway (after you've logged out of
  course). Read Useful Tip #5 to find out why!
  
• Adding "temporary" friends may help you get more ingredients but
  please be aware that Facebook will shut your account down if you add
  too many friends within a short period of time. Please read this. - Contributed by Nickie
  
  
• To delay the customers' journey to their tables, create a barrier
  by arranging dividers or any deco items from the doorway leading
  towards the dining area. This will allow more time for the waiters to
  clear the tables - Submitted by Faww
  
  

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NOTE: A number of people seem to be confused whether the tips
are referring to the inside view (where you can see your employees
working) or the outside view (where you can see your own restaurant
from the outside) so I've clarified it by stating either [Inside your restaurant] or [Outside your restaurant] ... which should be pretty straight-forward


(information taken from playfish forum http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=524942)

[glow88 0]

hehe cool of u to post it here!
i wanted to post the info here too b4 tat..
but hehe notice u guys posted it le^^
thanks!

[irshandy 0]

thnks for taking the tips onto here..
hehe..

[Platinvm 0]

Hey, some of these tips are pretty good...even for me...hehe...

Now I should be able to level up even faster =)

Also to note, if you're more interested in leveling up than making a lot of profit...you should keep your workers no lower than 80%...once they hit 80% feed them water...this will keep everyone happy and (if your tables are arreanged in a good way) you should easily be able to keep your rep between 46 - 50.0 =)

[riesey 0]

Thanks for the nicely written faqs:)

[Platinvm 0]

Great tips...and yes, that last configuration is so far the best I've seen...if you implement it with the "80% refresh rule" then you'll have close to 50 rep points at all time and a constant flow of customers, points, and money...

I think in an "average hour" I was making around 950$ =)

[heather 0]

great tips... thank you!

[PetPetGiO 0]

thank you so much

[pauline8176 0]

thx

[esperia 0]

perfect