Restaurant City (RC) which is developed by Play Fish, is a game application in Face Book. The objective is to get to level 32(used to be 27) , achieves all awards and learn all the recipes in the menu. You can decorate your restaurant with the money you earn from selling 4 categories of food type - Starter, Main, Dessert and Drink.
http://apps.facebook.com/restaurantcity/
Welcome to Restaurant City
Today's Free Ingredient
Ingredients are very precious in Restaurant City. You need ingredients to upgrade your recipe so that you can gain more Gourmet Points to level up. As long you log in once a day, you will receive 1 free ingredient and 1 food quiz which can be found in your mail box. You do not have to do the quiz immediately as it can be accumulated. I tend to gather about 7 quizzes and do it at one go.
RUBBISH EVERYWHERE
When you log into your restaurant daily, you can see some rubbish such as meat, banana and pizza lying around. In real life it tend to be a bad thing as it can cause your restaurant to be closed down. However in RC, you can gain 1 coin and 1 gourmet point for every rubbish you pick up. The bad thing is when you open your restaurant, some customers might turn away if they see rubbish lying around. To solve this, either you pick the rubbish yourself or hire a cleaner.
USER INTERFACE
Your total coins are indicated on the top left side of the screen (See above). Coins are used to purchase ingredients or items to decorate your restaurant.
The middle portion shows your gourmet points and current level. Click on it and it tells you how much points are needed for advancement.
The top right side shows your restaurant popularity. The higher it is, the more frequent customers are going to patronize your restaurant. The maximum popularity is 50.
Normally if i am offline, i will use item such as a fish tank to block the door. The main reason is your workers get tired as time passes and it will result in decrease of your popularity as they cannot fulfill every customer's needs.
**TIP**
Before i log out, i will block my door and have an active cook and waitress so that i can receive money later when i log back in. In such way, i will receive money and my restaurant popularity does not drop.
Making money even if i am away.
BE A BOSS, HIRE SOME EMPLOYEE
Click Hire friends for more employee
A restaurant cannot be run by 1 person. You will need help from your friends to run this business. From the start of the game, you can only have 2 employees. As you gain more gourmet points and level up, you can expand your restaurant and increase the number of your employees.
A boss need to dedicate tasks
Once you have a few employees, you can dedicate tasks to run your restaurant. You will need at least a chef and waiter to earn coins. If you dont like this employee, you may "sack" him. Give him a rest if he gets tired and he can replenish his energy or you may buy some food to increase his energy immediately (Apple gives 50 energy). You do not need cleaner until a later stage. Breakdown of the employee tasks is shown below:
2 employees: 1 Chef, 1 Waiter
3 employees: 2 Chef, 1 Waiter
4 employees: 3 Chef, 1 Waiter
5 employees: 3 Chef, 2 Waiter
6 employees: 4 Chef, 2 Waiter
7 employees: 4 Chef, 2 Waiter
8 employees: 4 Chef, 2 Waiter, 1 Cleaner
FOOD QUIZ
Let us attempt some quizzes. We must answer correctly in order to receive new ingredient. We can use the following website to help us. Let me show you an example.
http://restaurantcity-tips.blogspot.com/2009/04/restaurant-city-food-quiz-answers.html
Step 1: Open 2 browsers and align them to fill up half the screen each. (See example above)
Step 2: Go to the Restaurant City Food Quiz Answer browser and press Control F (standby the search option for later use)
Step 3: Go back to your Restaurant and Click Mail Box to access to the food quiz.
Step 4: Get yourself ready to remember the key word of the quiz. Click on 1 of the quiz. You will see a countdown timer - 3,2,1 before the quiz is shown.
Step 5: "Traditional Soy Sauce is?" The keyword here is Soy Sauce. Go to your Food Quiz Answer browser and key in Soy Sauce in the search box, then click next. You will see the answer appear. Immediately click back to your Restaurant browser and select the answer "Salty"
Step 6: You have just receive your first prize ingredient through the food quiz. Continue to do the same thing for the rest of the quiz to receive the prize ingredient.
RECIPE
A restaurant without a good recipe cannot attract customers. The higher the level of your recipe, the more Gourmet Points you will receive per food sold. The maximum Gourmet Points per food sold is 2.8, which is at level 10.
Click on Change Menu to select recipe to upgrade
4 categorie - Starter, Main, Dessert and Drink.
Check out the ingredients you have and aim at 1 type of food per category. Pump that food to level 10 as soon as you can. You may trade your unwanted ingredient with your friends or spam for help using the loudspeaker.
Use loudspeaker to let your friends know what you need
2.8 Gourmet points per food sold.
TURN TO STREET FOR FRIENDS
Visiting friend for the first time gives you free ingredient. You can also see how they set up their restaurant and use the ideas on yours.
Click on Street to find a friend you have not visited
One of my course mate
First time bonus for visiting a friend
ADDITIONAL BONUS COINS
Shake trees to receive coins if you are lucky.
START BUSINESS
Once you are ready, just open your door and do business. You will earn gourmet points and 2 coins for every food. Dont get dishearted if your restaurant is not running smoothly as you expected. Give yourself some time and soon you will have a famous restaurant. Below is an overview movie of Restaurant City
FARM YOUR OWN INGREDIENT (New Feature)
Instead of trading or buying your own ingredient, why not grow your own? You may now plant your seed for 2000 coins and water them daily and you will receive it in 48 hours later of care. The steps to farm your own ingredient is shown below.
Plant your seed at 2000 coin (Very cheap for ingredient)
Water them with care and watch them grow
You have your own farm and ready for harvest.
Harvest your ingredient and use it to upgrade your receipe
COMMON ERRORS
When you try to log in or visiting your friends restaurant, error messages might pop up. This is due to the network where a lot of people try to access to RC. Try relog again later and it will be fine.
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Some tips
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1.) Shake tree for more coins
2.) Visit new friends from the street to receive free ingredient
3.) Log in once a day to receive free ingredient and free food quiz
4.) Have a Chef and Waiter working before you log out
5.) Farm your own ingredient. It is cheaper this way
6.) Focus on gaining gourmet points from the start. Dont spend too much money on decorates.
7.) Get coins and gourmet points by clicking on the rubbish found in your restaurant
8.) Get coins and gourmet points by clicking on the rubbish found in your friends' restaurant
Good:
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- Be your own boss
- Easy to play and great satisfaction
- Sense of achievement - Obtaining recipe and levels
- You can farm your own ingredients instead of buying and trading
- Playing with people around the world
- Hire your friends as your employees
- Decorating your own restaurant
- Sending gifts to friends
Bad:
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- There is no indication which friend you have not yet visited from the street
- No much animation
- No story line
- No quests
- Hard to connect during night time
- Can cheat if players have 2 accounts
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In Summary
(None, Bad, poor, average, good, excellent)
Graphic: Good
Sound: Good (Music and munching of food)
Storyline: None
Animation: Poor
User Control: Good
Entertainment level: Good
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