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Restaurant City Tips and Tricks
Yes yes, I know, Restaurant City again. I’d usually leave posts like this to gaming sites but I received quite a good number of inquiries about Restaurant City so I figured I’ll devote a post to it. Plus, I feel like I owe people who arrived here looking for RC info something with more meat. For regular readers though, don’t worry, this will be my last RC related post. So, if you’re here purely for the food posts, this is your cue to bail.
What is Restaurant City?
It’s a game application developed by Playfish on Facebook.
How do you get ingredients?
You get ingredients 3 ways. The first is the daily freebie. This is automatic and will greet you as soon as you log on each day. The next is the daily quiz. Each day, you receive a quiz question in your inbox. If you answer the food quiz correctly, you get a free ingredient. The last way is when you visit a friend’s restaurant FOR THE FIRST TIME. Ever. No, it’s not a daily thing like in Pet Society; it’s a forever thing.
How do you get GP faster?
Keep your browser on! Minimize, switch to another window, your call. What’s important is, your restaurant window is running so you can gain GP. While you can gain money even if you’re offline, GP can only be gained when your window is on so if you’re going for the level-ups, keep that window open.
GP?
GP means gourmet points. That’s the little status bar on top of your screen that lets you know when you’ll level up next.
Quick Coins
Get quick coins by picking up trash and shaking trees. Trees? While you’re in restaurant view, scroll around your lot. Click all the trees you see because they sometimes drop coins.
Wheee! Recipes galore!
Even if you’re tempted to level up lots of recipes at once, restrain yourself. Your restaurant can only serve one dish from each category (appetizer, main course & dessert) 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 so stick to one. Unfortunately, a recipe’s level has no effect on money gains.
Cook to Waiter to Table Ratios?
There’s no hard and fast rule to ratios, but personally, I go with 3 tables per cook, then 1-2 waiters per 3 cooks. I always prioritize more cooks over waiters and it can work as long as you fix your table layout so that your waiter doesn’t have to walk far to serve your tables. Remember that waiters can serve tables diagonally so as long as the square they’re standing in has contact with the table, you’re set.
Keeping your Employees Happy
Monitor your employees happiness. Try to keep it big happy smile green (by feeding or resting) as much as you can because happier employees mean better productivity. Which simply translates to them moving faster.
Rest or Feed?
So, should you rest your employees when you’re offline? It’s still debatable but personally, I think it’s best to pump them up to full, then let them work. When you return, you’re assured of earnings up to a max of 2000. Even at the current maximum employee number of 8, you’ll spend at most 1600 feeding them sandwiches so you still make a profit of 400. Plus, it’s kinder to your restaurant reputation than closing your shop.
I can close my shop??Yes you can. Simply bar the door with something like a chair, table or your mailbox. Or you can just remove the door itself.
What’s up with my friends’ intricate mazes?
See some of your Facebook friends make their customers walk through intricate mazes before getting to their tables? Some people like doing mazes because it gives their wait staff more time to clear tables! Unlike in real life, here, customers don’t complain even if you make them walk to the far ends of the room just to get to their table. Of course, that also means it’ll take time before your guests can get seated so it means a slower customer turnover. It really is best to test your layouts to figure out what works best for you.
How do you stop the addiction?
Now that, unfortunately, is a question I can’t answer. *facepalm*
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lol kao you mentioned three ways of earning ingredients, but you only described two
Yes! I FAIL AT LIFE! OTL
Still, thanks for catching that, edited to add the last. Unfortunately, I get sick of proofreading stuff at work so I skip that part on my own blog.
You can also grow ingredients in the garden…
I do like your website.. lots of good info. Thx
-Rick
he did: 1.- Daily freebie. 2.- Food Quiz 3.- 1st time u visit a friend`s restaurant.
actually, there are four: you missed buying them.
i would also like to add 2 more ways of having ingredients..
1. by asking a friend you give you an ingredient gift..
2. also by trading.. with this you would need to trade an ingredient in exchange of what your friend has..
hi i dont know hot to play this game i cant move i dont know teach me plz
you cant you LOOK
This is a great restaurant city guide. If you’d like more info on how to play there is another helpful guide called Beginner Game Guide to Restaurant City on Facebook that you can check out as well. http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/mmo/articles/53670.aspx
He did mention 3
1.You get it when you log into Restaurant City
2.Food Quiz gives you ingredients
3.When you enter your friend’s house for the first time to get and ingredient
Actually, there are 4! The last one is to buy it but quite expensive.
actually there is 5… trade with friends
No, definately 3 different ways were mentioned. . .
1) Automatically, daily
2) Through answering a quiz question correctly
3) Through visiting a friend for the first time ever!
LOL — it is YOU have to have to thank for introducing me to this!!!
I am sooooo addicted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So…should I start apologizing now? *laughs*
And about the trees…Yeah! As long as there are trees, just shake it shake it shake it! (Even in Pet Society!
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btw – you can shake trees at neighboring restaurants!!!
thanks for this informative post! even my friends (and their friends) are addicted now, thanks to you! XD
Nice article! I’ve got a few questions…
Does the stove affect the cooking speed? or chairs/tables affect the patience of the customers? or does the interior and exterior design of the restaurant affect the popularity?
Thanks!
No, the stove is just for decorative purposes. I don’t know about the chairs/tables or the interior/exterior, but I don’t think it has anything to do with the patience of costumers or the popularity of the restaurant (plus I haven’t read anything about it… So probably not)
For the patience you can just put a retro arcade machine or make a maze so they take longer to get to the tables, or put less tables…
The popularity is based on how well you manage your restaurant, I think. So, a good proportion of cooks, waiters/waitresses and tables is important. That makes the costumers happy.
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hi! i’m playing restaurant city too. can i add you up?? ^_^
What I don’t want in this game is it load so slowly, as if the whole game is all about waiting, waiting to load, waiting to save, waiting to enter your friend’s resto. But despite of that, it is a nice game and I am addicted to it.
I have tried playing RC in Google Chrome. It’s a lot faster than IE and Firefox. I believe all FB apps are faster in Chrome.
Ahhh but then how come i cant play RC on my google chrome browser? huh?
man oh man…. >*<
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AHH A MUTANT IN MY KITCHEN!
@yoof san
*insert impending doom sfx here*
@v
Unfortunately no. It’s not like The Sims where furniture has food / comfort ratings. Design doesn’t affect popularity either (last I researched) but the layout does since it affects the speed of your service.
It would be nice if furniture / appliances had stats right? Like better chairs helping your customers be more patient…
Oh, one thing that can affect your restaurant’s stats is the arcade machine. If your resto’s full, customers will use the arcade machine before leaving, so they don’t give you a thumbs down for no available seats.
@grace
My sincerest apologies but I have to decline. I keep my FB private for close friends only. 
Sorry grace.
@tinchan
Unfortunately, I guess it’s one of the pitfalls of it being in Beta. One weekend I was so frustrated with the length of time it took to save I ended up not playing. Especially since I also got rolled back around 20k gourmet points after a failed save *cries*.
But I’m sure we’ll have a great working game after Beta.
OMG you can get rolled back by that much? Drat. Sometimes it’s actually just better to quit FB, clear all your internet caches, and not try to save. the game’s autosave really does wonders.
I’m so addicted to this game that I have neglected my Hatchlings, hehe.
well the game is adicting but they still have to fix some things like the connections because it cuts every while and its anoyn
plus as i typing this comment im tryn to get back in the game and it says that its unable to establish connection it sucks
hi there! thanks for the tips! im also addicted to restaurant city (verrrrry addicted!). i’ve also figured out that the speed of cooking in an ordinary stove vs. the teleport stove doesn’t make any difference.
one more thing..i got frustrated when i bought the jukebox machine thinking that its the same with the arcade where in the customers can actually play with it. even the soda machine is for display only.
ok you have to be lvl 15 to use the soda machine
weeee! the guide! yey! i’m playing it right now. the trees don’t work for me. or maybe i’m clicking on the wrong trees…
maximum popularity rate is only up to 50..i reckon as long as you’ve been consistently reaching that rate, you can dire say that your resto is already stable ^^
I’ve been wondering, do the ingredient’s rarity (the number of stars it has?) have anything to do with how many gourmet points you’ll receive?
Nice restaurant strategy can you show the whole image? hehe I want to see how your restaurant looks like
if its ok
Can I add you in restaurant city? may I have your email haha..seriously..:D
Um whats the level of your restaurant here? and may I see the outside hehe
@barbie
Unfortunately, the autosave was non-existent that weekend when it happened. Oh well. I just remind myself it’s only a game.
Yeah, that much.
@juanpi
Yeah, the lag and spotty connection is annoying but I guess it’s something we have to put up with since it’s still on Beta mode. Hopefully, performance will improve as time goes by.
@elijah
I’m hoping it’ll get activated someday, but I’m holding off buying them (jukebox and soda machine) until it actually works. Honestly, the arcade machines simply ruin my store layout, but then, I keep it since it actually does something other than be pretty.
@toni
Maybe the PS trees are jinxing you for swapping them with the RC trees
@Carmen
Unfortunately, not right now. The GP gains are fixed according to level and not the ingredient rarity.
@vincent
The outside of my resto is on this post. Unfortunately, my screensize limits my screenshot. I can’t make the whole resto fit in the screen so nothing bigger than the current screenie. And my apologies but I limit my Facebook contacts to people I know in real life. Nothing personal, I hope you don’t mind if I don’t share my account. ^_^;;
I’m addicted to this game because of you! xD
Some questions though: how do you add friends? Do you do it manually, or just wait until they start playing the game?
Also, how do you know if they’re playing? do their restaurants suddenly appear on your street?
hey2 kao..
how did you catch the screen shot..
i wanna try it too..
I just wanna tell everybody sth..
if u let your window running(as kao say to get GP).. REMEMBER to check it again about 2 or 3 hour.. because when your employee happiness go down to 60%.. they will move SLOWER than the 100%..
just to keep up this how fast the employee work..
1. 100%-65% Normal
2. 65%-40% Get Slower
3. 40%-0% More and more slow until stop..
I searched for “restaurant city tips” in Google and this post is the first result that comes up — and I’m in O-M-G mode! LOL! Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this guide! =) I’m extremely addicted to RC but I wanna take my game up so thanks a lot for your tips!! ^_^
p.s. love ur resto’s front — so modern! =)
thanks for the information.. i’m loving this new game..=)
Sorry about the double comments, but I just have to soaz on this.
I mean, just as I start getting the hang of the game, the change things around? Now I need toilets?! And a toilet cleaner who basically does nothing? *sigh*
does the stove affect the popularity and GP and rate of productivity?
do we REALLY need to put toilets? hello? ohhhhh. T.T
anyway thanks for this post.
and another (advanced) thanks for your reply.
the more expensive stove the faster they cook
im just wondering… the customers that come in. they leave with a bubble on there heads with a picture of a toilet on it.. what does this mean?
It means that they want to go to the toilet. Soon, after you get toilets, they’re gonna want a sink too. You’ll need a cleaner to clean the toilets every so often
do i need a wall for the toilets?
You really needs walls for that….just to divide the area but its like additional interior in your resto
WOW. Thank you for posting these tips!^^ I got kinda confused with how Resto City works, so I searched into Google “Guide Play Restaurant City”…And this post really helped me a lot!(finally cleared my mind..) Thank you very much!^^ Bon Appetit!=D
@gemma
When your friends start playing the game, they’ll automatically show up on your street. No worries about adding
@Max
I just used the screenshot function on my computer’s keyboard. It’s PrintScreen on PCs and a command key combo on the Mac. I’m sorry but I’m on a PC right now so I can’t remember the mac version.
@iSSa
Thanks, I’m glad you like how the resto looks
@Gracie
You’re welcome! It’s pretty addictive.
@Gemma
The toilets annoy me too! I already have a nicely configured set-up and can’t afford to switch one of my staff into a cleaner. *sigh* I wish they’d lift the 8 employee limit, at the very least, so I can hire a new person to clean.
@restocityaddict
Right now, they don’t. They’re just there for looks. I do hope they could in the future though. It would be nice if we could control the cooking speed.
@simarik_princess
It means they need to use the toilet. It’s a new addition. *sigh* And no, you can put the toilet anywhere. Unfortunately, we need walls for the doors so we can’t put a toilet in. So annoying.
@Sharmain
Glad you’re enjoying the game!
You didn’t mention about the trading unlocked ingredients at all! Don’t you know about that?
You didn’t mention about the trading unlocked ingredients at all! Don’t you know about that?
(If you reply, this comment has the reply notification!)
@ kaokao
yeah i’ve tried that but i when i press it i don’t found anything different..
Yeah this toilet thing is sick.. even the employer limit didn’t go up..
btw the toilet is used for the thumb symbol.. when they finished eating they will search for bathroom.. if they didn’t get it your thumb symbol will not go up even they have finished eating..
where is the trash to be picked up i dont see any unless you are talking about the dirty dishes?
on the floor. you should get it overnight. there can be trash @ other restaurants too.
@Bridget Delaney
I didn’t feel that there’s any strategy involved with trading, other than the obvious so I didn’t feel the need to cover that aspect. I was trying to put together a few tips and tricks that I use, as well as an attempt to answer the questions usually thrown at me. I wasn’t trying to write a step-by-step walkthrough. If that’s what your looking for, I’m sure some people have covered the game more comprehensively. Just check out some gaming sites, I’m sure they’ll have you covered.
And as to comment notification, yes, I know when someone’s subscribed to this thread so I usually don’t need to be told. Enjoy your game!
@britt
Nopes, there’s really some trash sometimes. They’re usually spilled soda cans, chicken drumsticks, banana peels and pizza slices on the floor. They appear occasionally. I’m sure they’ll show up in your game eventually
Hi, I tried to layout my resto like the same as yours (cuz it’s just the best way i’ve seen =]) But one of the waiter is always out of their 1-tile space… so he is basically walking around the tables to hand the food… which makes a lot of customers impatient and gone away (+ gave me thumbs down). Is there anyway that i could make them to stand at a specific place? thx XD
Try giving them 2 or 3 squares of space to walk around instead
the full-time cleaner sucks! instead of having the cleaner serve as waiter or cook, you would really be forced to put someone up to clean the toilet.
Hi, I have a question about the “rest or feed” section. I know that you’ll probably earn more money if you feed rather than sleep, but the popularity of your restaurant will go back down to 4.0 and it will take quite a while for it to go back again, thus making production slower. What should I do in this case? Is it still better to feed in this predicament? Thanks.
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im using the rest method but do feed them according to how much energy they have; this is a good way of not spending money and in the popularity if you hit something like a 0.4, you needn’t worry because it DOESN’T take a long time to get back up and if you are really concerned then buy some arcade machines to keep them busy and if they leave then it WON’T affect your popularity.
I have a question, i have 4 cooks and 1 waiter im almost level 11 then ill get 1 more waiter, i have 12 tables and 3 waiting chairs, should i get rid of some waiting chairs?, i also THINK ive found a way to clean toilets without a cleaner by closing the restaurant putting toilets in the decoration section and putting toilets in the restaurant view again. is this good or not, sorry if this is too confusing!
@Kathryn
Sorry for the late response and thanks! Anyway, getting people to stand at specific places needs a bit of luck. Usually, I just switch my stoves around until I find the employee assignment I want. It may take a few switches until you get it right but if you’re patient and diligent enough, it will pay off.
@elijah
I wouldn’t mind a full-time cleaner—but only if they give us more employees! Though if we’re given more employees, I’d want to make a chef first, for a possible 6 chefs, 3 waiters, 1 cleaner config.
@Michael
Ah, if you feed but close your browser, your reputation won’t go down much. However, you won’t be earning GP if your browser is closed, so it’s really just a money-making thing.
@Will
It works for some of my friends but for me in particular, it’s still dirty. 
I’m a bit confused though, what do you mean by waiting chair? Do you mean chairs without tables? It never occurred to me to do that! What does it do? Do customers really wait?
The clean toilet trick doesn’t work for me.
hi kao! yeah..anyway, i really had to give up one of my waiters to do the cleaning thing. i also tried to do before what Will has just posted. when i haven’t decided to maintain one full time cleaner yet, every time one of my toilets become dirty, i just click on “Redecorate”, drag down the toilets, then put it back again to the restaurant. after that, just save it and then alas! your toilet is clean again! hehe. but it eats up too much of my time since the toilets get dirty really fast.
I do have 2 toilets and what I do is I let those employees at rest to clean the toilet the after they clean it they will take a rest. You won’t need a permanent cleaner.:)
kao..just to share with you re: waiting chairs, my brother actually has “waiting chairs” on his restaurant too. the customers don’t really “wait”. the bubble thing will eventually pop up (asking for a “table”). the good thing there is that SOME customers get to really “wait” since they take over on other customers who have just finished their meals. but some will eventually go out of the restaurant. but honestly, i don’t like that strategy..you’ll get lots of “thumbs down” rating..hehe ;p
do you still gain gp when your window is open but then you’re in another person’s restaurant or even redecorating or something
yes
NO! you will not earn GOURMET POiiNTS.
this “STEF” iiS DUMB :p
How do you get a resting employee back into the game?
ahhhh nvm!
NO..you dont gain gourmet points when you’re out of your restaurant. you just gain cash. in order for you to increase your GP’s, you really need to leave your browser open (make sure you are INSIDE your restaurant).
NICE TIPS very helpful. add me up on FACEBOOK. just for restaurant city purposes. haha.
wiki wiki pattinson = FACEBOOK.
Nice tips… ^^
hi add me up though i just started playing XD my email add is prinzdarkness@gmail.com ^_^ thx
I hope this doesn’t sound silly, but what the heck!
When I move to the next level, I keep being told that I am getting a bigger, but don’t see it.
How is it getting bigger?
How come.. i always get the daily ingridients, always vegetables?? and can you give me clue or the answer for every quiz?? haha… my english doesn’t well enough. sometimes i don’t understand. Anyone can help me, please….
just search “answers to restaurant city quizzes” on google and there should be sites with the answers
But even You find all answers You will have no time to search for right one I think…
yes. right. you wont have time to look for the question itself.
so why SEARCH?
When you reach the higher level you’ll get more than vegetables…You can also buy ingredients but you’ll loose a lot of cash..lol
haloooo…………add me at……
j1gerdaral@yahoo.com
Great tips! thanks! didn’t know about the trees. and the door.
@elijah
The redecorate thing, for some reason, doesn’t work for me. But your brother’s waiting area thing is something I like! I added a lounge for waiting in my resto too, mostly for the looks but it’s nice that it’s utilitarian too.
@Diane
As far as I observed, no you don’t
@G
Just single tile rows. ^_^
@Karla
Sorry but I don’t have a list of daily quiz answers. As to why you always get veggies, I think it’s a random thing. I don’t know how to control it. I hope you get better luck soon.
@B
Glad to help
To those requesting facebook adds, I’m sorry but I keep my FB account limited to real life friends only. My apologies.
thanks for the tips! they helped me loads! lol
how did you assign you waitresses to two different sets of tables?
Trial and error. Once you set it up and see that the waitress isn’t inside the hole, fix it by switching some of your stoves around. Then check again. Just keep on trading your ovens with different islands until you get the ideal waitress assignment — then never ever move it again, bwahahahaha! (just kidding. if it gets messed up because you redo your layout, just switch oven assignments again
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hi.. can u teach me how 2 gain more money in restaurant city? im so tired of looking at it everyday.. n how 2 get the ingredients in a faster way besides 1st time visit n the quiz?? pls help..
add me at jennifer_yenchi@hotmail.com
btw, pls mention tat u add me 4 restaurant city. happy playing!
Sorry but I keep my facebook account private for real life friends only. My apologies. As to gaining money and ingredients, they’re all listed above. Have a nice day!
Gud am, I just would like to know if I can put doors in the comfort rooms, if yes, how can I do this, thank u.
I was browsing some comments and i have some thoughts to share for starters (lvl 1-10.) Dont use a typical restaurant lay-out of scattered tables it will be more efficient to form an enclosed (tables surrounding the cook and the waiters) area wherein the cook and the waiters are in the middle. it will be a more efficient lay-out cause less time to walk and deliver foods.
oops forgot..
PS.. on saving issue….
if you always play a faster way of saving is by clicking redecorate then move anything (like a chair) then bring it back. then click check and it will be saved. I think all will be saved including the Gourmet points and the gold– safer way to save… thanks that’s all for now
hi.. this is a very nice guide but i do have one question.. there’s this new thing in RC “visit gourmet street” and it’s full of high rated restos.. and I saw 2-3 restos with weird shapes. the walls are made of windows and they can make out any shape they want? how can I do day? been trying to figure it out for a loooong time!!
Most of the restaurant in the Gourmet Street have used hacks and cheats. like the all mirrors street design. the tons of speakers and radio inside the restaurant. they have used hacks (gold hacks some are glitches). Because of the updates they say some of the cheats now doesn’t work.
@Ehlizze Cinco
I haven’t tried lately but last time I tried, I couldn’t. I tried using walls but the doors just wouldn’t attach
@Ralph Ople
Thanks for the ideas.
@baux
I’m sorry but I don’t think I can answer your question since I haven’t seen the restaurants you’ve described. Perhaps they changed the storefront shape?
if your toilet is dirty it comes up with a symbol if you dont have a cleaner or just want to save time you can open the redecorate box put the toilet in there and then put it back in your restaurant and its all good again
can i just say that u people are stupid!!!!! all you have to do to clean ur toilet is to click on it with your mouse. its called doing it manually!!!!!!!!! there is no eaiser way to do it. it only takes one click of a mouse!!!
A recent implementation in the game which this post predates? Yes, we’re stupid…
thanks for them sweet beans of advice.
running this “business” has been a tough nut to crack. growing basil or making placards is much easier!
good my street does not have thugs, triads or anyone who would throw acid into a mob of onlookers or feeders.
I know how to earn money without lose the rating (thumbs up). Just close the restaurant but leave your employees there, save the game, return in like an hour, 2 or 3. When you open the game you will have like $2000 in recent earnings and the rating will stay.
I know how to earn money without lose the rating (thumbs up). Just close the restaurant but leave your employees there, save the game, return in like an hour, 2 or 3. When you open the game you will have like $2000 in recent earnings and the rating will stay.
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hi kao, i just observed lately that those customers who play with the “arcades” don’t really eat at my restaurant. as soon as they’re done playing, they just go out of my resto..lol.
do you like the current music selections (irish heart, classic, etc.)? i hope we can have more options (like rock music, dance tune, etc.)
hi! elijah, put a chair in your arcade machine and your customer will go the the next available table.
hi! elijah, I found out just now that the chair is just like a normal waiting chair. They will ask for a table and if not available will give the thumb down sign. But, if there are 2 machines and one without a chair, the customer will go to the chair first and if no table available she will go to the machine to play and then leave without giving the sign. Therefore, the chair is just to buy time and is not necessarily needed by the machine.
I love tips. You especially helped me with the gourmet points one.
Add me:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1840194055&ref=profile
Hi! I was wondering why I don’t have 5-star sign above my restaurant? I was looking at my friends’ resto and most of them have stars on them ( like the 5-star and 3 or 4 are lit) even my friends who are lower in level than me. Pls help I’ve been trying to figure this out for a very long time! Thanks!
go to street then visit a random street then join the gourmet club then your resto will be visited by other players and it will be rated…. you will be getting your DREAM STARS haha
I’ve been playing for so long and joined the gourmet club but I haven’t been rated by anyone else…
how do I know if I’m appearing to random street… 
my friends who are lower level than me already have there stars but not for me…I think it is unfair… 
ahmm.. its because its RANDOM..
Hi. I was just wondering whether you also wrote this same piece from this website? Some of your comments are pretty similar, if not identical.
How do you remove your restaurant from the gormet street?
it’s too busy for me and people leave with a thumbs down.
thanks.
xx – kate
Kaoko, can you teach me how to trade and all things related to it? Thanks.
do you have friend on your facebook? if you have friend. in resturant city you need to click find friend or job center and click your friend to start working
Thats all I hope I will help you .
If you have question add me in yahoo.massenger
quem_desello@yahoo.com
nollie_medison
it’s common description…there are no tricks.. blame ;/
@Everyone:
My apologies, but I’m not as active on Restaurant City anymore, seeing as I’ve gone back to playing Pet Society. If there are any questions from fellow commenters that you’d like to answer, please feel free to do so, as you probably are more up to date about gameplay. Thank you for your help, and let’s keep the ball rolling!
@Karina
No I didn’t. I ran into that post some weeks ago too and noticed the similarities. I do know that I wrote my post first (mine first went up April 14, 2009) and I drafted it from scratch. There weren’t many posts on Restaurant City at that time. The similarities are probably coincidental though.
EDIT: Oh, I reviewed the posts and I think the one which you find similar is the intro to this earlier post, dated May 31? I guess we just had the same flow of thought.
@Bllu
Please note that this post was written a week after Restaurant City was launched. A lot of things have changed with gameplay, likewise, this post was designed for newbie players, as we were during that time. I’m sorry if you found it insubstantial since you’re probably a seasoned player, so I guess it’s best for you to try other sites.
well now you can serve drinks, and have 3 dishes per catagory… and there is a small ingredient market that only sells 3 ingredients, the ingredients it sells changes every once in a while, another way is to trade with your friends, so there is really 4 ways to get ingredients. 1.Daily free ingredient, 2. Daily Quiz, 3. visiting your friends restaurant for the first time, 4. The ingredient market, 5. trading.
its true that better stove…faster cook??’
Last I played no, but I don’t know if they changed that part of the gameplay now.
hi. i’m rc mania.
if u want to add ingredients, pls add friend in this email:
richardxong@yahoo.com
galing pare parehas lang kayo ng sinasabe tunkol sa restorant city
please add me on restaurant city;facebook ^-^
i_heart_shubee@hotmail.com
ty <3
Hey, Thanks for the help
I just wondered since my customers always leave, can i buy like better chairs and get them to sit better so i can cook the food and give it to them before they leave? :O
Hi Nick! Last I checked, the chair cost / design doesn’t do much of a diff to a customer’s comfort (unlike say, in The Sims) but they may have changed it now.
[...] from leaving when things get a little slow. Restaurant City tips and hints sites can be found at Kitchen Cow, Blog for Noob, and Restaurant City [...]
thanks for the tips
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tgyuh
add me please to exchange ingredients, just mention restaurant city
asc13@hotmail.com
i think there r 6 ways to get ingrediets
1- visit other retaurants
but is random 
2- the daily freebie
3- the daily quiz
4- by buying them ( i think is too expensive)
5- by changing the ingredients with friends
6- by planting them
I’m not sure when they implemented this feature but to give some incentive to pick up trash at your/a friend’s restaurant, you get a gourmet point for every item you pick up, along with the coins and the amount that goes toward the trash pick-up award.
Man…
I think this same and absolutly agree!…
Nice tips for the game, I really like them. Keep up the good work.
http://www.restaurant-city.com has a few tips on there too which are pretty good, but I think there is something wrong with it lately.
sana basahin nyo to kahit wlng kwenta sa iba “u”
do you know random street in resturant city who do you think is rich of all the people who lived there
hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm????????????
i think JAY
couse her resto.is big that other but her outside is small not so small(big for the small) gets in tagalog (malaki sa mga maliliit)
so that’s all add me in faceboook quem_desello@yahoo.com
in friendster(quem_desello@yahoo.com) please add me
@Darren
It was there from the start
@Sebastian
Right you are! #4 & #6 are new ways though, and #5 isn’t really a way to earn a new ingredient but more a way to get the ingredient you need, since it’s a swap.
Just started playing today, and I have a question…
If I decide to leave my computer for more than 3 hours and all of my people go hungry/need sleep, is there nothing I can do until I get back to my computer to get them working again?
Unfortunately no. When you get back, most likely, you’ll find them slumped on the floor with messages saying NEED FOOD / REST! And it’s also likely that you’ll find your restaurant’s rating going down but don’t worry, it’s easy to bounce back anyway
And unlike making them work with the game turned off, you get GP as well as coins.
Thank you! This guide helped me quite a bit! I was lost when I first started. I JUST re-read the whole thing too, and I guess I skipped over the part where I should move the tables closer to the waiters… that helped a lot! I’m losing less customers because my waiters can do things faster! Thanks!!
Get Coins/XP points fast!
Go to ‘Street’ > ‘Go to Gourmet Street’ > Look for ‘Alice’ Restaurant > Go Inside ‘Alice’ Restaurant > Pick-up Trashes > Go back to ‘Street’ > ‘Back to my Street’
Repeat Process!
The best thing that caught my eye :-
How do you stop the addiction?
Now that, unfortunately, is a question I can’t answer. *facepalm*
Rofl.
[...] Restaurant City [...]
I am newly addicted to this game, and my question is: How do I get my money back after I have tryed a couple of roofs? I end up having only one but I was charged for everyone that I have tryed. Anybody that can help me I would appreciate.
@Harrison
Agree! I know I said I quit playing but surprise! I’m actually back. *headdesk*
@Gabriela
The best you could do is to sell the roofs you have purchased (you’ll see it under the decorate screen) but it usually translates to just 1/3 of the purchase price 
Don’t worry though, earning money is easy on RC.
Oh, unfortunately, “trying it out” means buying it.
Love the list, just wanted to throw in a system I’ve started using.
Since I tend to be at my computer for vast periods of time I have no problems keeping an eye on one employee at a time.
So, currently I have six staff, three cooks, two waiters and one cleaner, I know it seems silly having someone dedicated to cleaning but I only summon my cleaner when the toilets need cleaning, the rest of the time my cleaner is busy resting.
Why bother with that? Simple, I cycle through the jobs, so A starts as cleaner, b as cook and c is waiter, when b becomes 85% I switch a and b, so b rests and a works, when b reaches 100% I switch b and c, so c rests and b waits tables.
This way I save money on buying pick-me-ups for the staff and can typically keep things running fast, the only thing is you have to change the numbers for the higher amount of staff.
So to sumerise, always have one person resting and switch out well before another member of staff gets tired, if you have the time it’ll save hundreds in coin.
Interesting idea. Especially helpful if you’re trying to save up for the nicer furniture. I was toying with the idea of having a cleaner on rotation too, but it’s so difficult keeping an eye on everyone.
Can someone please please please answer this!
One of my employees don’t show up when I put them as a waiter but when I put them as a chef they do but then if you DO put then as a waiter, my employee disappears!!!! Someone help me!
It’s probably a bug. That has never happened to me. Maybe you can try moving things around in your resto? If it still happens even after you move your stoves around, perhaps you should contact the playfish support staff instead, since it’ll most likely be a bug.
Hello,
I am John Conner.I would like to book dinner, for my group of workers arriving from United Kingdom. They will all come for dinner in your place from the 28th, 29th and 30th of October 2009 by 6:00pm each day. They are 15 in number.Get back with your response if there is availability in your restaurant.do get back to me through e mail johnoconner0001@gmai.com.Have a lovely day.I await your respond.
LMAO WHUT?!
ROFL seriously?
Why are there no restaurants on Gourmet Street anymore?
ya no now you can use two of each dish once you ge5t to a certain level and you can earn GP points even when youre offline coz I have lvled up twice since they put the new feature in!
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by da way u can now gain gp (gourmet points) off line
UNOFFICAL RESTAURANT CITY GAME TIPS – By Bill Monson
I am also looking for other Restaurant City people to trade, My name is Bill my restaurant is called the Heart Attack Cafe (Catchy Phase huh, lol). Just a few game tips:
1) LOTS OF FREE INGREDIANTS – when playing the game click on “Become a fan” located at the bottom center of your screen, You would be joining the Restaurant City Fan Club. Then you click on “Just Fans” and then click “WALL” here you would type “ADD ME” in the wall box. People would start adding you as neighbors and the benefit you would get lots of FREE INGREDIANTS for each new neighbor you get. To get the ingrediant, Just visit their restaurant for the first time, Check their Trades list: If the ingrediant is UNLOCKED then you can make Direct trades with them without their permission. If the ingrediant is locked then you can request the ingrediant from them in the trade and your would have to wait back from them to see if its been approved.
2) ANOTHER CHANCE FOR FREE INGREDIANT – On the Daily Trivia where you get the FREE INGREDIANT of the day. If you answer wrong QUICKLY click on CTRL and F5 (top of keyboard) at the same time and you will get another trivia question in your RC mail box for another chance.
3) FASTER CLEAN & FIX – Instead of hiring the janitor to clean all you have to do is click with your mouse to clean toilets, fix arcade machines, clear tables. It does not work on Neighbors Restaurants – Per RC Friend
4) EXTRA COINS – Every day you can go to each neighbor’s restaurant and get free extra coins by doing on these scenarios inside the restaurant: Putting out a fire by clicking on the fire, Click on to get rid of penguins, skunks, sleeping bear. Outside of restaurant click on Poison Mushrooms (Located in Garden). Only one of these scenarios will appear per restaurant. You can also get extra coins by watering your neighbor’s garden but only if its dry (light brown in color) just click on the light brown square to replenish the water, it takes up to 3 clicks to replenish the water per plant. Each click equals 1 Free Coin. You can also get Free coins by clicking on each restaurants trash (pizza slices, bitten apple, bananas, etc) to help clean up their restaurant.
5) FREE ENERGY FOR NEIGHBOR’S EMPLOYEE – Click on the Orange Lunchbox on screen
and you can give your neighbor’s free energy to your neighbors every day (Limit is 20 friends per day) Free Energy ranges:
Water…..…25% Energy
Apple…..…50% Energy
Banana……75% Energy
Sandwich..100% Energy
6) SAVING GAME – Get the maxinmum out of your game. 1) give 100% to all your employees 2) Put to rest all your employees by clicking on each employee and clicking on the REST (bed button) this will reenergize your employees while they sleep 3) On the Upper-left of your screen you will see a computer disc, click on it and save it and then you can play other games or sign out of facebook. When you sign back on your employees will be well rested and you will have 2000+ coins in your account. Minimum wait time 1 Hour 30 mins.
7) TRADE – I am always looking to trade with other players go to my restaurant (Heart Attack Cafe) or click my name BILL MONSON as I change my restaurant name to list the ingrediants I need on occassion. I am usually online from:
MON – THURS……….12pm – 8pm
FRI, SAT, SUN……..12pm – 5pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Restrain yourself from leveling up lots of recipes art once. Your restaurant can only serve one dish from each category (appetizer, main course & dessert) at a time. So, choose one recipe, (Max 3 per app, main, dessert, drinks) click to make sure it’s the recipe being served, and level that up. The higher the level, (Level 10 is the highest) the more reputation you gain per customer. Make use of the trading feature in Restaurant city
9) GO TO GOURMET STREET & GO INSIDE “CLOSED” RESTAURANT
Go to GOurmet alley and go to restaurant CLOSED they have 15 pcs of trash, then go back to your street and then back there and it will be there again. DO this for hours and you will gain points and money. 15pcs every time
10) QUESTIONS – Feel free to email me with questions about Restaurant City if your new to it at: BigBoy_Michigan@yahoo.com or chat with me on Facebook under BILL MONSON. ( Detroit , MI Network) Have a great day.
how do you do to other restaurants?????
i lost my stoves and chairs every thing iam at leveal 14 i have no money also what can i do… can reset the game from level 1
There are 5 ways:
*Trading with friends
*Free daily ingredient
*First friend visit
*Food quiz
*Buying ingredients.
actually u can serve two dishes now
can you guys answer my question will the growth of your inner restaurant be affected if i purchase the outside expansion? or the growth of my inner restaurant be stopped when i level up?
I clicked on the for sale sign next to my place and bought the space, but now I can’t figure out how to put walls up and decorate to make it apart of my restaurant?
Add more toliets
Sorry wrong one, you cant put walls or flooring up in the expansion it is suppose to be a “garden”
how many chair and table i put if i have only tree stove???
ola kala edw?
i have a problem: i just put toilets in my retaurant but my customers always leave with the toilet sign above their head. why?
you need more toliets or to keep the ones you have clean
i realised actually we earn more GPs if we close the browser and log in back again than leaving the window open. Why is this so? Is Playfish trying to encourage gamer to log off RC so to prevent the lag?
You can also get ingredients by trading. If you trade the right ingredients you can get to have the right ones to level up one of your recipes.
how do i get the toilets??
I would like to make a layer of room divider block (pile of something).. I saw other people’s restaurant (in Gourmet) doing a lot of layers of bricks.. would you like to teach me how to do?
Hi,
I leveled up to level 28 but it didn’t add any spaces for a bigger restaurant. It also happened to my hubby who went to level 20 and all we got was the bonus cash..do you know why?
thanks
I want to know how do you put the things one on another, I’ve seen 4 stoves one on another and thy work thw employees are still standing by them .
@Jason
Possibly. Or they’re making it easier for us to earn GP so we won’t get tired of playing. When RC first started, you only earned GP when your browser was open. We can only guess why they changed it.
@ana vic
Right you are. Haven’t updated this post in a while.
@Paris
You buy them, under functional items.
@sweetee bun
Only certain items can be piled on top of each other. Best thing to do is try dragging the item on top of where you want to put it. If it’s possible, the green indicator square under it should light up as green. If it’s red, it can’t be done.
@rebecca
It stops becoming bigger when you hit a certain level. Sometime ago, it even stopped leveling up, though they lifted the ceiling a couple of months ago. Unfortunately, adding more levels didn’t translate to turning your restaurant bigger.
@elena
It could be a bug. Sometimes, it looks as if the furniture is rearranged but it’s not really so. Best to disconnect and try logging on again if it’s still that way.
hi it says that one of the awards you can get now is to fix toilets how do you do that ?
the restaurant city is the best game on facebook.but their is a problem between initializing.
I have a way to get all your awards.
First dont hire any cleaners and you can pick up the trash your self this gets you the rubbish raider trash talker and garbage guru awards.
Second Have four to 5 toilets and when they break down you get couned for that and you get the pipe dreams plumb role and drain fame.
Thirdly when you go to random street & gourmet street you ca rate resturants Just rate every resteraunt you see 5 stars and youll get Estate agent Restaraunt critic and evaluation expert.
I hope you do use them and the first and second are the same don’t hire any cleaners Because more waiters more food served means more gp and pp
GP (Gourmet points) Pp (popularity points)
Where the bathroom?
Just place a few toilets and a sink and that will do it.
How do I build walls in restaurant city? I just bought the extra space but I cant build walls around them.
my waiters have slept and the face is green (they are ready to work), but the problem is that they can’t clean the dishes fast enough… so all my costumers leave because their table is dirty… which brings my rating down.. what should I do??
How come my restaurant’s popularity drops from 50.0 to 4.0??
I just don’t get it.Why it always become 4.0.Im broke if I can’t remedy this problem.