Restaurant City: Serving High-Level Dishes

Leveling up the menu you serve in your Restaurant is crucial in maximizing the time you spend progressing in the game, because it affects your gourmet points. Gourmet points (GPs) are earned everytime you served a successful order (meaning, the customer doesn't get up before he gets served because it took you a great deal of time to serve him). A certain number of GPs is needed to level up, which could mean an expansion of your restaurant or option to hire additional employees. A high-level menu (at least level 7, I think), gets you more GPs per serving, up to 2.8 GPs. Hence, you could be leveling up almost as much as 3x faster with a level 7 or higher menu. With a decent popularity (around 30.0), a few hours online already gives you quite an earnings and progress in leveling.


Now, you are supposed to serve one starter course, one main course, and a dessert. Your customers will be getting ONLY ONE of the three courses. This means that to ensure you get the maximum GP per serving, you should strive to have a high-level course for each category. With this in mind, here are a few tips on maximizing the leveling of your menu:

1. Choose a dish and stick with it. Personally, I stick with a dish up to level 10, since it also gives a reward item that you can display in your resto. At least one level 10 dish gives you a reward, which you can upgrade when you level up a total of 5 dishes. A total of 20 dishes at level 10 gives you the rank of a Gourmet Chef. Don't just level up a dish because you happen to have the ingredients at that time. You might need that ingredient to trade so you can level up your primary dishes. Concentrate on getting one dish from each category to a high level first.

2. You may want to keep things interesting by leveling up related dishes that match the theme of your resto. A friend of mine has a Halloween-themed resto where he served pumpkins and other related dishes.

3. Consider also how rare is a certain ingredient. Each ingredient has a star rank, from one star to five stars. However, there really isn't any data on which ingredient are rare or in demand. By default, five star ingredients should be most rare, but if my experience is any indication, I find even 3 star ingredients sometimes to be even rarer than the five star ones. But of course, that's only an impression. If you get a sense that an ingredient is highly in demand, you may have a hard time trading what you have for what you need.

4. Dishes that require one of each ingredient may make life easier for you, rather than leveling up dishes that require two (even three!) of the same ingredients. Randomness will come into play so that you get an average number of each items. But of course, if it's your goal to level up a cheese board dessert requiring 3 cheeses per level, be my guest :)

Resto City made an update lately. A new feature allows you to broadcast to your friends at least three ingredients you need, so they can be guided on what to trade you. That also means a complete list of ingredients is now more readily available. I'll update on that next time when the servers are up.

That's it for now. Happy playing!

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1 Comment:

  1. Unknown said...
    December 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM  
    And if your smart i suggest only selling your highest ranking food even if it offers the option of selling 3 different dishes for main/side/desert/drink. Just sell 1 in each and have it your highest level

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