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02-15-11, 10:34 PM
RESTAURANT STORY and BAKERY STORY-THE MISSING MANUAL Part One
Disclaimer: Because there are so few instructions and so many questions, I just wanted to share with you some tips I've learned by playing BS and RS and reading the forum. I'm not an expert and I don't work for Team Lava. I'm just a player, so please be kind if I got anything wrong! This is just meant to help new players. Feel free to add additions or corrections and I will add them when I revise this.
This was too large for one post, so please see the remainder in the Part Two thread.
EARNING MONEY
You make coins and sometimes gems by cooking and serving food. Also,*
each day you get bonus coins. If you didn't get your coins for the day, you may have to close the game, turn off your device for a minute, turn it back on and open it again.
You use coins and gems to buy food to cook, also to buy counters to serve your food, appliances to cook your food, tables and chairs for your guests and decorations for your place. You earn coins faster in BS than RS but things cost more in BS than RS so mostly it evens out.
You can buy coins with gems but you can not buy gems with coins. Be careful where you tap. Once you spend gems or coins, you can not get them back! There is no Undo button and no refunds are given.
There are several ways to get gems. You get some when you start the game. You earn some when you complete food levels as explained below. You can buy them. They sometimes go on sale and cost less. If you never want to buy gems, make sure that you have "In-app purchares" turned off, so you don't buy them by tapping the wrong place.*
Sometimes they will offer gems for downloading another game to your device. You have to go to the app store, download the game, open the game and play for a minute to get the gems. You will get gems or the currency in all the other Team Lava games that you already have.
COOKING FOOD AND SERVING IT
You cook food by tapping on your appliances. Your list of choices will pop up. You can scroll to the left to see all your choices. You tap on the item you want to make and tap again on the appliance to prepare it. When you select food to cook, it costs you coins and points. If you cancel a dish, you loose the coins and points. When food is done a picture in a circle will appear over the appliance. You need to tap it to serve it. There is more about different choices under the Appliance section below.
Food lasts for the same amount of time that it takes to cook it. Then it will go bad. You will have the choice of throwing it away or recovering it by paying gems. So you should cook foods that will be done and still good around the time that you can come back and serve them.*You can also spend gems to instantly complete a dish.
Generally speaking, you can make the most money per hour by making food that cooks quickly, as long as you keep coming back to cook and serve it. Longer cooking and lasting foods are better when you can't get back in time to serve. While a food is cooking you can tap on it to see how much longer it will take to be finished. You can tap on food that has been served to see how many plates are left.
In RS, at higher levels, you can buy a sonic oven that cooks faster and a forever oven that makes food that doesn't go bad.
Having enough food available and places to sit will increase your happiness levels - smiley faces in RS and hearts in BS. The higher your happiness level is, the faster guests will come it and the faster you will make money. Guests will come in when you visit your own place. They will also come in when other people visit you so you can make money while you are away. Some people block their door when they are out of food so no guests will come in, be disappointed and cause their happiness rating to drop. However, once you have food available again, it doesn't take long for your rating to go back up to 100.
APPLIANCES
You have to reach certain levels to buy more appliances. You can buy ovens, stoves and grills in RS and you can buy ovens and drink makers in BS. Different appliances give you different options of what you can make.*
You can get a different type of appliance by putting one you have in storage and buying a different appliance, even if you're not at the required level to buy more. But you can't take them both out until you reach the required level. For example, in RS you can store an oven and buy a grill. You can keep the oven in storage until you reach a high enough level to get another appliance and then take it out and use it. Some people keep the max number of each appliance, so they can bring them out and cook what they want. The maximum number of appliances you can have is 11.
DESIGNING
You need tables and chairs for your guests to sit and eat so you can make money. Each guest needs their own table. Two will not sit at one table even if there are two chairs. If the way is blocked to your tables, guests will not come in and sit down. Only so many guests will come in no matter how many tables you have. The optimum number of tables that can be used by guests is about 20-24. Some people like to have a lot more tables for collecting tips but it doesn't increase the number of guests that will be served at one time.
You have*to have storage units to put your food on. If have more different types of food than storage units, you will either have to buy more or wait to put out your food until some is gone. If you have more of the same type of food than storage units, the chef will combine same types of food and put them on one unit. You will still have the same number of dishes but they will all be together.
LEVELS
You need to earn coins and extra points to get to the next game level. As you reach higher levels, you can buy more appliances and more food options are uncovered. You need to reach certain levels to expand with coins. The highest level is 75.
You can earn extra coins and extra points by completing the first level of cooking a particular food and becoming an apprentice. You can earn a GEM by completing the second level and becoming a line cook or junior baker. After you complete level four, you get some extra coins and points. Then your cooking level, not to be confused with your game level, doesn't go any higher but you can still make that item.
Disclaimer: Because there are so few instructions and so many questions, I just wanted to share with you some tips I've learned by playing BS and RS and reading the forum. I'm not an expert and I don't work for Team Lava. I'm just a player, so please be kind if I got anything wrong! This is just meant to help new players. Feel free to add additions or corrections and I will add them when I revise this.
This was too large for one post, so please see the remainder in the Part Two thread.
EARNING MONEY
You make coins and sometimes gems by cooking and serving food. Also,*
each day you get bonus coins. If you didn't get your coins for the day, you may have to close the game, turn off your device for a minute, turn it back on and open it again.
You use coins and gems to buy food to cook, also to buy counters to serve your food, appliances to cook your food, tables and chairs for your guests and decorations for your place. You earn coins faster in BS than RS but things cost more in BS than RS so mostly it evens out.
You can buy coins with gems but you can not buy gems with coins. Be careful where you tap. Once you spend gems or coins, you can not get them back! There is no Undo button and no refunds are given.
There are several ways to get gems. You get some when you start the game. You earn some when you complete food levels as explained below. You can buy them. They sometimes go on sale and cost less. If you never want to buy gems, make sure that you have "In-app purchares" turned off, so you don't buy them by tapping the wrong place.*
Sometimes they will offer gems for downloading another game to your device. You have to go to the app store, download the game, open the game and play for a minute to get the gems. You will get gems or the currency in all the other Team Lava games that you already have.
COOKING FOOD AND SERVING IT
You cook food by tapping on your appliances. Your list of choices will pop up. You can scroll to the left to see all your choices. You tap on the item you want to make and tap again on the appliance to prepare it. When you select food to cook, it costs you coins and points. If you cancel a dish, you loose the coins and points. When food is done a picture in a circle will appear over the appliance. You need to tap it to serve it. There is more about different choices under the Appliance section below.
Food lasts for the same amount of time that it takes to cook it. Then it will go bad. You will have the choice of throwing it away or recovering it by paying gems. So you should cook foods that will be done and still good around the time that you can come back and serve them.*You can also spend gems to instantly complete a dish.
Generally speaking, you can make the most money per hour by making food that cooks quickly, as long as you keep coming back to cook and serve it. Longer cooking and lasting foods are better when you can't get back in time to serve. While a food is cooking you can tap on it to see how much longer it will take to be finished. You can tap on food that has been served to see how many plates are left.
In RS, at higher levels, you can buy a sonic oven that cooks faster and a forever oven that makes food that doesn't go bad.
Having enough food available and places to sit will increase your happiness levels - smiley faces in RS and hearts in BS. The higher your happiness level is, the faster guests will come it and the faster you will make money. Guests will come in when you visit your own place. They will also come in when other people visit you so you can make money while you are away. Some people block their door when they are out of food so no guests will come in, be disappointed and cause their happiness rating to drop. However, once you have food available again, it doesn't take long for your rating to go back up to 100.
APPLIANCES
You have to reach certain levels to buy more appliances. You can buy ovens, stoves and grills in RS and you can buy ovens and drink makers in BS. Different appliances give you different options of what you can make.*
You can get a different type of appliance by putting one you have in storage and buying a different appliance, even if you're not at the required level to buy more. But you can't take them both out until you reach the required level. For example, in RS you can store an oven and buy a grill. You can keep the oven in storage until you reach a high enough level to get another appliance and then take it out and use it. Some people keep the max number of each appliance, so they can bring them out and cook what they want. The maximum number of appliances you can have is 11.
DESIGNING
You need tables and chairs for your guests to sit and eat so you can make money. Each guest needs their own table. Two will not sit at one table even if there are two chairs. If the way is blocked to your tables, guests will not come in and sit down. Only so many guests will come in no matter how many tables you have. The optimum number of tables that can be used by guests is about 20-24. Some people like to have a lot more tables for collecting tips but it doesn't increase the number of guests that will be served at one time.
You have*to have storage units to put your food on. If have more different types of food than storage units, you will either have to buy more or wait to put out your food until some is gone. If you have more of the same type of food than storage units, the chef will combine same types of food and put them on one unit. You will still have the same number of dishes but they will all be together.
LEVELS
You need to earn coins and extra points to get to the next game level. As you reach higher levels, you can buy more appliances and more food options are uncovered. You need to reach certain levels to expand with coins. The highest level is 75.
You can earn extra coins and extra points by completing the first level of cooking a particular food and becoming an apprentice. You can earn a GEM by completing the second level and becoming a line cook or junior baker. After you complete level four, you get some extra coins and points. Then your cooking level, not to be confused with your game level, doesn't go any higher but you can still make that item.