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Restaurant City is a 2D social restaurant management game that allows players to start and run their own restaurant from scratch. Rearrange and design your new restaurant with a variety of decorations. Hire an entire team of friends, set the daily menu, gather the ingredients, and keep the customers happy. Although it is comparable to other games like Café World and Pet Society, where players can cook tasty meals in Restaurant City, it is all about the ingredients. Players buy, earn, trade, and even farm the recipe ingredients needed to create meals. Work with the neighbors or compete against them for the position of the best restaurant on the block.
Starting your own restaurant, the game
In Restaurant City, players are in charge of their own fully-functioning restaurant. Each player starts small with several tables, chairs, and stoves. Before the game can start, users must hire some of their Facebook friends to work for them. A quick click on your avatar and then on the desired job will perform this task. Once all the waiters, chefs, and janitors have been assigned, the players are ready to work. Restaurant City has a useful Open Hours feature that allows players to choose opening and closing hours to suit their gaming schedule. This option prevents users from having to rush and log back in just to check on your restaurant. There are several shifts available for managers to choose from. Each turn has a coin rate. Shorter shifts make more profit as they are cheaper. Players can schedule their employees to work any length of time, from 30 minutes to 24 hours. Employees complete tasks automatically following their assigned duties. Janitors clean up spills, servers serve meals, and chefs keep busy cooking behind the stoves. Players take on more of a management role, so the game is quite slow. Coins and XP are earned by uploading dishes, serving customers, and visiting neighbors. Players spend most of their time using strategies to increase their rank, collecting the necessary ingredients and decorating. Each restaurant has a popularity number. The more satisfied customers, the higher the rating. Users must figure out how to balance staff in a way that serves all incoming customers in a timely manner. Customers who have to wait too long will leave and lower the popularity rating of the restaurant.
The search for ingredients
Restaurant City has a very varied menu. It is divided into four categories consisting of a starter, a main course, a dessert and a drink. Players can serve customers Tuna Steak with Vegetables, Russian Cappuccino, Lobster, Burger and Fries, Pink Lemonade, Mango Pudding, Apple Pork Chops, Chocolate Cake, Beef Enchilada, or Strawberry Milkshake. In order to cook a variety of meals, ingredients are needed. The market for ingredients is limited and very expensive. There are only three items for sale per day for coins. The rest of the ingredients require Playfish Cash to purchase. If a player does not want to spend real money on common items such as water, ice, bread, butter, flour, sugar, cheese, and eggs, he must rely on his neighbors and other methods to obtain them. Players can receive ingredients daily for free by logging in and correctly answering the Food Quiz. The questions often range from real life cooking techniques to food trivia. It is quite challenging. This is a unique feature in the game that educates the players in a fun way. In Restaurant City an option for a garden similar to the Pet Society game is available. Players can grow their own fresh ingredients. The garden lot expands as the user levels up. Although it’s a nice touch, there is no choice in the type of seeds you can plant. A mystery bag of unmarked seeds will produce random spices, vegetables, or fruits when ripe. New dishes can be learned and leveled up to increase XP when all the necessary ingredients have been collected. Neighbors can also help in the search for ingredients.
Competition Check
In Restaurant City friendly competition and friendship go hand in hand. Players can visit their friends’ restaurants to help out, or take a trip to a random street to see how other restaurant tycoons’ businesses are operating. Visiting neighbors can earn coins, XP and a free ingredient. Remove trash from your floor like spilled soda cans, discarded pizza slices, and banana peels by clicking on them. Sometimes your restaurant may have a nasty leak, fire, penguin invasion, sleeping bear scaring customers, or giant mushrooms in the garden that require immediate attention. The first time a player visits a new neighbor, they earn a free ingredient. This makes the neighbors an essential part of the game. Users must rely on their friends to earn a significant amount of XP to level up and receive ingredients which can be tedious at times. Players can also trade ingredients with each other by clicking the Ingredient Trade icon. For some players who don’t like relying on their friends to get ahead in games, constantly joining neighbor ad lists and trading ingredients can be exhausting. All the neighboring restaurants on the street are ranked in order of popularity. This system allows players to know exactly how their restaurant compares to their friends. Restaurant City takes full advantage of its multiplayer aspects, allowing users to travel to random streets with non-neighbor players and rate their restaurants.
Everything but the sink
Personalization at Restaurant City is exceptional. Everything can be customized, from a player’s avatar to the small details on the outside of the building. Users have the option to keep their basic avatar or customize it. Give your avatar a rock star Mohawk, a princess Leila hairstyle, a villain outfit, or cool shades. The game has dozens of different themes to choose from, including Roadside Diner, Saloon, Moroccan, Medieval, Oriental, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, 1960s Psychedelic, and Victorian. There are also some fun and unexpected designs like UFO, Zombie, Ghost, Anime, and Princess available. Players can create any type of restaurant they want. Necessary basics like chairs, tables, stoves, toilets, and even beverage dispensers come in a variety of custom styles. Depending on the desired theme or look, users have hundreds of items they can add to revamp their restaurant. Click and drag new patterned tile floors, colorful wallpaper, arcade machines, dividers, walls, aquariums, stereos, and arcade machines. The exterior of the restaurant can also be redesigned. Change the size of the building from a small size to a giant building base. Put up various roofs or use decorations like a traveling spotlight, balloons, lanterns, flags, flowers, canopy, menu signs, gorilla, benches, robot chef, and a magical unicorn. A very interesting feature of Restaurant City is the music player that can also be customized. Users can change the default elevator tune that plays over and over to a catchier tune. Choose from the classic Pineapple Overture, the lively My Irish Heart, Asian-inspired Delicate Spring, Latin Fiesta Brothers, or the cool and smooth Lounge Lizard Slide.
Final verdict: great
Players enter a competitive world filled with restaurants vying for the top spot. In Restaurant City users have endless possibilities for customization. There are also some very cool features that make the game entertaining. Explore the virtual streets for ingredients, listen to the music player while you plan the menu, send messages to your friends or test your knowledge as a foodie in one of their quizzes. It goes beyond other similar games like Cafe World or Pet Society by adding more social multiplayer options like the neighbor trading system for ingredients. Slower paced gameplay with Open Hours setting to schedule the game makes it perfect for busy gamers.
