Guides

8 guides to the rules behind ordering, review stars, popularity and staff, worked through with the formulas from the game code.

  1. How customers choose a venue and what they orderCustomers pick a venue by popularity, then one in-stock dish or drink within 30 points of your best item. After a dish, 80% add a drink. What that means for your menu.
  2. Dish satisfaction explainedValue, rarity, price and customer-group weights, the +10 from local favorites, the price cliff above a group's budget, and the price cap at each venue level.
  3. Review stars and level-upsThe full star formula, where your stars actually come from, the penalties that cost the most, and the 4.0 and 4.5 averages the top venue levels need.
  4. PopularityWhy your single best dish (squared) matters most, how menu size and drinks count, how reviews feed in, and how to raise popularity with each customer group.
  5. Staff: skills, wages and schedulingWhat every skill level does for service quality, meal quality, cleaning and buying, how hourly wages and happiness work, and practical shift planning.
  6. Weather and market eventsHow rain and snow cost stars at uncovered seats, how the forecast works, and what shortages and surpluses do (and don't do) to your venue.
  7. Quests and choices you can't undoA spoiler-free look at how quests start, move forward, fail and reward you, and how to avoid locking yourself out.
  8. Your first week: a practical playbookA day-by-day checklist for a new venue: menu, prices, staff, reviews and growth, with links to the guide behind each step.