Making More "Friends" & Speed-Levelling to 21

Been busy this past week, then got down to doing up a Group for this Blog :) You can join it right here.

Meantime, from the Group and also other places, I've been asked

• Where can I get More Ingredients?
• How can I get Money Quickly?
• How can I level Up Fast?

So this here is going to be The Answer to ALL of them.
And the Answer is... *drumroll*

Make More Friends
Yep, its that simple :) Restaurant City is a Social Game after all.

"But Wait a minute!" you say. "My real friends don't play Restaurant City, just a few of them and irregularly. I go to a bunch of houses, send a bunch of Crates and No One opens them!"
Well, how do I put this - Friends can be made. You can make Friends, and you can "make" "Friends".
If you still don't get it, feel free to PM me on Facebook.

"But that is too troublesome!" you say!
Well, have you considered the benefit of having multiple Restaurants sending to Each Other very consistently?
For illustration's sake, we assume every "Friend" in the Network sends a Gift everyday, you get...

• 2 Friends : Each gets 1 Gift. Total : 2 Gifts
• 3 Friends : Each gets 2 Gifts. Total : 6 Gifts
• 4 Friends : Each gets 3 Gifts. Total : 12 Gifts
• 5 Friends : Each gets 4 Gifts. Total : 20 Gifts
• 10 Friends : Each gets 10 Gifts. Total : 100 Gifts!

This is somewhat related to the Exponential Benefit of a Network. As you can see, the total benefit of the entire group increases dramatically.

Gifting the most expensive Gift on the Free Gift list, its usually worth about 1000 Coins ; the Radioactive Table today is 1,300 Coins apiece.
That would be 130,000 Coins worth a day.
If they are all your "Friends", they can just send you the 10 Tables they get every single day. That's 130,000 / 3 = 43,333 Profit EVERY Single Day!
Pretty decent change, don't you think?

If you are going for Completing 100 over Recipes, you can send Ingredients to each other, so everyone can build up their Ingredient Stash.
If YOU are the one going for 100+ Royals, ANY ingredient will do, since you can trade for something later on.

Special Credits : To my Girlfriend who formulated and executed the above Gifting Plan, and who introduced me to Restaurant City.
Thank you for all that, and for your Regular Goth Lamps!

I suggest a group of about 10-15 Friends who regularly send to each other every single day, or even every other day.
Its very enjoyable and relaxing, and everyone gets generally pretty happy.
Even better if these Groups are separated, One for Ingredients, One for Items.
I will be aiming to set up such Small Groups on my Blog Group, so do come join us here, it'll be coming up this week :)

Please still be inviting your Friends to play Restaurant City, and also give real assistance when they do join.

The Objective is to help New Restaurants hit what I call "Cruise Mode", where the Restaurant Owner only has to log in 2-3 times a day to do 6 hour shifts and Gift Items / Ingredients once a day. This is achieved by

• Reach level 21 to get 9 Workers
• obtain level 10 in each of the 4 Dish Categories

Yep, it's that simple. From there, with a good layout, the Restaurant will level up very fast, gain a lot of ingredients, and hopefully be a Very Good Supporter of your Own Restaurant :).

Hence, in my opinion, this is one of the Best Times to bring new Friends into Restaurant City.
Within the Past 6 months or so, Tomato, Potato, Beef, Strawberry, Apple, Orange have all been on Free Gifts.
These are the Key ingredients to fulfilling the second objective of "Cruise Mode", which is to get 4 Dishes to level 10 in each of 4 Dish Categories.

This, combined with the following Strategy, will help you and your Friends' Restaurants take off!

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Speed-Levelling - Arcades!

When I started the Blog I wrote to reach level 21 in 7-10 Days. I've since changed that, why?

The following Strategy Totally Outperformed my original Expectation, with the Restaurants reaching Level 21 in about FOUR days.
Its an Online Strategy, doesn't work if I leave the Restaurant Off, and also assumes they Royal at least 4 Dishes during this period of time.

First Up - you DON'T need to use it, if you have BOTH the following

• You got all 4 Dishes (Starter, Main, Dessert, Drinks) at level 10
• You got 6 workers or more

Otherwise, the following Strategy will probably help you, and here's the Step-by-Step...

1) You need Gourmet Points (GP) to level up
When you're levelling up for the first 10 levels or so, its all right to make less Coins, as you gain it back through the faster Bonus when you do level up.
You also get more Workers sooner, which makes you more Coins sooner.

2) Arcades earn more GP than Dishes
Arcades make 5.0 GP per use, Level 9 Dishes make 4.9 GP.
Hence, this will be true Until you have 4 Dishes at level 10, one each in Starter, Main, Dessert, Drinks.
Remember, don't always Rely on Arcades, since Arcades earn you GP but no Coins.

3) Max Popularity 50 requires 5-6 Workers OR Arcades
You will only get your 5th worker at level 8, and your 6th at level 10. Until then, Arcades are your best friend.

Minor Note : 50 Popularity is actually achievable with 4 Workers - have a tight layout of 9 seats, 3 Cooks, 1 Waiter, but you will probably will serve only slightly more than half. It gets worse when you have to put in a Drink Machine.

4) Less Seats = More Arcades Used
Once a Customer sits, he will NEVER use an Arcade. He either eats a Dish, giving you less GP OR leaves after waiting, giving you a Thumbs-Down.
Hence, until you Royal 4 Dishes, keep your Seats to max of 2 Seats per Stove ; 5 Seats per 3 Stoves.
This will keep your Popularity Maxed, very few Thumbs Down, and more Arcade Usage.
Don't forget to have a Janitor on Duty!

5) Serve ONLY Highest Level Dishes in Each Category
Most experienced players know this, but new players might not. So just writing here.

6) Leave Your Restaurant Online
Customers don't use Arcades when you are Offline.
That's the main Gist, the rest of 2 Bits Applies to your Dish objective...

7) Don't forget to Royal 4 Dishes!
As mentioned, you will want to keep Collecting Ingredients and Levelling your Dishes til you have at least 4 Dishes to Royal.

• Starter - Tomato & Basil Soup (1 Tomato only) is by far the BEST.
• Dessert - Fruit Selection (Strawberry & Apple) is good
• Drink - Orange Juice (1 Orange only) is good. If you have supportive Friends, do Dr Pepper Float (Icecream and Dr Pepper).
• Main - Probably the Toughest to hit level 10.Potato and Beef is good but its difficult to get Trades.
  Better to go for Dish that has less-used ingredients which few people want. If you have EXCELLENT Friend support, Salmon Sushi is the best due to the free Sushi Bar.

8) Ingredient Trading Tips
Here's a few...

• Visit all the Restaurants on your Street to get as many Free Ingredients as Possible. When you first start out, Every One Counts.
• Look for something someone has lots of, typically over 30-50 of the Ingredient.
• Unless you have spoken to the person and he is supportive, usually try for Ingredients with Less Stars
• Drop the person a Facebook Msg if the person is not Aware. RC Mailbox is bad...

Hope that helps!

So Using this Strategy, I managed to hit level 21 in just over 3 days.
This is with about 12-16 hours "online" running time for the Restaurants, and inclusive levelling 4 Dishes to level 10.
Don't believe me? Try it out yourself!

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Kickstarters Give Away!

To encourage more Friends & "Friends" to play Restaurant City, I am going to do the following Give-away to help Start Folks out :

• 6 Green Arcades : up to 8 Winners
• 10 Tomatoes : up to 8 Winners
• 10 Oranges : up to 8 Winners
• 10 Strawberry OR Apple : up to 4 Winners (you can pick 6 Apples 4 Strawberries)

To Qualify, your Restaurant has to be :

• Under level 35
• Arcade Prize : Preferably under level 20. Lower levels more preferred.
• Tomatoes Prize : Basil & Tomato under level 4
• Oranges Prize : Orange Juices under level 4
• Apples or Strawberry Prize : Fruit Selection under level 4

To participate, just join my Group for the Blog here, then comment on my Post about this Topic.
Please specify which Prize you are interested in and why you Qualify.
Each person can ask for up to 2 Prizes. You may get one or even both! Please, one PERSON per entry.

Please note after I will go look at the Restaurant before sending the Items and Trade Requests, so please make sure your MENU is easily clickable.

This is a great chance to have more "Friends" join the game.
If your Friend doesn't have a suitable Email btw, use Gmail :) its good, easy, and very fast!

Special Credits : My Blog Group was Inspired by Restaurant City Vlog and the forums' Kickstarters Project.
If you're looking for decoration help, please visit the Kickstarters thread here.

Next Week : Multi-Part Guide : Getting Started in Trading, Safely!