The restaurant handbook
Keep your kitchen moving.
From your first service to Heat challenges and a working kitchen loop. Find practical answers for plants, recipes, automation, research and saving progress.
Unmodded Steam PC · Recipes, steps & upgrade routes
On the pass
Find your station
Start, save and develop your restaurant across runs.
Connect ingredients, processing and a clear output.
Turn blueprints into the appliances you need.
Check directions, upgrade routes and exceptions.
Let customers collect food in the right state.
Enter a seed and understand what it reproduces.
Cook, serve and troubleshoot the menu you chose.
What is PlateUp!?
PlateUp! combines cooking, customer service and restaurant planning with run-by-run progression. Play solo or with up to four players, then organize the kitchen around the menu and appliances you have.
Use this handbook to understand a rule, build a small production loop, or check what an upgrade changes.
Heat cards stack and unlock per dish after Day 15. Compare ten Heat cards and four Overheat cards; Chili plants add Heat. Inspect the total challenge and inherited cards before starting.
Unmodded Steam PC mechanics, documented by the community wiki and applicable 1.5 update notes. A content review is not a claim of testing every platform or setup.
Heat levelsBeat Day 15 with Heat active to qualify for a reusable plant when the run ends. Bring plants through the loading bay instead of crates; check each effect and tier. Bay Leaves and Sage reroll cards, while Chives affects blueprint purchases.
Unmodded Steam PC mechanics, documented by the community wiki and applicable 1.5 update notes. A content review is not a claim of testing every platform or setup.
Greenhouse plantsUse Quit Game to preserve an ongoing run, then load it at the HQ save table. Abandon ends the run. Profiles share player progression, and a Franchise carries selected cards into a new restaurant rather than preserving the old kitchen.
Unmodded Steam PC mechanics, documented by the community wiki and applicable 1.5 update notes. A content review is not a claim of testing every platform or setup.
Saving & franchisesBuffet lets customers collect food that satisfies their order. It does not remove a dish’s plate requirement or take ordinary orders for you. A full portionable Soup Pot or Taco Tray is a specific self-portioning exception.
Ordinary Buffet in unmodded Steam PC. Banquet Dining is a separate condition; 1.5 changes how customers wait at Buffets.
Buffet basicsThe yellow arrow points toward the source, and the portion arrives on the Portioner itself. Keep its surface or output free. For supported ingredient providers, the Portioner can add the ingredient to an item already on itself.
Base portioning plus the 1.4.3 water/milk/ice changes and 1.5 direct-source combination and full-bin emptying.
PortionerMetal Tables make sides optional, but do not remove required toppings. In exchange, customers have 50% less food-waiting and delivery patience. They suit a restaurant with reliable mains that is struggling with its side-production lines.
Standard unmodded Steam PC table rules. Other patience reductions can stack with the Metal Table effect.
Metal TablesBeat Day 15 with a dish to unlock its Chill choices, or enable Chill for all available dishes in Settings. The three levels stack: more money, gentler service, then a restaurant that cannot be shut down.
Chill rules follow the official 1.5 announcement. Menu placement may vary by platform or build.
Chill mode