Set up before opening
Start with a short route between your cooking surface, serving tables, plate supply and sink. Leave customers a path from the entrance to their seats. A reliable small menu is easier to manage than several unfinished production lines.
- In preparation, place the appliances and enable the seats you need. Grab picks up and moves items; Interact performs an appliance’s action. Follow the game’s current input prompts.
- Check the main recipe and make a test dish. Plate foods that require a plate, and match the requested cooking stage. Burnt food is not a valid substitute.
- Start service. Let customers sit and finish thinking, then take their order. Deliver valid food to the correct table and satisfy the whole group.
- After customers finish, remove dirty plates, wash them and return them to the plate supply. Clean messes that slow your movement.
- At the next preparation phase, buy or store useful blueprints, adjust the layout and account for the new cards before opening again.
Keep the full service loop moving
A fast hob cannot help when all plates are dirty. Uncleared tables prevent the next group from sitting. Watch the queue, ordering and food-waiting patience stages: failing to serve customers in time can close the restaurant.
Use Practice Mode to check a new recipe or arrangement. A working layout lets you deliver the right food, clear the table and reuse its plates. Shorter walking routes and a dependable washing loop are useful starting priorities; no single arrangement here guarantees a Day 15 completion.