NEW Restaurant City Cookbooks
Welcome to your new cookbooks! Here's a step by step (with a little added detail from me) for you!
STEP 1
Your cookbook collection.
All of your recipes have now been categorised and moved into a cookbook. When you click on your menu icon now, you will be taken to your cookbook collection - which will look something like this. Let's see what Maggie has to say!
STEP 2
To see inside a cookbook, simply click on one.
STEP 3
Clicking on the
button will mean you can learn a brand new recipe and add it to your cookbook.
STEP 4
Click on the
button and you'll start to level up, or 'improve' your recipe.Remember, the aim of the game is to improve your recipes from 1 to 10 - or MASTER them. Read on the learn why this is important!
STEP 5
Now when you master a recipe, you can get one of three new boosts!
You won't know which benefit you get from recipes until you master them, so keep on improving those recipes!
NOTE: when you master a recipe, the boost's countdown starts! Each boost lasts for a certain number of days which is indicated on the front of the recipe; to get the most out of your boost, add a mastered recipe to your menu asap!
What if I mastered several recipes one after the other?
This is the awesome bit - THEY ALL GIVE YOU THEIR BOOST!
So, if you master 3 new recipes, and they all give you the same boost (e.g. extra coins when served), if you add them to your menu, every time those recipes are served you'll get extra coins!
If you master lots of recipes and add them to your menu, you'll be earning an amazing amount of coins, gourmet points and gaining loads of popularity!
What if I've been playing for ages and I've already mastered every recipe?
Check again! This week we're launching new recipes every day to keep you hardcore cooks busy.
So master away, cooks, and get those boosts!
If you have any further questions, please ask leave a question as a comment below.
STEP 6
That's right - to add a recipe you've learned or mastered to your menu, you need to click on the PLUS sign in the corner of the recipe. Like so!
NOTE: you WON'T get your boosts UNTIL you've added a recipe to your menu. If you've mastered a recipe and let it sit there in your cookbook… you won't get the benefit :-/ So don't forget to add mastered recipes to your menu!
Also, you can add a recipe to your menu at any point - it doesn't have to be mastered. As long as you've learned it to level 1, you can add it.
STEP 7
Note that your menu has tabs for STARTERS, MAINS, DESSERTS and DRINKS. Be sure to fill all of your available slots!
STEP 8
The bar represents your OVERALL progress in the book. I.e. it counts all of your recipes, whether they are mastered or not and looks at how far you've come ALTOGETHER in this book.
The numbers represent your MASTERED recipes. I.e. there are 12 recipes in this book and you have mastered 3.
For example:
You could have improved all 12 recipes to level 9 each, but mastered none. Therefore the bar will look VERY FULL but your number will say 0/12.
STEP 9
What does that mean?
It means when you mastered an entire cookbook, you get a HUGE boost: your waiters will work 50% faster for 7 days! Faster waiters (from collecting the dish at the stove, to walking to the customer at their table) means you'll be serving MORE customers and therefore earning MORE coins!
You can tell how long your mastered cookbook boost will last for by looking at the front of the cookbook and noting the timer.
NOTE: When you master a NEW cookbook after you've got another mastered cookbook already active, your waiter speed boost resets and start counting down again from 7 days (as per your mastered cookbook).
I.e. the 50% faster waiters boost does not stack.
MORE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Why can't I see cookbooks?
When you join Restaurant City for the first time, you'll only see the Essentials cookbook. This is to help you get up to speed on how to learn, improve and master recipes. Once you master these easy dishes, the collectibles recipes (now in their own cookbooks) open up to you. Master 15 dishes in total and all of the other cookbooks will open up for you.
This is done so that new players don't feel overwhelmed.
If you're an existing player (i.e. have installed the game before 16th September 2011) you'll see all of the recipe books open to you from day one.
I thought I saw a recipe but now it's not there anymore. Why?
There are recipes that are around only for a limited time. Take Sunday Specials, for example, which only appear on Sundays, can you have 24hr to learn them. If you see it in your recipe book, be sure to learn it to level 1 before the deadline so that it's added to your cookbook permanently and you can master it at your own pace.
I thought I saw a cookbook but it's not there anymore. Why?
As above, some recipes appear only for a limited time. If we use the Sunday Specials as an example, if you've never learned a Sunday Special before, and you log in on a Sunday, your first Sunday Special recipe will appear in its own book (Sunday Specials!). If you don't learn it before the time is up, that book will disappear once the time is up. You'll never have an empty book in your cookbook collection. The next time a Sunday Special becomes available again - or any other recipe, the corresponding cookbook will appear to you.
STEP 1
Your cookbook collection.
All of your recipes have now been categorised and moved into a cookbook. When you click on your menu icon now, you will be taken to your cookbook collection - which will look something like this. Let's see what Maggie has to say!
STEP 2
To see inside a cookbook, simply click on one.
This GREEN ARROW means you can improve (learn) a recipe inside this book
This NEW tab means that this recipe book has had a new recipe added to it, ready for you to learn
This means that there's a NEW recipe available in this cookbook, in that tab!
STEP 3
Clicking on the
button will mean you can learn a brand new recipe and add it to your cookbook. STEP 4
Click on the
button and you'll start to level up, or 'improve' your recipe.Remember, the aim of the game is to improve your recipes from 1 to 10 - or MASTER them. Read on the learn why this is important!STEP 5
Now when you master a recipe, you can get one of three new boosts!
You can get a COIN BOOST - i.e every time you serve this recipe, you'll earn EXTRA COINS for every time this mastered recipe is served to a customer
You can get a GOURMET POINTS BOOST - i.e every time you serve this recipe, you'll earn EXTRA GOURMET POINTS for every time this mastered recipe is served to a customer
You can boost your restaurant's POPULARITY - i.e when you serve this on your menu, your restaurant's POPULARITY gets a boost
You won't know which benefit you get from recipes until you master them, so keep on improving those recipes!
NOTE: when you master a recipe, the boost's countdown starts! Each boost lasts for a certain number of days which is indicated on the front of the recipe; to get the most out of your boost, add a mastered recipe to your menu asap!
What if I mastered several recipes one after the other?
This is the awesome bit - THEY ALL GIVE YOU THEIR BOOST!
So, if you master 3 new recipes, and they all give you the same boost (e.g. extra coins when served), if you add them to your menu, every time those recipes are served you'll get extra coins!
If you master lots of recipes and add them to your menu, you'll be earning an amazing amount of coins, gourmet points and gaining loads of popularity!
What if I've been playing for ages and I've already mastered every recipe?
Check again! This week we're launching new recipes every day to keep you hardcore cooks busy.
So master away, cooks, and get those boosts!If you have any further questions, please ask leave a question as a comment below.
STEP 6
That's right - to add a recipe you've learned or mastered to your menu, you need to click on the PLUS sign in the corner of the recipe. Like so!
NOTE: you WON'T get your boosts UNTIL you've added a recipe to your menu. If you've mastered a recipe and let it sit there in your cookbook… you won't get the benefit :-/ So don't forget to add mastered recipes to your menu!
Also, you can add a recipe to your menu at any point - it doesn't have to be mastered. As long as you've learned it to level 1, you can add it.
STEP 7
Note that your menu has tabs for STARTERS, MAINS, DESSERTS and DRINKS. Be sure to fill all of your available slots!
STEP 8
The bar represents your OVERALL progress in the book. I.e. it counts all of your recipes, whether they are mastered or not and looks at how far you've come ALTOGETHER in this book. The numbers represent your MASTERED recipes. I.e. there are 12 recipes in this book and you have mastered 3. For example:
You could have improved all 12 recipes to level 9 each, but mastered none. Therefore the bar will look VERY FULL but your number will say 0/12.
STEP 9
What does that mean?
It means when you mastered an entire cookbook, you get a HUGE boost: your waiters will work 50% faster for 7 days! Faster waiters (from collecting the dish at the stove, to walking to the customer at their table) means you'll be serving MORE customers and therefore earning MORE coins!
You can tell how long your mastered cookbook boost will last for by looking at the front of the cookbook and noting the timer.
NOTE: When you master a NEW cookbook after you've got another mastered cookbook already active, your waiter speed boost resets and start counting down again from 7 days (as per your mastered cookbook).
I.e. the 50% faster waiters boost does not stack.
MORE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Why can't I see cookbooks?
When you join Restaurant City for the first time, you'll only see the Essentials cookbook. This is to help you get up to speed on how to learn, improve and master recipes. Once you master these easy dishes, the collectibles recipes (now in their own cookbooks) open up to you. Master 15 dishes in total and all of the other cookbooks will open up for you.
This is done so that new players don't feel overwhelmed.
If you're an existing player (i.e. have installed the game before 16th September 2011) you'll see all of the recipe books open to you from day one.
I thought I saw a recipe but now it's not there anymore. Why?
There are recipes that are around only for a limited time. Take Sunday Specials, for example, which only appear on Sundays, can you have 24hr to learn them. If you see it in your recipe book, be sure to learn it to level 1 before the deadline so that it's added to your cookbook permanently and you can master it at your own pace.
I thought I saw a cookbook but it's not there anymore. Why?
As above, some recipes appear only for a limited time. If we use the Sunday Specials as an example, if you've never learned a Sunday Special before, and you log in on a Sunday, your first Sunday Special recipe will appear in its own book (Sunday Specials!). If you don't learn it before the time is up, that book will disappear once the time is up. You'll never have an empty book in your cookbook collection. The next time a Sunday Special becomes available again - or any other recipe, the corresponding cookbook will appear to you.
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