Chapter 17 - strategy
This chapter is very easy, and very tough...
. I suggest you to restart the scenario with easier goals, to prevent further frustration.
If in scenario 16 all your restaurants (most of them) are 4.5 rate, continue play.
Goals: Your average restaurant group rate - 4.5 stars (quite impossible); Superstar cooking contest - 1st.
Side goal: Average restaurant group profit - 150,000$.
You have now the option to build a restaurant from a scratch (build mode enabled).
Before building the new restaurant, switch to Adventure Mode, and begin the plenty "trips" to various places:
1) Red Apple - buy ingredients, and new ingredients.
2) Treize a Table – add the new recipes from your cheffs: Mario Corleone - pasta in sausage eggplant; Tyron - grilled tuna gaspacho; Carlo - tagliarini in artichokes; Tierry and Pier - fillet of beef with foie grass; Delia - grapefruit gratin with almonds. Pass the restaurants to add them.
3) Don's office - get 300,000$ donation for defeating Omni.
4) Treize a Table again - Richard donates you the secrects of the fast training, and gives you the address of Hydroshop.
5) Hydro shop - get new supplier contacts. Buy ingredients.
6) Delia market corner - buy ingredients.
Now pass to Treize a Table (French), and begin to improve all your recipes, by making all the "bag" signs red (ingredient in stock), adding the new recipes to all your restaurants; then go to Coza Nostra (Italian) - improve ingredients and add new recipes; then go to Wagon Ho (American) - improve ingredients, and add new recipes. A lot-lot of work.
After all the recipes are done - you have to chose the city in which you want to build your new restaurant, and the kind of the restaurant.
As you have noticed, the French restaurants are the most successful, so chose a French restaurant, in Paris (you have there only one small restaurant - Treize). Pass to Treize a Table.
Click on the green star on the top-right menu. You will get the minimap of the city. On the bottom menu, the object sign will turn to a build mode sign. click on it, and chose the restaurant on Boulevard Garibaldi (near Eifel tower), 4x3 size (big). Buy the land, chose French 2-stories restaurant, name it, and click on the "approve" sign (v).
Build the restrooms downstairs, opposite the stairs, and the kitchen upstairs, thus the dumbwaiters will be placed down, near the far wall (without windows). Kitchen - 4 stoves, 2 working tables with mixers and toaster ovens, 2 dumb waiters, 2 grills, 2 dishwashers, two waiting stations.
Chose the best wall lights, and the second-best tables (black and white). Click on table, and put table lights on all tables, increase radius to all lights.
As you have to chose policy of not sharing tables, put only three big tables, and the rest - small tables.
4 captains, 6 servers, 4 kitchen porters, 1 receptionist. Don't forget the decorations.
Transfer to the new restaurant Armand, Delia (obvious...
, and two of the cheffs with 0-reputations.
Add beverages to the menu list, and begin to add recipes: DON'T add 1.5-2 stars recipes.
Begin to add all the 2.5-star recipes (breakfast, appetizers, soups - here you can add also the 2-stars, main courses, desserts); then all 3-stars recipes; then all 3.5-stars recipes, then all 4-stars recipes. Thus you will get with small decoration a 4-stars restaurant. Don't forget to add "set lunch" and "set dinner".
The Stadium is in LA, but it will appear on the Adventure Mode only AFTER Gordini will visit one of your American restaurants.
Open the restaurant. Upgrade each exterior of the 4-stars restaurants, but even if you have 3.5 stars restaurant - after the Gordini visit, you will be able to upgrade them too with 4-stars upgrade (he gives you the name of an exterior designer; you don't meet him, but can upgrade up to 4-stars).
After Gordini is gone, go to the Stadium and see the requirements (3 cheffs, 5 rounds, notice which recipe is required). Don't enter the contest - go back, and add this recipe to all "set lunch" and "set dinner", to enable fast training; assign it to a chef in each restaurant. Wait until the cheffs get 100% skills in this recipe, then enter the contest.
. I suggest you to restart the scenario with easier goals, to prevent further frustration.
, and two of the cheffs with 0-reputations.