Using illusions to add a second floor to your restaurant

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Stacking decorations to create a "building"












This is how the finished result looks. All the stacked decorations remain in the right position.

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The purpose of this guide is to give the reader a guideline on how to make efficiency restaurant(high service rate-Customer served per minute CPM). To do this we have to understand some of the fact that will limit your service rate.

First is the productivity rate, the rate that chef use to cook a dish(16 secs) and the rate the waiter use to make a drink(***EDIT 12 secs thanks baconeggs ***). This one is the hard limit which mean you can't do better than the production rate. For example if you have 4 chef you can produce 15 dishes at most(3.75 dishes/chef). This is ideal because the dish needed to be teleport to customer table. In the real situation there are limitation of chef productivity which are no customer, this will make the chef go idle, and no waiter to take the finished dish to customer and chef go idle.(dish can't be teleport!!!. teleport again lol you'll know at the end of this guide why i like teleport hehe.) You can observe the stove to notice it three state idle, cook and wait.

Second the table. Obviously number of the table limit the number of customer. But this not mean having more table is better. Because the more table you put will cause the waiter walk longer and it side effect is it will cause the chef go idle, have dish ready but no waiter take it to serve. This problem will can occured even you not have that much tables if the waiter energy is low. So the best approach to optimize total idle time of tables.(Sum of idle time of all table you put to your restaurant more tables will tend to increase the total idle time because there always have idle table. Note that the table that customer not get served should also count as idle one because it not make any productivity)

Third the customer. Customer have some behavior like spend around 25 secs to finished the dish. But behavior that have to most impact to your service rate is he/she allocate the table once he/she found the empty table and walk like a turtle to that table, table will be lock for his/her for a long time this lower the utilization rate of table(This is why the old maze model is not give high service rate. It still good at maintain popularity anyway). So you have to make your customer/turtle walk as short as possible to his/her own table. To make it efficient your have to optimize the sum of distance from door/waiting chair to each of yours tables.

Forth the waiting chair. Due to random arrival rate of customer. The waiting chair can be your good friend because it will act as a buffer. When no customer come in you still have some customers at your waiting chairs(buffer). The buffer will make your system run smoothly. You should have some of waiting chairs at good position consider the stuff i mention before. The number of waiting chair is depend on your layout but easy guideline is you should always have few customers at your waiting chairs and customer should not sit on waiting chair so long. Try to keep minimum number of waiting chair as possible, the more will cause longer distance to table which is not good. And try to not use arcade machine if your waiting chairs not full and customer not stay at it that long. Let it do the buffer function as it should be.

Fifth the dispenser. Many should use the island as a part of your layout. The number of dispenser also have small impact in some situation. For example you use small island that have 2 chefs 2 waiters 2 dispensers and 10 tables.
when 3 or more customers order a drink in a row all your waiters will go to the dispenser and spend time make a drink this will cause a block on chef it'll make chef that finished the dish go idle and waste productivity. This situation not happen that much.(3 or more customers will left before they get serve). If this happen often you can consider reduce the dispenser to one to free one waiter for serving task.

Lastly there're a trick like partitioning by using waiting chair and obstacle. By doing this some part of your restaurant will be accessible to customer that sit at waiting chair first only. The good part of this trick is it limit a long walk to a chair that is very far from the door. And the funny effect is that those customer in this restrict part can't walk out lol!!!. He/She will disappear like Teleport !!!.

This layout give around 17 APS +/- 0.5
measure from 100% to 75%
Note: Performance will change if it not the same as diagram.
Distance from door, number of door and it position all can affect the result.
It take longer for customer to reach table.(For layout that not have many tables it can make a major change)

Here you will find the optimal amounts of tables & positioning of tables, that will give you the highest gain of money and gourmet points known to players, or shortly, highest APS [Average Plates Served per minute].
This list will include the best layouts for restaurants with 8 employees and 7 employees.

Think your layout is efficient?
Do you want your layout to be up here, in the ranking list? Apply via a reply in this thread. Add a picture of your layout, and any other additional details about it that need to be said [number of arcades/waiting chairs it requires, how close it is to the door..

I will test every layout posted here. If it's one of the 10 most efficient layouts, it will be on this list, for other people to see and use in their restaurants.

Each testing of a layout will be performed once or twice, 30 minutes at a time, starting from 100% employee health. The test will be performed precisely the way your layout looks in the picture you posted, except, it will not have a maze. Mazes slow down your APS.

Here we go:

Layouts ranked places 1-5 for 7 employees

Number 1:
With 14.92 APS, agriasth's 17 table layout [4 chef, 3 waiter];

Number 2:
With 14.9 APS, snli's 18 table layout [4 chef, 3 waiter];

Tip: in order to get your waiters to stand in the right positions, after assigning all 4 chefs and 3 waiters, go into decorate mode and click on the stove that is closest to the door [according to the picture above]. Don't move it, just click and release. Get out of decorate mode and all your waiters should be in the right positions, and they will remain that way until the next time you move any of your stoves.



Number 3:
With 14.86 APS, Boo2u2's modified Ch0pstickS' layout [4 chef, 3 waiter];

Number 4:
With 14.76 APS, Ch0pstickS' 17 table layout [4 chef, 3 waiter], posted by bobocondor;

Tip: Add some waiting chairs and arcades to keep the popularity high.



Number 5:
With 14.66 APS, baconneggs' 16 table layout [4 chef, 3 waiter];

Number 6:
With 14.56 APS, troutinator's 17 table layout [4 chef, 3 waiter];

Number 7:
With 14.26 APS, agriasth's 20 table layout [3 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 8:
With 13.96 APS, agriasth's 24 table layout [3 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 9:
With 13.51 APS, baconneggs' 15 table layout [3 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 10:
With 13.06 APS, little dee's 16 table layout [4 chef, 3 waiter];

Here you will find the optimal amounts of tables & positioning of tables, that will give you the highest gain of money and gourmet points known to players, or shortly, highest APS [Average Plates Served per minute].
This list will include the best layouts for restaurants with 8 employees and 7 employees.

Think your layout is efficient?
Do you want your layout to be up here, in the ranking list? Apply via a reply in this thread. Add a picture of your layout, and any other additional details about it that need to be said [number of arcades/waiting chairs it requires, how close it is to the door..

I will test every layout posted here. If it's one of the 10 most efficient layouts, it will be on this list, for other people to see and use in their restaurants.

Each testing of a layout will be performed once or twice, 30 minutes at a time, starting from 100% employee health. The test will be performed precisely the way your layout looks in the picture you posted, except, it will not have a maze. Mazes slow down your APS.

Here we go:

Layouts ranked places 1-5 for 8 employees

Number 1:
With 17.15 APS, quetel's 20 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Owner's note: "There is one waiting chair and the door is symmetrically situated between the islands."



Number 2:
With 17.03 APS, littledee's modified Boo2u2 24 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 3:
With 16.9 APS, renamed's 20 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 4:
With 16.76 APS, Boo2u2's modified baconneggs 24 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter, 4 doors];

Number 5:
With 16.63 APS, happiehappie's 18 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 6:
With 16.61 APS, agriasth's 18 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Owner's note: "This layout needs to be positioned exactly the way it is in the screenshot. The distance from the door has a major impact on APS."



Number 7:
With 16.54 APS, HikariToYami's 22 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 8:
With 16.5 APS, baconneggs' 24 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 9:
With 16.03 APS, oreoxlune30's 4 island 20 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Number 10:
With 15.8 APS, Pinkraynedrop's 18 table layout [4 chef, 4 waiter];

Now this is what my restaurant looks like now..

I'm gonna remove all my decorations just for this thread..

Here goes..

1. Remove all the decors that will be included in your layering design..

(you can leave the windows and doors, as they will always layer at the back anyways, I didn't remove the sign board because it does not need layering in my layout, but if you want to include the signboard for your layering design, consider it as another layering decor and remove it....)

2. Save your Game, and Reload..

3. Okay this is important, you have to know the layering group of each of your decors, which ones are at the farthest back, then the ones on top of the previous ones, and it continues like that..

I'll use my restaurant final design to show you the groupings..

a. The decors at the farthest back..

(These includes, the flower beds, the trees, hanging flower pot, torches)

b. The decors directly on top of (a)..

(These includes the Lamp post, Lion statues, mermaid statues)

c. The decors at the top most layer..

(These are the bushes at the front)

(Your design can have as "I don't know how many" layers as you want, but just remember carefully which items are in what layer, you can save an image of what you want your restaurant to look like so that you can use it for reference)

4. Put out the decors at the farthest back, (you can arrange them now or later, i'll arrange them later to show that it's possible)..

5. Save your Game, and Reload..

(After you reload it should look like the way you left it, If it's not there's obviously something wrong with your game, hehe.. )

6. Now put out the next layer of decors out..

7. Save your Game, and Reload..

(After you reload the game, you'll immediately notice that ***!! the layering is not right!)

(Don't worry, Just follow step 8..)

8. Repeat steps 6-7, for every groups of layering decors that you need to put out..

Step 6

Step 7

9. Save and Reload you game 1 more time..

10. Arrange them to your heart's content..

(This is the final unorganized layout.. Notice that the layering are now all correct.. )

(Always keep track of what layer the items are..)

(WARNING!!! Please don't bring items back to the inventory!)

(Arrange them now.. )

11. Save your Game, and Reload..

12. Now you're happy!!

Source: tinman21