Dinertown Map



Goal
1.  Review customer progress, analyze which customers you need to focus on.
2.  Consider researching customer favorites....or check out our charts below.
3.  Check Grub Burgers progress. Consider meeting Daily Chef Challenges if you need to halt their progress.



News
1.  Crowds Today range from 1 thru 4-  Supply your restaurants based on demand.
2.  Daily Demands- Recommends what items you should stock up on.
3.  Daily Chef Challenge- You receive no points for completing this, however, it does push back Grub Burgers advance on your Goal tab.



Overview
Tells you the best selling menu item of all time vs. yesterday; happy customers vs. unhappy customers; total $.



Menu
See current menu items; hover mouse over grocery bag to see necessary ingredients; hover mouse over guest check to see how many sold, ran out of ingredients, too expensive; click a covered dish to reveal other menu items and necessary ingredients; add a menu item by sliding it into the stamp, slide other menu items back to the counter to remove them from menu; increase or decrease the menu price of any item to sale/regular/premium prices.



Ingredients
Shows ingredients in stock; current market price;, # sold yesterday; total $ spent/remaining.



Decor
Items for purchase to increase the attractiveness of your diners.



Neighborhood
1.  Buy advertising- Some is stationary like billboards/radio stations. Others you can move around the neighborhood.
2.  Buy other restaurants- This will give you the first menu item for free but you will need to buy the ingredients.  Make sure you also have enough money for both.
3.  Start of Day- This will invite customers into the restaurant district.
4.  Make sure you remember to collect those gold coin tips above the happy customers heads!
5.  Speed- You can adjust each day to move at a steady or quick pace.  It's harder to collect tips when playing on the quicker pace.

i never played a tycoon game and i did purchase
this one. ok, i admit i did it for the medals. i have
no idea what i'm doing, this walkthrough is going to
help so much.

I see more and more members asking for help on individual levels, and I don't have tips specific for any level but thought I would share here what helped me get through the game. Hoping others who have finished the game might want to share here also.

This is how I played the game; however, what works for me may not work for everyone. I have to keep notes. 3 pieces of paper in front of me for each location. One with the list of each customer's fav dishes (you can find that in the walkthrough), one to jot down the daily news (crowd, demand, challenge), and one to list ingredients for each recipe as you buy them (this helps know at a glance how much to restock of each item, making adjustment for how busy the crowd will be). Try to meet the daily challenge as much as practical. Don't buy too much too fast. Use your first few recipes over and over until you have a good bit of money built up. Don't buy the recipes that aren't customer favorites ~ they won't sell. Look at your menu after each day and adjust your prices (go up if no one thought it too expensive / go down if you lost sales due to the price). Take off any recipes that haven't sold in 3-4 days to minimize ingredients needed. I only bought the first sign for each restaurant, but always bought the ads (if you don't use the ads they will walk right past your restaurant and Grub Burger gets all the sales). Flo appears on Day 12 of each location so be sure to click on her for some free advertising. She also appears in later levels like 24,25. On slow days (1-2) don't buy any new recipes (or restaurants), and buy only minimal ingredients as you won't sell much and will need your funds to restock for the day after this. If you use all your funds for a slow day you may be stuck with no money when the day is done and will have to restart the location. Always buy your ingredients for the next day before buying anything else, making sure you can feed everyone. If you run out of food, Grub Burger gets that customer and your Grubmeter rises. This game requires alot of focus so don't play when tired. The result can be disastrous, lol.

If your Grubmeter is rising really high and you know the daily challenge is impossible for you to meet, you can exit to the main page of the game and then click on 'Play' to return to the game. The daily challenge will change (sometimes but not always the crowd # changes as well).  If you have already started a day, and realize you are not going to meet the daily challenge or you have run out of ingredients and want to start the day over, just pause the game, quit, and start again.  Your day will start over.

Many have asked questions about earning the two trophies for making $10,000 and $20,000.  You have to earn this much in one location to earn the medal.  I found it easier to earn them on Thyme Square ($10,000) and Champagne Falls ($20,000).  Reason being, the food sells at higher prices and thus your earnings are larger.  The food at the X3000 restaurant in Champagne Falls will earn you the highest dollar.  Try to buy this as your second restaurant if possible.  Only buy the recipes that are the favorites (listed separately in this walkthrough).  I was able to earn $26,000 in this location just by following all the tips I have already listed above.  If you have only one or two people left to make goal and they're getting too close without you having earned your medal yet, totally take off the recipes they like and use the favorite recipes of the ones that have already reached the goal as they will continue to eat and you'll continue to earn money.  Try raising the prices to premium.  If customers are still buying except for maybe just a few, then raise the price one notch higher each round.  If more customers are buying than walking out, you'll still earn mega bucks.  If too many are walking out and going to Grub Burger then reduce price back down one notch.  Just make sure to meet your daily challenge if you have customers walking out, so that you can keep your grubmeter under control.

As for purchasing ingredients I always made sure I had at least 50 of the demand items on a busy day, about 35 on a day with crowd of 3, and 15 on a slow day.  One thing to remember about the demand item.  It may be sold in 3 to 4 recipes so you need to make sure you have the additional ingredients all stocked in the above numbers as well as the demand item.  You need more of the demand item in stock if you have multiple recipes you're selling it in.  If you're short of funds to buy all this, take off one or two of the recipes that sell the demand item for that given day.  I sometimes did this in order to still have the funds to buy the advertising.

Hope these tips help some of you. As always, have fun and happy gaming!

Thanks for the great hints and the walkthrough. I am stuck on Champagne falls --now after reviewing this help-- I may perhaps be able to finish--LOL