Restaurant Minigame

Master the Beast of Reincarnation restaurant minigame by understanding dish quality, ingredient variety, and strategic upgrades for maximum profit.

First Play/Tutorial Strategy:

• Set all dishes to 2-star quality and use the x8 speed.
• Wait until you accumulate 25 WP to use at the start of a shift, ideally when all meals are of the highest possible quality.
• Once you achieve 2 stars, you will conclude this minigame until the next Roxy Swap.

First Restaurant Full Completion Strategy:

• Focus on completing optional goals, which provide passive bonuses to the current town's restaurant or grant recipes.
• Continue the strategy of aiming for higher-star meals while maintaining ingredient variety. Monitor ingredient usage to avoid over-reliance on one type.
• Ingredient refill costs become very cheap later, reducing the need for constant worry.
• Address new work orders promptly:
• 'Clean' removes trash, which reduces customers. This is randomly received and can appear multiple times a day or not at all for several days.
• 'Add Tables'/'Call for help' provide permanent upgrades to the restaurant in this town, but only if the shift is not failed. These can only be performed once each and remain if the shift is completed. Failing afterwards negates these upgrades.
• Prioritize attracting customers and replenishing ingredients, except when your best menu is on 'cooldown' and you must use lower-star items.
• With passive/permanent upgrades, you may reach 99 WP with nothing to spend it on, allowing you to progress by skipping shifts at x8 speed.

Second Restaurant Strategy:

• The final mechanics of the restaurant unlock. The first run might fail while unlocking optional goals, but their rewards (recipes) are retained, making the second run easier.
• New work orders include:
• 'Improve Recipe': Refreshes all recipes to a 'green arrow' status. This is mandatory.
• 'X Festival': Increases customer ratings for specific food types but is generally not worth the WP cost.

Strategy for Beating the Restaurant:

• Choice 1: Farm for Recipes
• Explore new dungeon areas (water tile dungeons + cavern) which primarily contain recipes in chests. Note that Roxy party is slower at combat and these are easier to obtain with the main party later.
• Equip a 'Repel Monsters' accessory (enchanting for no encounters is not yet possible) and purchase Purifying Essence to use when exploring these areas.
• Acquiring these recipes will significantly simplify the minigame with many 4-star options.
• Choice 2: Direct Strategy (No Grinding)
• 1st Shift: Focus on achieving 2 stars and completing optional goals. Lure customers when good recipes are available. The goal is to 'fail' this shift quickly after reaching 2 stars by simply skipping time. Permanent upgrades like tables/maid are lost upon failing the shift, but recipes and plushies from optional goals are kept.
• 2nd Shift: Save the game. This is the 'real' run. Initial random events (RNG) can cause failure; a quick save file reset is crucial.
• If trash appears during the first two days, quit unless you received a super rating on a meal that grants significant WP.
• Aim for a 'good Day 1' by setting the absolute best meals and saving 30+ WP without encountering trash. Save the game again if this is achieved.
• Start Day 2 by attracting customers, aiming to accumulate 45+ WP by night.
• Prioritize upgrades: '2 person table' > 'Maid'.
• After these upgrades, maintain only the two highest star-tier dishes on the menu (e.g., only 3 and 4-star dishes if up to 4-star recipes are available).
• Use the income from these dishes to continuously afford 'Improve Recipe' and 'Customer Attraction', even if the menu is not full.
• Continue this strategy even if a recipe has a yellow arrow, as 'Improve Recipe' will eventually reset it to green. Perform 'Improve Recipe' if one recipe is red or most dishes have yellow arrows.
• Day 3 should begin with the '2 person table' and 'Maid' upgrades, plus saved WP. If enough WP is available for 'Customer Attract' and 'Improve Recipe', this combo can be maintained infinitely.
• If not, work an additional half-day to save for this combo without using 'Customer Attract'. A yellow arrow is acceptable if it's for a high-star dish, as it will return to green after 'Improve Recipe'.