Restaurant City is one of the biggest and most popular social games on Facebook with almost 20 million players and a huge devoted fan base. And every day, thousands more sign up and play for hours, trying to join the ranks of the true elite. It’s changing the way the game is played and pushing the bar higher and higher. If you’re one of those people who wants to get on the ground floor and go up quickly, you’d better know some of the basics before you start.

What should you know?

For starters, you should know that chefs and waiters are pretty automated. They will need to rest or feed every 45 minutes or so to maintain their working speed, but otherwise they will do everything for you. Your job is to set up the restaurant with an efficient layout and improve your dishes by gathering enough new ingredients.

Each dish has 10 levels that you can reach. The higher the level, the more coins, GP and popularity rating you will get for each satisfied customer. That means faster leveling and more options to stand out. It also means that you need to start making a lot of friends because getting ingredients in this game is hard without having a good supply of friends who also play.

To combat this, many pro players go out and find temporary friends with whom they can trade and get new ingredients. These temporary friends will stay on your lists for between 20 minutes and 24 hours, long enough to get ingredients from each other when visiting your restaurant for the first time. Also, you’ll find that most people are pretty good at trading ingredients for a solid profit, something that will allow you to level up fairly quickly most of the time.

get to the top

To get to the top, you need to log in every day, spend a lot of time going through and fixing everything whenever an issue comes up, and tweaking your layout so you can get the most customers in and out with a thumbs up. as possible. If you can do all of those things to get the highest-rated dishes possible, you’ll have a well-run restaurant with a perfect 50.0 popularity score. Once you have that, it’s time to fix your layout and have other players rank your setup. Earn a high star rating from your fellow players and you can start working your way to the top of those lists too, and possibly even make it to Gourmet Street, every Restaurant City player’s ultimate dream.