Hello fellow restauranteurs! Restaurant City has been updated with an array of new items , new limited dishes and an abundance of new features!
It´s the time for the Holiday magic to start early this year, let it spread throughout your restaurant and surroundings. What can be more appropriate for Holiday decorations than a Restaurant centered on snow! It is definitely time for the red, green and white theme with Snowy Floors, Snowmen, Chairs and tables covered with snow and let´s not forget the pine trees or that Santa Statue! What will your holiday restaurant look like?
We have decided to give you your Holiday present early this year, so make sure you read the whole blog post, I think you will be surprised!
Frosty The Snowman is a functional item that creates snowy footprints for your customers, make sure you create the perfect Holiday atmosphere for the inside of your restaurant.
Festive Chair | Frosty The Snowman (functional, leaves snowy footprints) | Festive Table |
Festive Wallpaper | Candy Jar | Snowy Floor |
And this week when you enter your restaurant I am sure that you will have noticed the large For Sale sign! You can now expand your restaurant by buying outdoor space! I am not sure if December is the month for alfresco dining, but I am sure you are able to create a warm and cozy outdoor area for the holidays! How much outdoor space you can buy depends on the level you are on, the higher the level, the more outdoor space you can buy.
We also of course have added some greenery for you to use with your new outdoor space. Note that floor tiles can currently not be used in the outdoor space, but we will add this functionality in a later update. Remember also that outdoor items can only be used outdoors and not inside your restaurant. We are looking forward to seeing the creative use you make of the new area in the Forum Gallery!
Blue Daisy | Iris | Pink Tulips |
Sunflowers | Green Bush | Red Berry Bush |
White Flower Bush | Pine Tree | Snowy Pine Tree |
You can also this week find two new Arcade Machines, to purchase. The Crazy Planets Pinball Machine will let you earn 1 coin for each time one of your customers use it.
And then there is the Deep Sea Arcade, this will also let you earn 1 coin for each use, but you can also play on it! SImply click on it and then click “play”. You control the fish by using your mouse. Holding in the left mouse button = fish floats upwards. Letting go of the mousebutton = fish floats downwards. You can view your friends high scores by playing on the machine in their restaurant.
Crazy Planets Pinball (functional, earn 1 coin per use) | Deep Sea Arcade (functional, earn 1 coin per use + you can play on it!) |
Now, a quick tour back to the Holidays! You have already seen the inside decorations, now it is time to take a look at the decorations you can use on the outside of your restaurant. This is not for the outside area, but for the front of your restaurant building. Make sure you check out the snowman, as he will make it snow!
Angel Decor | Pine Tree | Snowy Banner |
Snowy Pine Tree | Snowman (functional, he will make it snow!) | Santa Statue |
Snowy Roof |
To complement your Holiday themed restaurant, there are also four new limited dishes! Latkas for Starter, Festive Glazed Ham for Main Course, Mince Pie for Dessert and finally the new Eggnog Drink. We have also introduced new ingredients to the game, Raisins and Orange, so you will need to go and do some ingredient hunting before the time runs out. Good Luck!
You can unlock all these dishes until Midnight January 5th. If you have not unlocked the dishes before that time, the dishes will disappear from your menu, so you need to hurry and collect those ingredients.
Once you have unlocked any of the four dishes, you can upgrade them to a level higher than level 1 at any time. You can upgrade them also after the limited time period, but you need to remember to learn the dish you want to keep in your menu. If you haven´t learned the dishes (got them to at least level 1) before the period is over, they will disappear from your menu, however you may be able to buy these recipes in future.
Latkas (starter) | Festive Glazed Ham (main course) |
Mince Pie (dessert) | Eggnog (drink) |
As if we have not been generous enough in the countdown to the holidays, we have added more levels! Whereas before, the maximum level was 32, the new maximum level is level 65! Imagine that, 33 more levels to conquer! As you level up you can now buy items exclusive to those who have reached that level.
And finally – make sure you are on the lookout for the Gourmet King. You can find the Food King in your friends restaurants out in the street. He may even be sitting at a table, sampling one of the dishes. When you click on him, he will allow you to post a feed to your wall. This feed can contain ingredients or exclusive dishes.
If you find him, you will not get a reward yourself. You must post the feed to your wall in order to give the reward of your choice to your friends. For you to get any dishes or ingredients from the Gourmet King, your friends must find him and post to their wall. You then need to follow the link in the feed from your friends.
Gourmet King |
Make sure you let us know what you think about our latest update. Our players opinions are always very important to us.
Tags: deep sea arcade, eggnog, food king, holiday, mince pie, orange, outdoor, outside, raisins, restaurant city
December 1, 2009 at 9:25 pm |
WOW WOW WOW THANKS PLAYFISH.. MERRY CHRISTMAS 🙂
December 1, 2009 at 9:26 pm |
This is freaking awesome!
December 1, 2009 at 9:28 pm |
Best update so far! I’m so glad there’s an outdoor area. I LOVE the new functional items and the increase in maximum level! Thanks!
December 1, 2009 at 9:38 pm |
AWESOME updates!!!
December 1, 2009 at 9:39 pm |
Oh gosh i lvoe these items! 😀
:3 love the christmas themed itmes
December 1, 2009 at 9:57 pm |
Do we get lager resteraunts with leveling up?
December 1, 2009 at 10:05 pm |
Stacking doesn’t work outside
December 1, 2009 at 10:11 pm |
I want a christmas song!!!! xP
December 1, 2009 at 10:17 pm |
Love the updates. WOW, since I was already at level 32, going to 65 well this is just totally great. I can’t wait to start my Christmas decorating. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
December 1, 2009 at 10:20 pm |
Amazing. Oh god so amazing !
I can’t wait to see everything by myself, NOW that’s a game constantly evolving !!
December 1, 2009 at 10:52 pm |
So with the outdoor area, how do we close the restaurant now? I used to just remove the door, but now they can walk right in. How do we stop our popularity from going down, and how do we get the waiters to serve the people outside?
December 2, 2009 at 3:56 am |
I am wondering the same thing Kim mentioned. How do we keep people out of our restaurant if they are coming in through the outdoor area…..
December 3, 2009 at 7:13 pm |
You simply block it off like you would a door.
December 4, 2009 at 5:09 pm |
i have the same problem…
December 1, 2009 at 11:29 pm |
Excelente, mil gracias estan fabulosos, Y llego la Navidad…
December 1, 2009 at 11:29 pm |
WOW I LOVE THIS UPDATE.
More levels is exactly what I wanted.
THANK YOU PLAYFISH and EA
December 1, 2009 at 11:52 pm |
Yeah how do we close the resturant now??? If I would of know that would happen adding outdoor area I would not have… My rating went from 50 to who knows what the next time I check it… Not very happy.. I work so i cant sit here all day and play this game….
December 2, 2009 at 3:18 pm |
Hi, I figured out that you can block the outside area by taking a few divider screens (either from inside your restaurant or buy some extra) and placing them end to end along the sidewalk. This blocks the outside off and no one can come in.
December 2, 2009 at 12:31 am |
I want an answer to Kim’s question: how do we close up the restaurant with the outdoor area enabled, and how do we get our waiters to serve outside? Do we have to line up bushes all along the outside walls or something? X_x
December 2, 2009 at 12:41 am |
The Gourmet King gave the exclusive dish link is dead!
All friend kicked and only saw the page “Error 404”!
December 2, 2009 at 1:09 am |
Oh my, a lot of exploration to do…can’t wait to see how the alfresco dining area works, but no canopy & heater in the store? Hope to see orange & raisins in the market soon…what about more employees? Keep it up RC!
December 2, 2009 at 2:35 am |
how do we close the restaurant outside?!?!?
December 2, 2009 at 2:40 am |
To close the outside, put up a wall or the dividers along the front and side, and they no longer walk through that area, they go through the door.
December 2, 2009 at 2:43 am |
PLAYFISH!! you are the BEST!!!
December 2, 2009 at 4:45 am |
and how do we closed the outdoor area?
December 2, 2009 at 4:51 am |
WOW!
Just amazing!
By the way, about the outside restaurant..
Will I have to put waiters and chefs outside too or will the indoor waiters will also do their job outside?
December 2, 2009 at 5:20 am |
isn’t it nice to have a roof inside to interior XD
hehehe
nice update please next time make a 3rd view
December 2, 2009 at 5:22 am |
Where is the Christmas song?????!!!?!?!?!!!!
And where is the presents?!?!?!?!?!!!
December 2, 2009 at 5:33 am |
I bought the alfresco area and I can close it off. You just have to buy barriers for area next to the street so they can’t just walk in. You also have to put one of your stoves in this area, or they don’t get fed. That kind of screwed up my current set up.. but then, even after all this… now when I open my restaurant NO ONE goes into my restaurant. They just all sit and wait for a seat in the alfresco area. >.< I took all the seats back out, blocked it all off, put the stove back and again.. same thing. Now I'm down to 43.0 from 50 in no time flat and can't seem to fix it. I find NOTHING to tell you how to work this area anywhere. I spent a ton of money on this and now I'm regretting ever buying it.. because now I can't open my restaurant without losing points and money. Can anyone help?!?!?!!?
December 2, 2009 at 3:30 pm |
You have to leave the barriers or bushes up all the time blocking the street, then the people come to the patio and leave by way of the restaurant and the front door.
December 2, 2009 at 6:05 am |
i love Restaurant City, keep improving, i’m taking all my friends to play this game
December 2, 2009 at 6:41 am |
i saw someone sitting in what seems to me like a picnic blanket in one of my friends garden (however, the clothes are different from the GOURMET KING). when i try to click on it, its not allowing me to. does the gourmet king always have the purple attire?
December 2, 2009 at 8:09 am |
I love RC game very much! BTW, how can i find the Gourmet King??? I want to find him!!!
December 2, 2009 at 8:38 am |
Thank you so much Playfish! though I do wish that there could be more employees…9 seems a little to little for my restaurant…oh well still love these updates!
December 2, 2009 at 9:47 am |
you have really outdone yourselves this time RC! this update is amazing!!! too bad it’s around finals time….ugh study then play nonstop! haha
December 2, 2009 at 10:11 am |
What about …
– reindeers & sleigh on the roof top
– christmas lights (exterior)
– presents (boxes) for interior
December 2, 2009 at 10:57 am |
I just don’t know how to make food to the outdoor area. Even I put the chef and the stove outside, the chef didn’t cook any food, and my gourmet point keeps sliding down!
December 2, 2009 at 11:09 am |
Oh god.. I nearly caught up to my friends but then theres more levels! D: It’s going to take me FOREVER to get to level 65!
BTW ❤ the new dishes and christmas decor.
Gourmet King is like Hideeni from PS. WOO! 😀
December 2, 2009 at 12:41 pm |
I don’t neesd any door because I sets all my customer to walk pass my garden.
Just wonder what is the exclusive dishes!
December 2, 2009 at 3:41 pm |
Now if only we can have a second floor to our restaurant. Wouldn’t that be awesome? *wistful*
Seriously, why is there no Lighted Christmas tree decoration?
December 2, 2009 at 4:03 pm |
I loved this game until the outside area was added. Now I can’t close my resturant and my rating just drops.
December 2, 2009 at 4:52 pm |
Its amazing…..
December 2, 2009 at 5:29 pm |
half mill for the Egyptian Obelisk … not fair !?
December 2, 2009 at 6:50 pm |
Its just a shame that the shrubbery is outdoors only. My Winter theme inside seems to be missing some plants and what not…
December 2, 2009 at 7:38 pm |
I am still waiting for a distinctive icon to mark any unvisited/new friends restaurant on “Street” view. I found it is very difficult to keep track of which restaurant I had visited and which not. Especially when I have more than 100+ friends on my street. Looking forward for it on next update.
Regarding the winter theme, I will give two thumbs up!
Thanks!
December 2, 2009 at 9:17 pm |
YAY, so glad that the Christmas stuff is out, but I would really love some blinking Christmas lights for the rest. Any possibility of that happening?
December 2, 2009 at 11:19 pm |
Ok, love the updates, but…are we ever going to get any more employees? Now we must take workers out of the restaurant to put them outside, so that means not a bit more income than before. The Food King thingie; why did you make it so hard. And no benefit for ourselves but for someone else, & only for us if we are lucky. No Christmas music or lights. No other way of getting food but trading or buying at an inflated price too. Bumber!!! Someone should give this game a little more thought.
December 4, 2009 at 2:38 am |
To Wanda:
Christmas is a time for GIVING, not receiving.
And it’s spelled.. BUMMER. Not Bumber.
You should give yourself some more thought.
Merry Christmas!
December 3, 2009 at 5:35 am |
[…] Let the festivities begin! […]
December 3, 2009 at 5:36 am |
I think as we level up we should get to be able to do two things: serve more dishes and hire more employees. (Am I wrong, or would it be possible to set up an outdoor kitchen, if one had more employees?)
December 3, 2009 at 5:49 am |
I love these new updates, but I completely think there NEEDS to be more employees! At level 32 it was difficult to fun the restaurant on nine employees, now it’s almost impossible if we want to use the full outside area.
Also, minor, but I think we need solid black dividers. 😛
December 3, 2009 at 3:51 pm |
how can we found the gourmet king?? i’ve visited all my friend’s restaurant but could not find him anywhere.. anyone already found him??
December 3, 2009 at 10:38 pm |
How do i sell the outside area. I bought it by accident and now im broke. How do i remove it?
December 4, 2009 at 12:28 am |
Wow that alot more fun to be esp with more game and items. But one thing RC missed out from us is the need to increase employees. We have such a BIG restaurant yet we cant utilize the space for better development simply because there is not enough workers to support the strength. I hope RC would consider up to 20-25 works at level 65.
December 4, 2009 at 1:55 am |
Where is the food king??? I have been looking for him and don’t see him anywhere… talk about frustrating!!!
December 4, 2009 at 9:18 am |
I don’t like this update … for the beginers it’s too dificult to get level 65 … OMG so I will bored with this game…why must upgrade level ? I think level 32 is excellent … just upgrade menu and accessories…
I suggest to upgrade market … so I can buy lot of ingredient which I can’t find from my friends & I can choose the ingredient which I need too.
December 4, 2009 at 10:36 am |
i had 1 question here.Why my restaurant only has a little people come in after update?my popularity drop from 46 to 4.4. i noticed that only 1 or 2 ppl come in only. And i already block the new area.. somebody can help me on this?
December 4, 2009 at 12:13 pm |
Brilliant blog – love all the new christmas stuff!
Give us more to do but I think it makes it a little harder too. Oh, well still addicted!
December 5, 2009 at 12:12 am |
[…] Let the festivities begin! Hello fellow restauranteurs! Restaurant City has been updated with an array of new items , new limited dishes and an […] […]
December 5, 2009 at 7:49 am |
How do I close the outdoor section?! People keep going into my restaurant via there and lowering my rating. : (
thank you
December 5, 2009 at 10:12 am |
the seeds should include more ingredients. i spent 2000 per seed and what i always got are corianders, gingers, vanilla, saffron, bay leaves, wasabis, oreganos, tea leaves, etc. i have enough of all these ingredients! we don’t get lemons, peaches, peas, apples, strawberries, rice, etc!
do something about it please!
December 5, 2009 at 2:02 pm |
Love the new outdoor space, but I’m short with the employees. Would be great to be able of hiring new employees. I have a lot of friends that want to work at my restaurant. Great blog, great game!! Love it!!
December 5, 2009 at 6:39 pm |
[…] Let the festivities begin! […]
December 6, 2009 at 3:17 am |
I found the gourmet king! too bad i didn’t realize that the gift he gives only go to my friends! BOOOOOOO RC! what kind of prize is that!? Why look for him if i don’t get anything unless my friends find him too!?
December 6, 2009 at 6:06 am |
I really enjoy the changes but i wish i could get mine fixed. Since this update my resturant city is messed up big time. i load in and i can’t do anything i keep getting errors and i can’t save. Yes i know that is a known issues. but here is the bigger part. My gp was reset somehow. I am still on level 65, but my gp are 5592 and when i go one someone elses to see mine. it showing -7. What the heck happened??? i have messaged and messaged so many times and no answers i just keep getting blown off. I have tried everything to get it fixed and no luck…. When is the next updates so i can see if it fixes it? i am very annoyed that this happened when i spend a lot of time on there plus i spend a lot of money.
This is the first time i have any issues with any games. And i really do like the new features to this game. And i would really like to work with them and grow my outside area bigger too. Please help me!!!!!
December 7, 2009 at 1:17 am |
I think in the next update we should be able to clean friend’s toilets for money! That would make a lot of people happy.
December 7, 2009 at 2:55 am |
only 2 walls for decrocation are not enough. it would be greatful if the purchased walls can also be decrocated.
great job and keep improving for RC, i really addicted to it.
December 7, 2009 at 6:05 am |
Since the update, I barely earn coins and am getting very few customers. What’s going on?????
December 9, 2009 at 12:35 am |
RC’s new update is awful! Seriously, I’m not making more than 200 coins in a normal day. And the cheating thing is so stupid, omg who cares!!! IT’S A FLIPPIN GAME!!! I just don’t like what RC changed to.
December 9, 2009 at 3:46 pm |
Yeah please let us decorate the purchased walls!! It would be nice also to change the outdoor floor, I wanna be able to put the snow or sand floor, please! The updates are amazing and people stop asking how to close the outdoor area, LOADS of people told u how to block it just read previous comments!!
December 9, 2009 at 9:36 pm |
GOURMET KING SUCKS
let him give US the benefits, not our friends!
we should be able to clean friends toilets and fix their games!
when you level up a dish you should get more money for it!
December 10, 2009 at 3:07 am |
I have to agree with some people here about the Gourmet King. He SUCKS. Just to find him is like looking for a needle in a haystack & then I have nothing to show for it. None of my friends are bothering to find him, and I totally agree with them. It’s a complete waste of time. You already give us VERY LITTLE ingredients to work with. I spent a full month getting one dish to level 10 and I’m nowhere near on the other ones.
This update & the new one are fail.
December 10, 2009 at 8:29 am |
I found the Gourmet King and then choosed one option, then the window closed. Can you tell me how to post the feed to my wall?
December 10, 2009 at 8:37 am |
Referring to my last query, pls note that my setting is ticked:-
You can change the settings here: http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php – then select “Restaurant City” -> “Edit Settings” -> “Additional Permissions” -> “Publish Streams” – ensure that this option is ticked, else you will not see a feed pop-up in the game in order to post the feed to your wall.
December 11, 2009 at 3:59 pm |
The updates are very well done, except the gourmet king. I believe that it would be better if it was awarded to ourselves rather than our friends. My friends don’t even bother to find him. I also think that there should be a more efficient way to assign jobs to the waiters/chefs; it takes me a long time just to click through everything.
December 12, 2009 at 12:30 am |
can you put more emplees an largers restaurant becouse i am in level 55and its boring
December 16, 2009 at 6:01 am |
all the items that make special things happen r cool, but if there was somethin that can make dishes sell 4 +1 coin, it’ll be great!!!!
January 14, 2010 at 5:49 pm |
We bought this small radiator to use in our 8′ x 16′ greenhouse to save our plants from the ravages of the scarce hard-freezes weve been experiencing this winter. We purposely bought a bathroom radiator because of the moisture that can accumulate in a greenhouse, just like in a bathroom after a hot shower or bath. We plugged this radiator into a 100′ heavy-duty extension cord and set the thermostat to 65 degrees: just enough to combat the freezing temperatures but not hot enough to hurt our plants. We have been using this radiator on nights where a freezeor near-freezehas been predicted for nearly 2 months and it has worked flawlessly. I would urge this product highly for use in small greenhouses and, of course, bathrooms.
January 18, 2010 at 6:54 am |
hey, i reached level 55 a few days ago and bought the wishing well… but no one is using it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is anyone else having this problem? what needs to happen in order for people to start using my wishing well?
January 19, 2010 at 12:09 am |
I dunno if this is the place to request or for my comment to be seen, but can we have a Jungle Theme…like Rainforest Cafe? Iv been Saving all by Gold, waiting for a theme that i like, and id really like to see a Jungle theme (:
February 21, 2010 at 10:06 am |
I’ve spent a lot of money buying that expensive pinball machine and now seems like none of my customer are playing it. is the function of 1 coin per customer playing it is real or it’s just another decoration?