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Restaurant City Guide Part 3: Island Layouts Guide

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Restaurant City is a simple but very addicting game in Facebook.com. It lets you run your very own restaurant and employ your friends to work for you as waiters and chefs. You need lots of money to be able to buy extravagant decorations, furniture and equipment to make make your mark with a completely unique restaurant. This guide is based on the success of “IHOP UHOP” restaurant built by ihopuhop. This guide covers “island” layouts, which helps you make a restaurant layouts you can build as efficient as possible!  Read now and let’s get cooking after the jump.

This visual guide is created by ihopuhop for the Playfish – Forum. All credits goes to this guy.


IHOP UHOP’s Guide to Island Layouts

Introduction

You can begin using island layouts when you have a total of 6 staff. If you have less staff, please check out my General Guide to Efficient Restaurants.

**Disclaimer: island layouts are slightly buggy right now, so you will need to do a little bit of trial and error to get them right.**

What is an “island” layout?
If you’ve ever seen a restaurant that has two or more separate sections, or “islands”, with its own cooks and waiters, then you’ve seen an example of an island layout. Here’s one, as an example:

What’s so special about island layouts?
Island layouts are unique in that they are extremely efficient. If you read the basic strategies in my Guide to Efficient Restaurants, you’ll see that smaller restaurants (few cooks and tables) are always more efficient than bigger, bulkier restaurants. In a small restaurant, waiters don’t have to walk as much to serve customers, while long walks are almost unavoidable for big restaurants.

The beauty of an island layout is that we can take that big, bulky restaurant and split it back down into those smaller, much more efficient chunks.

On Bugs and Problems
Unfortunately, island layouts are plagued with a host of problems. Without the right island set up, the game will get confused and repeatedly put all your waiters in one island or scatter them randomly. However, we can overcome all these problems.

**The next section will show you how to set up your island layout right so that it works correctly and consistently, without any of the problems.**

Island Building
Okay, so you’re ready to go out and build your island layout! There is only one thing that you must do to get island layouts to work consistently. I don’t know why it works, but if you do it right then you won’t encounter any problems.

Check your waiters, swap your stoves
After you’ve completed your layout, go ahead and assign your waiters and cooks. The following two things can happen:

Possibility 1: Your waiters are in the right position:

Congratulations! Go ahead and Save & Close. If they’re still in the right position when you reload the app, then you’re done! Otherwise, please read on.

Possibility 2: Your waiters are in the wrong position:

Don’t feel bad, this happens. What you need to do now is to go into the furniture view, and swap your stoves (I’m not kidding). Randomly take one of your stoves, and swap it with another one:

After each time, leave the furniture view and check to see if your waiters are now in the right positions. If not, keep going (this should only take 1-3 attempts). Otherwise, Save & Close, and if the waiters are still correct after you reload the app, then congratulations! You are done!

As long as you don’t touch your stoves again, your waiters will always appear correctly and your restaurant will run at its peak efficiency.

Recommended Layouts
Here are recommended island layouts that have been tested and verified (I have confirmed that these are all 50 popularity layouts):

Note: The islands pictured here are deliberately placed far apart so that you can see them better. If you are lacking space, you can just squeeze the islands together without any problems. Click the “compact layout” link below each picture to get an idea of how it should look.

4 Cooks, 2 Waiters

[Avg. customers served per minute: 11.2]
(Don’t have space? Try this compact layout instead)

5 Cooks, 2 Waiters

[Avg. customers served per minute: 14.6]
(Don’t have space? Try this compact layout instead)

6 Cooks, 2 Waiters

[Avg. customers served per minute: 17.8]
(Don’t have space? Try this compact layout instead)

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Check back often because these designs are always evolving and updating thanks to feedback from the community.
You can visit the community at http://forum.playfish.com/.

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6 Responses to “Restaurant City Guide Part 3: Island Layouts Guide”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    August 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am

    cant do last one cos one person has to be janitor to clean the toilets

  2. anonymous Says:
    August 13th, 2009 at 8:04 am

    are there any layouts for when u need to serve drinks?

  3. GOO Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 4:51 am

    but what if you need the drink dispensers/fridge?

    This was really helpful though :]

  4. Kwan Hui Says:
    October 24th, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Thanks for the advice. It is really helpful! What is the most efficient way when drinks are included?

  5. KIWI Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    I replaced a stove with a drink fridge and then had 2 waiter with the lost of a chef, this way no-one is waiting for food if one of the waiters is making a drink.
    This has me around the 49 mark and then when the loo’s need cleaning I take a chef and give them a quick clean. No good on the health and hygiene front but there are no H&S inspectors!

  6. UNKWON Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 11:30 am

    You can just take one of the chefs and put a fridge/drink dispensers istead

    and for janiters you cAN JUST MAKE HIME/HER A WAITER THEN MAKE HIM/HER A JANITOR

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