We are happy to announce that we just released a Major Update for Chef! We completely overhauled the existing Furnishing system, making it deeper, easier to use, and adding more than 50 new items!

We also improved ChefAdvisor with dynamic reviews and added a new Calendar mechanics that will let you people see the place swarming with customers during christmas and other holydays.

As always, we also brought some other minor improvements and fixed existing issues!

Changelog

• Improved and expanded the Furnishing: there are now different Styles and each Customer Category will react differently to them, to the point of not coming at all into the Restaurant if their minimum requirements are not met.
• Added the Calendar Mechanic: the year has been divided in 48 weeks, and some of them have a chance of having unique modifiers affecting the gameplay, creating new challenges but also new opportunities.
• Added more than 50 new decorations and furnishing pieces.
• ChefAdvisor has been improved with dynamic reviews, offering a more in depth and realistic experience.
• The overall Ambience Scores are now visible.
• Added a new minor feature: the World Chef Ranking. It features the best Chefs in the world and allows the player to slowly climb it and become the best of all.
• The space occupied by various furnishing elements is now visible when furnishing the place.
• Added a toggle to filter pre-made recipes in the Menu.
• Added a button to cycle the quality of all ingredients in the Recipe Editor.
• Fixed the blocking issues seeing several customers stuck outisde the restaurant.
• Customers are less likely to flee the restaurant and will wait some more time before going away.
• Customers' AI has been improved when it comes to choosing from the menu. Each customer category has a precise choice profile based on their priorities.
• Waiters performances have been improved.
• A new toggle has been added in the Menu Panel to show/hide all pre-made recipes.
• Added an alert to clearly signal if, during Recipe creation, the mandatory Ingredients are missing.
• Fixed Colliders on Restaurant 401 to prevent certain paintings to melt inside the wall, creating a new kind of art the world is not ready to witness.
• The Master Chef achievement is now working properly.
• Placed a limit on customers waiting outside to prevent the formation of massive crowds which worsened the overall performances.