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To make your life a little easier.

I have been addicted to Fast Food Simulator since its demo, and now the early access release. As of this publishing I already have nearly 20 hours in the game. And while the gameplay is pretty straightforward, the game doesn’t exactly have the best tutorial outside of your first burger. There’s a few notes around the kitchen that contain very basic tips like how to take food out to the tables, but once you get past the first few steps there’s not a lot helping you out.

So without further ado, here’s a bunch of tips that I thought of while playing Fast Food Simulator.

1. You Need To Cook Burgers To 100%

I’ve seen a lot of people commenting on getting poor customer satisfaction who end up missing this. You need to cook burgers to 100% on both sides, not 50% on each side. You can generally overcook to about 120% before people start complaining, anything after that I would pitch in the trash.

2. Know What You Can Pre-Prep

One of Fast Food Simulator’s saving graces is that the clock does not start until you open it, and you can do anything you want before then. Including prepping food. And while you can’t prep all foods up front, you can prep a lot of the important stuff.

Most prominent are burger patties and chicken patties, which you can cook and pan and they do not record temperature (I’ll update this if they change that in the future). You can make several baskets worth of fries and let those sit in the warmer and they don’t lose temp or go bad. You can also make chicken nuggets and let those hang out in the fryer basket or box them up and let them sit open on the counter without worrying about temperature.

On fries you can pre-package them and let them sit in the warmer, but for some reason can’t take the fries out so if you make too many of one size you’re kinda screwed. When you unlock the coffee machine you can also just keep re-frothing the milk however many times you want.

3. Easy Mode Just Removes Patience

I’ve been playing Fast Food Simulator on easy mode because I personally can’t handle the crushing weight of disappointing fake people. But what I’ve found between easy mode and normal (the original normal which is now hard) is that the number of customers doesn’t go down much, you just have unlimited time to serve them and they won’t walk out.

It’s cheap, yes, but once you get past the first few days playing this game solo with patience turned on is stressful. I’m sure there’s some dork who will speedrun a perfect shift using a Dance Dance Revolution dance mat for his controller, but for the 99% of us going through nearly 30 orders in a 10 minute time frame is going to be impossible. It seems like you can get more people to come in by running orders through to generate the receipt instead of making them wait in line.

4. Coffee Is Really Weird

Most of the orders in Fast Food Simulator are pretty straightforward. And then there’s coffee. Coffee really threw me through a loop because it uses somewhat convoluted logic. You get an order for a coffee and you press the button on the machine. The coffee cup fills 69 or 70% so you press the button again. And then the customer gets mad because there’s too much coffee.

A single coffee is one press of the button, filling the cup about 70%. A double coffee is a second press, which fills the cup 100%. Again, convoluted, given a “double” coffee is not actually double the amount of coffee. By that note you can literally never have a double coffee with milk, because the coffee fills the cup. But a coffee with milk fills the cup 85% of the way because you only add 15% of the cup worth of milk. An “extra” milk gets two dips of milk.

5. Chicken Patties Don’t Go In Burger Container

Because they are not burgers. I have seen a lot of people thinking this is a bug, because the game doesn’t have tutorials for these foods, but it’s not. The chicken patties get taken out of the box and put straight into a fryer basket. This does carry the negative side effect that you must cook 9 chicken patties at a time, every time, but it’s not a bug that you can’t put the patties in a container.

Hopefully the devs update this and let you cook individual chicken patties in a future patch.

6. Food Spoilage Is Inconsistent And Kinda Broken

This one goes into bug territory. Cooked foods like fries and patties will always disappear at the end of the day, no matter where you store them. Burger buns should stick around even if you leave them on the counter as long as they are in their wrapper. Open condiment cans and ingredients should always be put in the fridge/freezer or they will simply disappear overnight. The spoilage fairy takes them away.

Only the game seems to sometimes think that food is where it shouldn’t be, and disappears it anyway.

7. You Can Distribute From Containers

You don’t need to grab each individual pickle for a four pickle burger or put the burgers on the grill one by one. You can pick up most containers and drop stuff down that way, making the whole process much easier. In addition, once you flip the burgers the first time it makes the process much easier if you grab a burger tray and pick up the cooked burgers with that instead of trying to transfer them one by one using the spatula.

8. Cheese Doesn’t Burn On The Grill

Cook the burgers on one side and flip, and then feel free to add the cheese immediately. It can’t overcook (at least right now).