
If the order disappears completely from the prep station, it will be considered a bad order. The amount of time it takes for an order to start disappearing is affected by various factors such as the restaurant equipment, special events or emails and some others. When a customer places an order, if it's not taken care of, that order will start fading to the left, making a distinctive sound and showing some arrows on the left side. If further cooking is needed, the player needs to press Enter to cook, and then press the corresponding prep station key when the food is done. If the food doesn't need more cooking, the player must press Enter to serve the food. There are two ways of serving the food depending on the need of further cooking or not. One must be careful, though, as some keyboards suffer from key jamming. If a pasta recipe calls for red sauce (R), onions (O), red peppers (P), mushroom (U) and spinach (S), the player can press R-O-P-U-S at the same time and everything will be added. This is particularly useful when serving coffee, as sugar may appear to take long to add but if the recipe calls for two sugar cubes, pressing the sugar key twice and serving immediately will grant a perfect order, even if the sugar cubes never reached the cup in the screen.Īnother important detail about adding ingredients is the fact that most ingredients can be added simultaneously. If a soup recipe calls for bouillon cubes and chicken, as soon as the player presses the corresponding chicken and bouillon cubes, the cook button can be pressed and the order will be perfect. It is important to note that ingredients may seem to take a little bit of time (maybe centiseconds) to be placed or poured, but they do not. However, all keys can be customized in the key bindings menu.

These keys are usually very intuitive: in order to do some french fries, the player needs to press and hold the down arrow key to dunk the fries basket in the frying pan, then release it when some smoke comes out indicating they are done, press the P key to Place them in a bowl and, if the recipe calls for it, press S to add salt. In order to follow the recipe and place the ingredients, the player is required to press the corresponding keys (again, or click on them with the mouse, or tap on them on touch devices) for the ingredients or the preparation techniques.

Finally, the baked potato is the only food that requires to be cooked before preparing it, so pressing the appropiate prep station key will cook it instead of opening the menu for selecting ingredients/techniques. Some foods need some ingredients to be cooked before any further preparation (for instance, meat patties on a burger ) while other ones are required to place all the ingredients and then be cooked, or they don't need to be cooked at all (like salads, drinks, sushi.). The player then has to follow the instructions in order to prepare the recipe.
#COOK SERVE DELICIOUS EXTREME DIFFICULTY HOW TO#
Once the player presses the corresponding prep station key, the order will appear on the bottom side of the screen indicating how to prepare it.

Note that the image shown does not indicate the exact recipe, but the general food the order will be about. The order will appear on a prep station as a thin rectangle showing what the order is about. The player starts with 4 prep stations but, fortunately, the number of prep stations increase as the player progresses through the game.Įach customer will generate one order for food and after being served or getting tired of waiting, leave.
#COOK SERVE DELICIOUS EXTREME DIFFICULTY FREE#
Also, there is not a hidden queue of customers, who will wait for a free prep station (unless the customer is a Cook4Luv date). If all prep stations are busy, there won't be any more orders until one is free. The number of prep stations effectively limits the number of customers that can be served. In order to interact with whatever it's in any prep station, the player has to press the appropiate prep station number on the keyboard, click on it with the mouse or tap on it in touch devices. Those are the slots where the orders and chores will appear. On the left side of the screen there are also the prep stations, identified by numbers.
