TIPS AND TRICKS

1. To scroll around your restaurant and its surroundings, hold onto your left mouse button and drag it. [Inside the restaurant]
2. You can shake trees (found outside restaurants) for money by clicking on them. So go around to your friends’ place and shake their trees too. [Inside the restaurant]
3. Earn extra cash by clearing up other people’s trash. To clear trash, click on it with your mouse. [Inside the restaurant]
4. To avoid over-exhausting your employees when you leave the game for more than 3 hours, simply remove the door or place an item (such as a deco tree or mailbox) in front of your door. The place will be empty. [Inside your restaurant]
5. Feed your workers so they have max health then ’save and quit’ before you go to sleep or head out for >5 hours. When you load the game again, you should get an earning of 2000 coins. Your employees may be lying there exhausted but you can fix that with a sandwich  (Please note that you MUST ’save and quit’ FIRST. Do not let it run on your computer while you are gone.)
6. Missed out on an ingredient cause you didn’t get the daily food quiz question right? A compiled list of questions and correct answers for you, coming soon!
7. You can distract the extra customers with arcade machines! They will play and then leave the restaurant without decreasing your popularity points.
8. Apart from the arcade machine, sinks and toilets, the other deco items are currently not interactive so spend your money wisely on items that you need.
9. Think twice before buying an item because although they may be cheap (such as windows), don’t get them yet if you have your eye on something more pricey. Just save up since how you decorate the restaurant does not affect the number of customers or your popularity.
10. Sometimes you may miss trash because it’s concealed by another object. Simply click the “Redecorate” or “Street View” button, then return to your restaurant. The trash will have shuffled around to a different random spot, and you should probably be able to see it!
11. Try not to let the health of your workers go below 80% as their efficiency will decrease quite signficantly.
12. Got no cleaner to clean toilets? Or are they ignoring the dirty toilets? Just remove the toilets by ‘redecorating’ then place them back! Good as new!

More tips and tricks coming on 10/12/09.