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Cafeteria Nipponica Useful Spreadsheets

The Complete Cafeteria Nipponica Recipe Collection

Ingredient Search - Treasure Chests

Ingredient Search - Ingredients

Ingredient Effects ( Updated 21 Sep 2012 )

Best Ingredients for Dish Development ( Updated 4 Nov 2012 )

Price, Taste, Appeal Caps, and Monthly Cost

Clientele

Job List

Tables and Decorations

Cafeteria Nipponica FAQ

Dishes and ingredients

What do I need to know to develop dishes?
- It's a bit too much to summarize into a few lines. Please read the guide here.

What is the most expensive dish?
- If we are talking about the most pricy dish to the customers, it would be Kaiseki Cuisine.

Why do customers favour one dish to another?
- Customers like dishes with higher ranks. They will choose a dish with higher rank even if it's more expensive.

Where do you get the shark ingredient for shark fin soup?
- There's no shark ingredient. Shark fin soup is made with seafood soup, tasty fish, and secret sauce. ( Read more )

Where do I find soba?
- The only source of soba is your clientele Hina. Hina gives you soba when she is happy with a good quality rice dish you serve in the restaurant. ( Read more )

I only have one good dish to serve, and it's difficult to find ingredients to make another one without suffering the dish quality, what can I do?
- Simply develop the dish without any ingredients. It will not improve the dish but you get a copy of it. ( Read more )

Why don't you make a spreadsheet for ingredient compatibility?
- Ingredient compatibility is not important at all. You should focus more on the ingredient effect. ( Read more )

How do you remove a dish from the menu?
- Go to Menu > Dishes > Select Dishes, Click on the dish you wish to remove, then Click the "Remove" button on the bottom left. ( Read more )

I didn't pick the snack menu at the start, how do I get rice?
- You can get rice by running a plan - point cards (given by the clientele artist).

I haven't found a new recipe for a while, how do I develop new dishes?
- You don't need a recipe in game to be able to develop new dishes. In fact some recipes are discovered by chefs when they develop dishes. ( Read more )

This dish's taste and appeal just don't go up anymore no matter what ingredients I use, why is that?
- Each dish has caps for its price, taste, appeal, rank. ( Read more )

Staff

How do I hire the special employees?

- If this is your first game, don't bother with it. If you must, save the game first, and reload when you're happy with the result. It's important to save your game first because the negotiation process is random. ( Read more )

Is there a way to level up staffs faster?

- Staff get more experience working in the kitchen. It does not matter so much when you don't have any 5-star chefs. When you do, however, it helps a lot swapping kitchen and floor staffs every so often. ( Read more )

What does chef's cooking skill do?

- The higher the cooking skill is, the faster the chef can develop a dish. A chef with a maxed cooking skill can develop dishes in one night (or month if you prefer).

How do I unlock all the jobs?
- To unlock a job, some requirements have to be unlocked. For example, Ninja is unlocked as a Floor job when a staff has Performer Lv5 and Japanese Chef Lv5. ( Read more )

Oh dear, I hired this special employee with a ridiculously high salary. Am I doomed?

- It's not the end of the world if you can't afford this special employee. You can just sit them in the break room. That way you don't need to pay for the salary. The salary will not get carried over to your next game - it will be based on your negotiation next time.

Game play

Which starting menu should I pick?

- They are all good. Some people say the snack menu is easier because all chefs have snack skill at low levels. It doesn't really matter in the long run though. Just pick a menu you like and work on it. ( the starting menus )

What gets carried over to the next game?

- Dish sell price, taste, appeal, health up, brain up, texture, aroma, appearance, volume, rarity, charisma.

- Staff salary ( except special employees ), level, speed, appeal, cooking, research, skills learnt, job experience.

( Read more )

Is it better to fill up the menu or just serve one dish?

- Just serve one dish per restaurant.

My store doesn't rank up for ages, what should I do?

- There is no short answers to this. Please read this post.

I have empty seats, why are the customers waiting at the door?

- Some customers like to come in groups, some like to come by themselves. Make sure you have all types of tables ( counter, small table, sofa ) to suit their needs. ( Read more)

OMG, the special guest is at the restaurant where I don't have a good dish. Can I make the guest go to a particular restaurant next time?

- The guests go to random restaurants. You are able to serve a dish from any of your restaurants by clicking the yellow arrows on the top of the menu.

Links

Matt shared some really interesting graphs he came up with for the recipes. ( Go to Matt's Page )

Others

Can...c...ccan I have the link to your spreadsheet?

- I am glad you find them useful. Here's the link. I appreciate a link back to the blog if you are going to share it about. :)

I have questions not listed here. Can I e-mail you?

- I am more than happy to help. Please send your questions to