Buying an old food truck, restoring it to working condition and equipping it with everything you need for a mobile kitchen are an important part of the game. Having done that however does not mean you are done with your vehicle. Whenever you travel from location to location, prepare the dishes and serve your customers, your food truck is being used. As with all things being used, they require some maintenance.
You obviously have to clean the kitchen equipment every now and then or more frequently when things go wrong and you make a mess. But your food truck itself needs proper vehicle maintenance, too. Tires and brakes won’t last forever, oil has to be checked and topped up or the filter needs a change. Yes, you have to fill the tank regularly as well, your food truck doesn’t run on hot air, you know.
Those are the things you have to take care for on more or less regular basis. Then there are things that just happen and will need fixing. A broken mirror here, a demolished windshield wiper here or a smashed light because you just had to make fun of your competition and some light vandalism was their reply.
Taking care of your food truck’s mechanical state is not just a nice gimmick. It also comes with its own events like a policeman writing you a ticket for a broken headlight. Not being able to get on time to a profitable locations for the lunch break because you broke down will cut into your earnings even more than a ticket. We are implementing a series of such events associated with the vehicle itself to make it more interesting and provide some real consequences to neglecting your food truck.
Vehicle maintenance is not something you will do all the time. The primary goal in Food Truck Simulator is still to serve your customers. Taking care of your vehicle and simulating usage over time just adds another layer of realism to the game we felt would enhance the immersion of running a food truck in all its aspects.