This week’s Zone focus is restaurants in Hotel Architect.
Restaurants are zones that you can create in your hotels around the globe, however they are optional features you can add. The reason we say zones is because they don't have to be separate rooms. There can be several zones in one open space.
Restaurants in game are run by the waiting staff, who are supervised by you! Your waiter will see each guest through their dining experience and reset the table afterwards. However, before we dive into that, there’s a few things you need to know about running a Hotel Architect restaurant.
Things To Know!
The first being that you need a kitchen for your restaurant. It will be need to be linked to your restaurant dining area. This is done by clicking the link button when the kitchen is selected and then clicking on the dining area. The dinging are will be highlighted when you select the linking option to make it clear what can be linked. It means that your kitchen does not have to directly connect to the dining room of the restaurant. It could be on the other side of the hotel if you want it to be.
Secondly you’ll need to decide what goes on your menu. Careful though, certain types of guests prefer certain types of food! Each dish may also need different objects in the kitchen. On the left hand side of the Restaurant menu, the requirement show you all the kitchen appliances required to make the dishes on the menu.
Selecting dishes on your menu is important, you will need to balance the dishes to fit a variety of guests if you wish to please everyone. Or maybe ignore it, and potentially create some angry customers at your own risk! Dishes vary from all types of cuisine, and have different preparation times as well so there are lots of things to consider when putting together the menu.
Lastly before getting onto the details about serving guests, your Restaurant kitchen needs somebody to cook the food! Hiring a chef is a really important step, once hired you can watch them conjure up some delicious treats in the kitchen.
Serving Your Guests
Restaurants in Hotel Architect require the waiter to guide customers to their seats. Sometimes if the restaurant is busy, there will be a queue at the host desk. Your waiter will guide them to their table that has already been prepared with cutlery etc.
When they have taken their seat, the waiter will give your guest a menu and take their order. This is where having a wide selection of food is helpful, having something to please each type of guest can affect whether they are happy with the meal or not. If they aren’t they might get angry with the waiter!
While the food is prepared and cooked, the waiter will get the guests drink order. This might be a soft or alcoholic drink and serve it to the guest. By this time the food should be ready to serve and on the hot plate in the kitchen. The waiter will head to the kitchen and serve the meal to the guest.
When the guest has finished their meal, the waiter will check on them and the guest will pay. (Reactions may vary if they haven’t had a pleasurable meal though!)
That's it for our deep dive on Restaurants so far in Hotel Architect! We hope you enjoyed and learnt a bit about the depth of the cogs that work behind the scenes to give hotel guests an amazing meal while staying at any hotel in game.
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