Restaurats lets you manage you and your friends manage your own restaurant as rats. You’ll have to serve a variety of customers and overcome many random obstacles as you progress and earn profits. As you progress, the game gets more difficult, and you’ll have to give it your all to make sure your customers are satisfied. For more information on Restaurats, check out its official Steam page here.
The Friendslop mode can be played solo or with friends, and it is drastically different from the Career mode. The primary goal here is to survive for 21 days. There are three difficulty modes. You’ll start on easy, and once you finish the run successfully, you’ll be able to play on the next difficulty and so on.
Table of contents
Introduction And Tutorial
Similar to Career mode, you’ll have a tutorial at the start of the run. The tutorial teaches you the basics of the game, but more importantly, it allows you to pass the first few days more easily.
You’ll have to buy some stuff, including an oven and a barrel of water, during the tutorial, and you won’t get as many customers, but it is still much easier.
Once the tutorial is over, you’ll have to pick a few improvements. These improvements can be dishes, upgrades, or money, and will be randomized. However, right after completing the tutorial, the first improvement is the default one, and that’s the Mushroom Pie.
In Friendslop mode, you can pick up to two improvements after completing the tutorial, alongside the default Mushroom Pie. But if you choose to skip the tutorial, you’ll have to pick three randomized improvements right away. If you’ve picked a dish or a drink in the improvements, the first ingredients or the barrel will be delivered to you by the supplier without any cost.
In the Easy difficulty, you’ll mostly have to rely on tier 1 dishes, but it gets more difficult and complex as the difficulty rises, with the Hard difficulty revolving mostly around tier 3 dishes from the start.
3-Day Cycle
Since you have to survive for 21 days, you’ll have to pay taxes and select improvements every 3 days. You can check which day you’re currently on and how much tax you’ll be paying in the top-left corner of the screen. Furthermore, the tax will keep piling up, but it is only collected on the third day.
If you’ve lost all your money in blackjack or on ingredients, you can still survive if you’re able to make enough money to pay off the taxes before the third day arrives. Furthermore, any bonus effects received by successfully serving VIP customers will last for the entire three-day duration until your next card choice.
If you receive a buff on day 3, it will only last until the end of the day. But if you receive it on day 4, the buff will stay active till day 6.
Cooking And Serving Customers
Cooking and Packaging are slightly sped up in the friendslop mode, but the patience of your customers also runs out faster. To cook anything, you have to prepare the ingredients and then pack them on the packaging table. You can check which ingredients a dish requires and how to prepare them in the Recipes menu.
In Friendslop mode, you can spend some extra gold to buy processed food. Once you have that, you’ll only have to put it together on a packaging table and throw it in the oven if the recipe requires it to prepare the dish. On the other hand, you have to process all the ingredients yourself in the Career mode.
Once you have the dish ready, you can manually go out to the customers and serve them the dish. Or you can easily throw the dish towards the customer, and they’ll grab it themselves.
Managing The Kitchen And The Seating Space
Early on, especially on the Easy mode, you need 3 to 4 tables at max in the seating space. The number of customers is usually between 4 and 7, unless an event attracts more customers or you summon them with a customer summoner.
The seating space is large enough for just as many tables and a lot more. But the kitchen space might be running out due to all the shelves and drinks. The cooking facilities, such as the oven and the packaging station, also take a fair share of space. You’ll have to be careful with your placement of the structures in the kitchen.
As the game goes on, you may unlock improvements to expand the seating space or the kitchen by spending gold, but that would also increase the tax deduction. Most cooking facilities and structures incur a certain amount of tax every day. You can check how much tax each structure applies by checking in the store.
Most of the time, having multiple structures of the same type can increase the tax exponentially. For example, a single plate rack of 9 plates has a tax of 7 gold coins. But if you buy another one, it will cost you 70 gold coins in tax, and a third one would cost 700 gold coins. It is best to simply place an upgraded version of a structure, instead of placing more than one of the same kind, depending on the cost and the situation.
Note that ingredients and drinks don’t have any tax, so you can place as many as you want in the kitchen.
Skill Tree
The skill tree allows you to enhance the capabilities of your rat, such as running or throwing speed. There are also other big unlockables that you’d want from the skill tree, such as the ability to manage more customers or carry more items than one at a time.
However, increasing your levels can be a tiring task. Most of the regular tasks, such as washing dishes and cleaning, don’t provide as much experience. Fortunately, your rat carries over to other restaurants made in the same game mode. You can play as the same rat in the higher difficulty levels, and they’ll retain all their skills and level up progress.
You’ll still have to learn the improvements and dishes from scratch, but all the level-up progress will be retained.
Friendslop Mode
The Friendslop run lasts for 21 days, and that’s 7 tax cycles. In easy mode, you’d only get mostly tier 1 dishes, but as the difficulty goes up, the dishes also get more difficult. You can cook and prepare dishes faster here. However, failing to serve enough customers, running out of money, or being invaded by the imps can destroy your restaurant.
Furthermore, the VIPs will also visit your restaurant often, and you’ll have to provide them with satisfying service. These VIPs become more common as the game progresses, making things more difficult for you. Fortunately, the buffs these VIPs provide after a successful service can make the run a lot easier and fun.
All you have to do is survive for 21 days, which isn’t as difficult unless you’re frequently being invaded by imps or triggering unique events. These unique events will have you perform minigames.
For example, you might encounter a rowdy customer looking to arm-wrestle you, or the doors to the crypt can open in your restaurant. The easy way to close the doors that appear in your restaurant is by jumping on them. These doors give you a lot of customers. But if you’re unable to serve them, you’ll have to close down your restaurant.
Some runes may also appear inside your restaurant, causing everyone who passes through them to slow down. You can pour water on these runes to destroy them. Sometimes, underworld portals may also open inside your seating space, causing imps to pour in. You’ll have to shut the portals before getting rid of the imps.
If you manage to survive all the obstacles and last for 21 days, with or without your friends, you’ll be able to come out victorious. Once you’ve done that, you can move on to the next difficulty or try the Career mode.
This concludes our walkthrough for the Friendslop mode of Restaurats. For more guides and walkthroughs, you can visit the game’s main hub here.
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Fahad Suleman is an avid fan of fighting games who spends most of his time writing walkthroughs and reviews for cozy indie titles or mashing around in Tekken. If he’s not writing or playing any games, you’ll often find him watching historical videos on YouTube for hours.
