#satsures

Installing the game

To start the game, you need to download it, amazingly. You can search for the game with さつてんレストラン

iOS

You will need to make a Japanese iTunes account. Japan-Codes and other sites have tutorials you’ll need to follow.

Android

I don’t personally have an Android device so unfortunately I can’t be of much help. However, I hear a lot of Android users mention something called qooapp, so you may want to start there.

Starting the Game

The game starts off with you receiving a letter, after which you decide you may as well take a look at the restaurant. After this, you’re greeted with this screen.

This is where you decide what base interior your restaurant will have.There are three initial designs you can choose from. Pick the one you like. Protip: green button means “yes”.

Shortly afterward, you will meet this screen

This is where you will begin to create your personal character, also called avatar. Customisation options are pretty sparse at first -- just pick something you like and confirm when you’re happy with it.

After this, you will be thrown into the first part of the tutorial, the transcript of which you can read here (in progress...).

Cathy, also your first waiter, will tell you all about the basics of the game.

Basics

Let’s take a look at the interface.

Restaurant Tab

This is the first tab on the bottom, the restaurant tab. Here you can see your main UI. The upper left has your level, in my case 12. On the upper right...

HP: This is energy you use for serving guests. You have an absolute maximum cap of 10 HP at a time. This is very important -- try to only level up at 0 HP, because otherwise, you will lose all your extra HP. There is no overflow mechanic. The time displayed is how long it will take to replenish all your health. You recover 1 HP every 10 minutes.

Diamonds: This is gacha currency. You can, of course, buy diamonds with real money. If you’re planning on doing that, and are using iOS, you need to buy an iTunes gift card in yen.

Gold: Currency for buying various customisation options such as interior props, avatar options, and recipes. You can gain gold passively through actions such as cooking and serving guests.

Below these are three additional icons.

Quests: Gray will let you know that these are your trials. The first tab are your dailies. Rewards accepted here will go to your present box. The second is the scenario, or the story. Check here every so often to read or skip through new parts of the story. They unlock depending upon your level and also give you access to new waiters, like Ray. The last tab is achievements, which you will gain if you meet certain conditions, such as leveling up. The rewards here will also go to your gift box once accepted.

Gift box: Self-explanatory, your gift box. You probably already know how to use this if you’ve played other mobage before.The first tab is your items. The second tab is recipes. The final tab is your reward history.

News: Game news such as gacha announcements.

In this restaurant tab, you will also notice that you can sometimes see other characters with exclamation marks over their heads.

These are actually other players, or other chefs. You can help other chefs by clicking on the exclamation mark over their head in the “restaurant” tab. You will then be taken to their kitchen, where you can tap on their dishes currently in progress.

This is beneficial for several reasons: it gives you experience and gold, and it increases the quality of the chef’s dish. However, know that this does not increase the quality of your dishes, nor can it be used to increase the quality of a dish that is already at maximum quality.

You will also sometimes see present boxes on the screen in the restaurant tab.

Tap them to receive a gift.

Kitchen Tab

Here, you can...well, queue certain recipes for being cooked. At first, you will only have one slot. As you level up, you will be able to add new slots for additional dishes. New slots will cost gold and take time to create. Long tapping on a hotplate will allow you to level up a plate. This increases the amount of servings that will be made in that slot.

Different recipes will take less or more time to make. It would appear that higher rarity items take longer than lower rarity items. You can choose to speed up the process with diamonds, but this is not recommended. You can also use miracle time tokens (covered under items).

Recipes have their own profiles. Clicking the green button at the bottom will cause the dish to be added to your queue.

The first column, along the left beside the food image, tells you its category (SatsuRes, in this case), rarity (one star), and “boost” (EP, or event points, for use in events).

Second column along the left. The first line tells you how long the recipe will take to make. In this case, 11 seconds. The second line tells you the recipe’s udemae, which is basically its level. The higher your recipe’s udemae, the more gold customers will pay to buy it. The third line tells how much the recipe sells for.

Last column, along the right. The first line tells you how many servings that recipe will give you. In my case, this recipe gives us 10 servings. The last line is experience, and depicts how many times you need to cook your recipe to level it up.

Both experience and udemae increase based on how often you cook the dish. Mastering a dish -- getting maximum experience -- allows you to buy new dishes.

For example, this drink requires you to master the food pictured, donuts, before you can unlock it.

You will know a recipe has been mastered if you see this crown on its icon.

Another important aspect of the kitchen is the red refrigerator at the back. Tapping on it will tell you its capacity.

The capacity is how many dishes you can hold in it at maximum. You can store dishes that you cook here if there is no more room on the floor. Clicking on the plus sign next to it will allow you to increase the stock of the fridge using refrigerator capacity tickets, gold, or diamonds.

Floor Tab

This is the floor, where you can serve various guests your food. Each round of serving will only use 1 energy, regardless if you have 1 dish or 3 dishes. Just like the kitchen, you can long tap on a plate to increase the amount served at a time as well as increase the gold and experience you gain from that particular slot.

When you try to serve a guest with 0 HP, you will see this screen:

You can replenish your HP with either special drinks or diamonds. If you want to do this, only do it when you know you won’t be leveling up soon.

Occasionally, certain events will occur on the floor screen. One is the roulette.

Swiping right on the screen, or clicking the green “skip” button, will give you a chance to get diamonds, energy, experience, or gold.

Another type of event that may happen is being visited by an influencer.

You will have a limited amount satisfy the influencer (in this case, 3 hours). This can be accomplished by serving the influencer dishes. Of course, this uses up energy. After the influencer has been satisfied, they will give you a gift.

Gacha Tab

The gacha. Not much to say here.

You use diamonds or tickets to get a pull, and then pray to RNGesus you get what you want. Right now we only have the Zack and Ray avatar costume set available.

Clothes/Decor

Clicking on this tab will give you a choice of editing your avatar or your interior design.

Somewhat self-explanatory.

Upon reaching level 20, visit your interior decor page to initiate floor expansion.

You will see this message, which tells you that the expansion has been initiated. Upon visiting your restaurant page, you will see countdown timer on the lower right. It will take about 24 hours for your floor to expand, after which other characters will visit your restaurant.

Menu

There’s a lot of stuff we can do over here. Let’s go over the large blue icons first, from left to right.

Shop: This is where you can, well, buy stuff, with diamonds or with gold. The large gold tab is premium items which need diamonds.The pink one is for avatar customisation, and uses gold. The final, blue tab, is for your restaurant decor, and uses gold.

Scenario: This is for reviewing chapters of the story you have unlocked.

Recipe Book: Here, you can see all the recipes you have purchased, as well as buy new ones. Learning new recipes gives you experience.

Influencers: Keep track of influencers you have seen or have yet to meet. This page also lists what requirements you need to meet to see certain influencers. For example, to encounter the blind nun, we need to have been helped by number 421 a total of 10 times.

Now for the green buttons, going left to right.

Friends: You can view your friends (first tab), see requests (second tab) whether incoming (first) or outgoing (second), and search for friends using their username. Mine is Jam.

Social: First tab: see who helped you recently. Second tab: see your friends’ activity. Third tab: see your activity.

Item Box: View a list of all the items currently in your possession, such as drinks.

Login Bonus: Review what you’ll receive for logging in consecutive days.

Settings: There’s quite a lot here, so let’s make a separate header for this.

Help: Various tutorials for different parts of the game.

Settings

First option: Change your name, your phrase/description, and set your birthday.

Second option: Your notification settings. From top to bottom: new news on the board, friend request, notification you’ve been helped, individual dishes being completed, all dishes being completed, and energy completely replenished.

The second tab here lets you to choose a certain time to be sent notifications.

Third option: Your sound settings.

Fourth option: The amount of diamonds you have, as well as splitting them up into purchased diamonds or free diamonds.

Fifth option: A code for when you’re changing phones, for example. Put in a password here and you will get a one-time use code for it.

Sixth option: Check for game updates.

Seventh option: Change your active waiter.

Eighth option: You can change your trophy here.

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