Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Developer(s)	Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Publisher(s)	Vertigo Gaming Inc.
Engine	GameMaker
Platform(s)	PC, Mac OSX, Linux
Release date(s)	October 8, 2013
Genre(s)	Action, Indie, restaurant simulator, Strategy
Budget	~$16,000

Cook, Serve, Delicious is the restaurant simulator from 2013 created by Vertigo Gaming Inc..

In this game, the players begin their restaurant career with an extremely humble cafe but with enough ambition they can rise to a five star restaurant chef. Cook, Serve, Delicious was followed by Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! (2017) and Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! (2020), which take the experience again to another level with more food and tasty challenges.

SherriSoda Tower

Orders

Cooked (prep)

Have cyan border.

Cooked (serve)

Have yellow border.

Players can serve these orders immediately even when preparing a different order.

Burned

Have red border.

Career menu

SherriSoda Tower email

Main article: SherriSoda Tower email (Cook, Serve, Delicious!)

Day

The game shows the upcoming day, not the current one. The game will show Day 1 when you just started the game.

Perfect day

A perfect day is a day of only Perfect orders.

Perfect days have a special animation when completed. Players get an email with $250 reward every time.

Daily buzz

It's pretty easy to surpass 100% Buzz despite what the Gallery/Tutorial says on page 4.

Positive Buzz

The Daily Special
+5% buzz

Email Buzz
+10% buzz

Extreme Difficulty
+50% buzz

Heath Nuts
2: +5% buzz
3: +10% buzz
4: +15% buzz
5: +20% buzz
6: +25% buzz

New Restaurant
+30% buzz

Passed Safety Inspection
+10% buzz

Perfect orders yesterday
37: +18% buzz
38: +19% buzz
39: +20% buzz
41: +20% buzz
42: +21% buzz
43: +22% buzz
45: +22% buzz
47: +24% buzz
49: +24% buzz
50: +25% buzz
52: +26% buzz
53: +26% buzz
56: +28% buzz
57: +28% buzz
60: +30% buzz
63: +32% buzz
65: +32% buzz
66: +33% buzz
79: +40% buzz
84: +42% buzz
89: +44% buzz
112: +56% buzz
166: +83% buzz

Remodeling (3 days)
30% buzz

To Go!
2: +5% buzz
3: +8% buzz

Flex Buzz

Afternoon Delight during afternoon hours (15:00-18:00)
1: +5% buzz
3: +15% buzz

Breakfast during morning hours (9:00-12:00)
1: +5% buzz

Late Nigh Chow during evening hours (19:00-22:00)
1: +5% buzz
2: +10% buzz
3: +15% buzz

Rainy Companion during rainy hours (users get Weather Alert emails every time)
1: +5% buzz
2: +10% buzz
3: +15% buzz
4: +20% buzz
6: +30% buzz

Morning Aroma during morning hours (9:00-12:00)
1: -5% buzz
2: -10% buzz
3: -15% buzz

Negative Buzz

Bad Orders
1: -0% buzz
2: -1% buzz
3: -2% buzz
5: -2% buzz
9: -4% buzz
12: -6% buzz
22: -11% buzz

The Daily... Special? (the same Daily Special as yesterday)
-5% buzz

Fatty McFats
3: -5% buzz
4: -10% buzz
5: -15% buzz

Menu Rot
1: -5% buzz
2: -10% buzz

Poor Unkeep (failed to complete some chores)
-2% buzz
-5% buzz
-15% buzz

Work Liquor
1: -5% buzz
2: -10% buzz

Upgrade foods

Locked before 1st day on any difficulty.

Equipment

Grill Station

Available for purchase before 1st day on any difficulty. $650.

Deep Fryer Station

Available for purchase before 1st day on any difficulty. $500.

Stove Station

Available for purchase before 1st day on any difficulty. $650.

Tip Trays/Jar

Available for purchase after 1st day on any difficulty. $50.

Table Snacks

Available for purchase after 3st day. $100.

Dishwasher

Available for purchase before 6th day. $800.

Extra events

Locked before 1st day on any difficulty.

Iron Cook Studios

Carnival challenge

No more than 2 average/bad orders.
Players can hold the last order for as long as they can because there is no time control.
Rewards: $1200 and 2 mysterious golden tickets.

1. 8 Corndogs
2. 8 Pretzels
3. 4 Corndogs then 4 Pretzels
4. 4 Corndogs and 4 Pretzels but alternating
5. 8 Pretzels

Battle Kitchen

Players can pause the game at any time.

Weekly challenge

Unavailable... Challenge has not been downloaded.

Strike challenge

Difficulty

Standard difficulty

Three bad orders fails the challenge. Complete without any strikes to earn an additional blue star!

Extreme difficulty

Only perfect orders are allowed, as well as chances for harder recipes for all foods.

Challenge

Each challenge has up to 3 blue stars.

Endurance challenge

Only perfect orders are allowed. One blue star per 10 perfect orders...

eSports endurance

Only perfect orders are allowed. Blue stars cannot be earned with this mode.

Mystery box

Only perfect orders are allowed. One blue stars for 10 perfect orders...

Difficulty level

Standard difficulty

The difficulty has a tutorial. The first part of the tutorial, which is not a gallery, can be skipped. Gallery part must be viewed.

Extreme difficulty

Adds 50% buzz forever.
Gives $15000 as starting bonus.
Unlocks all secondary foods.
Starts with 6 prep stations.
Disables the Munchies Detractor.
Decreases customer patience.
Skip all tutorials.
Add an extra email about difficulty titled like nooo!

Saves

6 saves. Ability to restore saves.

Expansions

Battle Kitchen Edition

Includes:

Weekly Challenges

Tag Team Local Multiplayer

Strike Challenges

Endurance Mode

Co-op Campaign

Several improvements

Foods

• Foods served in CSD1

Team

Music by award winning composer Jonathan Geer

Cook, Serve, Delicious! soundtrack on Jonathan Geer bandcamp

Art by Sara Gross - Two Bit Art (Battle Kitchen art by Camille Kuo)

System requirements

Windows

Minimum:

OS: Windows Vista, 7/8/10

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: 128MB Graphics card or greater

Storage: 150 MB available space

Mac OSX

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS X 10.8 and above

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Storage: 150 MB available space

Mac OS X 10.6x is not supported by the newest versions of the game.

Linux

Minimum:

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 and above

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: OpenGL-capable graphics card with valid driver

Storage: 150 MB available space

Ubuntu is the only Linux platform that is officially supported by this engine. (Steam information)

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