Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

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Chef, Yes Chef! Achievement
By DERSPER
I have been trying hard to get the achievement, reading through different discussions and guides without any success.
Many players seem to believe that the achievement is broken, but it is not.
Following my guide increases the chance to get it finally, but you will still need a little luck!
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1. Prepare your menu
I used a menu of three restaurant cuisine dishes which are easy to cook.
One with fish, one with meat and the third one vegetarian.

I used:

langoustine with vegetables,


beef carpaccio


and vegetable lasagna.


You should buy local, responsible ingredients to keep your team motivated.
2. Adjust layout of dining room
You might want to edit the size of your dining room to a layout for ten customers for then you will only have to serve four tables.



And you might think about activating the option for fewer customers in the preferences. Then you will have to serve a maximum of two dishes per table.
This might help you to get through the ten days faster.
3. Do not care if a chef is upset from cleaning the restaurant
The chef will still be happy after the service as long as the mood in the afternoon is orange. There is no need to reassign tasks here. Just sit in your chair and wait for the service to start.

Some guides recommend to wait until the chefs arrive and to fit the menu to the ones who do not dislike cleaning the restaurant. But in my experience they might dislike washing the dishes even if they were fine with cleaning the restaurant before the service. So stick to the menu that has fish, meat and vegetable dishes.
4. Give your chef what he/she wants
Sometimes in the afternoon one of your chefs will have a request for money, a day off, going to the market and so on. You should always fulfill their needs to keep them happy. If the chef leaves for the rest of the day make the other two ones help prep food during the service.

You should also answer to requests from Max who delivers your products without a decrease of responsibility.
5. Assign tasks for the service
When starting the service you should check which of your chefs dislike washing the dishes and make them help prep food.

Kassim does not want to wash the dishes.

For Jiro it is ok.

Sometimes all three chefs will dislike washing the dishes. Bad luck, but it will happen really rarely.
6. Service time!
During your service you should cook the dishes from the chef that is washing the dishes or has left. For example if Adele is washing the dishes then you will cook the beef carpaccio.

If one has left then you will have to do the washing of the dishes yourself.

Now is the time to assign only the specialty dishes to the chefs that are helping you prep food. This means Adele will only be ordered to prep the meat dish, Jiro only to prep the veggie dish and Kassim only to prep the fish dish.

And now the most important part:
Never order them to prepare plated dishes (Level 15 > 20)!

Look at the response when you give that order: A bored "Yes, Chef!".

Always let them prep the food so that you have to do the plating yourself (Level 10 > 14)!

The response will be an excited "Piece of cake!"!

It means more work for you but that is how you really keep your chefs happy!

I hope i helped you with my guide.
Please let me know in the comments if it worked for you and if so please consider to like or even award this guide.
8 Comments
Chocoholie 22 May @ 6:35am 
hey Enrico. i want to confirm after the service is done,I go to PC first. One of the chef mood is still orange. Then i go to the door to cook new dish and they changed to green. does that count?
enrico.andreuccetti 8 Apr @ 4:04pm 
After more than 20 hours of research I found a recording of a game session from a user that got that trophy, and found out that the "Yes, chef" that's highlighted by the yellow background in the menu where we set what other chefs cook during service... is not yellow, but gold, and that's what brings the chef's mood back to green, even if they clock in, in the afternoon, with an orange mood.
Using a menu with just 1 vegetarian plate (choose the Stuffed Zucchini), 1 meat (Beuf Burguignon) and 1 fish (mussels with potatoes), I asked the chefs to make 3 of their own dishes and just 1 quantity of the dish linked to the chef that's either missing from service (like if they asked the day off) or cleaning the dishes. With the accessibility options active and a dining room set at the minimum you should only need 5 to 7 dishes tops to call it a day and close service.
Again, after 4 days of this, the trophy popped.
hotspam0529 8 Nov, 2024 @ 7:43am 
Thank you!!! VERY HELPFUL!!
安野老司機 5 Oct, 2024 @ 11:40pm 
Your guide is so helpful . Thank you :steamthumbsup:
NAL 28 Sep, 2024 @ 9:39pm 
I finally got the achievement thanks to this guide. Thank you so much.

I guess it's important to avoid making orange mood due to my own decision. As explained in step 3 random orange mood doesn't matter. But when I assigned cleaning to another chef who seemed fine with cleaning, they sometimes got suddenly frustrated and I couldn't got the achievement. During 10 days my chefs got random orange mood for 3~4 times, but I still got the achievement. So it's totally ok to let the orange mood chef clean and just sit in the chair, as long as you assign the orange mood chef cooking during the service.
Ominox 7 Sep, 2024 @ 5:56pm 
I am currently struggling to snag this achievement 75 days into my current restaurant. I will try out these instructions, but I have been dealing with frequent days of all 3 chefs not wanting to clean.
Superlucas1231 12 Aug, 2024 @ 8:27am 
Even when I try to follow this guide, the game still flips me off.

I follow step 3, and ignore if a chef is upset from cleaning and keep them sweeping the store before service, and have them cook nothing but their specialty. I even tried to switch the menu around and have that chef cook 2 specialty dishes - and when that didn't work, have the other chef cook 2 specialty dishes. Almost everytime, that chef still has a orange moodlet at the end of the game.

Like this entire achevement is just a mix of bad rng, bugs, and poorly explained mechanics. I wish at the very least it wasn't 10 days because that's way too much time given how long services are even when you trim most customers off + exclusively use the side chefs
Joney-F 12 Aug, 2024 @ 8:12am 
Nice to meet you. I found this guide in a thread on the Community Hub and read it.

At the end of point 5 of this guide, it says, "Sometimes all three chefs will dislike washing the dishes. Bad luck, but it will happen really rarely." I have also confirmed this. The problem is that even if this is rare, there is no way to avoid it. In other words, if it happens on the 9th day, everything will be for naught. In that sense, this game has a big problem.