Go on a holiday. To do that, click the menu at Character, then at Character values and press the white button on the green lamp. Then choose number of days you will be gone. When you get back, your energy and health values should have increased.

See also: Holidays.

Click on new recipe, press F1, and choose a number. If you choose 0, it will load the recipe in a file R0.PC in your .../Game/ directory (same as your savegame files). Be sure the file is in that directory.

Choose a custom recipe, press F2, and choose a number. If you choose 0, recipe will be saved as a file R0.PC in your .../Game/ directory (same as your savegame files). Choose 2, saves as R2.PC and so on.

 Make sure that in the manager menu you set the option 'Supply shortage' to 'act yourself' AND the option 'Shopping if needed' to 'yes'.

 Take a look at the motivation of the manager. The value is equal to the probability in percent that he/she will go shopping each day. So if your manager has a motivation of only 75%, the probability for him/her to go shopping is only 3in 4. Give the manager more money to increase motivation.

 The manager may be sick, like anybody else. This will be shown in the manager menu.

 If your manager is on a course, he/she obviously cannot go shopping. Again, this will be shown in the manager menu.

 If the option 'staff shortage' is set to 'act yourself' and the manager has to assist either the cooks or the waiters at their work, the manager will have no time to go shopping that day.

 On rare occasions, it may be that the Supplier you told the manager to use is temporarily out of stock. You can check this if you have a central warehouse in that city or if you try buying from the supplier yourself.

 You may have put a new recipe on your menu, causing a need for ingredients not yet bought.

 Demand changes frequently. There may be a new trend causing greater demand for a certain ingredient. Check the demand value in your menu for each pizza selected and look at what each Pizza needs.

 Supplies may be rotten, so would have been thrown in the garbage. So check on the quality of each ingredient.

 Make sure you create and put on the menu enough (the number varies after what difficulty level you have choosen) standard recipes that have decent values on the popularity screen AND have non-negative trends (shown in the status window when looking at recipes). The standard recipes are like the copy protection of this game. Without any of those recipes on the menu, no customers will come.

 You need some floor covering, tiles or carpet -just something people can properly walk on. If you leave your restaurant with no floor covering (the way the restaurant looks when you first see it) you'll get poor restaurant popularity values; check 'customer ratings' in the furnishing submenu.

 You may be addressing the wrong ages. Check customer statistics in the restaurant statistics sub menu, to see which customer groups are in this area; the yellow bar shows the potential customers for each group.

 Take a look at your furniture and ask yourself what kind of people will feel comfortable here. Check 'customer ratings' in the furnishing sub menu.