Game update: 26/06/13

With summer very much upon us (allegedly) the cruise theme is continued for a third consecutive week in Restaurant Story.

Notification for latest cruise themed update

This update contains a few more cruise-related additions, plus a couple of new recipes. More on them shortly, but first here is all the new content in a neat list:

Tables:

• Cruise Table - 3 gems

Chairs:

• Cruise Chair - 20,000 coins

Wall decorations:

• Golden Anchor - 30,000 coins

Floor decorations:

• Cruise Couch - 26 gems (LTO)
• Anchor Sign - 35,000 coins

Wallpapers:

• Cruise Ship - 1 gem

Floor tiles:

• Waves - 3,000 coins

Counters:

• Anchor Counter - 10 gems

The Cruise Couch is a limited time offer which is only available for 5 days (starting today, Wed).

Cruise Couch limited time offer

Kicking off with that couch, it's a smart piece but at 26 gems I'm unconvinced that it's good value.

And that kind of summarises most of this update - not many players will part with 3 gems for one table or 10 gems for one counter.

On the other hand, the Golden Anchor looks lovely (although it could be a tad bigger) and the Anchor Sign will be a great addition for those who have already developed a cruise theme. And the major pro here? Both cost coins!

Also new this week are two recipes for the Basic Stove. We've got Escargot and Flower Salad at the start of the recipe list, which take 6 and 7 hours to prepare respectively. I'll make a separate post looking at these new dishes over the weekend, but at a glance, they appear exceptional for XP - a three-figure XP is very rare indeed for a dish which takes under 8 hours to cook.

I'm not sure how these recipes fit into the cruise theme though. I personally have never been on a cruise but I suspect there isn't an abundance of snails or marigolds out at sea! Perhaps they're just targeting the summer season as a whole with those dishes.

On the subject of XP, some of you may have noticed that the Cedar Planked Fish on the Basic Grill has had it's XP downgraded. Previously it offered 90 XP for 1 hour's cooking (extraordinary) but now it only yields 26 XP. Which is mediocre.

New stats for Cedar Planked Fish

This isn't the first time this has happened - back in April, Bacon & Eggs was overhauled.

Did TeamLava only notice the ridiculously high XP for this fishy in a dishy in the last week? If so, then that's poor observations from them. I'll let you pass judgement on whether that's the case...

Please note that further new content was released the following day. Click here for more.