To all the Solo players..

[arochay2k]

I'd love to hear your tips. Do you prepare before opening the dining room? Do you cook in advance? Also, what happens to pre-cooked food when the day ends? Can we store it in a fridge, or is it considered trash? Does the game include mechanics for spoiled food? I'm new and still learning the game mechanics. Thank you in advance.

[Omali]

I play on easy mode because no patience timer but it doesn't lower customer count.

I cook three bags of fries, twelve burgers, nine chicken patties (one set), at the start of the day. You can keep a basket of fries to the side and use a glitch to grab chicken nuggets from it. Rarely need to make more patties. All before opening the dining room. Patties and nuggets don't spoil during the day and the fries don't spoil as long as they're in the basket or in the warmer.

You can't store cooked food when the day ends, you don't even have to throw it out. It disappears overnight. You can't pre-prep soda, coffee, or ice cream because they lose temp pretty fast.

[Cam]

im only lvl8 rn but i prep 2 trays of burgers and lay out 6 wrappers with bottom bun and one patty. then go from there, if i need to make more its only a few if that. also, utilize the hired help so you dont have to waste time in the dining room

[DCLL]

I play hard mode solo and I prep 90% if what I do before opening. Trays no-clip through the registers(just not the card readers) so you can fit up to 30 of them on the front counter if you place them carefully so I lay those out at the start of the day. Next I prep ten drive thru bags just to have them out and ready. I cook three to four trays of beef (two and a half with no cheese, one and a half with cheese) and two baskets of chicken patties (three trays) before starting the day as well. I cover a table in wrappers and place my bottom buns on all the wrappers (you can stack all of the top buns on top of one wrapper on the corner or center of the table to save space). I drop three to four baskets of fries and I end up with a couple fries and sometimes a couple chicken or no-cheese beef patties left over (which you can't save between days) but managing waste high level solo is hard and doesn't eat up too much of your profits anyways so I never tried optimizing beyond that.

[Alkimos]

I start off prepping 2 whole trays, then go to 3 once the popularity rises enough.
Once you get the chicken patties you're gonna have to change that up of course.
Generally you're gonna have to waste more patties, since it's much easier to overprepare in solo, than to cook on-demand. But the economy is easy enough for that not to be a big problem.

Don't ever play above normal difficulty unless you feel really confident.

Don't bother laying out multiple wrappers with buns in preparation, it doesn't do you only good. You're only one person making burgers, and each order always just contains one burger.

The drive-through can be pretty overwhelming at first, so either switch to easy difficulty or keep the window closed until you feel confident enough to handle extra orders all by yourself...

The devs currently have planned to add AI cashiers and restockers in a future update - depending on how that's implemented, it might lighten the workload for solo players.
See the roadmap here:
https://trello.com/b/pRcyYpln/fast-food-simulator-roadmap

[Askey]

Suggestion; optional solo mode - Burger Van.

[Foxy]

Originally posted by Omali:

I play on easy mode because no patience timer but it doesn't lower customer count.

I cook three bags of fries, twelve burgers, nine chicken patties (one set), at the start of the day. You can keep a basket of fries to the side and use a glitch to grab chicken nuggets from it. Rarely need to make more patties. All before opening the dining room. Patties and nuggets don't spoil during the day and the fries don't spoil as long as they're in the basket or in the warmer.

You can't store cooked food when the day ends, you don't even have to throw it out. It disappears overnight. You can't pre-prep soda, coffee, or ice cream because they lose temp pretty fast.

I do exactly this. And make sure to put your toppings away in a fridge before you leave for the day or they disappear (discovered this the hard way)

[Alkimos]

Originally posted by Foxy:

I do exactly this. And make sure to put your toppings away in a fridge before you leave for the day or they disappear (discovered this the hard way)

Also make sure said fridge is closed.
Discovered that one the hard way as well. :)