Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

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All Achievement Guide - 100% Completion
By just_in_key
A guide to get all the achievement on Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator to my fellow achievers.
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⚠️ Notes ⚠️
  • This guide will contain spoilers
  • One possibly missable achievement - Holy Cow!
  • Most of achievement are easy to get through story
  • I hope it will help you guys, enjoy :)

The Big Day
The Big Day
This is it, the grand opening! Good luck!

Unlocked after you finishing tutorial and cannot be missed.
Sous-Chef
Sous-Chef
Level 10! New recipes have been unlocked!
Master Chef
Master Chef
Level 20! New recipes have been unlocked!
Culinary Legend
Culinary Legend
Level 30! New recipes have been unlocked!
Rising Star
Rising Star
Your restaurant has been identified by the MICHELIN Guide as an up-and-coming establishment! Bravo!

Unlocked via story, after getting "MICHELIN Guide Selection".
A Star is Born
A Star is Born
Your restaurant has received a MICHELIN Star! Congratulations!

Finished Chef Hyppolite story mission Choose Your Path by picking the most "Expensive" price and at least 3 "Gastronomic Cuisine" menu and getting MICHELIN Guide. Unlocked after 10-15 services with 85-100 rating.
Foodie Favorite
Foodie Favorite
Your restaurant has received a Bib Gourmand from the MICHELIN Guide! Congratulations!

Finished Chef Hyppolite story mission Choose Your Path by picking the "Cheapest" price and at least 3 "Gastronomic Cuisine" menu and getting Bib Gourmand. Unlocked after 10-15 services with 85-100 rating.
The Bigger the Better
The Bigger the Better
Extend the restaurant to its maximum size.

Simply upgrade your restaurant to the biggest size (Dining Room Layout 6). Achievable after you get to level 26.
The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier
Host 20 customers during a service.

Home Cook
Home Cook
Learn and serve 10 different recipes.

Easily unlocked after you learn and make 10 recipes.
Experienced in the Kitchen
Experienced in the Kitchen
Learn and serve 30 different recipes.

Easily unlocked after you learn and make 30 recipes.
Seasoned Chef
Seasoned Chef
earn and serve 60 different recipes.

Easily unlocked after you learn and make 60 recipes.
Haute Cuisine
Haute Cuisine
Offer a menu consisting solely of gastronomic dishes.

Easily unlocked after putting at least 3 "Gastronomic Cuisine" on menu
Well-Stocked Kitchen
Well-Stocked Kitchen
Purchase 10 workstations.

Simply buy 10 workstation items from the catalog "kitchen" section.
Kitchen Model
Kitchen Model
Purchase 10 clothing items and accessories.

Simply buy 10 items from the catalog "character" section.
French Flair
French Flair
Decorate the restaurant with the Bistro collection.
Italian Style
Italian Style
Decorate the restaurant with the Trattoria collection.
Rolling in Dough
Rolling in Dough
Achieve a balance of over 10,000 coins.
Highest Score
Highest Score
Serve 50 dishes with an A or A+ grade to customers.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Receive a maximum rating for the service from 25 customers.

To achieve this you have to always serve A+ rating to customers.
Stella d’Italia
Stella d’Italia
Offer a menu consisting of 5 pasta dishes.

Finish a service with these 5 menu
  • Pasta with Italian cheese
  • Pasta bolognese (Pasta di Mamma)
  • Pasta with pesto (Pasta di Mamma)
  • Pasta with spicy tomato sauce (Pasta di Mamma)
  • Seafood pasta
Course of Cthulhu
Course of Cthulhu
Offer a menu consisting of 5 dishes that contain squid.

Finish a service with these menu
  • Seafood pasta - Gastronomic cuisine
  • Seafood lasagna (Lasagna) - Gastronomic cuisine
  • Sea bass en croûte - Gastronomic cuisine
  • Squid and spicy sauce
  • Bacon and squid
  • Squid and fish sauce
Say Cheese!
Say Cheese!
Offer a menu consisting of 5 dishes that contain cheese.

Finish a service with these menu that consist
  • Aged Comté cheese
  • Blue cheese
  • Comté cheese
  • Emmental
  • Goat's cheese
  • Maroilles cheese
  • Mozzarella
  • Parmesan
  • Pecorino
  • Ricotta
  • Vegan mozzarella

Some of menu that consist cheese
  • Sole meunière - Gastronomic cuisine
  • Pasta with Italian cheese
  • Onion soup (Fireside soups) - Bistronomic cuisine
  • Pasta bolognese (Pasta di Mamma)
  • Pasta with pesto (Pasta di Mamma) - Gastronomic cuisine
  • Mussel casserole - Bistronomic cuisine
  • Croque-monsieur
  • Potatoes au gratin
  • Meatball in sauce
  • Parmigiana
  • Lasagna bolognese (Lasagna)
  • Seafood lasagna (Lasagna) - Bistronomic cuisine
and many more
Holy Cow! ⚠️ possibly missable ⚠️
Holy Cow!
Offer a menu consisting of dishes that contain all 4 cuts of a side of beef.

In order to get this achievement you have to serve a service that consist
  • Beef steak
  • Cubes of beef
  • Lean beef
  • Beef for grinding

Using this menu will unlock the achievement
  • Meetball in sauce (Beef for grinding) - Restaurant Cuisine
    or
  • Pasta Bolognese (Beef for grinding)
  • Boeuf bourguignon (Cubes of beef)
  • Beef and potato (Beef steak) - ⚠️DO NOT UPGRADE TO BISTRONOMIC⚠️
  • Beef carpacio (Lean beef)

NOTE: If you miss this achievement because you already upgraded Beef and potato, you have to create a new save file, it will took you around 1-3 hours of gameplay to get the achievement.

Another trick from darkinpresser, if you miss this or accidentally upgrade the recipe, you can use Cooking Lab DLC to create a custom menu that include the type of beef you missed. Thank you darkinpresser!
Teamwork
Teamwork
Offer a menu consisting of the 3 signature dishes of your chefs.

Finish a service with these menu (menu available after you finished sous-chef story mission)
  • Mediterranean tuna
  • Lamb chops in honey
  • Layered vegetables

This achievement also can be unlocked through story after you get Bib Gourmand or MICHELIN Star because you will get the mission to put those 3 dish to your menu.
Reinventing the Meal
Reinventing the Meal
Offer a menu featuring upgraded versions of Sole meunière, Beef and potatoes, and Caprese salad.

Finish a service with these 4 menu (all of them have to be Gastronomic cuisine)
  • Caprese
  • Sole meunière
  • Beef and potatoes
Baking Up a Storm
Baking Up a Storm
Offer a menu consisting of 5 dishes that require using the oven.

There’re a lot of recipe using the oven, here’re some of them
  • Lasagna bolognese (Lasagna)
  • Seafood lasagna (Lasagna)
  • Vegetable lasagna (Lasagna)
  • Lamb with potatoes
  • Sea bass en croûte
  • Duck à l'orange with orange supremes
  • Parmigiana
Pyrotechnician
Pyrotechnician
Serve a flambéed dish for the first time.

Serve any dish from these recipe
  • Mussel casserole
  • Seafood pasta - Gastronomic cuisine
  • Seafood lasagna (Lasagna) - Gastronomic cuisine
Sweet Roll
Sweet Roll
Serve a brioche for the first time.

You will get the achievement after you cut brioche, here’s the menu that have brioche
  • Veal Milanese - Gastronomic cuisine
Codename: Arrabbiata
Codename: Arrabbiata
Serve Arrabbiata pasta for the first time.

Serve a Pasta with spicy tomato sauce (Pasta di Mamma)
So Clean You Can Eat Off the Floor
So Clean You Can Eat Off the Floor
Maintain a high level of hygiene in the restaurant for 5 days in a row
Chef, Yes Chef!
Chef, Yes Chef!
Keep all three of your chefs at a happy morale level for 10 days in a row

In order to achieve this you have to change the menu everyday or every 2 days to match the sous-chef specialty and tell them to make their specialty dishes to keep them happy. Also if they dislike cleaning the kitchen, they will also dislike washing the dishes while on service. You still can get the achievement eventhough the sous-chef sometimes have yellow morale when arriving at the restaurant.

Example :
Day 1
Menu = 2 meat dishes and 2 vegetarian dishes
Sous-chef = Adele and Jiro

Day 2
Menu = 2 fish dishes and 2 vegetarian dishes
Sous-chef = Kassim and Jiro

Day 3
Menu = 2 meat dishes and 2 vegetarian dishes
Sous-chef = Adele and Jiro
and so on

Another trick, you can wait until all your sous-chef arrived at the restaurant, and check which one is dislike cleaning the restaurant so you can put the menu for the one that will help you as sous-chef. Also always accepting your sous-chef request to leave the restaurant to keep their morale high.

Thank you to lilightnyil from discord!
You're the Expert!
You're the Expert!
Get one of your chefs to prepare 10 dishes related to their specialty.

  • Kassim - Fish or Seafood
  • Adele - Meat
  • Jiro - Vegetarian or Vegan
Dream Team
Dream Team
Finish a service with a full team of 3 chefs.

Achievable after you unlocked Jiro as the third sous-chef through story.
Next Level Cuisine
Next Level Cuisine
Upgrade 10 recipes.
Eco Warrior
Eco Warrior
Solve 10 dilemmas that raise your Responsibility level.

Everyday or two you will get a random cutscene from your team, just make sure you will always choose an answer that give you +Responsibility.
Rise to the Challenge
Rise to the Challenge
Complete 3 challenges from Chef Hyppolite.

Complete 3 non-story Chef Hyppolite mission.
Culinary Arts
Culinary Arts
Offer a menu consisting of 5 dishes with a custom plating.

Serve a menu with 5 custom plating, should be unlocked after you finished the service.
Leaning Tower of Pizza
Leaning Tower of Pizza
Successfully create a plating with all the elements stacked high.

Easily achievable by using Beef tartare (i use bistronomic cuisine, screenshot below)
  • Steak tartare (without egg yolk)
  • 2/3 stacked Pickled cucumbers
  • Bunch of olives
  • Egg yolk
  • Bunch of fries
  • Flower shaped shallot


Also thanks to Hadawii8 from discussion for the guide.
Perfectionist
Perfectionist
Create a custom plating for 20 different dishes.
🏆 Congratulations 🏆
You have completed all the achievement! Here’s your MICHELIN Star 😌

35 Comments
ChurchHillPearl 6 hours ago 
Thanks! I'll let you know what happens!
just_in_key  [author] 8 hours ago 
@ChurchHillPearl i see, you still can get the achievement even when the game automatically force the sous chef to clean the kitchen when they arrived and being upset, just make sure to not put the one that upset about for “doing the dishes” when it’s about to do the service. As long as ure not getting the “all three sous chefs being upset” at the same time about cleaning, it’s going to be fine. Also always accept when they ask you about leaving the restaurant and make sure told they to do their speciality dishes
ChurchHillPearl 8 hours ago 
Thanks for responding. To give you a little more detail, I've actually starting charting who does dishes and who cooks doing service. I seem to encounter a problem on the next day. All the cooks are happy and come in at noon but the game will auto assign them to cleaning before service which will prompted whoever gets selected to be upset. In my last attempt, I'm literally trying to block the kitchen in attempt to reshuffling them from cleaning before they walk in the kitchen and get auto assigned. All of my Chefs are Level 20 BTW but I still make sure the menu has their favorite dish as well.
just_in_key  [author] Jun 7 @ 8:36pm 
@ChurchHillPearl Hi! Is it just one chef who’s upset, or are all the chefs upset? If all of them are upset even after you’ve reshuffled them for cleaning, you could try by only reshuffled adele and kassim for cleaning, if they’re all three still upset about it, I’d suggest the only solution might be creating a new save file
ChurchHillPearl Jun 7 @ 1:25pm 
Chef, Yes Chef! is the only achievement/trophy that escapes me. I've tried changing the menu everyday, every other day and by the 4th-5th day a chef is upset because they have to clean the kitchen prior to actually serving. My responsibility level never goes down because I only buy local so the morale is always high. I can't figure this out to save my life.
just_in_key  [author] Mar 26 @ 4:25pm 
@Marot sadly the event was very random and it took me quite a while too, the only thing you can do is continue playing until u get the random event and just make sure to always pick the one that raises the responsibility, and i believe there is no limit
Marot Mar 26 @ 12:43pm 
for "Eco Warrior", I found that I hardly see the random events. At first, I think it may because my Responsibility is too high (full), then I do something to make it be zero, but I still can't see any random events about Responsibility. I don't know it there is any limit about this achievement.
ModerNertum Mar 19 @ 1:21pm 
@Anatea, as I said previously you can "clone" a save to a different slot if you know how the save system works for this game. I did this myself for the different decorations and menu types I would normally serve at my restaurants but without having to redo the kitchen layout all over again.
just_in_key  [author] Mar 19 @ 10:54am 
@Aratea u can get both and no need to start over, after u finished getting "a star is born" just change the menu to the cheapest one to get "foodie favorite" for 10-15 services, and u will get it
Aratea Mar 19 @ 10:48am 
@just_in_key a star is Born and and foodie favorite