Papa's Pancakeria Game Review

Papa’s Pancakeria Game Background

Papa’s Pancakeria is the fifth game in Flipline Studios’ Papa Louie restaurant sim series and takes players to the rugged mountains to serve up a hearty breakfast of flapjacks to a variety of discerning customers. As Cooper and his cat or Prudence and her pup, serve up a made-to-order pancakes for Papa’s customers as fast as possible.

How to Play Papa’s Pancakeria

Getting Started

To select, left click with your mouse or tap on the touchscreen with your fingers. On the loading screen, select Continue to bring up the welcome screen. On the welcome screen, select the play button to begin.

Choose from one of the 3 save slots to start the game. Selecting an empty save slot will begin a new session, while selecting an occupied slot will open a previous session. To erase a save file, select the red X button on the top right corner of the save slot. You can save a backup of your save file on your by selecting Save a Backup. Select Load Backup to upload your previous save file. Your web browser automatically saves your game progress.

Each time you start a new session, you must choose between the two main characters (Cooper and Prudence). From there, you can type in a username on the space provided. Select Continue to proceed with the game. After this, the game plays a cutscene explaining the backstory; select Skip Intro to move past the cutscene.

The Process

There are 3 breakfast items available in this game. The instructions here apply for all of them, but are worded based on the first one available, the pancakes.

The game has three stations, representing each stage of the cooking process:

• The order station, represented in green, is where you take the customers’ orders.
• The grill station, represented in red, is where you cook the pancakes.
• The build station, represented in blue, is where you assemble the order.

A fourth station, the drink station, appears when drinks are unlocked.

Once the customer reaches the counter, select the Take Order button above them to prepare the customer’s order ticket. You can leave the order ticket on the ticket hook at the top right corner for easy reading or minimize and move it to the line at the top row.

Select the red button once you get the order to start cooking. Select the ladle holding the batter on the bottom center, then pour the batter onto any of the 8 spaces on the griddle. Watch the progress bars closely. The one on the left indicates when you should flip the pancakes, while the one on the right shows when you should take the pancakes out of the griddle. You can speed up the cooking process by pressing the fast forward button on the top center of the griddle. Drag the finished pancakes onto the green check platform on the right to bring them to the build station or place them on the left to toss them out.

When the pancakes are finished, select the blue button to go to the build station. Assemble each layer of the pancake stack according to the demands of the customers. Select ingredients like butter sticks and drop them into the stack with care. Drop other ingredients like blueberries and syrups into the pancake stack as evenly as you can. If you make a mistake, drag the order to the trash. Once you’re done, select finish on the left to serve the order or select trash to toss it out. Be warned; wo

Serving Drinks

Once the drink station is unlocked, you must serve customer drink orders alongside the breakfast items you’re making. The drinks can be prepared at any point in the cooking process, but it must be ready when the customer’s order is sent out.

To start, select the drinks button. Choose the drink type, then select the cup size. Watch the meter on top of the dispenser and select at the right time (when the bar is on the green or yellow areas) to pour the right amount of drinks onto the cup. Select the drink extras on the Extra Machine, then hit the pour button. The finished drinks you make are added to the collection “My Drinks.”

When you’re done, select the Finish button. Select the desired drink, then drag and drop it to the customer’s tray before placing the order ticket in.

Basic Gameplay Advice

Summary

The cutscene explains the plot. The details differ slightly depending on which character you choose, but the general gist remains the same:

The player character travels with their pet down a road and stops by Papa’s Pizzeria to order a pizza. However, their pet jumps out and chases a squirrel. A while later, after they’ve put up missing pet signs, they receive a call from Papa Louie confirming that they’ve found their missing pet. They drive to the Pancakeria to pick up their animal companion… and are promptly hired to work as Papa’s newest employee.

Basics

The appearance and order of the ingredients matter. Not only should the pancakes be as evenly cooked as possible, they and the other ingredients should be stacked neatly. Make sure each of the ingredients fall into their proper order on the stack as specified by the customer. Ensure that only the ingredients the customers asked for appear on the final stack.

Unlike in other Papa’s Arcade restaurant sims, customers only ask for one specific doneness. You can, with a lot of careful time management, cook a lot of pancakes at once to be ready for the customers’ orders early in the game. Things get more complicated, however, when they start ordering different items such as French toast and waffles.

The game has a wide variety of ingredients, most of which are unlocked as the game progresses. On top of pancake toppings, you also have drinks, which occupy a separate portion of the serving tray.

• 3 bases
• 4 grill mixables
• 4 syrups
• 3 placeable toppings
• 5 sprinkled toppings (“shakers”)
• 6 drinks in 2 sizes
• 4 drink extras

The Work Week

The game is divided into days, which are in turn organized into a work week. A day consists of the entire time you serve customers and ends when you fulfill the last customer’s order. Each day has its own corresponding closer customer and mini game. Your pay also arrives once a week.

At the end of each work day, the game breaks down your performance according to the following:

• Building
• Grilling
• Waiting

Pay attention to these metrics as these indicate your areas for improvement. These appear in the end screen at the end of each day before your total tips and customer points.

Customers

The game has 55 customers. Most are unlocked over the course of the game, with only a few being present from the very beginning. Each customer has their own preferences, and you can often predict their orders in advance when you seen them. You can commit their preferred orders to memory, but we recommend cross-referencing their file in the customer menu. You can also view all the customers you’ve currently unlocked by selecting View Parade on the pause menu; note that not every customer appears in the parade unless they have badge.

Every customer that you serve has an order ticket, which serves as your guide. Before serving, you must match the order ticket with the correct dish and drink order. Mismatched orders result in an unhappy customer, and you don’t want that.

Each customer have a star gauge that represents their satisfaction with your service. The rating increases by a star each time the customer is really satisfied with your service. Fill up the gauge with 5 stars to earn a customer badge. There are 3 tiers of customer badges: bronze, silver, and gold. A customer with a badge orders faster. While you won’t lose badges you already earned, progress toward your next badge is erased if you displease your customers even once.

Closers

The closer is the last customer to enter the store, though it’s up to you on whether they’re the last you serve. They are the most demanding of the customers and will rate your service far more judgmentally than the others. Despite their name, we recommend not letting them wait.

Every individual closer comes once every week, and impressing them enough to win badges is a tricky prospect.

A special closer is Jojo, the food critic. He comes in after the week ends and is the hardest critic to please. Impress him and you win a blue ribbon, which appears on your shop window for 3 days. While it’s active, the ribbon grants you higher tips.

Payment and Improvements

Customers give you a tip depending on their satisfaction with your service. The greater the customer satisfaction, the higher the tip. Dissatisfied customers leave no tip at all. You also receive a weekly pay alongside the tips you earn. Use these tips to purchase improve your operations and decorate your lobby. You can also earn money from the achievement badges you can earn throughout the game. There are 80 achievement badges available in the game.

Improvements are divided into furniture and upgrades. Upgrades improve your workflow and play a key role in improving your performance in later levels.

• The doorbell ($30) alerts you to new customers.
• The grill alarms ($90 each) alert you to when you need to flip or remove food.
• Drink auto-pour ($450) automatically pours the ideal amount of drinks into a cup.
• Hats ($30 to $1,000) are wearable items that improve waiting score.

You can buy improvements and furniture on their respective buttons on the startup screen before each day begins.

Furniture, meanwhile, are decorative items that serve one of two additional purposes. Some furnishing items, such as posters, improve the value of specific items you have on sale. Others help improve the patience of your customers. To decorate, select the Decorate Lobby button at the startup screen. Select an item on your inventory, then drag and drop it onto your lobby.

Advanced Playing Tips & Strategy

Customer Care

The first thing you should do is familiarize yourself with what the customers like. With little variation, the customer order almost the same thing over and over again. Memorize their preferences as best you can to help you save time.

The opening scene of each day reveals the first few customers. If you’ve memorized their orders, you can immediately get started working on their orders as soon as the day.

Impress the customers to earn badges. Customers with badges order faster, helping you save even more time.

Organize Your Order Tickets

Keep the order tickets you received sorted, preferably according to how long it takes to make them. Keeping these organized can help you stay on top of the orders by prioritizing the ones that are ready to go.

Invest in Improvements

Like in real businesses, investing in improvements can help you in myriad ways. Buying upgrades can help you stay on top of various tasks such as receiving customers and flipping breakfast items. Decorations that help keep customers calm and patient, meanwhile, become especially important as the lines grow longer. You can also wear hats for this purpose.

Mini games

Every day, you earn tickets each time you deliver quality service to the customers. You can earn up to 3 tickets per day, which you can use to play the various optional minigames that appear. You get to play a different minigame for every week day.

Hallway Hunt

The second player character (i.e. the one you didn’t pick) will hide in one of the doors in the hallway alongside another character. The characters will hide once the lights are off, leaving only their eyes visible. Keep track of the character as best you can, then select the door they entered to win a prize.

Breakfast Blast

This game is similar to Duck Hunt. You must take out five waffles, French toasts, or pancakes that fly past. Each time you miss, you lose a shot. Lose all your shots and it’s game over.

Jojo’s Burger Slots

This is a simple slot game. Stop the slots at the right time by selecting the pickle on the right edge. You must stop the slots at the correct image to match the burger shown by Jojo on the left.

Spin N’ Sauce

This is a Wheel of Fortune-inspired game where you must spin a wheel. A meter indicates your spinning strength; select to stop it. Try to spin with as much force as possible. You’ll receive a reward depending on the value of the sauce. Shoot all the required breakfast items through all 5 rounds to win.

Customer Cravings

A customer and two orders appear onscreen. Your task is to select the order that matches the customer’s preferences. Answer 5 times in a row to receive a prize. If you fail, you instead receive $0.25 for every correct answer you made.

Blender Ball

Select at the right time to throw the ball with the right power and direction. Ideally, you’d want to throw it toward the circle with the star. If the ball lands there, you win a prize. If the ball lands on any of the other circles, you instead with a small tip.

Pizza Pachinko

Select to drop the moving ball by selecting at the desired time. Watch it fall down the pachinko pegs and see if it falls into any of the prize containers. If it lands on a star, you get a random gift. If it falls on any of the side holes, you instead receive a $1 or $0.5 tip.

Educational Aspects

This game challenges a player’s ability to manage time and switch between several tasks. Players must pay attention to their customer’s demands and deliver them in a timely manner without losing track.

Player Age Recommendations

This game is suited for older school-aged players and above. We recommend this game for fans of restaurant sims and other time-management games.