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There are currently three locations in the game: The Dog House, Doob's Home and Ashmore's Fine Foods.
Ingredients need to be purchased at Ashmore's. Each shelf corresponds to ingredients for one of the five menu items. If you don't have the ingredients, you will not be able to make the menu item when a customer orders it. The ingredient's price fluctuates randomly, so stock up when prices are low and hope they go up. Currently, the ingredients never expire and everything you buy is magically delivered into your fridge at the Dog House.
Resting is done at Doobie's home in either the bed or on the right hand side of the couch. Resting impacts movement speed and stove cleaning speed. Check the computer to view the Yelp® rating for the Dog House. Higher ratings will increase the customer spawn rate, lower ratings, especially below two stars, will decrease customer spawn rate. The rating is increased by happy customers (who also tip) and decreased by kicking out customers and customers turned away because the store is closed.
Your wife Tash always sits on the left hand side of the couch. If you stand in the same spot as her she will say, "roll tide" and begin following Doobie everywhere he goes. To stop Tash from following Doob, rest briefly on the right hand side of the couch and she will return to her usual spot. The Dog House yelp rating gets a boost if Tash is following while receiving a tip.
The Dog House is where you'll spend most of your time. It needs to be "open" to serve customers. The open/closed state is toggled by pressing "z" at the sign just inside the front door. The "doobies dog house" sign on the building will turn on indicating the shack is open.
While open, customers will randomly enter and order one of five menu items. If the store is closed, customers will briefly appear outside the front door and then leave.
The menu is posted on the wall between the register and dinning table. Pressing "z" next to the menu will show the menu items, their price, and the ingredient cost at Ashmore's (mrkt. $). The up and down arrows allow you to select one of the items and adjust its price with the left/right keys. Selecting an item and pressing "z" will enter the rename mode with an on-screen keyboard. Press "x" to exit the rename mode or the menu itself. Exiting rename mode with a blank name will keep the existing item name.
To make a sale, first go to the refrigerator near the toilet. You will automatically pick up the raw ingredients for the item the customer wants, unless you are out of that ingredient. Info about the item's cost, profit margin and stock are displayed as well.
Once you're holding the ingredients, stand on the stove to start cooking. Cooking will make the stove dirty, which slows down how fast things cook. Once you've melted the cheese you can serve the customer by standing behind the register and pressing "z". The customer will eat the item and then leave the restaurant, sometimes even leaving a tip!
Since the Dog House is in the rural south, it can be a very long time until your see another customer. If you get tired of waiting you can stand on toilet to advance time quickly. This makes a customer show up quickly, and also speeds up the price changes of raw ingredients.
Prices can be too high for customers and they will refuse to buy the item they want until the price is lowered from the menu. This can be done while the customer is waiting. Each customer's max price fluctuates, but on average people will pay somewhere around 2x the current market value of the raw ingredients. You can kick out stingy customers with the "z" key by standing behind the register without the ingredient in hand.