Beginner Guide
Your first week in business: what to sell, what to upgrade, what to never, ever do.
The 7-Day Roadmap
Day 1
Do: Sell only Margherita + Pepperoni; learn the rhythm, bank the first float
Don't: No decorations. People who bought plants on day 1 were saving for sauce machines on day 2.
Day 2
Do: Sauce Dispenser + Cheese Grater online: -7s per pizza
Don't: Don't hire yet. Two automation parts cost less than a staff and never idle.
Day 3
Do: Unlock Capricciosa for the margin jump; buy the extinguisher
Don't: Stay out of the stock screen. This week, capital IS your lifebar.
Day 4
Do: Double Oven + Fridge Upgrade before Friday; lay rat traps
Don't: Don't idle Thursday night — the inspector's call comes unannounced.
Day 5
Do: Cut the menu to 5 volume sellers and hold the weekend line
Don't: Don't run the full menu on Friday. One bad rush costs a weekend of reviews to wash out.
Day 6
Do: Dish Return Belt + Auto Order Screen; chores to zero
Don't: No new recipes at rush hour. Practice in the tea-time trough.
Day 7
Do: Save toward the Conveyor Oven, or open the takeout window for Calzones
Don't: Not both at once. Pick a lane and commit.
Five Classic Bankruptcies
✕ Menu greed
Eight pizzas on day 1 = mediocre at all + a prep nightmare. Start with two, add for volume.
✕ Ignoring cleaning
Unswept crumbs summon the rat-inspector double tap — the #1 rookie bankruptcy.
✕ Decor before throughput
Early decor rating is meaningless — you can't even serve the traffic you have.
✕ Hiring before automating
A staff costs $800/mo and idles half of it; the sauce dispenser costs $800 once and never slacks.
✕ Leverage in stocks
Once more: leverage is the express lane from double ovens back to a street cart.
“Day 1 I spent $2,000 on a neon sign. Day 5 I was in the forums begging someone to tell me where the sauce dispenser was. Neon does not bake faster, friends.”