Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator (Switch): all the updates

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator on Nintendo Switch (originally released in February 2023 in Europe, and March 2023 in North America and Japan)!

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Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator – Ver. ???

• Release date: March 25th 2024 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

• addresses a softlock during the celebration service. With this, you should be able to finish the day as usual, without any blockers.

• New feature: “Late Night Training”, you can now stay after service, with unlimited time & resources.
• New feature: “the Laboratory”, allowing players to create dishes.
• Added player stats in the pause menu.
• New settings to increase the size of some texts.
• Edited the tutorial to include late night training.
• Added rumble on more tasks.
• Fixed bugs on recipes.
• Fixed bugs causing crashes.
• Fixed minor bugs.
• Updated credits.

MAJOR CHANGES

IMPROVED SAVE SYSTEM

• fixed bugs
• optimized save file size
• more auto-saves during the tutorial
• new popup warning the player they’ll lose progression if they quit during service

QUICK START

• You can now skip the tutorial.

SMOOTHER DAILY FLOW

• A shortcut in the market allows you to automatically make the same food order as the previous one. You can also load the same basket as the day before.

 

BETTER QUEST WORKFLOW

• There’s now markers to quest-related recipes on the research table and recipe book.
• Quest markers are displayed if a recipe needs to be leveled up to complete a quest
• You can filter recipes out recipes not needed in quests
• They’re displayed on the preparation table so you now know exactly what to give to your brigade
• New feedback to show the progress of brigade members’ levels

REWORKED THE WARMKEEPER

• Heat lamps are now a separate station from the warmkeeper
• The warmkeeper allows you to store a wider variety of dishes

IMPROVED THE DRESSING EDITOR

• Resize all ingredients that you’ve already dropped
• Improved interface and feedback
• Only 300 personalized plating max. New feedback to find the extra plating in the editor index
• Only variants compatible with the dish are displayed

NEW PHOTO MODE FEATURES

• More backgrounds colours
• New decorations, with different moods
• Interface had been reworked to offer better readability

BETTER DIALOGUES & NPCs

• New animations and visual effects to enhance dialogue events
• Improved NPC animation and camera movement when they arrive in the restaurant

BETTER MAPPING

• Reworked the cutting board
• Reworked the meat slicer
• Improved rumble features
• Tweaked controls

IMPROVED RECIPE BOOK

• Improved the interface for readability
• Better sorting to find recipes by their status : new, still learning able to be leveled up
• You can filter recipes needed for quests
• Easily identify recipes that are currently being learnt
• The minimum/maximum grade a craft can get is displayed

 

ACCESSIBILITY & COMFORT OPTIONS

• Added an Accessibility menu:
  • Change subtitle size
  • Toggle the HOLD action on mandatory inputs
  • Can display longer the barks
  • Display a voice indicator
  • Turn off background animation during dialogues
  • In the “preferences” menu: select automatic techniques

CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION

• New appearances
• New haircuts
• New beards and mustaches…
• and above all… you can now wear glasses!

LAYOUT AND BUILD

• Reorganized sections
• Improved UI
• Room capacity of each layout is clearer
• Workstation capacity is now displayed

BOOMBOX

• Added a boombox, allowing you to change the background music.

OTHER CHANGES

• Sous-chefs’ wheel provides information about who does what
• Tags are displayed on the recipes on the research table
• Money gained is displayed on the character
• Better sorting in fridges to find food by their categories
• Better sorting on the shipping table during service
• Improved research table interface
• Improved certain workstations’ visuals
• Restaurant menu is more intuitive to use
• Improved different interfaces for clarity and dynamism
• Improved some recipes’ final designs
• Some craft icons has been changed for consistency
• Fixed and balanced recipes that can be kept in the fridge
• Fixed and balanced other recipes
• Balanced and fixed some events
• Improved and fixed sous-chefs’ behaviors
• Added an open/closed sign on the restaurant entrance
• Better feedback to understand what needs to be shipped during daytime for quests
• Shortcut to change all wall lamps with one button
• Many others fixes

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Cyanide Studio (Steam) / Cyanide Studio (Steam)

Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator – Ver. ???

• Release date: ???
• Patch notes:

• Added a temporary option in the “Game” tab to respawn the character during the day.
• Dishes are now sold at higher prices, player gains more money after services.
• Fixed some issues about the sous-chef quests.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Cyanide Studio (Steam)

Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator – Ver. ???

• Release date: ???
• Patch notes:

• Fixed the soft block issue with the blender and the mixing table.
• Preheating or boiling water won’t remove points if it’s not a criteria.
• Added help for cooking the “perfect steak” during the tutorial.
• Tweaked the tutorial to avoid soft blocks.
• Kassim can prepare more complex food sooner.
• Balanced dish pricing.
• “Give Order” input is always available during services.
• Fixed the cursor randomly disappearing.
• Better food products are available sooner.
• Decoration mode should not soft block the player character anymore.
• Fixed following recipes: Cordon Bleu, Tartare, Seafood Spaghetti.

• Additional notes: none
• Source: Cyanide Studio (Steam)

How to download updates for Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.