Extra holding stations, meanwhile, help out by giving you more storage for pre-prepped foods, and heat lamps extend the freshness of those dishes. Extra prep stations mean you can accommodate more customers, earning you more cash per day but requiring more graft to keep up.
It’s all a bit Mad Max out there, with other marauding foodies sporadically attacking your truck and taking out a holding station or forcing you to divert from your planned route.Īs you progress on your road trip, upgrade options for your truck open up. Between these stops, as well as stocking up your holding stations in readiness, you also need to cook up special orders, which come from a separate section of your menu and need to be readied ahead of the upcoming destination. At each calling point, punters order from a menu of dishes that are largely prepped in advance and dispensed from a set of holding stations that sit across the top of your screen, as you hastily replenish anything running low and add any necessary finishing touches. Play is split into ‘days’ of roughly ten minutes apiece, where you visit a number of stops and serve up your fare-which you do by pressing keys to add ingredients as fast as possible in the correct order.
Your old restaurant has been destroyed in a war that has ravaged the US: the game opens with you being pulled from the wreckage of Teragon Supertower by a pair of eerily helpful robots, who immediately offer up their van for you to transform into a food truck and stage your great comeback en route to the Iron Cook competition. Unlike in the series’ previous two instalments, which tasked you with building up your dream restaurant, this time you’re out on the road.