The Dining Room is a gameplay element added to many of Papa Louie's restaurant time-management games, first appearing in Papa's Pastaria.
It is made available to the players upon reaching Rank 4. Players are able to hire a second "worker", whether it be the second default worker or a second Custom Worker, to take orders from customers.
The server would stand in line for the customer and would give the order to the worker behind the counter. In Papa's Pastaria, the customer appears in the lower right corner of the screen. In future games, a cutscene would see the server take the order from the customer directly, accompanied by a second customer who does not place an order with the server. Before Papa's Freezeria Deluxe, the pairings were always random. However, since Papa's Freezeria Deluxe, the couples who share something in common (co-workers, family members) sitting together in the Dining Room increased.
The feature was rendered obsolete after Papa's Scooperia/HD due to the discontinuation of web and HD games. Future To Go! apps use the Delivery Phone.
In Papa's Freezeria Deluxe, the Dining Room returned, alternating with the Delivery Phone on consecutive days.
Trivia[]
- The early concept art and blog for the 5th anniversary of Papa's Pizzeria showed that dining rooms had been considered. However, they would have been used as an aesthetic (where the customers would actually be shown eating), as opposed to being a game mechanic.
- Papa's Pastaria was the only game with a dining room that only one customer joins in.
- Starting from Papa's Donuteria, there will be two customers sitting in the table together in the dining room.
- Orders taken from the Dining Room are normally from the second and the second-to-last customers during the day.
- In-game Closers will never accompany a person or place orders from the Dining Room.
- Customers who arrive with special envelopes will not sit at the Dining Room.
- In some games, if the player serves a friend's order to a customer dining in, the friend would be happy despite the low score given by the customer.
- This feature does not appear in some games, like Papa's Pancakeria HD and Papa's Freezeria Deluxe. If the player serves a friend's order in Dining Room in those games, the friend is not guaranteed to be happy, rather to be neutral or even angry just like the customer.
- Starting in Papa's Pizzeria HD, both the driver and the chef will appear in the end of day cutscene.
- Papa's Hot Doggeria HD is the only game with a dining room that takes place outside the restaurant.
- Starting in Papa's Freezeria Deluxe, the server is no longer seen walking towards or away from the counter when taking customers' orders.
- Starting in Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe, if the player reaches a certain ranks where it would unlocks two customers, the first customer will arrive at the restaurant as normal, while the second customer will do the same thing, making the only diner order the player can get on that day is from the customer that took a seat before the closer comes.
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