Star Chef Simulator | The Employee Update

The Employee Update (v0.3.0) is now available. This is the second major content update for Star Chef Simulator. We've added new job types, many customization options and reworked the employee system. Our team has collected feedback from content creators and the community to add quality of life features and improve the over all game flow!

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed that the light flickering event was triggered while skipping time
• Fixed bug where time skipping sometimes didn't stop when a customer arrived
• Fixed that you were able to call customers when day wasn't started in sandbox
• Fixed bug of employee tooltip showing -1 employed days
• Fixed bug of employee model changing every time
• Fixed bug of waiter not bringing two menu books when two customers at table
• Fixed bug of dishwasher collecting crockery which had already been picked up by the player
• Fixed bug of customer tooltip not showing state sometimes
• Fixed bug of customers sometimes switching menu books
• Fixed bug of shop not showing order costs in spanish translation
• Fixed bug of shop showing the wrong order costs when first opening it
• Fixed bug of dish rating widget not showing grocery names in russian translation
• Fixed bug of dish rating widget being stuck on screen when its show option was disabled
• Fixed bug of profits statistics displaying wrong values in overview widget
• Fixed bug of bloody mary drink not being available in shop app
• Fixed bug of container tooltip not displaying content correctly
• Fixed that customer amount per day was counted and displayed wrong in career mode
• Fixed bug of customer amount per day always showing 0 in sandbox mode

Improvements:

• Added name headline to all inventories
• Added message when you call a new customer in sandbox mode
• Improved filter for offensive words
• Customization is now available with level 4
• Employees are now available with level 6
• Employees now keep their rotation when changing their job
• Added absent counter to employee app
• Slightly changed design of progress bars in tooltips
• Slightly improved performance of NPCs
• Added new customer animations
• When 30FPS are set as limitation camera motion gets disabled
• You can no longer gain XP in sandbox mode
• Level up animation now waits until game unpaused or time skipping finished
• You can no longer pin drinks as recipe
• Added ordering limit in tutorial, so players don't order too much
• Slightly changed customer spawn rate
• Slightly decreased fridge sound volume
• UI texture loading optimization

Features:

• Released Steam Cloud storage for Windows users (not cross-platform) on 01.12
• Added accessibility option for increasing UI scale
• Added chinese language
• Added new item mob
• Added puddle cleaning mechanic
• Customers react if restaurant is dirty
• Added customizable table decoration
• Added customizable table clothes
• Added 3 new table designs
• Added 2 new chair designs
• Added shopping cart presets for easier ordering
• Added new employee jobs cleaner and storeman
• You can now send employees to training courses, so they improve their abilities
• Storeman orders the cart presets you selected when fridge is nearly empty
• Added facial animation for customers when speaking
• You can now display custom image files on the screen in your restaurant
• Added auto sort feature for inventories
• Added mail system, so employees can send mails to you

We reserve the right to modify the roadmap at any time.

Your feedback is crucial to the further development of Star Chef Simulator. If you have any suggestions, comments or discovered bugs in the game, please feel free to share them with us using the Steam forum or our Discord server.