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PIZZA TYCOON GENERAL HINTS
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1.  After opening a restaurant you should create at least three 
    standard recipes. If you don't, you won't give your customers 
    much of a choice, so your restaurant will not become popular.

2.  In the Suppliers book, you will see the amount of money you 
    recently spent at each supplier, below the name of the 
    supplier. This is the amount the supplier looks for when 
    computing the default discount. If you stop buying at a 
    supplier who gives you discount, the amount of discount will 
    fall once per week.

3.  If you keep stocks in your restaurant for a long time, the 
    quality of the stocks will go down. If the quality of an 
    ingredient drops below 5, the ingredient goes bad and is 
    automatically thrown away. During summer, food goes bad much 
    more quickly. Higher quality ingredients can be stored for 
    a longer period of time than low quality stock.

4.  If you have contracts, you can choose one of two delivery 
    modes, displayed on page one of the contract at 'amount':
     
    'According to contract' means you'll get exactly the daily 
    amounts you ordered, printed on page two of the contract.
  
    'As required' means you'll first get the amount you ordered 
    on page two. But if you need more of certain ingredients 
    mentioned in the contract, your stock will be filled up as 
    needed. For the additional amount no discount is granted. 
    Also the charge applies.

    Click on the contract to change the mode.
   
5.  To pause the game use the standard Pause key on your 
    keyboard. To restart the game, hit the Spacebar. 
  
6.  If you have a manager, he or she will buy from the Suppliers 
    you've used before. If you need an ingredient you have not 
    bought before, the manager will buy from the cheapest 
    Supplier stocking the ingredient. So make sure you show 
    your managers where to shop.

7.  If you allow your managers to change prices, it is not a 
    good idea to interfere and alter these prices yourself. 
    If you do, the manager will not know about it and will 
    continue to base his/her decisions on the prices he/she set.

8.  If you wish to buy weapons, it is best not to be too obvious 
    about it !
  
9.  After you have bought some chairs, you may find that your 
    seating capacity does not match the number of chairs you 
    have. If this occurs, check to see that all of your chairs 
    are close enough to the tables. 
    
    People cannot eat at tables they cannot reach!

10. The easiest way to move between restaurants is to go into 
    any one of them and press the TAB key. Doing this will 
    move you to the next restaurant in the chain. This can be 
    done from any menu within the restaurant.

11. Waking up regularly before 9 o'clock has the effect of 
    reducing your health. 

12. If you do have to get up before 9 o'clock, make sure 
    you've set your clock first. The  clock will default to 
    9 o'clock everyday.

13. Yearly pizza competitions - unlike the other competitions, 
    you have to make a pizza creation of your own. Make sure 
    the pizza is one the judges will like.

14. After achieving a certain status (i.e. Godfather) the 
    status will be shown on your C.V. If however, your rating 
    goes down for some reason (i.e. failing or refusing a 
    mission) your C.V. will not show this - your C.V. shows 
    only your greatest achievements. However, the drop in points 
    will be shown on your status bar. You could thus be a level 
    lower than you think you are. For example, your C.V. will
    show the date when you became a Godfather, but your current 
    status might be Mafia Big Wig.

15. You cannot carry more than 255 pieces of any one kind of 
    weapon (e.g. 255 bombs) at any one time; however, you may 
    carry more than 255 weapons in total (e.g. 155 bombs and 
    200 flame-throwers). You can store more than 255 pieces of 
    one kind of weapon in your depot, but you will not be able 
    to transfer more than 255 pieces from the depot to your bag. 
    Nor can you buy any weapons from an arms dealer, if doing 
    so would result in you carrying more than 255 weapons.

16. Dates - when presented numerically, dates follow the
    European format. So 12 September, 1994 will be shown as 
    12-9-94.

17. If you buy stock from your Central Warehouse, your 
    supplier will not sell you any stock if doing so will mean
    that he has less than 499 items remaining for himself. You
    may, however, buy more items if you order them directly 
    from your restaurant.

18. When you take part in the end-of-month pizza competition,
    you first see your total earnings and your stake. While 
    your competitors are making their pizzas, you will see 
    their total earnings displayed. When the competition 
    finishes you will see your total money plus or minus the
    value of your stake depending on whether or not you won the 
    competition.

19. You can make any amount of money in Pizza Tycoon, but should 
    you somehow get to earn above two billion dollars, you will 
    see your cash total on every screen except your Balance Sheet 
    which will stop counting at two billion. So if your Balance 
    shows two billion when you know you have more, don't worry!
                
20. If you break into a restaurant owned by a human opponent, the 
    other player may defend the restaurant by using his chef to
    attack you. To control the chef, your opponent must use a 
    joystick.


SOLVING COMMON PROBLEMS:
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1.  No customers come to my restaurant!
    
    * Make sure you create enough (at least three) recipes that 
    have decent values on the popularity screen AND have 
    non-negative trends (shown in the status window when looking 
    at recipes).
    
    * You need some floor covering, tiles or carpet - just 
    something people can properly walk on. If you leave your 
    restaurant with no floor covering (the way the restaurant 
    looks when you first see it) you'll get poor restaurant 
    popularity values; check 'customer ratings' in the 
    furnishing sub menu.

    * You may be addressing the wrong ages. Check customer 
    statistics in the restaurant statistics sub menu, to see 
    which customer groups are in this area; the yellow bar 
    shows the potential customers for each group.

    * Take a look at your furniture and ask yourself what kind 
    of people will feel comfortable here. Check 'customer 
    ratings' in the furnishing sub menu.


2.  I keep getting the message, 'There aren't enough supplies 
    to satisfy the demand,' but I'm sure I've bought enough.

    * You may have put a new recipe on your menu, causing a 
    need for ingredients not yet bought.

    * Demand changes frequently. There may be a new trend 
    causing greater demand for a certain ingredient. Check the 
    demand value in your menu for each pizza selected and look 
    at what each Pizza needs.

    * Supplies may be rotten, so would have been thrown in the 
    garbage. So check on the quality of each ingredient.


3.  My manager is not going shopping properly, and I don't 
    know why!

    * Make sure that in the manager menu you set the option 
    'Supply shortage' to 'act yourself' AND the option 
    'Shopping if needed' to 'yes'.

    * Take a look at the motivation of the manager. The value 
    is equal to the probability in percent that he/she will go 
    shopping each day. So if your manager has a motivation of 
    only 75%, the probability for him/her to go shopping is 
    only 3 in 4. Give the manager more money to increase 
    motivation.

    * The manager may be sick, like anybody else. This will 
    be shown in the manager menu.

    * If your manager is on a course, he/she obviously cannot 
    go shopping. Again, this will be shown in the manager menu.

    * If the option 'staff shortage' is set to 'act yourself' 
    and the manager has to assist either the cooks or the 
    waiters at their work, the manager will have no time to go 
    shopping that day.

    * On rare occasions, it may be that the Supplier you told 
    the manager to use is temporarily out of stock. You can 
    check this if you have a central warehouse in that city or 
    if you try buying from the supplier yourself. 


MANUAL AMENDMENTS
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1.  Correct Underworld ratings:   As good as dead
                                  Loser
                                  Amateur
                                  Gambler
                                  Pickpocket
                                  Thug
                                  Gangster
                                  Racketeer
                                  Professional
                                  Killer
                                  Boss
                                  Mafia big wig
                                  Godfather

2.  Jobs for the Underworld: Courier jobs are assigned to levels 
    up until the rank of Thug. In addition to the courier 
    missions, you will be asked to do arms deals once you have 
    achieved the rank of Gangster. Money Laundering will be 
    assigned to those who have achieved the rank of Professional, 
    and share deals to those who become Bosses.

3.  Zucchini - in both the manual and the game, Zucchini are
    described by the European word, 'Courgettes'.


AUTOEXEC.BAT
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    Make sure, if you are using a Soundblaster card that it is 
    correctly set-up in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. This should at least 
    contain the line SET BLASTER=A220 or whichever address is 
    set for your sound card.
