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Hope I'm not stepping on toes doing this, but I am pasting Jen's post about waitresses in this thread for future persons inquiring about the waitress competitions. It was under the thread 'General Help'. I myself tried to see if I could add anything to it but, as usual, Jen has nailed it pretty good!
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10/25/2007 09:45AM General help
I really can't do walkthroughs for the levels when you battle the waitress. I can give some tips though.
First of all, I don't know if there really is any diference with the 3 waitresses you can chose from, but I have had better luck with some than others, so I say yes, try the different waitresses. You are not going for chains on these levels like you normally would, of course chain if the situation presents itself, but don't waist time looking for it. You just need to get to things before the other waitress and keep her from earning points. Don't ever waist time giving drinks, let the other girl do that, it earns no points and will keep her busy. When the game starts I put flowers on 1 or 2 tables and I make sure I get the first 1 or 2 groups to come in so I get the points. You can put flowers on all tables if you think you can seat most of the customers before her, but odds are she will get a group or 2 and you'll be giving her some points. Try to make color matches when ever you can, if you have a table with high value chairs, keep an eye on it! You don't want her to seat someone there and get the points, or even worse she could seat the wrong color people and change the color of the chairs and wipe out their value. You want to make sure you always give the checks so you get the tip money. To make sure I always give the check I will skip deserts You don't have to give deserts, even though they are asking for it, you can just click the table and it will give the check instead. Most times the other waitress will go get the desert, and when she does, you run over and give the check. You can quickly click twice to grab the dishes as well but sometimes you may want to leave the dishes there for a bit. If all your tables are full leaving the dishes means the other girl can't seat anyone there. When someone comes in, click to clear the table and then grab the new customers and seat them, of course sometimes the other girl may try to clear the table. If you see the other girl chaining, try to break her chain, for example lets say she goes to give snacks to someone and 3 other tables ask for snacks at the same time, she will keep giving out the snacks and make herself a nice chain. But if you run over and give snacks to some of those tables, she can't complete the chain.
Thats all I can think of for now, if I remember anything else, i'll add it in.
Jen