Spaghetti Hotline

The **Spaghetti Hotline** is a virtual restaurant delivery service selling Spaghetti for 100 coins. You can invest into it to make it more profitable, and make money as passive income.

## Starting

Spaghetti Entrepreneur sitting in the BankSasquatch talking to Spaghetti Entrepreneur
To start the business, talk to the Spaghetti Entrepreneur sitting in the resting area of the Bank. He will ask for an initial invest of 1000 coins. You need to wear either an Executive Office Worker Disguise or a Fancy Disguise, otherwise he will assume that you don’t look like an investor.

The next day the shop will open in an alleyway to the north of the Cafe, near the Sewers entrance. You will need to order one spaghetti for yourself first, by calling `555-7724`. After that, you will be able to upgrade the shop.

## Buying Spaghetti

Spaghetti Entrepreneur hands out the SpaghettiSpaghetti Entrepreneur’s hand after Sasquatch takes the Spaghetti
Call `555-7724` on a Cellular Phone or a stationary Telephone to order Spaghetti. Only one item is delivered at a time.

After you make around 10 orders, he will give you a Spaghetti Hat.

For each spaghetti you bought, 25 coins appears in the shop’s cash register, so the effective price is only 75 coins. However, you also spend cellphone minutes. If you plan to buy a lot of spaghetti, it’s cheaper to do it from a stationary phone, as it only costs 1 coin.

### Delivery area

You cannot order spaghetti in areas which has no cellphone coverage, like all underwater and underground areas, and notably Northern Ocean (including Island Campground).

They decline to deliver to some areas which can’t be reached by vehicle, like basements or upper floors of multi-story buildings. They also decline to deliver to area parts which are impossible or hard to reach by vehicle, like the southern shore of the Lake, deep within the Maze, the canyon at the upper level of the Ski Mountain, or the two smaller islets on either side of the Island.

Unusually, some areas normally unreachable by land vehicles can be reached by the delivery, like northern part of the Maze, and upper levels of Ski Mountain (the delivery Spagooter arrives through the ski slopes in that case).

### Tipping

After you take the spaghetti from the Spaghetti Entrepreneur’s hand, you can put an item of food from your backpack into his hand. This is considered a tip, and he will thank you, but this does not seem to have any practical effect. You may also shake his hand, and he will comment on that.

If you put the Spaghetti back to his hand, that will mean that you decline the order, and you will not spend money. However, this does not happen if you give him a pre-obtained bag of spaghetti.

## Making profit

You receive a cut of the profits, which you can collect from the cash register. That includes daily pay, which depends on upgrades and advertising, and 25 coins from every spaghetti you buy yourself. If you don’t collect the coins or collect them partially, they stay in the register for you to collect the next day. There doesn’t seem to be any limit.

### Expanding

You can spend a total of 7550 coins on the investments, not counting the 100 coins you need to buy the first spaghetti. The Spaghetti Entrepreneur will ask you for 8 upgrades after the initial investment.

After each investment, notice the visible changes to the kitchen; it becomes more neat and orderly.

After making all investments, talk to the Spaghetti Entrepreneur again and you will receive a Spagooter.

A fully upgraded shop produces 250 coins daily. You can increase that amount with advertising (see below).

### Advertising

If you advertise the business on a billboard (by putting the number `555-7724` or `555-SPAG`), you will get an additional 100 coins per day. It doesn’t matter if you advertise it on multiple billboards. The billboard rent is 25 coins per day, so it creates 75 coins of additional profit.

You can also advertise in the newspaper (after finishing all 41 Newspaper Photo Requests, and gaining the ability to write articles), but that must be repeated each day. This gives you additional 100 coins.

Sometimes the Spaghetti Hotline may put advertisements on billboards or in the newspaper on its own, but that does not affect the profits.

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## Trivia

* His initial approach to cooking was quite unsanitary: for example, he pressed tomatoes with his feet.
* You can tear off the receipt while taking cash from the register. It’s a useless item. Put it into a trash bin to get rid of it. You can type your own receipt by operating the register keyboard.
* You can steal some tomatoes and pasta from the cooler/fridge, and from the trash containers near the entrance. This doesn’t affect the profits. If you instead put additional tomatoes and pasta there, they simply disappear the next day without affecting the profits. Bagged Dog Poop also appears here, which hints on continuing sanitary problems.
* Real-life PLU codes work on the cash register, and the receipt will have the name of the item. See Receipt article for more details.
* The Spaghetti Entrepreneur could be found in the Bank before the Electronics Update, but you could not invest in his business.
* If you call the number while the owner is delivering the order, the answering machine will tell you that the “delivery technician” has not returned from the order yet. It says the same if you are hanging out with the Spaghetti Entrepreneur as a friend.
* If you push the delivery Spagooter away from the shop and then call the number without leaving Town, the Spaghetti Entrepreneur will be unable to find the vehicle and will decline the order.