Starting Guide

Welcome to the adorable and tasty world of Cat Snack Bar! The game is very simple to get into and the new player tutorial will begin as soon as you start the game for the first time.

## Tutorial

### Your First Sandwich

Your very own Sandwich Booth has its first customer! In order to fill their order of 1 Sandwich, we must add it to our menu.

Tap on the highlighted area and then the green button to spend 2 coins to add our new menu item.

Now, tap on the bouncing box to find your first worktop! Your chef cat will use this worktop to cook up some delicious sandwiches for your customers.

Update: The appearance of the box was updated to a yellow and green model after Version 1.0.33.

Congratulations, you've served up your first sandwich and made a profit of 3 coins!

### Bigger and Better Sandwiches

You'll need to make a lot more coins if you want to open up more interesting restaurants. Let's improve that sandwich so it makes more coins!

Tap on the highlighted sandwich icon and tap on the green button to spend 1 coin to level up your sandwiches.

Now your sandwich is level 2 and will make you 4 coins instead!

### More Upgrades

In addition to leveling up your worktops, you can also buy special upgrades to improve your restaurant. Tap on the highlighted upgrade button on the bottom of the screen.

Now tap the highlighted green button to spend 5 coins to buy your first upgrade, which increases the rate at which customer arrive.

Buying upgrades is an important way to improve, so keep an eye on that button. When you have enough money to buy more upgrades, you'll see a small red notification show up on the button.

### Keep at it!

Continue leveling up your sandwiches and buying upgrades! Once you buy your third upgrade, you'll receive another worker cat to help you take orders and make sandwiches even faster! Just make sure you tap on the bouncing box to receive your worker.

At Lv 10, you will get a second sandwich worktop, allowing your two workers to make sandwiches simultaneously. Just like with your part time cat, make sure to open the worktop by tapping the bouncing box.

### Hitting the Goal

Once your worktop has reached level 25, you will be able to continue on to the next stage: the Donut Stand! Just tap on the highlighted Business Growth button and then tap on the green Expansion button to proceed.

### Onwards to Donuts

Congratulations on starting your new Donut Stand!

Purchase your first worktop and you'll be introduced to a new feature - ad boosting your revenue. Tap on the highlighted revenue multiplier button on the bottom left corner and you'll get a free 5 minute x2 boost (no ad required for this first freebie).

Keep buying upgrades and leveling up your donut worktop until you can afford your next worktop. Buying it will let you fill coffee orders, which are much more profitable than donuts, but also take twice as long to prepare.

If you find yourself struggling to keep up with the customers, it might help to prioritize buying the upgrades that give you more workers!

### Merchandise

Once you've started making some money in your third restaurant, the Food Truck, you will be introduced to the Merchandise feature, which are permanent bonuses that carry over between stages and areas. Tap on the highlighted button in the lower left corner.

Now tap on the highlighted Free button to get your first piece of merchandise, the Tip jar, which increases your chance to get tips from customers after they are served! Further Merchandise will require you to spend gems to unlock, but don't worry, you will earn gems as you level up your worktops.

### Shop

As soon as you advance to the next stage, the Cafeteria, you will be introduced to the Shop feature. Tap on the highlighted button at the top left of the screen to open the shop.

Once in the shop, tap on the Vintage Suitcases you received as a reward for completing the Food Truck stage. Then, tap on the green button to open the suitcase and receive a mystery prize. You can open your remaining suitcase after the tutorial. For now, follow the tutorial's instructions and tap Confirm.

The tutorial will then highlight the new Costume button at the bottom of the screen. Tap on it to open the costumes menu, then tap on your new costume item and equip it.

Now you'll gain a revenue bonus from your costume. Collect Rare tier or above costumes in order to unlock special costume abilities. Feel free now to open your remaining Vintage Suitcase or open a free Travel Suitcase in the shop.

If the shop looks a bit empty to you, that's because some shop features like bundles are currently unavailable. Continue through the tutorial in order to unlock them.

### Marketing

Once you've purchased some upgrades in your fifth restaurant, Taco Place, you will gain access to the Marketing feature. Tap on the highlighted megaphone button in the top right corner to open the Marketing menu.

In this menu, choose an item to promote for the next 5 minutes. Your promoted item will be ordered much more frequently by customers, so choose wisely! If you don't have enough worktops for that item, you may find your chefs without much to do.

At any time during the promotion, you can tap on the button again to suspend your promotion. The menu will also tell you how long you'll have to wait for your next promotion opportunity.

### Inviting Cats

As you progress through Taco Place, the ability to invite cats will unlock. Follow the tutorial and tap on the envelope button in the top right corner to open the Invite Helper Cat menu. Here, you'll see a random selection of Meownagers waiting to help you! You can tap on their costume pieces to see details about their abilities.

The Meownager you invite will stick around for 5 minutes and then the invitation feature will disappear for a while, but don't worry, it will come back eventually!

### Events

Once you've bought some upgrades in your sixth restaurant, the Drivethrough, you will be able to participate in Events. Tap on the highlighted button on the upper right corner and follow the tutorial to enter the first event stage, the Celestial Fairy Forest.

The tutorial briefly highlights the current mission goal at the top of the screen (Add Worktop Potion) before directing you to purchase your first event worktop, the potion.

Congratulations on finishing your first mission goal and earning your reward! See the Events page for details on event missions. The tutorial will give you a 5m x5 Revenue booster to help you get started in the event.