The Core Progression Dilemma
Your cash can be invested into three primary categories:
- Treadmills: Directly scales your Speed gain per second, enabling entry into high-tier ingredient zones with faster guards.
- Dining Tables: Expands concurrent customer seating, allowing more dishes to generate passive
$/Secsimultaneously. - Cooking Pots (Cooker): Increases ingredient slot capacity and cooking speed, improving Cook Luck multipliers.
The Golden Spending Rule: Speed Thresholds > Dining Table 3 > Pot Capacity > Luxury Tables.
Verified Treadmill Progression Ladder ($8M to $40B)
Based on verified UI evidence from official previews, treadmill upgrades follow these exact costs and gain displays:
- Level 4 → 5 (Lava Treadmill): Costs $8,000,000 ($8M), displaying +17/s training gain.
- Level 5 → 6 (Toxic Treadmill): Costs $150,000,000 ($150M), displaying +105/s training gain.
- Level 6 → 7 (Frozen Treadmill): Costs $3,000,000,000 ($3B), displaying +900/s training gain.
- Level 7 → 8: Costs $40,000,000,000 ($40B) to reach top-tier training.
Table Economics: Table 3 ($250k) vs Table 4 ($15M)
- Table 3 ($250,000): A vital early-game unlock. Unlocking Table 3 prevents low-tier salads and bread from choking your cooking pipeline. With an average dish earning $150/s, Table 3 pays for itself in less than 28 minutes.
- Table 4 ($15,000,000): Do NOT rush Table 4 early. Spending $15M when your average dish only generates $15/Sec requires over 11 days of continuous serving just to break even! Only buy Table 4 after you can reliably cook dishes earning $1,000+/Sec (such as Rare Steak at $3k/s).
Cooker Expansion Timing ($50M)
Upgrading your Cooker from Level 3 to Level 4 costs $50,000,000 ($50M). This upgrade expands your slot capacity from 7 to 8 ingredients, allowing you to stack more high-tier ingredients (like Beef and Ethereal Root) to achieve higher Cook Luck multipliers.