Big Cheese Studio has released a major update for Cooking Simulator 2, bringing more of the community’s requested features, the new Customer Wiki, alongside expanded character customization, significant gameplay improvements, performance optimizations, and hundreds of fixes and refinements across the game.

The update continues the studio’s post-launch support, focusing on improving the player experience, expanding progression systems, and streamlining restaurant management through new tools and quality-of-life features.

To celebrate the update, Cooking Simulator 2 is currently available at 30% off on Steam until June 25, making it a great time for new players to jump into the kitchen and for returning chefs to see everything that’s been added since launch. 

The headline feature of the update is the new Customer Wiki, which allows players to track discovered customer preferences and better understand the guests visiting their restaurant.

New Features:

• Track discovered flavor preferences
• Monitor customer-specific tags
• View progression for each customer type
• See overall preference discovery progress
• Unlock special golden customer profiles after discovering all preferences

The system also includes backward compatibility for existing save files, ensuring previously completed preference-related progression is preserved.

Expanded Character Customization

The Character Creator has received a substantial content update with new appearance options, including:

• 3 new female heads
• 3 new male heads
• New male and female outfits
• New hairstyles
• Additional glasses
• New gloves
• New earrings

These additions provide players with more opportunities to personalize their chef avatar.

A major focus of the update is making cooking and plating smoother and faster.

More New Features Include:

• Automatic pickup of matching ingredients during assembly
• Re-entering completed plates for further adjustments
• Direct puree transfer using a spoon
• Direct transfers from spawners to containers, grill plates, and assembly stations

The assembly experience has also been refined through improved animations, enhanced HUD feedback, more accurate ingredient placement, and better ingredient availability tracking.

The assembly experience has also been refined through improved animations, enhanced HUD feedback, more accurate ingredient placement, and better ingredient availability tracking.

Continued Performance Improvements

The update delivers another round of optimizations across the entire game, including:

• Improved ingredient and object processing
• Reduced memory allocations
• Better thermal processing performance
• Faster dish screenshot saving
• Improved animation and visual effects performance
• Optimized ingredient textures and assets
• Reduced overall resource usage

These improvements are designed to provide smoother gameplay across both single-player and multiplayer sessions.

New Player Experience Enhancements

The game’s tutorial systems have undergone another major revision.

The update improves onboarding during the early days of Career Mode with:

• Better quest guidance
• Improved progression flow
• Clearer visual hints
• Enhanced upgrade tutorials
• Improved shop and inventory explanations
• Additional guidance for advanced systems such as blueprints and multi-select functionality

These changes help new players learn the game’s mechanics more naturally while reducing progression blockers.

Additional Quality-of-Life Features

• Saved pinned blueprints
• Expanded spoilage visualization
• Improved multiselect functionality
• Better XP progression calculations
• Improved autofill behavior
• More reliable save settings
• Additional interaction improvements throughout the kitchen

Ongoing Community-Driven Development

Since launch, Big Cheese Studio has released multiple major patches and hotfixes for Cooking Simulator 2, continuously refining gameplay based on community feedback.

“We’ve been closely following player feedback since release, and many of the additions in this update come directly from community requests,” said the development team. “The Customer Wiki, assembly improvements, tutorial updates, and quality-of-life features are all part of our ongoing effort to make Cooking Simulator 2 the best experience possible for both new and returning players.”

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