Restaurants

Guests seem to always be hungry, thirsty, tired, or (whatever the adjective for "needing to go to the restroom" is), but you can never seem to take of them all at once. The solution is to build a restaurant. It serves food, serves drinks, provides seating, and has restrooms, all of which guests need. Although restaurants might not be available when you start the game, they will eventually, and once they're available, use them. Do not buy any snack stands, drink stands, food stands, or restrooms, once you have a restaurant. Also, putting a restaurant near the entrance of the zoo will give you hundreds of dollars a month, and putting two near the entrance will make you rich in ZT dollars! In Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection, there are four different restaurants to choose from: Restaurant, Lobby's Restaurant, Prairie Dog Cafe, and the Rainforest Restaurant. Which is the best restaurant to choose? Well, let's see.

• The Restaurant is just right. They serve soda, hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza.


• The Lobby's Restaurant's food is the most expensive, but the guests love it. They serve soda, submarine sandwiches, fish and chips(es?), and hot dogs.


• The Prairie Dog Cafe is cheap, and it is the least appealing to the adults (probably because of the goofy-looking prairie dog on top lol), but guests still will visit it. They serve soda, hamburgers, nachos, and hot dogs.


• The Rainforest Restaurant is the least expensive of all, and it "sure does look cool!" They serve soda, hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza.

All restaurants come with seating and restrooms, which is an extra bonus. The best restaurant to get is the Rainforest Restaurant, and it will give you about $50,000 a year, if you have plenty of happy guests.

In one sentence: Use restaurants in place of food and drink stands, and the Rainforest Restaurant sure does look cool!

Wide paths

Sometimes, in Zoo Tycoon, guests form crowds. All those crowds can make them unhappy, and can even slow down your computer. The cause of this is most likely that the paths they are walking on are too narrow. In your zoo, make sure that the paths are two spaces wide. That way, there will not be so many crowds. However, sometimes you don't need all that path because that part of the zoo isn't as popular. So, here's what to do:

When you start your zoo, make all the paths one space wide, but leave one space on each side of the path, leaving room for wider path. Do this for about six months in the game. By the end of six months, there will most likely be plenty of guests. Notice where the crowds are in your zoo, and in those areas, make the path one or two spaces thicker. That should help the crowds. For low traffic, you can always make the paths one space wide. The biggest crowds are usually by the entrance, endangered animal exhibits, and anywhere where they can hork down food.

In one sentence: If there are crowds in your zoo, make the paths they walk on wider.