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My Restaurant Rocks 2020
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READ ME FIRST : All About the My Restaurant Rocks Challenge
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Round 1
Starts September 19, 9pm UTC Time (convert to your time here)
Finishes October 17, 9pm UTC Time (convert to your time here)
Customers arrive! You have 48 hours to feed them and finalise round 1. (You can start reading for round 2 while this is occuring).
Remember: Your meals are set at the end of the round and once customers arrive can't be changed. i.e. You can't change meals around to suit the customers you receive
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Round 2
Starts October 17, 9pm UTC Time (convert to your time here)
Finishes November 14, 9pm UTC Time (convert to your time here)
Customers arrive! You have 48 hours to feed them and finalise round 2. (You can start reading for round 3 while this is occuring).
Remember: Your meals are set at the end of the round and once customers arrive can't be changed. i.e. You can't change meals around to suit the customers you receive
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Round 3
Starts November 14, 9pm UTC Time (convert to your time here)
Finishes December 12, 9pm UTC Time (convert to your time here)
Customers arrive! You have 48 hours to feed them and finalise round 3.
Remember: Your meals are set at the end of the round and once customers arrive can't be changed. i.e. You can't change meals around to suit the customers you receive
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HOT NEWS- Customer Bonus
For every team member that participates in a Book of the Month (BOM) (by joining the discussion and/or writing discussion questions) they will be able to swap out one assigned customer for another of their choice.
Limited to one customer for each team member per BOM. (i.e. you can't get the customer bonus for writing DQs AND participating. But if you join 2 BOMs in October, you can get 2 bonuses).
This bonus will be available for BOMs that start after the challenge begins. That means Chain of Gold will be your first opportunity to earn the bonus.
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Google Reviews
Now your restraurants are in full swing, some of your customers are going to start leaving google reviews and a score out of 5 after the end of round 2.
Customers can leave reviews for a variety of reasons. But as a guide, they will be looking at:
* Variety of dishes
* Names of the dishes served
* Ability to feed all customers
* Name and description of restaurant
This gives an overall google review score out of 5 which will give you the option of certain additions to your meals to better attract Adult customers when you open in round 3.
Google Score
Score Round 3 Additions
4.25-5 Nice work! Customers are starting to take photos for Instagram and even doing Tik Tok videos outside!
Meals using books with the word "instagram", "chic", or "trendy" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3
3.25-4.24 You're doing well and locals are still testing you out. It will take a bit more though to attract a broader base of customers.
Meals using books with the word "local", "neighbourhood / neighborhood", or "quality" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3
2-3.24 Now known as "cheap and cheerful" you attract families which mean messy children.
Meals using books with the word "crayon", "mess", or "hectic" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3
0-1.9 Your chef quit. Try a new theme for round 3. Pensioners will be attracted to your restaurant, but you will need to work to get other groups in the door
Meals using books with the word "old", "refresh", or "retire" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3
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Round 2 Complete
Thanks cooks, chefs and kitchen hands - you have made it through your second month and now have public google reviews!
Frozen Meals from round 2 not consumed
Can be used in round 3. You should copy and paste these from your Shop Front Round 2 to the Shop Front Round 3 tab. Leave the meal number blank or put "Rd2" in the meal number.
Desserts, Drinks and Cocktails from round 2 not consumed
Can be used in round 3. You should copy and paste those you want to use in round 3 from your Shop Front Round 2 to the Shop Front Round 3 tab. Leave the meal number blank or put "Rd2" in the meal number.
Fresh Food from round 2 not consumed
Fresh food not used will be rotten unless you received tips from adults to preserve.
The amount of tips you have from round 2 is directly attributable to your Google Score.
Score Tips
4.25-5 40% of adults tipped
3.25-4.24 20% of adults tipped
2-3.24 10% of adults tipped
0-1.9 0 adults tipped
If you have Fresh food from round 2 you are preserving by using a tip, copy and paste those you want to use in round 3 from your Shop Front Round 2 to the Shop Front Round 3 tab. Leave the meal number blank or put "Rd2" in the meal number.
Google Score
All teams have received a score which is available on the Status Sheet.
In round 3, enter the word you find (if doing a scavenger hunt) related to your Swinbourne Score in the justification on your kitchen tab ; and then when creating the meal tick the highlighted box (column G)
You don't need to use the word in the meal name. So let's say that I find the word chic in my book. And for the sake of an example, let's pretend it is The Maze Runner. (I have no idea if that is true, I just picked a random book!)
Now to work out how to use it. Is there a food word in there I can scavenger? Or can I use it as a spell-it-out?
Let's assume there is no food item in the book. Then I decide I will use it as a spell-it-out instead. I can use 8 letters and it needs to be fresh or frozen (384 pages).
I decide to spell out LETTUCE.
I use T - Theresa and T-Thomas (characters)
in the Kitchen meals created tab justification, I write T: Thomas. (c) & Chic ; page 84
Then on the shop front tab for that meal, we would select the checkbox to show it contains one of the google review terms.
If I find "chic" 4 more times in Maze Runner, and I am able to use that book across 4 different meals, I would be able to tick the box for 4 meals.
Books read cap
For round 3, it is 100 books per team
Customers round 3
The exact number of customers won't be known until they arrive, but be sure it will increase for round 3 as your restaurants gain in popularity!!
Customer meals from round 2
So many great names for the round! We invite you to check out:
Team Trouble
Team Dholes with Sole
Team Read It and Eat
as the teams that got the highest scores for meal names :)
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Shout out to everyone for chasing the google items, and special kudos to those who got more than 100 (and even 200!)
Team Google items
Team Read It and Eat 222
Team Second Breakfast 197
Team Read Hot Chilis 175
Team Lettuce Read 157
Team Tienuurtj 127
Team Dholes with Sole 126
Team SCAAMP's Pub 122
Team The IncrEDIBLEs 84
Team Tequila Mockingbird77
Team Pie and Prejudice 67
Team Trouble 64
Team Chaotic Cooks 54
Team The Ravenous Reader27
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Congratulations!
You have rocked those restaurants, survived a Swinbourne visit and customer google reviews and made it to the end of month 3. Phew!
And the winner is.....
Carnal Cravings
brought to you by
Team Trouble
About this restaurant: Come and satisfy your deepest, darkest, and wildest hungers with our delectable treats and mouth-watering creations. Make your mouth happy at Carnal Cravings.
Congrats to the hard working cooks, chefs and restaurant managers team members:
❅Jenny
❅Claire
❅Judith
❅Sammy
❅Sonia
❅Steven
Final Rankings
Team Total Points Rank
Team Trouble 30837 1
Team Read Hot Chilis 26833 2
Team Second Breakfast 25374 3
Team Read It and Eat 24874 4
Team Pie and Prejudice 24253 5
Team Tienuurtj 21833 6
Team Lettuce Read 21253 7
Team The IncrEDIBLEs 20700 8
Team Dholes with Sole 20123 9
Team SCAAMP's Pub 18938 10
Team The RavenousReaders15380 11
Team Chaotic Cooks 14438 12
Team Tequila Mockingbird12756 13
Thank you to all our wonderful readers. We hope you had fun and we wish you a very safe & happy holiday period.
My Restaurant Rocks
Create a new restaurant with your team, and get ready to make meals with scavenger hunts and spell-it-outs.
This is a self-directed team challenge, which means you create your own teams of up to six players; and your own team name. We do not recommend this challenge for smaller readers (less than 2 books per week) or for those new to team challenges.
This is a dynamic challenge so although round 1 rules will be pretty clear, as your restaurant is up and running don’t be surprised if things are switched up for future rounds.
Teams will be capped to the number of books that can be read per round. For round 1, this is 80 books. Consider this when planning your teams and also your strategy with reading books.
IMPORTANT
You will need to be able to access and edit Google Sheets to join this challenge. We will give you a template, but you need to use it to track your books and your points.
We work on an honour system, so we are not asking you to submit your spreadsheets for review, but all sheets need to be accessible for viewing by all players. The mods will also be checking sheets at the end of each round.
HERE is an example of what the team spreadsheet will look like - this is an example so we've filled in some info already. And HERE is a short video explaining the tabs and how to complete.
If you only access Goodreads via the app this is NOT the challenge for you. There are limitations with the app, and the Google sheets app with mobile devices and they are not recommended for this challenge.
HOW TO FIND A TEAM
You can use THIS THREAD to find like minded players, or shout out to your GR friends. Either way, sign ups are done AS A TEAM, so you need to have your six players ready to go before signing up. When you have 6 members, ONE person does the sign up AS A TEAM here
Challenge Dates
There will be 3 rounds which are four weeks each.
Starting 19 September 2020, 9pm UTC and finishing 12 December 2020, 9pm UTC.
HOW TO PLAY
About this Challenge
◈ The team with the highest points at the end of the game wins!
◈ Each round teams create meals through a scavenger hunt and spell-it-outs
◈ At end of round, each team get randomised customers to eat their meals. Leftovers expire if fresh (although the team can decide to preserve, more details below)
◈ Meals you create can be changed around at any time during the round, but once the round finishes and customers arrive, the meals are set and can not be changed.
◈ Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count
◈ Re-reads are ok provided it has been more than 6 months since you last read the book
◈ Book length is determined by the meals. See below.
◈ Each Book can be used for either scavenger hunt words or as spell-it-outs.
◈ Only books read during the specified round can be used (“read date” is what counts, provided it started after the challenge started)
◈ Teams will be capped to the number of books that can be read per round. For round 1, this is 80 books.
◈ If reading a large print edition for a book, use the GR default edition for page numbers
CREATING MEALS
Scavenger hunt for words in titles or text or items on cover, or spell out, words as follows:
Fresh meals (must be used within the month - page count of 50 pages or more. No restriction on using children's, graphic novels, poetry, cookbooks etc.)
◈ sandwiches items which would be suitable on a sandwich (for example: bread, butter, lettuce, tomato, ham, chicken, salami, cheese, carrot, cucumber, salt, pepper, beetroot or beets, gherkins or pickles, peanut butter, jam or jelly, vegemite, mustard, honey, pastrami, devon, egg, bacon)
Sandwiches have a minimum of 4 and maximum of 10 items.
◈ fish and chips (fish, or any types of fish, potato, salt, lemon) Note for scavenger hunt only: Must contain all these items (4), add vinegar for bonus points.
Fish and chips have a minimum of 4 and maximum of 5 items.
◈ coffee (coffee or anything coffee related, e.g. latte) ; milk, sugar, cream, water) Can be items to make a coffee, the word coffee, or just a coffee word (e.g. "cappuccino").
Coffee has a minimum of 1 and maximum of 6 items.
◈ tea(tea, milk, sugar, water, cream) Note for scavenger hunt only: Must contain at least tea and water. Other items are optional.
Tea has a minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 items.
◈ salad (e.g. salad, lettuce, cucumber, any cheese, tomato, olives, carrot, cucumber, beans, peas, nuts, pear)
Salads have a minimum of 5 and maximum of 15 items.
Frozen meals Can be used in the following month. Page count of 160+. No graphic novels, cookbooks, poetry or childrens books unless audio version is more than 5 hours or wordcount can be verified with arbookfind as more than 40,000 words
◈ pasta (e.g. pasta types, cheese, cream, salt, pepper, chicken, chilli, basil, tomato, garlic)
Pasta have a minimum of 3 and maximum of 10 items.
◈ quiche (e.g. eggs, bacon, leeks, ham, spinach, salt, pepper, pastry)
Quiche have a minimum of 4 and maximum of 10 items.
◈ curries (e.g. beef, lamb, chicken, lentils, potato, sweet potato, carrot, beans, curry powder or paste, turmeric, chilli, cloves, coriander, cumin, ginger, garlic)
Curries have a minimum of 5 and maximum of 15 items.
Desserts, drinks and cocktails ; can be shelved/frozen and used at any point through the challenge. 500+pages. No children's, poetry, graphic novels, plays, cookbooks.
◈ Champagne, wine, liqueur, beer (generic term or a specific brand/type)
◈ Chocolate, fruit, marshmallow, ice cream, custard or any dessert (generic term or a specific type, e.g. “tart”)
◈ Water, Juice, soda, soft drinks (generic term or a specific type, for e.g. Lemonade)
Desserts, drinks and cocktails have a minimum of 1 and maximum of 5 items.
POINTS
10 points per book read
2 points per scavenger word / spell-it-out letter used per book (maximum numbers shown below)
Points are also given per meal eaten:
up to 2 scavenger words / spell-it out letters per book >50 pages and <=160 pages
up to 4 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >161 and <=300 pages
up to 8 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >301 pages and <=500 pages
up to 12 scavenger words / spell-it-out letters per book >501 pages
CUSTOMERS
Children ; only eat fish and chips, sandwiches, quiche, juice and water.
Teenagers ; eat all frozen meals, soda/soft drinks and desserts.
Adults ; eat everything. May even give you a tip (which allows you to preserve fresh food for next month)
Pensioners only eat fresh food and pasta
Customers are randomised at the end of the month to eat the team meals. (This will impact your points as meals eaten will depend on your customers. Waste can also be expensive for restaurants!)
SPELL-IT-OUT RULES
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.
If the first letter of a title is a numerical digit, then you use the first letter of that digit for your spell out (i.e. 1984 is N; 2046 is T; 1Q84 is O)
If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used.
We're also allowing for Translators names, as long as the edition you are reading is a translation version.
For non-fiction books, character names can't generally be used unless it is written more as a story (for example, memoirs).