Jiji "The Waiter" is one of the most valuable staff of Animal Restaurant. He becomes indispensable at the busiest moments, taking customers' orders as they come in.&nbsp;

However, you noticed that he's missing and no one is taking orders anymore at the restaurant's entrance. Where did he go, and how to make he come back?

This event is part of the story of the game. Any time while playing, you'll get a dialog by Eggy noticing the disappearance of Jiji, and he'll notify to Chef Gumi that Jiji is not at the counter.&nbsp;

Jiji will be out of the restaurant for hours until Hedwig returns.&nbsp;

If you didn't send Hedwig to get the mail today, do it as soon as possible.

If you have already sent Hedwig, wait until she comes back.

When Hedwig returns, she will bring a Magazine, and Jiji will appear simultaneously, explaining why he had to go.

When Hedwig brings the magazine, Jiji explains the following:

"There was a customer who insisted that I help him when he was paying the bill. He said that his magazine would be discontinued if I didn't help him, so I helped him by letting him take a few photos of me"

As it turns out, the magazine Hedwig brought is a fashion magazine, and Jiji's is on the cover. After all, the magazine was successful and it didn't discontinue.

Easy to understand step-by-step explanation of why Jiji is missing and how to make him come back

Animal Restaurant: Jiji is Missing? How to get him back

Booth owners are special characters within the game that will pay you for selling food in a spot within the fishing pond area of your restaurant.&nbsp;

Every booth owner will pay you with plates or rating every 5 minutes as a rental fee. In addition, customers that interact with the booth owner will drop cod when purchasing.&nbsp;

Some special booth owners may allow you to play a mini-game with them for the possibility of getting rewards if you succeed at the game.

To solicit a booth owner to come to your restaurant, you must place fish or wood on the Lease Billboards that you can find nearby the Fishing Pond.

However, you may find yourself doing this several times and still not getting any Booth Owner. This is because there's a very low chance that a Booth Owner will appear, and the probability depends on which fish you use and what time of the day it is.&nbsp;

It's you place a fish on a Lease Billboard, and after waiting a few minutes you find the billboard empty, then you were not successful in getting a Booth Owner, and you must retry and put more fish on the billboard.&nbsp;

How to increase your chance of getting a booth owner

You can upgrade your Lease Billboards to increase your booth leasing success rate. This is critical to be more efficient with your fishing and&nbsp;leasing.&nbsp;

Unlock the Takeout area of your restaurant.

Buy a Signature Store in the facilities menu at the Takeout area.

If you have a Signature Store, you'll find the Lease Billboard upgrades at the bottom of the Special Facilities menu.&nbsp;

Each Lease Billboard you buy gives you a 5% leasing success rate, which may not seem like much, but these stack into each other as you purchase other billboards. Therefore, you can get up to a 20% success rate increase, which is huge considering there are Booth Owners with less than a 5% chance of getting them.&nbsp;

Discover how to solicit booth owners in this EASY step-by-step guide

Animal Restaurant: How to get booth owners

Having performers doing concerts in your Courtyard is one of the best ways to get films, which you can use for decoration, or buying facilities for the Courtyard that will make activities even more profitable. 

Most importantly, you can level up your restaurant promo with films, which will make you able to attract more customers and increase your chance to unlock new secret customers.

How do you make more films then? One easy way is to put a poster of the performer you are hosting on the Playbill Board, and this will increase the concert's revenue, making you get even more Film.

When you host your first concert, you'll get one poster for free. Your first concert will be with Cutie Hamster or Cutie Guru, and both will give you a poster during their first performance. 

However, as you invite new performers, you'll find that it is way harder to get posters, and after hosting dozens of concerts, you'll be wondering why you are not getting any more posters.

To get posters, you need to host concerts with the same performer several times until you reach the required amount of time performed with that character.

Here you can find the performing time required for unlocking each character's poster:

Unfortunately, when you first discover a new performer, you cannot call him to come back the next time you host a concert.

However, after this character has performed for the required time, you'll be able to use Callback tickets to call this performer again. Then you can host concerts with this performer as often as you need.

You can get Callback tickets by watching ads or buying them with films.

You can host concerts in the Courtyard if you have a light, which you can buy in the Facilities menu.

When you have a light placed in your Courtyard, tap on the light to open the concert menu. You can use an Invite ticket to host a concert on this menu.&nbsp;

Tap on "Invite Supporting Act" to invite a performer. Then you have to wait 5 minutes for the performer to arrive, after that the concert will start.

You can get invites in any of the following ways:

Buy them with [animal-restaurant-film] films

Finding a Green Lucky Bag while visiting a friend's restaurant

Getting daily free invites for each Light facility you have in the Courtyard

Playing games in the Game Machine. You can buy a Game Machine in the Facilities menu.

Easy step-by-step guide on how to get posters, how to host concerts, invite same performer and more. 

Animal Restaurant: How to get posters

Gathering customers in Animal Restaurant will make customers spend time in the Courtyard, where they'll walk around and interact with any facility you own. While customers are in the Courtyard, they'll tip you with cod, film, and possibly rating if they enjoy their time there.&nbsp;

Gathering customers is sometimes an activity required for daily tasks.

To gather customers, you need to be in the Courtyard of your restaurant. Then you'll see a "Gather" button in the bottom-right corner of your screen. Press this button, and customers will come to your Courtyard.

Don't worry if you are new to the game and haven't been in the Courtyard. The Courtyard is an area that you can visit already from the beginning.&nbsp;

You can get there by tapping on the door of your restaurant or by clicking on the Home icon. (top-right corner) and then in fence icon.&nbsp;

Easy tutorial on how to gather customers, so that you can get done your daily tasks. 

Animal Restaurant: How to GATHER customers

Being connected with friends in Animal Restaurant is a great way to help each other and increment your profits.&nbsp;

Visiting your friends' restaurant is sometimes a daily task that will significantly increase your restaurant rating if you complete all your daily tasks.&nbsp;

Follow these steps to add friends on Animal Restaurant:&nbsp;

Tap on the Friends Board, which is next to your restaurant entrance.

You'll see a screen with your current friends, then tap on "Add Friend" button.

On this screen, you can see random people you can add as friends. You can refresh this list as many times as you need.

If you click on the letter icon, you can see requests made to you and accept them as friends.

When going to the Friends Board, you can tap on "Visit" button, and this will take you to your friend's restaurant.&nbsp;

Once you are at your friend's restaurant, you can find hidden Lucky Bags. You and your friend will get cod, film, or rating stars for each Lucky Bag you find.&nbsp;

Lucky Bags are limited and will get generated randomly at different places every day.&nbsp;

At first, you can only add up to 10 friends. However, you can increment this limit by buying a new Friends Board in your facilities menu. These are all the available upgrades:

When you reach a certain amount of rating, you can look for friends on your Friend Board, and if you meet the requirements, you'll see some of the staff that works in your restaurant.&nbsp;

You can add them as friends, and the request is automatically accepted. You can visit their restaurants just like any other regular friend.&nbsp;

These are the staff that is available for adding as friends:

[animal-restaurant-rating] 100,000

[animal-restaurant-rating] 150,000

Easy to follow guide, explained step by step. 

How to add friends on Animal Restaurant

Upgrading the promo in Animal Restaurant is one of the best methods to increase your restaurant's revenue. Doing so will attract new types of customers that will order more expensive dishes or even order multiple times and drop special items after eating.

Finding where to upgrade the promo when you are new in the game can be challenging. However, once you know where you find it is pretty straightforward. Use the following steps to find your way:

First, you must go to the Courtyard. You can do so by tapping on the home icon to see the different scenes and then tapping on the fence icon.

Then tap on the speaker, which is near the restaurant's front door and close to your Friends' board.

Tap on the image of the cat that is holding a megaphone.

On this screen, you'll be able to see all the available promo upgrades and select one if you meet the requirements.

Can attract nearby customers. Can attract Salesman and the Rich Kid

Can attract customers from the village. Can attract the Magician and the Wandering Singer

Can attract customers from the town. Can attract the Fortuneteller

Can attract customers from the city. Can attract the Mysterious Merchant

Salesman. Comes to promote ads, will give you a reward if you watch an ad.

Rich Kid. Every time you tap him, he'll drop some [animal-restaurant-cod] cod that you can pick up.

Magician. Offers you to play a game of cards with him, f you win he'll reward you with cod.

Wandering Singer. You can continuously tap him to make him sing and attract more customer.

Fortuneteller. She can offer some rewards, such as resetting employees cooldowns or bringing Hedwig home earlier.

Mysterious Merchant. You can buy rare items from him.

One thing the game doesn't make clear is that by upgrading to a higher promo you still will get sometimes visits from the special characters of previous promos.&nbsp;

The best promo upgrade is the Cellphone Promo. Even though it takes more tapping to attract customers, it'll bring customers from all locations. Therefore, it increases the chance of attracting customers from the City, and these customers will more likely order expensive dishes.

However, the Cellphone Promo is the hardest to get, as you'll need a rating of [animal-restaurant-rating] 2000 to be able to unlock it.

Easy tutorial, discover step by step how to upgrade promo in Animal Restaurant game

Discover everything about promoting your restaurant and how to upgrade promo

Animal Restaurant: How to upgrade promo

The Piping Bag memento is an item that was introduced in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/animalrestaurantEN/posts/408221237221685">The Culinary Cats' Contest</a>&nbsp;event that occurred in November 2020.&nbsp;

During this event, the player could participate in a quiz, and while answering the questions correctly, you will be rewarded with The Piping Bag memento.&nbsp;

You can use this memento to unlock the&nbsp;Puff-fect Chocolate Cake recipe.

You can get the Piping Bag memento drawing rewards from the Gachapon machine in the Buffet.&nbsp;

This is currently the only way to get the Piping Bag memento now that the event is not active anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Gachapon machine is a facility that can be bought once you have the Buffet area.&nbsp;

The first Gachapon you could buy is the Normal Gachapon, which will cost you [animal-restaurant-cod] 920,000 cod. This will grant you one free draw per day, and has a daily draw cap of 6 times per day.&nbsp;

At first, you can use the Gachapon machine paying with plates that you can obtain from customers eating at the Buffet.&nbsp;

However, once your restaurant has a rating of [animal-restaurant-rating] 50,000 you'll have the choice to draw from the Gachapon using [animal-restaurant-cod] cod instead of plates.&nbsp;

Discover how to get this rare item, that will unlock the Purr-fect Chocolate Cake recipe

Animal Restaurant: How to get Piping Bag memento

In Star Trek Fleet Command, officer traits will boost your chances to get a critical success in an Away Teams mission, which is essential for getting valuable resources every day. 

In this list, you can see all the officers that are currently available in the game and their traits. Some officers don't have any traits. 

Find here a list of all the officers currently available in the game and their traits

Star Trek Fleet Command: Officer TRAITS list

The Botany Bay is an excellent Survey ship for mid-level players. Its primary ability increases the mining rate of data, but it's also great for other purposes. When upgraded, the Botany Bay is the Survey ship with the biggest Cargo Size and Protected Cargo until the end-20s levels.&nbsp;

What the game doesn't tell you and what many players don't know is that you can unlock the Botany Bay for free doing Augment's Missions.&nbsp;

This guide will cover how to get those missions and get all the blueprints you need to build your first Botany Bay.

What is the Augment Faction and Where to Start

The Augment Faction is an outlaw faction, and you can get a reputation with them by unlocking several officers of the Khan's crew, among other valuable items.&nbsp;

First, you need to do missions with them until you unlock their faction store. You can easily miss this if you don't know where to start.&nbsp;

The first mission you do for them is called&nbsp;Uncaged, and you can accept this assignment in any of the following systems:

There isn't any specific level at which you can pick up the missions, as far as you have a ship that can reach those systems, which requires at least a warp range of 13.&nbsp;

Once you complete this mission, you'll automatically get new missions with the Augment Faction. When you complete these assignments, you'll start getting Botany Bay blueprints for each mission, and after a few missions, you'll have enough blueprints to build it.

Here is the list of the first missions and the ones that reward you Botany Bay blueprints for completion.&nbsp;

Buyer's Remorse (x12 Botany Bay blueprints)

Broken Chains (x12 Botany Bay blueprints)

By the time you complete Quid Pro Quo&nbsp;you'll have enough blueprints to make the Botany Bay. You'll need 60 blueprints and you'll have 54 by this point, but you'll get another 6 blueprint for a reasonable price in the Augments Faction Store.

Once you get your Botany Bay, you'll also access the Augments' systems. You can start mining data in these systems to exchange it for Augments credits.&nbsp;

After you make a good reputation with the Augments, you can get Plutonium in their Faction Store, which you'll need to upgrade your Botany Bay.&nbsp;

There are many benefits of getting a reputation with the Augment Faction. Not only you'll unlock the Botany Bay, but you'll grind your way to unlock Khan's crew officers.&nbsp;

However, the game doesn't explain any of this, and you can easily miss it. Fortunately, we got you covered. If you found this guide useful, check our other guides about Star Trek Fleet Command

How you can all the Botany Bay blueprint doing Augments missions and where to find these missions

Star Trek Fleet Command: How to get the Botany Bay for free (doing missions)

[stfc-dilithium] Dilithium is one of the most demanded resources in Star Trek Fleet Command. You'll need [stfc-dilithium] Dilithium for upgrading your station, building ships, and researching new technologies. 

Mining is not the most efficient way to get [stfc-dilithium] Dilithium. You'll get vast amounts of it raiding other players' stations and completing in-game events. However, in-game events are limited, and you may still require more [stfc-dilithium] Dilithium.

This guide covers officers and crews that are best for mining Dilithium. These crews are good regardless of the ship, although you must consider that some survey ships will perform better than others. 

This crew is so effective at mining&nbsp;[stfc-dilithium] Dilithium because of the Captain's Ability of Domitia, which increases the Dilithium mining rate. In addition, you have the crew synergy from the other members that boost the Captain's Ability by another 60%

T'Pring is an excellent addition to any mining crew, and she offers an increase of the protected Cargo. This is great for low-level players so that you can secure your Dilithium if you get often attacked by other players.

Increases the Protected Cargo by 50%

Increases the Mining Rate of the ship by 40% when mining [stfc-dilithium] Dilithium

As long as the Cargo of the ship is full, Domitia increases it's Warp Speed by 25%

When the ship is mining, K'Bisch reduces the damage dealt by attacking opponents by&nbsp;10%

Star Trek Fleet Command: Best Dilithium mining crew

This crew focuses on maximizing mining speed, adding Four of Eleven to increase cargo size to carry more&nbsp;[stfc-dilithium] Dilithium on each mining trip.

These officers are hard to obtain. If you don't own some of these officers, you can replace these with other rare officers. Still, you must ensure that Ten of Eleven stills gets the same synergies benefits.

Ten of Eleven gets +75% synergy when assigned with Science and Engineering officers to the bridge.

Increases the speed of Parsteel, Tritanium and Dilithium Mining by 50%

Increases the Mining Speed of the ship by 80%

Check out our other guides about Star Trek Fleet Command if you liked this guide!

This guide covers the BEST Dilithium mining crew for beginners and advanced players

Star Trek Fleet Command: Dilithium Mining Crew (for Beginners and Advanced players)

[stfc-tritanium] Tritanium can be a scarce resource in Star Trek Fleet Command. It is required to upgrade and repair ships, build in your station and research new technologies.

This guide will cover many mining crews that can benefit beginners and advanced players.

This crew is for you if you don't have any rare or epic mining officers. These three officers are easy to get early in the game. K'bisch will make your [stfc-tritanium] Tritanium mining much faster. At the same time, T'Pring will allow you to secure more cargo if you get attacked by a higher level.&nbsp;

What makes this crew so good is that the synergies of each captain increment by 30% of the captain's ability. That would make you mine Tritanium 60% faster.

The officers' abilities of Barot and K'Bisch will grant you a defensive advantage if you get attacked while mining.&nbsp;

Increases the Mining Rate of the ship by 40%&nbsp;when mining Tritanium

When the ship is mining, K'Bisch reduces the damage dealt by attacking opponents by 10%

When the ship is attacked while mining, at the beginning of the combat, Barot decreases the opponent's Hull Health by 10%

Star Trek Fleet Command: Best Tritanium mining crew

This crew focuses on maximizing mining speed, adding Four of Eleven to increase cargo size to carry more [stfc-tritanium] Tritanium on each mining trip.

These officers are hard to obtain. If you don't own some of these officers, you can replace these with other rare officers. Still, you must ensure that Ten of Eleven stills gets the same synergies benefits. 

Ten of Eleven gets +75% synergy when assigned with Science and Engineering officers to the bridge.

Thanks to Ten of Eleven, this crew still gets a massive boost in mining rate while still getting a synergy bonus from the other officers assigned to the bridge.

If you have trouble defending your ship while mining, consider mining Tritanium in other systems. However, if you get frequently targeted by other players, you should consider this crew.

When attacked while on a Capture or Mining Node by a player, TOS Chekov decreases the opponent's damage by 30%

Increases the speed of Parsteel, Tritanium and Dilithium Mining by&nbsp;50%

Increases the Mining Speed of the ship by&nbsp;80%

At the start of each round, if the ship has a Hull Breach, Navi&nbsp;increases the Armor, Shield Deflection and Dodge of the ship by 50%&nbsp;for this round

This guide covers the BEST Tritanium mining crew for beginners and advanced players

Star Trek Fleet Command: Tritanium Mining Crew (for Beginners and Advanced players)

[stfc-parsteel] Parsteel is an essential resource in Star Trek Fleet Command. Established from level one, [stfc-parsteel] Parsteel is required to upgrade buildings and research new technologies. It's an indispensable resource even at higher Operation levels. That's why we'll cover several crews that can benefit both Beginners and Advanced players.

This crew is for you if you don't have any rare or epic mining officers. These three officers are easy to get early in the game. Helvia's ability will make your&nbsp;[stfc-parsteel]&nbsp;Parsteel mining much faster. At the same time, T'Pring will allow you to secure more cargo if you get attacked by a higher level.&nbsp;

K'Bisch can be replaced by any other officer that could benefit your mining. If you have a rare officer that can increase the mining rate or speed is probably better for you.&nbsp;

Increases the Mining Rate of the ship by 40%&nbsp;when mining Parsteel

When Cargo of the ship is empty, increases it's Warp speed by&nbsp;25%

Star Trek Fleet Command: Best Parsteel mining crew

As an advanced player, you don't need a defensive crew. Players at your level are probably not surveying in&nbsp;[stfc-parsteel] Parsteel systems looking for miners to attack.&nbsp;

This crew focuses on maximizing mining speed, adding Four of Eleven to increase cargo size to carry more&nbsp;[stfc-parsteel]&nbsp;Parsteel in each mining trip.

These officers are hard to obtain. If you don't own some of these officers, you can replace these with other rare officers. Still, you must ensure that Ten of Eleven stills gets the same synergies benefits.&nbsp;

Ten of Eleven gets +75% synergy when assigned with Science and Engineering officers to the bridge.

This guide covers the BEST Parsteel mining crew for beginners and advanced players

Star Trek Fleet Command: Parsteel Mining Crew  (for Beginners and Advanced players)

The Swarm is the daily bread and butter for many Star Trek Fleet Command players. 

We have Swarm dailies, which are essential to get Frequency Modulators for upgrading your USS Franklin ship. In addition to those dailies, farming Swarm biominerals are always handy for storing resources you retain even if your base gets raided. 

Besides, there are many events involving hunting Swarm hostiles, so if you want to be on the top of leaderboard events, you better have a good crew that makes you more efficient when hunting Swarm hostiles.

This guide will cover officers and crew combinations to boost your combat against Swarm clusters. Regardless of your ship, these officers would still be good, but keep in mind using some ships will be more effective than others.

What makes an officer good in fighting Swarm clusters

One of the things we consider most important is to have officers who can decrease their damage or increase our defenses.&nbsp;

Swarm weapons are very fast, and they will hit us several times in each round. If we can mitigate that damage, it would make us endure more combats before going to base for repairs.

So having this in mind, we will look for officers with abilities that make us endure more or give us advantages in PVE.

Decrease of Kinetic damage because Swarm clusters deal kinetic damage.

Mitigation of damage when fighting Hostiles.

Increase health, shield, and other defensive stats.

If you are below level 25, we assume that you may not have unlocked many epic or rare officers. So you may not be able to get the best Swarm crew.&nbsp;

Luckily the following crews will help you in your battles against the Swarm. Besides, these crews are also effective in PVE when fighting other hostiles.&nbsp;

Increases effectiveness of Captain Maneuver by 4%

Decreases opponent's damage by 10%

Increases the Shield Health of the ship by 5%

Kinetic opponent's damage is reduced by 5%

Increases all Mitigation stats against non-player targets by 20%

When fighting Hostiles, restores Shield Health each round equal to&nbsp;200%&nbsp;of the Health of all Officers on the ship.

When fighting Hostiles, increases Armor, Shield Deflection, and Dodge by&nbsp;150%&nbsp;of the Defense of all Officers on the ship.

The following crews are not sorted by any order, we provide several crews that are effective against the Swarm, but it's up to you to decide what's best for you, depending on what officers you own.

For example, if you don't have Jaylah or a Franklin ship, those crews wouldn't make sense for you. However, even if you have Jaylah but have other officers with higher-tier promotions, maybe that's a better option for you.

This crew it's even more powerful because of the Shakedown Cruise synergy that Marlena Moreau and Pike share, they get +40% of effectiveness in their abilities.

Decreases the Armor Piercing, Shield Piercing and Accuracy of Hostiles by 30%

Check this guide for more info about best swarm crews, for beginners and advance players. Updated with last Lower Deck officers

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