Pizza Ready! Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Build the Biggest Pizza Empire in the World

There will be a higher chance of encountering people arguing about whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza than actually finding people who hate pizza. Even in the world of fiction, pizza is loved by numerous characters like Garfield, Homer Simpson, Scooby-doo & Shaggy, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just to name a few. We do not recall, however, ever discovering any fictional character who despises pizza.

Desire for pizza is almost a common craving for just about everyone and while most people may not dream about working at a pizzeria, owning and running one or several pizza joints can be a fantasy that most people can jump into. If getting a good feel of what it’s like to run a continuously growing pizza company without the risks of loss and hassles of business complexities sounds interesting to you, then Supercent’s Pizza Ready! ought to be an appealing virtual adventure you can jump into.

Pizza Ready! Is a hyper-casual idle clicker business game and plays very much like Burger Please!, which we played and covered a couple of months back. If you are a type of gamer who is into complex mechanics and gameplay that requires folds of free time to progress, then this is probably not for you but if you enjoy adventures that are as simple as can be and take only a few minutes each dive to make progress in, then you will certainly take a liking to Pizza Ready!.

Like the most popular idle clicker business sim games on mobile, Pizza Ready! Is a fun hyper-casual adventure fit for just about anyone, regardless of gaming skill level. There is hardly any tutorial involved save for the initial arrows pointing you to where you need to go. The 1-tap and hold controls are as basic as they can get and with no chances of losing, everyone is guaranteed to grow their virtual business regardless of what they do.

As simple and easy as it is to make good progress in Pizza Ready!, there is an almost irresistible urge to ceaselessly improve your pizza empire one after another, either through training people or through purchasing upgrades for the pizza joint. If you are among those virtual tycoons who are driven to have the top pizza empire fast, then our Pizza Ready! Guide will come in handy!

1. Work A Bit Before Automation

As a budding entrepreneur, you will start in Pizza Ready! with only a handful of cash which is just about enough to begin operations on your first pizzeria. Your pizzeria will naturally be bare after you open it but you can surely expect the vast, space to eventually be filled with restaurant furniture and equipment and will have an unlimited supply of customers.

The business will seem slow for starters as you put on a one-man show, tending to your customers through the serving counter and also refilling your supply of pizza from the oven. With a bit of work, you will quickly earn enough cash to hire some help and will subsequently be able to earn cash idly even if you do nothing.

Your first staff will man the counter and the next crew will help bring pizza from the oven to the counter. There will be plenty of other tasks to perform as you make progress and there will likewise be plenty more staff to hire. As a huge plus, hiring staff only requires a one-time payment, which means that you can quickly earn back the cash you invested into the extra personnel for your pizzeria.

Following the necessities of a counter, an oven, and a set of tables and chairs for your dining customers, you are on your way to start streaming profits. We consider having more than enough personnel as the next most important goal to ensure that customers at the counter are served, pizza from the oven is transported to the counter, and dining tables are cleaned up for the next customers.

Having people to work with you without rest is the way to automate your business in Pizza Ready!. Once you start your adventure and each time you venture into a new pizzeria, you should consider automating operations first before you take a break from the game. As a casual game, you can expect to be able to set it all up in just a few minutes so if you do not have a lot of free time for the moment, you can take a break at this point.

2. Get All The Free Upgrades

Automation is just the initial step towards growing your small pizza business into a chain of pizzerias that ultimately make up your pizza empire. Starting to earn income sure is a stimulating experience but Pizza Ready!, just like almost every other idle clicker business sim game, makes it so that your adventure is not just about earning income given that you have always been bound to do so. Your never-ending quest, so to speak, is to generate as much income as possible in the shortest period, and to do so, you always have to engage every avenue that contributes to an increase in income.

Early on following the grand opening of your pizzeria, you will be able to unlock 2 upgrade rooms inside the store, typically in its upper right corner. These are the HR and Upgrade offices and each offers a set of 3 upgrades to improve your business performance. HR relates to upgrades that apply to your crew or helpers while the Upgrade room offers upgrades for your virtual manager. Each upgrade option has 5 levels of upgrades with each succeeding upgrade costing exponentially higher than the last one. One of the first-level upgrades for each office will be free and the rest can be purchased in cash.

Although you can always opt to spend cash on the manager and personnel upgrades, we recommend taking on the ad offers as an alternative even just for the expensive ones. Surely enough, you can easily afford the first or the first 2 levels of upgrades for each option but there are plenty of other expenditures within your business that you can spend cash on. Likewise, the ad offers will only require 15 to 30 seconds, which in most instances will be shorter than the amount of time it would take you to rack up the same amount of cash.

It’s safe to say that each of the upgrade options is of equal importance although prioritization between the 2 main groups should be based on how you engage in the pizza business operations. If you are currently relying a lot on your employees and idle income, then the HR upgrades should be your priority. On the other hand, if you are taking a very active role in tending to your customers, then you should go for the manager upgrades first.

Both sets of upgrades have Move Speed and Capacity. Move Speed increases the walking speed of the people so upgrading this for the HR will speed up all your workers and upgrading it for yourself allows you to move faster. Capacity relates to how many items you can carry at once. While both these upgrade options do not directly increase your income, an improvement in either one speeds up your pizzeria’s operations. A higher carrying capacity means less travel and a faster walking speed means faster travel, ultimately leading to having more customers tended to in the same period and generating income at a much faster rate.

For the HR Upgrades, the third option lets you recruit more crew members and more crew members means more people to help around. Considering that your pizzeria operates without breaks, even if you are offline and away from the game, having as many people working leaves little room for unproductive moments. Surely enough, no one from among your crew can work as efficiently as you can but still, more staff is better regardless of whether or not you are working or not.

The third upgrade option for the owner or manager is a direct boost to profits. At first glance, this upgrade option will appear to be the most attractive. After all, a direct boost to profits does ensure that every bit of customer you cater to will yield more cash. You can always choose to prioritize this over all other upgrades but, chances are, that you will also be inclined to purchase the rest of the upgrades to exponentially increase this upgrade’s effects.

With just the 2 offices offering upgrades, there are a total of 30 upgrades available. With the first 2 being free without having to watch a video ad, the 28 remaining upgrades would only take about 14 minutes of your time at max if each ad played takes the full length of 30 seconds. If you can, we recommend maxing out all these upgrades at the soonest so you can enjoy earning profits and purchasing the rest of the pizzeria upgrades.

There are also free upgrades outside of the offices that appear randomly. We also recommend taking advantage of those opportunities even if you have sufficient cash to purchase the upgrade. Each pizzeria you open will have an abundance of upgrades that need to be purchased so until such time that you have no more pending upgrades, you should take every opportunity to secure ones for free.

3. Leave As Little Idle Cash As Possible

Although the need or love for money may not be at equal intensity for every person in real life, virtual currencies for gamers are always of high importance, especially for gamers who are too immersed in an adventure and would want to stock up on currencies and items as much as they can. The natural tendency for gamers is to hoard cash and items for later use and while this mindset usually proves to be helpful in games belonging to other genres, it is not a recommended plan of action in idle clicker games.

Going back to the core mechanics of idle clicker games, the idea is that you will continue to earn cash regardless of how you handle your business. Again, it takes a little time to set up your business to automate operations and start earning cash idly but the idea is that there is nothing in the entire adventure that would make an earlier decision to dispense cash become a regrettable moment. With cash continuously pouring in, your reserves of idle capital will continue to grow and even if you enjoy watching your stash of cash earn more zeroes, it is the least productive way of managing them.

There are no expenses in Pizza Ready!. Sure, you will have to spend cash for upgrades here and there, but all of these expenditures count as investments. More so, every investment in Pizza Ready! is a guaranteed win as it assures that the cash you invested will lead to a return on income plus profits. With this said, the sooner you invest your idle cash on any upgrade, the sooner you will reap its rewards, and emptying your supply of empty cash ultimately means maxing out realizable profits moving forward.

4. Follow The Basic Investment Scheme

After automating your pizzeria’s operations by hiring sufficient crew members and establishing a mindset of keeping your idle cash to a minimum has been established, the next concept you should focus on is how to invest your cash strategically. Just like how income is earned regardless of your performance, income increases regardless of which upgrade option you invest in first.

At this point, we are going beyond simply earning profits or even increasing profits as our goal for employing strategies in investing is to maximize returns on our cash investments. This is not necessary for players who just want to have pure, casual fun and is only a must for raging tycoons who want to be on the top of the game at the soonest possible time.

The most basic investment strategy in Pizza Ready! and just about any other idle clicker business sim game, is to prioritize the cheapest upgrade option first. If you weren’t particularly keen on maxing out the sets of upgrades for the staff and the manager you control, then those upgrade options can also fall within the choices to invest in with your earned cash. There are plenty of available upgrade choices outside the offices like additional ovens and improvements on it, the counter, as well as the take-out section of your pizzeria. New sets of tables and chairs are also available from time to time.

For one, having this investment prioritization scheme can serve as your guide towards progression. Considering that every opportunity for expanding your pizzeria has the same benefits, it can be a challenge to decide which one to work on first. In essence, the cheapest to most expensive approach towards purchasing upgrades follows the most practical way of improving services.

It is a given that every subsequent upgrade will cost a lot more than the previous one but its effects stay the same. Like the tables and chairs as example, purchasing a new one will cost a lot more than the previous one but it does not have any added effects. What happens is that you will be able to cater to an extra set of customers and increase profits at the same rate for a higher investment cost.

By choosing to put your idle cash on the cheapest available upgrade option, you ultimately end up being able to make more purchases with the same amount of cash invested. As we are considering the effects of each upgrade to be of the same value, utilizing this strategy yields you more upgrades purchased with the same amount of cash.

Pizza Ready! provides players with some opportunities to obtain huge lumps of cash in an instant. In some idle clicker games, we would recommend taking these occasions as an exception to our general rule and instead invest in the more expensive upgrades. However, for Pizza Ready!, we prefer to stay on our basic strategy of choosing cheaper upgrades first even if you have tons of cash at the ready.

The instant lumps of cash you can obtain can help you purchase several upgrades at a time so be sure to ready yourself for them and keep a plan of priorities while waiting for these huge cash drops. The first instance takes place when you have been offline and away from the game for a while. Although it won’t be as much, your pizzeria will continue to earn income up to a cap. When you get back into the game you can obtain the idle income as is or you can also play a short video ad to double the amount instantly.

In addition to the very tempting offer, there is also an idle profit upgrade available here that you can nab after playing a short video ad for it. These are permanent upgrades that increase your idle income so if you can spare a bit of time more before diving back into your game, be sure to take advantage of this.

While moving around your fast food restaurant, you will occasionally see floating icons randomly pop up. These all form part of Pizza Ready’s ad campaign and by playing a short video ad, you can gain instant cash or obtain temporary buffs that improve operations drastically. Although the pot of cash is the one we find most attractive, experiencing the other boosts occasionally is a great treat as well.

Some icons are evident enough to bolster movement speed and these temporary speed boosts more than double your walking speed. Just imagine how fast you can go after maxing out your movement speed from purchasing the upgrades and then grabbing this boost. There are also temporary boosts that further increase carrying capacity so if you have yet to max out this stat and need to temporarily boost it, be sure to grab the gloves when it appears.

5. Perform The Manager Role Efficiently

Even if you haven’t worked as a service crew in a fast food restaurant, you have probably been to many different fast food establishments more than enough times to see how managers and supervisors perform at work. In contrast with supervisors and managers working with other industries, being a senior-level employee in the fast food industry does not limit your work duties exclusively to management and supervision.

Being a higher-level staff in a fast food establishment means being very knowledgeable across every possible task within the restaurant and Pizza Ready! incorporates this concept into the game rather splendidly. Surely enough, business operations will be well enough even if you just stood by and watched each of the staff go about their respective duties but even after maxing out all the available upgrades for them, you just can’t expect any of them to perform half as efficiently as you can.

The personnel you hire to help around in your business, for starters, move about at a much slower pace than you do. Although those assigned at counters perform an okay job, the service crew you find moving about helping wherever they can pause a little while performing their task. For example, if a staff will takes some pizza from the oven to the ordering counter, he pauses a bit after taking the pizza and makes another quick halt once he gets to the counter. In some cases, if you perform the job that a crew is about to take on, they will have a snooze icon to indicate that they are figuring out what they should do next.

Your fast food joint earns cash with every customer served, whether they dine in or order from the drive-thru. You would normally see stacks of cash from the counters as well as from the tables the customers used and these are like tips that form part of your extra income, which is usually the bigger source of cash. You can rely on your staff for just about any task save for picking up cash. As an efficient manager, the responsibility of grabbing cash from time to time entirely rests on you.

Naturally, being around the workplace and moving about to collect cash should not be your exclusive concern on top of the occasional upgrades and boost grabs. Efficiency will dictate that you help out across all other tasks as much as you can as well. As an example, you may want to pick up some pizza from the oven to take to the counter before claiming the pile of cash beside it. As you move around the sets of tables to grab some more cash, it would be a big help to collect trash as well and drop it off in the trash bin.

After spending some time moving about within your sizable fast-food restaurant, you should be able to establish an efficient route to take. As an example, you can pick up some pizza from the oven and take them to the dine-in counter then grab the cash left at the counter. You can then grab another batch of pizzas to take to the packaging counter and then take some boxes to the take-out section, grabbing cash that has been accumulated there.

You will ultimately be setting up a lot of tables even in your first shop, catering to several customers at a time. You can zigzag through the tables to grab some cash and some trash, preparing the seats for the next batch of customers. Finally, you can head to the trash bin and back to the oven to restart the cycle.

An efficient manager in Pizza Ready! is almost always attributable to someone who is always actively moving about. After all, operations never come to a halt, and doing your share of the tasks is what keeps business operations like a well-oiled machine. Roving through the pizzeria is almost always a good thing but efficiency will also dictate that you have to watch your step very carefully.

You as the manager, as well as every crew member you hire in Pizza Ready! will only be able to carry 1 item at a time. For the first shop, which is a pizzeria, you can carry pizza, a boxed pizza, or some trash left by dine-in customers. Even if you only picked up 1 wrapper and should be able to carry 10 pizzas given your current capacity, you will not be able to do so until after you throw the wrapper into the trash bin and sometimes, this simple mechanic can be a little distractive to your business operations.

The same goes when it comes to investing cash into any section of the shop. It can happen that you are already planning on purchasing one upgrade and saving some cash for it but then you accidentally step on the upgrade box for another section, unintentionally unloading your supply of cash into it. Lastly, you may not be in any mood to grab the littered boosts that trigger video ads at the moment but if you accidentally walk into them and stay there for a bit, the ad campaign may trigger. You can still opt out of it save for when it is a free upgrade for a section.

Surely enough, your Pizza establishment will perform just fine even if you just stood by idly while playing the game. However, if you are raring to move forward and unlock the next restaurant to build and develop, then being a hands-on owner and manager is the best way to go.

6. Revisit Earlier Stores For Extra Cash

Although it feels only right to max out every possible upgrade in your pizzeria before moving on to the next location, Pizza Ready! will allow you to open up your next fast food location even before doing so. Some idle clicker business sim games are designed in such a way that moving on to a new location means forgetting about the current one. In Pizza Ready!, however, you can and should revisit your different fast food restaurants regularly.

Opening up a fast-food restaurant in a new location feels like starting over. From opening up the shop to initially doing all the work before you get to hire your first staff, it requires a bit of effort to run the fast food joint all on your own. What is good about Pizza Ready!, though, is that it is not much of a rest like in other idle clicker business sim games as you get to take your earnings from your other restaurants and invest it in the new one.

The cost of opening a new section or purchasing upgrades in the new location is expectedly higher than in your previous store but then earnings are also increased and you also get to enjoy idle earnings from all your other business establishments. There is a map icon at the upper left side of your screen, which is your portal to see the city map along with businesses you have opened up. Once you have more than one restaurant up and running, you should make it a habit to click on this icon and fast-travel to your other restaurants to claim idle earnings.

Idle income in Pizza Ready! isn’t just earned whenever you are offline and away from the game. Just like how your fast food establishment continuously earns profit even when you stand still, each of the restaurants you unlock will continue to earn cash even if you are not tending to them. With this, it becomes important to make a habit out of cycling through your earlier business establishments, and even a quick visit to grab some extra cash will be a big help towards purchasing upgrades for the business establishment you are currently working on.

7. Take Advantage Of Ad Boosts

In all honesty, having video ads that pop up while you are playing can become an annoying experience if it happens too often and while it is understandable to free to play mobile games need advertisements to help support their continued availability and development, it is equally understandable for some players to be dismayed by seeing too many video ads.

Although Pizza Ready! hosts a lot of video ads, and some of these ads form part of its ad boost campaign. This means that while you will occasionally experience a random video ad pop-up while you are playing, chances are that most of the ads you will see are voluntarily triggered. We have mentioned a lot of the ad boosts contained in the game and how taking advantage of the ad offers can tremendously hasten your progression.

From the HR and manager upgrades down to the random upgrades and boost offerings that pop up inside your restaurant, the ad boosts that result in faster progression are a feature we recommend you take advantage although not a necessity to move forward in the game.

Considering everything, you can always opt to play and enjoy Pizza Ready! without seeing a single video ad. Pizza Ready! can be played and enjoyed completely offline and will run just the same even if you turn off your device’s Wi-Fi or mobile data. In doing so, however, you will not see any random video ads pop up but will also be unable to enjoy any of the ad campaign benefits.

On top of every ad boost feature that we have discussed above, Pizza Ready! also lets you customize your in-game avatar with different uniforms and costumes to liven up your immersion a little more. You can access the costumes through its icon on the upper right side of the screen and while a new crew uniform is unlocked with every new store you open, there are plenty of other costumes you can claim.

Costumes can be purchased with cash but each one, regardless of its price tag, can be unlocked and equipped by playing 3 video ads. Keep in mind that the costumes are not purely cosmetic as some have unique buffs that improve your profitability. Although it may take some time before you can unlock all the outfits even with the help of ads, we recommend picking the best one that complements your style and unlocking it ahead of everything else.

There are also some free stuff you can claim from the shop that you can access through the store icon at the upper right side of the screen. Some extra cash and skip ad tickets can be claimed by playing a short video ad for each one.

Even for a hyper-casual game, it would still take a lot of time for anyone to fully uncover what Pizza Ready! has to offer. For now, this is where we end our guide and we hope that our collection of tips and tricks will take you to the top of the virtual pizza business world. If you have immersed yourself in this adventure enough to discover some other cool tricks and strategies, don’t shy away and tell us all about them in the comments!