Pizza House Simulator Fryer Line and Sides
Run the day-one fryer bay, wine pass, and new toppings without starving the pizza stone.
Launch week for Pizza House Simulator did not only ship a prettier Amalfi street. The day-one kitchen reveal put a full fryer line on the board—fries, onion rings, and chicken tenders—plus wine service on the floor and a wider topping list that includes cheddar, roast beef, pineapple, shrimp, basil, and mozzarella. This guide is how those stations fit beside the pizza loop. It is not a replacement for How to Make Pizza. If dough-sauce-oven still collapses under one ticket, fix that first via Getting Started.
Why the fryer exists next to the stone
A pizza-only line is honest but brittle. When dinner stacks, sides buy you a few seconds of guest patience and a second ticket type that does not wait on bake timers. Wine and soft drinks turn a seated table into a revenue stack without another pie. The trap is obvious: six players (or one overloaded solo) chase the fryer while the oven burns. Treat sides as a parallel lane, not a new religion. In co-op, assign a fryer owner the way you assign oven—use the role planner. Solo owners should batch sides between pizza peaks, not during stretch.
Staff roles published for launch include Porter, Fryer, and Assembler. If you hire into Fryer before your pizza lane is staffed, you are decorating with payroll. Pair this page with staff and hiring and the three-tier station climb in kitchen upgrades.
Running the fryer without a grease fire
- Stock the bay before service the same way you stock flour. Empty oil mid-rush is a wipe with worse smell.
- Drop baskets in batches that match ticket timing. Do not fill every cage “just in case.”
- Drain, salt, and plate as a single motion. The pass is not a holding shelf for soggy fries.
- Keep a repair path clear. Fryers break like ovens; disasters do not care which station you romanticize—see How to Survive Disasters.
- If the fryer is the only station with a free hand during Rush Hour, that person also watches trash and floor grease.
Onion rings and tenders share the heat culture of fries but not the plating rhythm. Learn one item cold, then add the second during a quiet lunch. Launch marketing treated the fryer as a headliner; your save should treat it as a controlled valve.
Wine, drinks, and the floor pass
Wine service is a floor job. The kitchen that sends wine from the stone will miss both. In six-player lobbies, front-of-house owns glasses and upsells while the Assembler stays on toppings. Solo: park wine for tables that already have a pie in the oven so you are not walking twice. Soft drinks and fizzy bottles from the demo loop still matter—restock them on the computer run that also buys flour.
New toppings without a chaos menu
Cheddar, roast beef, pineapple, shrimp, basil, and mozzarella expand what tickets can demand. They do not expand your prep brain on day one. Keep a mental “core four” you can fire blind, then add specialty pies after you read recipes. Basil pots got larger interaction surfaces in patch 1.005 because herb clicks were eating tickets—if basil still fights you, verify files before blaming layout.
News shocks still hit produce. Shrimp and pineapple can be expensive punchlines if you ignored radio and newspapers. The money layer lives on loans and stocks. Do not fund a shrimp special with a loan you took to buy a statue.
Upgrade and motto interactions
Station upgrades run three tiers and change how the bay operates, not only a percentage. A fryer tier that “makes the job dramatically easier” is worth more than a dining lamp while tenders are the bottleneck. Mottos that push profit will pressure you to upsell wine on every table; mottos that push satisfaction may punish greasy floors. Read playstyles before you swear a slogan that hates your fryer bay.
Automation can eventually steal fryer verbs. Buy that only after pizza automation is sane—Kitchen Automation. Cosmetics for the fryer hood wait until customize is a victory lap, not a cry for help.
Shift checklist for sides night
- Confirm oil, baskets, and plates before doors.
- Name who owns fryer versus stone.
- Decide which two sides are on the “always ready” list.
- Park wine on floor, not on dough.
- After close, ask whether sides saved tickets or stole them. Buy upgrades for the answer you got, using the first-shift checklist.
Hardware that stutters will fake a slow fryer. Confirm system requirements and the Deck notes on Steam Deck if you host from a handheld. Official store: Links Hub. Parent index: Guides Hub.
The embedded walkthrough is a full kitchen pass—watch for how the bay sits beside the stone, then run one lunch where sides never outrank a waiting pie.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers drawn from the kitchen loop, co-op lobbies, and economy systems.
Should I unlock the fryer before a second oven path?
Only if sides are already the named bottleneck. Most week-one saves still need oven and repair first.
Who should own wine in co-op?
Front-of-house. The Assembler and oven players should not leave the line to pour.
Do shrimp and pineapple change the core loop?
They change tickets and cost spikes, not the dough-sauce-oven verbs. Learn them after the core four is automatic.