# PlateUp! The Buffet Update

- Product: PlateUp! (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/plateup)
- Vendor: It's happening
- Date: 2025-12-11
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1599600/view/503969476816930344
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/plateup/releases/2025-12-11-the-buffet-update

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- **added** — Christmas Treats seasonal setting with elves, turkey, fairy lights, and cats wearing santa hats
- **added** — North Pole map returns with conveyors and daily/weekly run availability
- **added** — New appliance for the Christmas seasonal setting
- **added** — Banquet Hall map, the largest layout featuring an open plan design with double doors and a long serving hatch
- **added** — Buffet appliance that allows customers to serve themselves without staff intervention
- **added** — Sandwiches as a new base main dish using piecemeal ordering system
- **added** — Ice Cream Sundaes as a new base dessert dish with piecemeal serving
- **added** — Dish variants system allowing choice between two extra cards when taking Ice Cream Sundae card
- **added** — Ability to split up item groups such as tomato/lettuce and ice cream scoops
- **added** — Reflections on mirrors for PC platforms
- **added** — LiveSplit integration on all PC platforms
- **changed** — Cards that make dishes harder now increase the price customers will pay for them
- **changed** — Balance changes to eight base dishes including tomato, mushroom, and onion
- **changed** — Turkey Stuffing buffed for Christmas
- **changed** — Order delivery re-implemented to enable customers to take parts of servings and accept items while their table has something on it
- **changed** — Music implementation reworked to fix bugs with tracks not being picked correctly during seasonal content
- **changed** — Improved pathability detection for buffets and host stands
- **changed** — Improved networking stability on all platforms especially PS5 and Switch
- **fixed** — Spaghetti and Tacos now correctly show up in Autumn settings
- **fixed** — Grabber ordering is now reliable so complex automation is not affected randomly when adding new conveyors
- **fixed** — Bug where shoes could remain after the restaurant ended

##### Welcome to **The Buffet.**

A wide selection of new content, balance changes, seasonal fun and more!

**The Buffet **is live now, bringing you...

##### 🎄Christmas Treats

It's Christmas time again, and that means elves, turkey, fairy lights, and cats wearing santa hats.

This year we're bringing back the North Pole map _and_ introducing a brand-new seasonal setting (more on that later). On these maps, the shop will offer a treat every day, with conveyors coming back to the North Pole, and a brand-new appliance for the brand-new setting (more on that later, too).

Both settings are available as daily/weekly runs and in the setting selector during the Christmas period.

##### 🚪🚪Banquet Hall

**PlateUp's **newest, largest (and double dooriest) map, the **Banquet Hall** is a new layout and setting.

If you want to serve as many customers as you can, as fast as you can, then this layout is for you. With an open plan, it's perfect for building big. The kitchen might be narrow, but it's easy to get into, with new double doors and a long serving hatch.

Keep your ovens hot, though, because the cold climate makes for some impatient customers.

##### 🍲Buffets

Since the dawn of time, front-of-house staff everywhere have only dared to wonder _why can't they just fetch their own food?_

Wonder no longer.

The new **Buffet** appliance enables you to serve customers without actually doing any of the work yourself. Placing an order on the buffet will allow customers to make their own way up and serve themselves.

Be prepared for the mess, though. At least before it was only around the tables.

##### 🔧New Mechanics

We've tweaked some old favourites.

We've twiddled some worst nightmares.

We've told customers to ignore the dirty dishes.

##### 💰Pay What You Want

(Where _you_ are the restaurant owner, and _what you want_ is extra coins for cards that make dishes harder).

For too long, customers have demanded more variety, more quality, and more difficult dishes from you. That changes now.

Unless they're paying, obviously. In this patch, cards that make dishes harder now increase the price customers will pay for them.

With changes to eight base dishes, this balancing update means more money for slices of tomato, mushroom, onion, and many others.

(We even buffed **Turkey Stuffing**, but that's only because it's Christmas)

##### 🥪Sandwiches

**PlateUp**'s most-requested dish is now here!

**Sandwiches** are a new base main dish in this update, with a focus on serving simple ingredients as quickly as you can. Using the new piecemeal ordering system, customers will request each part of their sandwich in turn, keeping things clear and keeping you on your toes.

Pair them with buffets to create a sandwich free-for-all, stick your tables in the serving hatch for a classic sandwich bar, or serve at the table for a fancy... sandwich restaurant? The choice is yours.

##### 🍨Ice Cream Sundaes

What better to top off your sandwiches with than some ice cream? This update brings a new base dessert dish, **Ice Cream Sundaes**.

Using the new piecemeal serving, customers will request scoop after scoop of ice cream, topping and sauce for you to bring.

Ice Cream Sundaes also debut the new _dish variants_ -- when taking the Ice Cream Sundae card, you'll get a choice of two extra cards to take, letting you play exactly how you want to. You can take it easy with simple scoops, or go the extra mile and make the ice cream yourself (and charging a premium, of course).

##### 😋Extra Helpings

We really hope you enjoy all the new content in this patch. We're looking forward to cooking up more updates, more frequently, now that most of the issues with the console versions have been kneaded out. We've got lots of ideas about what will be next out the oven, and we've been pouring over all the suggestions you gave us during the last update.

It hasn't always been the smoothest pastry this year. We made the choice to spend a lot of time on technical i

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