PlateUp! 100% guide

PlateUp! has 26 achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore on the shared Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows Xbox achievement list. This route was checked against the current 1.5 update line, including 1.5.2 from August 11, 2026. Turning Up The Heat added Fajitas, Heat, Chill, and other game content without adding Xbox achievements.

• Online/co-op: not required. Every achievement can be earned solo, and none requires an online server.
• Missables: none permanently. PlateUp! is run-based, so a failed restaurant can erase that restaurant's setup, but every achievement opportunity can be rebuilt on a later run.
• Unobtainable/discontinued: none confirmed as of 2026-09-21.
• Practical run count: expect several short progression runs, one or more franchise-building runs, one Overtime 15 push, one chopping-recipe equipment hunt, and one fire-focused run. This is not a traditional one-playthrough game.
• Difficulty requirements: none. There are no difficulty-specific achievements and no mandatory New Game+ run.
• Point of no return: there is no permanent campaign point of no return. During a restaurant day, however, letting the restaurant fully fail can end that run.
• Safe retry: if a valuable day is collapsing, pause before the restaurant shuts down, choose Save & Return to HQ, reload the restaurant, and retry the day from preparation.
• Current 1.5 Chill mode is optional and can materially reduce customer pressure, but Xbox achievement eligibility while Chill is active remains unverified. This route therefore does not depend on Chill for any achievement.

Your permanent profile level unlocks the achievement-related recipes. The important levels are Salad at 2, Pizza at 3, Black Coffee at 4, Burger at 5, Pie at 7, Fish at 9, Hot Dog at 11, Breakfast at 13, and Stir Fry at 15.

When an unlocked recipe is not showing on the Headquarters shelf, enter the Tutorial and leave it again. That refreshes the offered recipes and floorplans.

Before Level 5, the clean progression method is to play until you have taken one or more card choices, then let the run end and bank the card experience. At Level 5, Autumn becomes available. Autumn starts each run with an experience-bearing Community card, so repeatedly starting an Autumn restaurant and abandoning it is a fast legitimate profile-level shortcut. Use it only if you want to skip the normal progression grind; otherwise ordinary restaurant runs will eventually reach Level 15.

Do these before your first serious restaurant. The Tutorial can be replayed from Headquarters, so neither is missable.

Choose Steak for the first restaurant. During preparation, arrange the kitchen before worrying about the day itself.

You can combine the next three achievements on Day 1, but there is no penalty for splitting Work Smart into a second fresh Steak restaurant if your first layout is awkward.

For the one-tile setup, choose the tile where you will stand when the day begins. During preparation, place every station you need within interaction reach of that tile: Steak supply, hob, plates, sink, a counter if useful, and a dining table or serving position you can reach without stepping away. Preparation movement does not matter; movement after the customer phase begins does.

Once your profile reaches Level 2, refresh the Headquarters recipe shelf if necessary and start a Salad restaurant.

At Level 3, start a Pizza restaurant.

Level 4 unlocks Black Coffee. There is no achievement for serving coffee, but it is one of the best utility recipes for several later achievements because it needs no dirty plates and automates cleanly.

Do not spend hours forcing the automation achievements yet. Start watching for Conveyors, Grabbers, Research Desks, Blueprint Desks, and useful cabinets during any longer Black Coffee run, but complete the profile-level shortcut first if you want the fastest route.

Level 5 unlocks Burger and the Autumn setting.

If speed matters, switch to Autumn. Start an Autumn restaurant with any recipe and floorplan, load into the restaurant, then use Abandon from the pause menu so the starting Community card is converted into profile experience. Repeat until your profile reaches the next required recipe levels.

This shortcut is repetitive but dramatically faster than playing full restaurants only for profile XP. If your current build ever stops awarding the starting card's XP when abandoning, stop using the loop and return to ordinary runs; do not waste time repeating a non-paying cycle.

Start a Black Coffee restaurant on a floorplan with enough room to spread tables and build automation. Coffee eliminates dishwashing, which makes the next achievements easier to isolate.

Prioritize a Research Desk early. If a Blueprint Desk becomes available through research, it is especially useful because it lets you lock a needed Conveyor or Grabber instead of waiting only on the normal shop.

For the first serious long run, use whichever simple recipe you handle best. Black Coffee is mechanically simple because it has no dirty plates. Fish is also a strong option if you are comfortable cooking it because many useful food cards reduce expected customer groups.

On every card choice, prioritize manageable cards that reduce Expected Groups, especially -15% group cards. Do not take a complicated food modifier merely because it reduces groups if it will break your production line.

Build toward automation rather than decorations. Research Desk, Blueprint Desk, Grabbers, useful table upgrades, extra prep capacity, and faster production have more completion value than cosmetic comfort.

For Black Coffee, a strong late-run goal is a chain of Coffee Machines and Grabbers that continually moves cups through machines so completed coffees are waiting near the dining area. Keep the dining side compact and reduce walking distance. Avoid adding drink variants or extras unless the alternative card would be worse for customer volume.

Use Save & Return to HQ before a day fully fails whenever you want to retry the same day. This is the main safety net for the Overtime push.

After clearing Day 15, continue into Overtime until you are ready to end the run. When the restaurant eventually closes, choose the franchise option rather than scrapping every card.

Start your strongest franchise and play through Day 15 into Overtime. The target achievements care about reaching the named Overtime day, not clearing that day.

Chill can substantially reduce customer pressure in the current 1.5 line, but Xbox achievement eligibility while Chill is active remains unverified. Do not rely on Chill for this push.

Start a recipe that genuinely uses chopping, such as Salad or Stir Fry. This matters because Sharp Knife is tied to runs where active recipes need cutting.

Build a Research Desk and, if possible, a Blueprint Desk. Keep Trainers whenever they appear. Keep hunting until you have both Trainers and a Sharp Knife.

Do not confuse Sharp Knife with Sharp Cutlery. Sharp Cutlery is a dining-table item and does not satisfy the achievement.

Start a simple cooked-food restaurant such as Steak. Build a Research Desk, store a Hob blueprint in a Blueprint Cabinet, and research it into a Danger Hob. If the research produces a Safety Hob, keep cycling or researching another Hob until you have a Danger Hob.

Preserve unneeded Counters, Desks, Bins, and other appliances instead of discarding them. Fireman counts burning appliances broadly, so these become fuel for the fire setup.

Do not attempt Oh No first. Setting a customer on fire normally destroys the run, so complete the two day-ending fire achievements before sacrificing the restaurant.

Wait for a manageable day and serve everyone except the final table. Move the Danger Hob into an isolated area that still has at least 10 expendable appliances packed around it. Keep the equipment needed to finish the final order safely away from the fire.

Overcook an item on the Danger Hob until it ignites, then let the fire spread.

Keep the Danger Hob run alive if you still need Charcoal Factory. Continue shopping and rerolling for a Gas Override. The Xbox achievement description uses the older name “Gas Safety Override” for this appliance. A Blueprint Desk can shorten the hunt if one appears in its rotation.

Place the Gas Override so its pipe faces the Danger Hob. Rotate it before the day if necessary.

After every other useful achievement in this restaurant is finished, place the Danger Hob directly beside a dining chair that will be occupied.

At this point you should have all 26 achievements and 1,000 Gamerscore.

If something is missing, use the achievement's dependency rather than starting random restaurants:

• Missing recipe achievement: refresh the Headquarters shelf through the Tutorial, start that unlocked recipe, and serve one correct order.
• Missing automation achievement: use Black Coffee and Practice Mode to rebuild the conveyor or grabber setup without customer pressure.
• Missing Safety Last: use a chopping recipe and a Blueprint Desk to target the Sharp Knife while keeping Trainers.
• Missing Charcoal Factory: preserve a Danger Hob run and hunt only for Gas Override, called “Gas Safety Override” in the Xbox achievement description.
• Missing This Is Fine or Fireman: rebuild one Danger Hob fire day and leave the final customer unserved until every fire condition is visibly satisfied.
• Missing Overtime milestone: strengthen the franchise with lower-customer cards, then retry from the last safe restaurant state instead of restarting profile progression.

There are no DLC or title-update achievements outside this 26-achievement, 1,000G list as of 2026-09-21.