You had to really look over the dining room to find the best possible place to seat people to maximize your score. In previous games, you would need to strategize by building up the bonus in one seat at a table, while matching up the rest of the table as best you could. For example, seating bonuses are basically handed to you on a silver platter as nearly every party that lines up for the restaurant is a perfect match for one of the tables. The problem is that the game gives you so many 'freebies' that it ends up negating any of the challenge the new elements promised. I'm sad to say that Boom left me very disappointed. When I previewed Boom last month, I was excited by the prospects of all these new elements and was looking forward to the added challenge they would bring to the already frenetic gameplay.

Those customers will then help themselves, meaning Flo doesn't need to take their order. Besides needing to be refilled, customers who want to visit the salad bar must be dragged to it. A third new item is the addition of a salad bar to some of the restaurants. Each of these elements requires Flo to secure tablecloths, put up umbrellas, or find Hal to help her fix things that are broken.

Another new gameplay feature is the presence of weather (rain and wind) and broken fire hydrants and switchboxes. A new addition to the gameplay is the presence of 'townies.' These are people who happen to be in the neighborhood of the restaurant and can be added to parties waiting in line to earn a bonus.

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