Lemonade Tycoon 2 Hints

At the start of "Lemonade Tycoon 2: New York Edition," you have a single bike-and-wagon lemonade stand in the Bronx, and your goal is to expand your lemonade empire throughout the city. You control every aspect of your business, from shopping for supplies and setting prices to scouting locations and marketing your stands. Exercise real-world business savvy in your virtual lemonade venture to increase your net profits.

Setting Stock

At the end of each day, you replenish your supply of lemons, sugar, ice and cups, and every stand has a cap for these supplies. You should always carry the maximum number of cups allowed, but tailor the remaining ingredients to your lemonade recipe. Your recipe uses enough lemons and sugar for a 10-cup pitcher, so multiply those two ingredients by the first digit of your cup allowance, then multiply your ice cubes by your whole cup maximum. If your recipe calls for eight lemons, three sugars and three ice cubes and your stand can sell 30 cups, you should buy 24 lemons, nine sugars and 90 ice cubes for the next day's sales. Avoid overstocking, because you can't exceed the maximum for any ingredient. Ice cubes melt overnight, lemons spoil after one day, and sugar spoils after three days, so don't buy more ingredients than you need.

Customer Feedback

The icons that appear over your customers' heads show their reactions to your lemonade stand. Some icons include a red dollar sign, which indicates that your price is too high, and a clock, which shows that your service is too slow. The "Snapshot" screen in your end-of-day report also includes detailed feedback from all of your customers. Use this feedback to experiment with your recipe and service details. For example, if many customers think that your lemonade has too many ice cubes, reduce the number of cubes in your recipe for the next day. Go with the majority view -- if only a handful of customers have a complaint, you don't have to alter your recipe.

Upgrades

Upgrades like signs and radios will attract customers, while an umbrella will protect them from foul weather. Each stand has an upgrade limit, so choose upgrades that will help your business the most, and sell ones that aren't effective. Most upgrades have a onetime cost, but others, like employee training, increase your daily overhead, so factor that into your decision.

Expansion

You can operate 10 lemonade stands throughout the city in "Lemonade Tycoon 2: New York Edition," and while each additional stand has the potential to increase your revenue, it also has its own overhead costs. Vendor permit costs for Manhattan locations are much higher than they are in the outer boroughs, so you'll have to buy stands with larger selling capacities to break even there. It takes a few days for a new stand to grow a following, so focus on turning a profit at a new stand before expanding further.