Notice that none of the changes we are going to perform will disable the achievements. They are tied in with the variables of the file. However, ethically you know we are taking a shortcut so I would say don’t play into the leaderboard (when it launches) to gain an unfair advantage. These changes we are going to make are ONLY for the ‘Career’ portion. So, use this only if you want to complete your ‘Career’ faster. And I won't take responsibility for your Steam ban if you are found to be cheating, so again use this only & ONLY for the Singleplayer portion.

In this game, customer dealing time and chores timer are not as overwhelming as the last game, because they are parallel to how many 'Side dishes' and 'Negative-Buzz' you have {Yes, Negative-Buzz makes your customer more patient} so I think changing these two settings will impact the pacing of the game, and make game mechanics sluggish.

Regarding unlocking food in this game:

• {1} Every 5th level, then with 2 items every 10th level once you reach 5 stars. Player level goes
  up to 110. So if you manipulate the level value, do so 1 minus level you need to unlock i.e.
  level 4 or 9 because then when you level up, you would unlock a food. You may set YP to
  >90 but not over 100. Keep that in mind.
  
• {2} Getting gold medals in C4H mode; the more you already have, the more you need for the
  next unlock. (To unlock everything (provided you already have all the food from points 1 and
  3), you can miss 64 gold medals in total.)
  
• {3} At the last few milestones of some of the daily/overall challenges.

To get the save file to be created you will need to first start the game with the Steam Cloud functionality ON. Then, play a 'New Game' or existing one, that doesn’t matter. Complete the 'Day 1 Task,' or wherever you are on your game’s 'Campaign.' Then 'Save & Quit' the game. Your save file will be created, however in a Steam Cloud. Now, go to game’s properties (Steam Library > Cook, Serve, Delicious!> Right-Click to choose Properties). If you are there, go to Updates tab and disable the Steam Cloud by unticking the checkbox.

Now please refer to this; in order to find your Save file, you need to know the unique gameID which Steam assigns to every game. To find this code, go to your desktop and right-click on the game’s icon to open its properties and look for its URL, it will look something like this “steam://rungameid/386620.” This “386620” is your games ID.

Ok, if you have got to this far, now go to wherever your Steam folder is. Mine is on D: drive. Open Steam, please look for userdata folder and open your Steam userdata folder. This, too, is uniquely assigned so if you have multiple Steam accounts or someone else also uses Steam to play games on your PC, then you need to find your correct Steam userID. If that is the case, go here Steam ID Finder[steamidfinder.com] and follow search with either your Steam gamertag, or gamertag url or anything you wish. Then your Steam userID is written next to “steamID3”. You only need to know the nine digits portion after U:1:

Now, open the userdata folder and then open the folder with your steamID. Next, search and open the folder which corresponds to this game’s ID, 386620. Then open the ‘remote’ folder. You should see files based on save slots you have created. Since I am playing in ‘Save Slot 1’ my file name is “1S_CSD2_CloudSave” If you are using ‘Save Slot 2’ let’s say, then it will be ‘2S_CSD2_CloudSave’. Now open your file in notepad or equivalent software that lets you manipulate any file. It is here when we make our desired changes to the game’s systems.

Once you open this file, then you will see some variables names are confusing unlike the variables names of the previous game. I leave everything else by default, and things I change are ‘Yum Points,’ ‘Yum Level’, ‘Credits’ ‘Bronze’, ‘Silver’, ‘Gold’ and most importantly ‘C4H Shifts’ to buy new items and food varieties when they unlock in the ‘Campaign’ mode. I would only recommend you to change ‘Credits’ otherwise, the game will become very easy. I leave you guys to experiment with other variables since you may be able to guess what these other variables might be related to in-game. To those who only want the fast progress, and awesome food menu in a beautiful restaurant, then here what you need to do.

• To change the ‘Yum Level,’ do this;
  Look for: [MyPantry]
  Change: YL to YL="99.000000"
  
  {Make sure there are no spaces after the equal sign NOTE: I would strongly
  discourage you manipulating this one because food unlocks are tied to this, so if you change
  your level in early stages then you will not be able to unlock certain foods until you trigger the
  unlock by actually going through challenges in Chefs for Hire & Daily Bonuses mode. If you
  really want this badly and want this to work correctly check the note sections above.}
  
  
• To change the ‘Yum Points,’ do this;
  Look for: [MyPantry]
  Change: YP to YP="100.000000"
  
  {You can put anything; however, 3 digits are recommended and other than 100, meter will
  overflow NOTE: I again ask you not to do this, since this is tied to level and game
  progression}
  
  
• To change 'Credit' balance, do this;
  Look for: [MyPantry]
  Change: YPLT to YPLT="100000.000000"
  
  {Anything you desire, you can become the Bill Gates of this game}
  
  
• To change 'Bronze' medals, do this;
  Look for: [MyPantry]
  Change: YBRZ to YBRZ ="400.000000"
  
  {Anything you desire}
  
  
• To change 'Silver' medals, do this;
  Look for: [MyPantry]
  Change: YSILV to YSILV ="300.000000"
  
  {Anything you desire once again}
  
  
• To change 'Gold' medals, do this;
  Look for: [MyPantry]
  Change: YGLD to YGLD ="200.000000"
  
  {Anything you desire, for the last time, again}
  
  
• To change ‘C4H Shifts’ medals, do this;
  Look for: [C4H]
  Change: REST1 to REST1="3.000000"
  
  {Caution: Don't change value for REST0 because that is your Cook,Serve,Delicious
  Restaurant. Start from REST1 and You may go to as far as REST364. Value 3.000000 gets
  you a gold on a shift, whereas 2.000000, 1.000000 gets you silver and bronze medals
  respectively}

Now to wrap these changes, save your ideal file with your changes.Now go back to your Steam game library, and enable the cloud functionality for this game. This way the changes will be uploaded; start the game and choose to play from the Steam Cloud and if prompts comes to ask for overwrite, do it. From this point, you will be able to enjoy your game without any frustration. So, this how you make changes to stuff in-game. You are not limited. Therefore, you can do whatever changes you want. But these few changes alone make the game fun and not frustrating, that is why I didn’t change other variables. Thank you and enjoy your day chefs!

~ Cheers,
Mehkind

• 11/30/2019: No further update will be made to this guide. I apologize.
  
• 05/10/2019: Works with the new free Delish Update
  
• 10/27/2018: Passes the check, guide is updated for patch v2.60
  
• 09/28/2018: Guide still works with the latest balance patch v2.51
  
• 06/18/2018: Confirmed, guide works with the latest free expansion 'The Barista Update.'
  
• 03/30/2018: Edited the Note section of this guide to guide you how to unlock food.
  
• 03/26/2018: Added few more value manipulation. Confirmed, guide works with latest patch v1.6
  
• 08/18/2018: Edited the guide to be more readable and legible
  
• 11/27/2017: Fixed the grammatical errors of the guide