What happens if you level up food in Restaurant City?

Originally landed on: How to Get Ingredients in Restaurant City (Facebook Game)

Out of all the multitudes of flash simulation games on Facebook these days, Restaurant City is unique for its recipe collection activity. That is, you gather together 1-4 ingredients for a dish, then learn it at Level 1 to be able to serve it in your restaurant. If you gather nine more sets of ingredients for the same dish, you can level it up to 10. As you do so, the dish title changes (from "simple" to "royal") and the dish pattern underneath the food changes in your restaurant.

So what's the point of leveling it to 10?

Well, aside from the enjoyment of collecting things (ingredients) in order to make new things (servable dishes) while working together with your friends, higher level dishes also give you more XP. This allows you to level faster. Early on, faster leveling is important because it unlocks more restaurant space, staff, and gardening plots. For more advanced players, each new level rewards you with money, items, or ingredients.