Food
Food is how you top up Energy immediately instead of waiting on regen. Eating an item removes it and restores its full Energy right away, even past your max; anything above your max is trimmed at your next regen tick.
Storage: the Lunchbox
All the food you own lives in your Lunchbox, which holds 100 items (120 for Donators). Identical food stacks into one card (Hero Hoagie ×12), and you eat straight from the stack, oldest first.
- Buying food goes straight into it. Once it holds 100, purchases are blocked until you eat or throw something out.
- Rewards (Energy Drinks, event treats and the like) always land, even if that takes you past 100.
- Your pets eat out of the same Lunchbox, so a few pets will get through a stack faster than you do.
- Lock a stack with the padlock in the corner of its picture. Locked food can't be eaten, fed to your pets or thrown away (the bin and its checkbox disappear, and Eat is greyed out). The lock covers that food, so any more of it you get later is locked too. Tap the padlock again to unlock.
Buying at the Bodega
Five everyday items, all bought at the Bodega. Price isn't fixed — it scales with your character level: price = floor(multiplier × (level + 3) ÷ 2). For reference, here's what each costs at level 50:
Buying at the Junkyard
One item, sold flat in Scraps instead of Cash, no level scaling:
Bought at the Junkyard, same as every other food item — straight into your Lunchbox, with a "fill the Lunchbox" option to buy as many as you have room and Scraps for in one go.
Buying at the Pawn Shop
One item, a flat price in Cash plus Pawn Points (PP), no level scaling:
Bought at the Pawn Shop and added straight to your Lunchbox. It's the one Pawn Shop item you can buy several of at once.
Rare & Special Food
Four items you can't just walk up and buy — each has its own specific source:
- Brawler Brunch — bought at the Penthouse's Lobby room (Penthouse access required), priced at double whatever Hero Hoagie costs you at the Bodega. The Lobby also has a "fill the trolley" option that buys enough at once to top off your whole Lunchbox in one go.
- Snow Cone & The Last Slice — both come from the same source: a rare 1.5% chance on any Exploring move, only while you're enrolled in the Alignment War with at least 1 War Point (or a block claimed in your name). When it triggers: 55% a Snow Cone, 35% a bonus of 50 Explore Turns, 10% The Last Slice. Four- and five-star Wire check-ins can turn up either one too.
- Energy Drink — the biggest single Energy item in the game. Redeem it at the Quick Stop for 1 Energy Drink Voucher + $5 cash, landing straight in your Lunchbox. Vouchers themselves are the rare part — winning MCC Championship as a fighter or bettor is one source, but staff can also hand them out for special events, downtime, or just as a random reward, so MCC isn't the only way to get one.
The Rooftop
If you have Penthouse access, working the Rooftop can randomly reward you with food too — any item in the game except Energy Drink, including the rare war-find items above. It's a genuine extra source for Brawler Brunch, Snow Cone, and The Last Slice on top of their normal sources, gated only by whether you have Lunchbox room to receive it.