ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet Characters: Crew & Fan Guide

Which ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters can you meet?

Your favorite pirate might need a dinner reservation. More than 400 ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters appear as staff and customers, making your restaurant a gathering place for familiar faces from across the series. Understanding ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters helps you connect crew abilities, customer requests, and restaurant upgrades as you build Baratie Number Two.

You play a rookie staff member working alongside the Straw Hats. Sanji handles the kitchen, Luffy helps drive exploration, and the wider cast brings requests, recipe ideas, and unexpected conversations into your dining room.

The setup gives everyone a reason to get involved: an imitation Baratie is damaging the original restaurant’s reputation. Luffy and Sanji respond by helping establish a second restaurant, turning a modest floating business into a destination worth visiting.

Character or group	Place in the game
Sanji	Cooks dishes and helps develop the menu
Monkey D. Luffy	Explores for ingredients, items, and potential customers
Straw Hat Crew	Provides services that support restaurant operations
Familiar allies and villains	Visit, make requests, and participate in character interactions
Fake Straw Hat Crew	Drives the rival restaurant storyline
Giants of Elbaph	Appear among the game’s visiting faces

The cast reaches beyond headline pirates. Small supporting characters and obscure faces share space with major allies and antagonists, giving longtime fans plenty to recognize.

Buggy and Kuro appear within the recruitment side of the game, while characters such as Doflamingo, Eneru, Charlos, and Akainu bring some unusual company to the restaurant. Expect playful encounters across the series rather than a strict recreation of its timeline.

Official page: ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet (bandainamcoent.com)

Learn what each Straw Hat does for your restaurant

The Straw Hats give ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters a practical role in your daily decisions. Their services connect cooking, exploration, construction, training, and customer entertainment.

Additional crew members introduce more functions as they join. Pay attention to each arrival: a new Straw Hat can change what you can build, prepare, or accomplish on an expedition.

Crew member	Restaurant role
Sanji	Prepares meals and develops dishes
Luffy	Searches for ingredients, items, and customers
Zoro	Trains crew members so they can level up
Nami	Handles financial support and negotiations
Franky	Builds furnishings and expands the restaurant
Usopp	Crafts decorations and utensils for meals
Chopper	Helps sick or injured people
Brook	Performs music for customers
Jinbe	Transports people who become stuck elsewhere

Sanji and Luffy connect the kitchen to exploration

Sanji turns ingredients and meal ideas into dishes, including Water-Water Meat BBQ and Sea King Penne Gorgonzola. Other characters contribute inspiration, and Devil Fruit users can assist with special culinary creations.

Luffy’s expeditions bring back resources that feed those kitchen projects. Exploration also introduces potential customers and provides items you can give as gifts.

Check your ingredient needs before choosing an expedition. If a customer wants a particular dish, use that request to give your exploration a clear purpose.

Construction, crafting, and training support different goals

Franky’s work shapes the restaurant itself, while Usopp contributes flourishes for your meal sets. Keep those jobs in mind when deciding whether your next project concerns the dining room or the plate.

Zoro’s training supports crew development. Some expedition rewards require a particular crew member or sufficient levels, so train beyond your favorite character when you want to pursue more rewards.

Use Nami’s financial services when planning expensive additions. Construction and staffing create ongoing demands on your money, making her contribution relevant even when the dining room looks busy.

Chopper, Brook, and Jinbe widen the crew’s responsibilities further. Their presence gives the ship the feeling of a working Straw Hat operation, with different members contributing through their familiar talents.

Turn visiting characters into loyal fans

Meeting ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters starts a relationship you can develop through gifts, requests, food, and surroundings. A visitor can become a fan, and loyal fans can accompany your restaurant as it moves into new regions.

Character affection also connects to additional opportunities. Raising it can lead to new craftable items or introductions to other customers. Some visitors can eventually join the staff.

Read the request before changing your menu or rebuilding a section of the ship. A character seeking an item needs a different response from someone interested in a particular table setting.

Customer need	What to work on
A specific dish	Develop the requested food
A particular item	Check the items collected through exploration
A preferred table atmosphere	Adjust the relevant furniture and decorations
An interaction with another character	Work toward bringing that character aboard
Greater affinity	Give gifts and fulfill requests

Keep a short list of favorites you want to retain. Then check which requests you can already complete with your current ingredients, gifts, and furnishings.

Prioritize an actionable request before sending the crew after unrelated resources. Turning an existing visitor into a fan can be more immediately useful than adding another unfinished request to your list.

Relationships matter beyond individual rewards, too. Customers can introduce other characters, so helping one visitor can lead you toward another familiar face.

Before departing a region, review the visitors you still want to win over. Use the remaining time there to pursue their requests and build the relationships you care about.

Match food and decor to character preferences

ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters have preferences that make both the kitchen and dining room relevant to customer relationships. A restaurant filled with impressive furniture still needs dishes that satisfy specific requests.

You have more than 200 furniture, building, and decorative items to work with. Themes include dessert-inspired Whole Cake Island pieces and futuristic Egghead designs, giving you room to create very different dining spaces.

Feature	How it connects to characters
Character meal ideas	Provide inspiration for new dishes
Requested foods	Help fulfill individual customer requests
Devil Fruit assistance	Adds special contributions to cooking
Themed furniture	Creates atmospheres that appeal to different visitors
Customer shops	Adds special businesses inside the restaurant
Decorated meal sets	Lets you combine dishes with presentation elements

Build dishes around a clear objective

Meal sets let you combine dishes with decorative elements. Taste, price, and appearance give you different qualities to consider while assembling them.

When pursuing a character request, focus on the food that character wants. When working on general restaurant income, examine the price of the sets you can serve.

Keep developing recipes as new customers arrive. Their ideas can expand your menu, while exploration supplies ingredients for additional experiments.

Use decorations and utensils to personalize sets you enjoy serving. The presentation tools give you something creative to work on alongside the practical task of fulfilling requests.

Give the dining room a purpose

Furniture affects the atmosphere around tables, making placement relevant to character preferences. Plan a section around a customer’s request before filling it with unrelated decorations.

Try a focused theme when working toward a particular visitor. Whole Cake Island and Egghead pieces offer distinct visual directions, while other regional furnishings expand your options as the journey continues.

Read themed-table requests carefully. For the Marine table request, placing Marine flooring around a regular table creates the requested setup.

Flooring also determines whether an area functions as interior space or deck. Use dining room flooring when you want walls, and deck flooring when you want to open that space.

Make targeted changes while pursuing a request. Adjusting the relevant table area keeps the task manageable and preserves room for the other customers and facilities already aboard.

Explore for new faces and make room for interactions

Exploration steadily expands your circle of ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters. New regions bring more potential visitors, while expeditions return ingredients, gifts, and opportunities that support existing relationships.

Choose destinations with a goal in mind. Look for an ingredient needed by Sanji, an item for a customer, or a character you want to invite.

Crew development matters here. Some rewards depend on levels or particular Straw Hats, so check the requirements attached to the expedition you want to pursue.

As your roster grows, leave time to watch the restaurant. Character events and conversations are a major part of the appeal, especially when old friends reunite or unlikely companions sit down together.

The pixel art gives recognizable faces expressive animations, including special flourishes tied to their abilities. Akainu’s magma-powered cooking assistance is one example of how the game carries character powers into restaurant life.

Use this checklist to keep character goals moving:

• Review requests from visitors you want to turn into fans.
• Send expeditions after relevant ingredients and gifts.
• Train crew members needed for expedition rewards.
• Check new recipe ideas after meeting customers.
• Revisit table decorations when a request involves atmosphere.
• Watch for introductions and interactions that connect characters.

For a collection-focused playthrough, make ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters your organizing goal. Pick a few favorites, work through their requests, and let their introductions guide your next invitations.

That gives each expansion a purpose. More tables create space for visitors, new recipes help satisfy requests, and stronger relationships bring more of the cast into the daily life of your restaurant.

FAQ

How many ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters are there?

More than 400 characters appear as staff and customers. The cast includes the Straw Hat Crew, major allies and villains, and smaller supporting characters from across the series.

Who do you play as in Grand Gourmet?

You play a rookie staff member at Baratie Number Two. You work with Sanji and the Straw Hats to develop dishes, organize the restaurant, and welcome customers.

How do you make characters become regulars?

Fulfill customer requests, give gifts, and pay attention to food and decor preferences. Building relationships with ONE PIECE: Grand Gourmet characters can turn visitors into loyal fans who follow the restaurant into new regions.

What does Sanji do in the game?

Sanji cooks dishes and helps develop the menu using ingredients and ideas gathered through your adventures and customer relationships. Devil Fruit users can also assist in the kitchen, and you can arrange finished dishes into decorated meal sets.