Lunch Rush

#Overview

Lunch Rush is the landmark event of the Fry Palace Drive-Thru. It fires the first time Tibo walks into a drive-thru (radius 420), once per drive-thru, and never in Story mode. After the announcement, 24 Gull Flock pests sweep across the screen in a straight band.

It is a swarm event, like the scheduled Fry Fly Swarm, with slightly faster birds in a wider band. Each gull has 10 base HP, speed 105, 5 contact damage, 1 XP and a 2% gold chance, and disappears 14 seconds after it spawns. The gulls are separate from the drive-thru's resident Parking Gull.

#How it works

• Geometry. The gulls start beyond the edge of the view on one side, in a block 280 units wide (140 to each side of Tibo's position) and up to 60 deep. They fly in a fixed direction and never turn towards Tibo.^[1]
• Count. 24 × the enemy-count multiplier, capped at 2×. Standard's active late-game curve keeps the count multiplier at 1, so it requests 24 gulls even after 20:00 (see Enemy scaling). Newly explored endgame terrain is no longer a drive-thru, and a full pool can still cut the event short.
• Trigger. If the enemy pool is full (550 on Easy/Normal, 700 on Hard, 850 on Nightmare), the drive-thru stays unused and the event tries again while Tibo is inside.
• Despawn. Gulls are removed after 14 seconds or once they are about 460 units from Tibo, and drop nothing.

Measured (headless tools/play.mjs, build main-B2gf34bA, standard mode, --god, Tibo teleported into the first Fry Palace Drive-Thru found at about 1:03 with pests removed first): every run spawned 24 gulls, on all four difficulties. In 5 of 10 runs (seeds wiki and s1 to s4, Normal and Nightmare) one of them was gone again after the spawn tick, leaving 23. The band reaches about √(448² + 140²) ≈ 469 units from Tibo at its far corners, past the 460-unit despawn distance, so a gull placed there is probably removed at once (inference).^[2] With --mode story, entering the drive-thru fired no event.

#Tips

• Stepping sideways to the flight path clears the band. Tibo needs a little over 2 seconds at base speed to cover the 140 units to its edge.
• The drive-thru has burning pools on the ground (see Fry Palace Drive-Thru), so watch where you sidestep.

#Effect

This is the landmark event of Fry Palace Drive-Thru.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[3] See Languages.

Show names in 26 languages

Language	Code	Name
简体中文 · Simplified Chinese	zh-CN	午餐高峰
繁體中文 · Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	zh-TW	午餐尖峰
日本語 · Japanese	ja	ランチラッシュ
한국어 · Korean	ko	점심 러시
Español · Spanish	es	Hora pico
हिन्दी · Hindi	hi	लंच रश
Deutsch · German	de	Mittagsansturm
Français · French	fr	Coup de feu du midi
Português (Brasil) · Brazilian Portuguese	pt	Hora do almoço
Türkçe · Turkish	tr	Öğle Yoğunluğu
Bahasa Indonesia · Indonesian	id	Jam Makan Siang
Русский · Russian	ru	Обеденный наплыв
Bahasa Melayu · Malay	ms	Sesak Tengah Hari
Filipino	fil	Dagsa sa Tanghalian
मराठी · Marathi	mr	जेवणाची गर्दी
Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese	vi	Cao Điểm Trưa
తెలుగు · Telugu	te	లంచ్ రష్
தமிழ் · Tamil	ta	மதிய நெரிசல்
বাংলা · Bengali	bn	দুপুরের ভিড়
ไทย · Thai	th	พีคมื้อเที่ยง
Hausa	ha	Rububin Abincin Rana
Naijá · Nigerian Pidgin	pcm	Lunch Rush
العربية · Arabic	ar	زحمة الغداء
فارسی · Persian	fa	شلوغی ناهار
עברית · Hebrew	he	עומס צוהריים
اردو · Urdu	ur	لنچ کا رش