Specialty items

We get about a week to collect points from each dish cooked to use towards getting the specialty items from the little calendar on the left of the screen, but, the items cost too much! I have a large cafe and I can never get enough points to buy all the new floor tiles or new wall papers or other decorations. It would be nice if they cost less points OR if after the week is up we can go to the Store and buy them there, for cafe cash or coins or vouchers or whatever...for those of us who couldn't buy all the pieces we wanted before time ran out.