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Restore an abandoned cafe, design its interior, prepare food, and manage staff as you build a restaurant from scratch.
Released 21 Jun 2022
Restore an Abandoned Cafe
Design Your Dining Room
Build a Five-Dish Menu
Prologue to the Cafe Owner Simulator, where you can restore your own abandoned building, complete tasks at various levels, and start building a restaurant business from zero.
Developed by Second Reality · Published by RockGame S.A.









In this prologue, you take over an abandoned restaurant and begin turning it into a working cafe. You clear rubbish, repair the building, and choose finishes and furniture for the space.
Equip the kitchen, buy ingredients, create a menu, and prepare and serve dishes to customers. Keep track of stock and cash while handling day-to-day jobs such as cleaning, repairs, and dealing with unexpected problems.
Earn experience by completing activities to level up and unlock furniture, equipment, dishes, and other features. You can also hire staff with different characteristics and open additional areas as the business grows.
Players who enjoy the prologue often point to the appeal of building up a cafe, customizing its interior, and moving between hands-on restaurant work and management tasks. Some find the pace relaxing or the early progression engaging. Reviews also frequently report bugs that interrupt progress, alongside complaints about awkward controls and repetitive or slow routines.
We were inspired by sandbox and simulation games, where players can create something of their own, set up processes, develop their creation, put their soul into it and show their creativity. In Cafe Owner Simulator you have such an opportunity, our goal is to give the world a game - in which everyone can realize his dream and open his own restaurant business.
Cleaning and Restoration.
When you buy a room for your own restaurant - you will need to free it from trash and make major repairs, it is not an easy task, but what can be better than to clean up the future of a successful restaurant or cafe?
Covering Surfaces.
After cleaning and repairing - you will have to choose the best wallpaper, carpet or coverings of different materials, this is where your design will begin.
Kitchen and equipment.
So how do you do without kitchen equipment? Decide on the type of your future establishment and buy all the necessary equipment for it. Also, do not forget to connect it to the outlets.
Menu and products
To open a place - you need to add a minimum of 5 dishes to the menu.
To prepare these dishes - you'll need products, you can buy them at the grocery store.
Management and employees
The game has a job market. To hire a staff member, pay a headhunter and he will find a marketable staff member for you. Every worker has his own characteristics, so choose the best ones.
The higher the characteristics - the higher the salary the worker wants. Over time, the motivation to work decreases - pay bonuses or hire new workers, here the choice is yours.
Development of the restaurant, levels
For performing various actions in the game - you earn experience points.
When you reach a certain limit - the level grows and you get a lot of opportunities:
new furniture and equipment to set up, new dishes on the menu, new features on your tablet, cash rewards and more.
Restaurant expansion and new features
Earning money - you will be able to open new areas of your cafe to make all your design ideas come true. In the future it will be possible to build a hotel near the restaurant and create a square for recreation and entertainment of visitors.
Duties of a restaurant owner
Like any owner or manager of a restaurant business - there is a lot of work and daily tasks waiting for you. Paying bills, managing employees, ordering food, checking the condition of the equipment and its repair, controlling various pests and cleaning the premises, working at the cash register and at the cafe counter (until you hire employees for this), passing inspections by the fire inspector, setting up and ordering advertising, marketing, if necessary you can take a loan from the bank, but it is better to pay back in time, otherwise there will be problems, and much more.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 5 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |