Getting started

Your first morning

Where Build

You start with one cart and ₹1,500. A stall, a cook, somewhere to sit and a hand wash: that is a business. Flip the sign to OPEN only when the cook is in place.

Put down a Dosa Counter, hire a cook for it, add a couple of tables and a Hand Wash, then flip the sign at the top to OPEN. Guests walk in from the street, queue, eat, wash and leave.

The shop serves from six in the morning to noon. Bills (wages, rent, upkeep) are paid in one go when the day ends, so keep a little cash back for the night.

Stuck? The chef in the corner always has a next step. Tap him.

Reading your guests

Where Tap or click a guest

Every guest thinks out loud. Their thoughts tell you exactly what to fix: price, queue, seats, dirt. Tap a guest who looks unhappy first.

Tap or click anyone in the restaurant to see what they want, what they carry and what they think of your place. A queue that is too long, a dish that is too dear, nowhere to sit or wash: they say so.

Happy guests raise your star rating, and a higher rating brings more of the street inside. Run → Guests gathers what everyone is saying today.

Rating and rank

Where Progress → Goals

Your rating is how guests feel; your rank is how far the business has come. Each rank asks for a few goals at once, held at the end of one day. Goals shows exactly what the next rank still needs.

There are nine ranks, from Street Cart to Dosa Tycoon. A promotion pays a cash prize and opens new land, floors, towns and research.

All of a rank’s goals must hold together at the close of a single day. The table below is the whole ladder.

Newer careers ask a little more at the top ranks; Goals always shows your own career’s numbers.

Time and speed

Where Build

Pause, normal, fast and very fast. A faster clock means more decisions a minute: speed up only once things run smoothly. Space pauses; the number keys set the speed.

The speed buttons sit at the top right. On a keyboard, Space pauses and the number keys pick a speed.

If nobody touches the game for 120 seconds it pauses itself and asks if you are still there, so a morning never runs away without you.

What opens when

Where Progress → Goals

The game opens up as the business grows. Each new part has a goal to reach, and most then arrive a real day or more later. Locked cards say what opens them, so nothing is a mystery.

Quests, perks and the Town page come early. The Head Office opens as soon as you have a second outlet. Deliveries, your own riders and the cities abroad follow as your outlets earn their grades and the company climbs the ranks.

Most parts open in two steps: you reach the goal, then the part arrives a real day or more later, with the first game morning you play after that. Every locked card in the game, and every locked entry in this guide, says what it is waiting for; in the game, a small clock counts down the real wait.

Saving and signing in

Where Settings

The game saves by itself, on this device. Sign in with Google and it is kept online too, safe if the browser is cleared. Duels and the Hall of Fame need you signed in.

Your career is saved in this browser as you play. Signing in keeps a copy online, so you can carry on from another phone or computer, and puts you on the Hall of Fame. The Account tab in Settings shows where your game is saved right now.

The chef

Where The chef, bottom left

Your head chef watches the restaurant with you. When something goes wrong he notices first, and says what to do. Tap him any time for advice.

The chef leads you through your first morning, then speaks up when a stall has no cook, a queue is getting long, a floor needs stairs or cash runs low. Most of his tips come with a button that takes you straight there.

Notifications

Where Notifications

The newspaper at the top right: everything that happened, newest first. Needs you, Good news and News, each with a way to go there. Anything that needs you always pops up.

Tap the newspaper at the top right. Needs you holds what is waiting on you: a decision, a fire, a cook walking out, the Pay Review, a rebuild list. Good news has promotions, records and awards. News has the market, rivals, festivals and the chef’s tips. The number on the newspaper counts what you have not read yet.

Each item has a button that takes you there, and what you have answered folds away under Done. Read a tab? Clear it. A decision still waiting stays put.

Settings, inside Notifications, has the quiet switches: Rivals, Market prices, Chef’s tips, Festivals, Duel ideas and Hall moves. A quiet one still lands here, it just won’t pop up. Anything that needs you always pops up.

Settings

Where Settings

Pause the game and Settings is right there. Pop-ups, sound, scrolling, your account and your saves. Calm is the default: one thing at a time.

Pop-ups: Calm shows one thing at a time, spaces out the chef’s tips, at most one every 60 seconds (urgent ones always come through), and lets plain news wait in Notifications. Everything shows it all the moment it happens.

Sound effects and Music switch on and off on their own. On a computer, Scroll to says what a mouse wheel or two fingers on a trackpad do: move the view, zoom, or let the game decide. Play statistics shares anonymous numbers about how the game is played, never your name; switch it off any time.

Under Your career, Restore previous save brings back a career as it was on this device before it was last replaced, and restoring again swaps them back. Start Over wipes the career and begins again with one empty room. The Account tab, next to Settings, has signing in, your save online, the Send me game news switch and your public profile.