CHEF! September 17, 2026 CHEF! Day 5 Iteration 53

A Day at the Restaurant

The game now plays in days. A clock in the top bar shows the day and time, starting at 10:00 with the doors shut. The sign on the door reads CLOSED, and "Open the doors" lets you start early.
The restaurant opens at 11:00. Guests come in waves: a lunch rush around noon, a quiet afternoon and a dinner rush in the evening. Easy has gentler rushes.
At 20:30 the last guests are seated. Once they've gone, the staff close up: tables cleared, dishes washed, bathrooms cleaned and all the trash taken out.
Then the day ends with a results screen: food sales, wages, spending, profit and cash, plus guests served and lost (with the reasons), average mood, rating, the busiest hour, and overcooked, burnt and cold dishes. "Next day" starts the next morning with the same restaurant, staff and money.
Staff are only paid while the restaurant is working, not before opening.
A full day takes about 14 minutes at normal speed. With the starting crew about 51 guests are served, and nobody walks out.
The starting restaurant currently loses money every day (wages outrun sales). How to balance that is a question for the Owner.
The sign on the door now fits its words: OPEN and CLOSED shrink to fit the sign's plate.
The first screenshot shows the results at the end of day 1. The second is a close-up of the door sign, closed and then open.