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The café is now unlockable and playable!
Build the line, set the menu
Place coffee stations on the same Sims-style grid - grinder, espresso machine, milk steamer, batch brewer, grill/oven, prep counter, pastry case - plus seating (stools, tables, sofas). Rotate each machine to fit your kitchen, and your baristas stand at its working face to use it. Then build your menu from 14 recipes, each a chain of steps that flow through those stations - you can only put a dish on the menu once you've placed every machine it needs. The Menu Builder's rush-load preview is the heart of it: per-station load bars show, before the day starts, exactly which station your menu will choke.
Hire, train and roster
A fresh applicant board of three CVs each morning, with skills shown straight up - no guesswork, no gambling. Your café opens with a free onboarding trio: pick one to get trading. Every barista has four skills (Bar / Kitchen / Till / Charm), a daily wage and fatigue. Roster them onto the till, the kitchen stations, or as a floating "Everything" generalist - skill makes a station faster, fatigue slows them down - and pay to train your best people all the way to a perfect 10/10 skill.
Run the service
Start the day and watch one continuous 7am→6pm service play out in real time. Your baristas physically run the floor - take the order at the till, walk to the right machine, make the drink, carry it to the pickup counter. Customers queue, order, wait, grab a self-serve pastry from the case, then sit in or take away. Choke a station or understaff the floor and they walk out. Wow them and they become regulars who come back every day, padding tomorrow's footfall. Speed the day up to 20× when you just want the result.
Read the breakdown
A full P&L, per-item sales and waste, average wait times, walkout causes (gave up in the queue vs. no free seat), a satisfaction histogram, your regulars, the reputation delta - and one highlighted insight ("your baristas ran at 94% - staffing bottleneck") to teach the engineering loop. Chase six Café Goals - from $100k of total revenue and a full ten-strong roster to training a barista to a flawless 10/10 - to truly master the café.