While doing that, you need to serve hungry customers, manage your staff and make sure the business is profitable.
Renovating the abandoned diner is where the game starts at. And there is lots to be done. The diner is from the late 50ties and hasn?t been in service since the mid-90ties and the
Everything is a serious state of despair, but you will have a lot of tools at your disposal to fix things up and decorate to your liking.
However, you won?t spend the entire early game renovating. Renovations and decorations cost money and you should get some cashflow going early on to fund them. Starting with simple dishes and some drinks to serve to your, at first, few customers it a solid start.
Growing your business is a large part of the game. You can expand your diner, modernize it, acquire new equipment to expand on the dishes and drinks you can serve to your customers and so much more.
You can also expand the building itself to have more space for tables or even games, change the looks of your diner to reflect your offering and expand the surrounding area to make room for a drive-through, parking or even a small car cinema.
Food and drinks take a dominant role in running a diner. You kitchen and supply chain will determine what you can offer. There is a wide range of choices ranging from pre-made meals to entirely custom food cooked at your diner. Road Diner Simulator features a full fledged cooking system allowing you to create your own dishes or follow established templates you can put your own touch to.
Hiring waitresses, waiters, servers, cooks or bartenders is an important part of the game. Hiring staff also allows on focus on certain aspects of the gameplay and leave other to be dealt by your staff if you want. Should you enjoy cooking a lot and want to focus primarily on the gameplay associated with the kitchen, you have your staff handle the rest of the diner. If you prefer to focus on the customers, you can your staff such as cooks handle the food and drinks.
Of course, if you want to run every aspect of the diner on your own, you can hire staff to ease up the workload in all areas and allow to focus on the aspects you feel like at the moment.