How to Play Food Chain Magnate: Staff, Demand & Sales
Food Chain Magnate is an economic competition game where restaurants hire staff, create demand through marketing and fight to satisfy that demand at the best price and distance.
Scope: Splotter Spellen base game; Ketchup Mechanism expansion excluded.
Restructure your company
At the start of the round, place employees into your company hierarchy under the CEO and managers, respecting organizational capacity.
Choose working employees
Employees in the active structure perform their jobs; employees outside it do not contribute that round.
Hire and train
Recruit new staff and promote existing employees into more specialized roles.
Produce food and drinks
Kitchen and purchasing staff create the products your restaurants can sell.
Run marketing
Marketing employees place campaigns that create demand at houses for specific products.
Sell to houses
Customers buy from the restaurant that best satisfies the game’s price, distance and availability rules.
Milestones
Being first to achieve certain accomplishments can grant powerful permanent milestone effects in the base game.
Game end
The game ends through the bank/reserve-bank structure in the base rules. The player with the most money wins.