$19.99Restaurant Empire II Run the Dining Room Your Way
Restaurant Empire II puts you in charge of your own restaurants across Paris, Rome, Munich and LA. You pick cuisines, build menus from hundreds of recipes, decorate dining rooms, hire staff and chefs, and grow from one room into a chain. Detailed, colorful and calmly paced, it is a solid pick for sim fans who like menus, numbers and floor plans.
Is Restaurant Empire II worth it?
Restaurant Empire II is worth it if…
- you like simulator games about running shops and serving customers
- you enjoy slow management with menus, staff and decor to tune
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Design the room, hire the staff, keep the till ringing
You choose the site, lay out kitchens and tables, pick flooring and decor from 1,400 interior objects, and set opening hours and prices. Then you hire cooks, servers and live performers, from soloists to rock bands and circus acts, and schedule their stints for the right time of day.
It plays as steady management rather than hands-on cooking. You watch complaints, check the performance data for each restaurant, adjust wages and menu prices, and expand into new locations in four cities. You set a dining room with an aquatic or racing theme, then tweak the rota so service holds up when the evening crowd arrives.
Menus, ingredients and cooking contests
Food is the other half of the job. You work across French, Italian, German and American cuisines, plus coffee shops and dessert houses, with over 600 recipes in total. Each dish can use different grades of each ingredient, and better suppliers raise quality at a higher cost.
Campaign missions unlock dishes and cuisines over time, and cooking contests break up the routine of running the books. The supplier and ingredient management is a highlight, with room to fine-tune costs dish by dish.
What else should you know?
How much story and structure is there?
Two campaigns with 34 missions in total: a 16-mission story about the Lebouf family, plus the original Restaurant Empire campaign remastered with updated graphics across 18 missions. Missions give goals and time pressure, while sandbox mode lets you start restaurants from scratch with open-ended profit and star-rating targets.
What kinds of places can you run?
Full restaurants in four cuisines, plus two extra enterprise types: coffee shops focused on hot and iced coffee, teas and sandwiches, and dessert houses. Themed dining rooms include steak house, French, Italian, German castle-style, music, seafood, rainforest, aqua and racing looks.
Can you play it solo and at your own pace?
Yes, it is single-player with campaign and sandbox modes. Sandbox has random events where guests suggest suppliers or help chefs improve, so there is still progression if you prefer to build slowly, test layouts and refine one menu at a time.
