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Restaurant Empire (PC)

by Nobilis
Platform:   Windows NT / Me / XP / 2000 / 98
4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Game Information

  • Platform:   Windows NT / Me / XP / 2000 / 98
  • ELSPA Minimum Age: 3
  • Media: Video Game
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Product Features

  • Turn your small restaurant into a massive chain to rake in the money
  • Start from scratch as you hire staff, decorate your restaurant, and cook meals
  • Use real-world business strategies to beat the competition and build your empire
  • Over 300 recipes, 30 playable chefs, five restaurant themes, and three cities

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  • ASIN: B00009951W
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,334 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Manufacturer's Description
Restaurant Empire is the first game that faithfully recreates all the challenges of building and operating a restaurant franchise through a unique blend of business-simulation and RPG gameplay.

Starting with nothing except some cash and a passion for food, build a restaurant from the bottom up - hire waiters, decorate, even cook the meals! Buy, build, outsell and, underprice your competition.

Featuring three culinary capitals to operate in, five restaurant cuisines to choose from, over 30 unique chefs to interact with and nearly 200 recipes to source, your business sense and culinary taste will be tested to the limit.

Not only do you control every aspect of running a restaurant from buying your restaurant to choosing its cuisine and decoration; you will also travel and meet with people that will help you establish your name as the greatest restaurateur the world has ever seen!

Will you use your culinary wizardry to out-cook chefs? What tactics and strategies will you employ to buy out the competition? You decide. With a combination of business strategy and role-playing game styles plus a free-form sandbox game mode, three huge cities, and over 30 playable chefs and a host of locations to travel to, Restaurant Empire is an epicurean delight of gastronomic proportions!

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good concept and well thought out, 23 Jul 2003
When I first heard about this game I thought great I can't wait to get my hands on it. I love simulation games and the thought of running my own restaurant appealed very much. The graphics and the feel of the game is similar to Hotel Giant which is another great game!!

You have two game modes, campaign and sandbox. If you have never played the game before then its best to start with the campaign which also teaches you the basics. In the campaign mode you are Armand Lebeof (chef) and you take over your uncles old restaurant and are given various goals to achieve with time limits. Some are achievable others not so but practice makes perfect. You furnish the restaurant,employ the staff, decide on the menu from zillions of recipes and how much you can charge. The list is endless and sometimes intricate but fun!!!

The most brilliant part of the campaign mode is that you can enter the local cooking contests!!!! If you win you get a medal or plaque, more recipes and money. Its absolutely brilliant. Whilst your chef is competing in the contest you can play a mini game to help him along (basically the point of the mini game is to test your quickness with the mouse by clicking on certain things) but if you loose your game it could hinder his performance. Please note this is not availabe in the sandbox mode.

Sandbox mode is where you build and play to your hearts content. You can choose your chef from over 30 characters, unfortunately there is only one female chef!!! Why???!!!
You can choose the restaurant type, ie French, Italian or American and where the location should be, Paris, Rome and Los Angeles and how much money you start off with. You then set up the restaurant, place all the furniture, edit your menu, employ the staff and off you go.

My personal thoughts: Campaign mode - not yet finished it but thoroughly entertaining with many goals still to achieve and contests to win. Very addictive at this stage. Could do with more campaign add ons for the future.

Sandbox mode - No cooking contest which would have added a bit more oomph to the game. After setting up the restaurant and opening up there isn't much else to do!! There is some interactions with characters that eat at the restaurant and offer to sell or buy recipes from you but thats it. You can open other restaurants aswell but the same applies. After 4/6 hours of non stop playing I can safely say I had had enough of watching people eat. (but guess what?.....I still keep coming back for more!!!)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars SO enjoyable, 5 April 2005
By Mr. C. D. Murphy "Krayg" (St Brelades) - See all my reviews
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In this game u start off pretty much with a bare restaurant building, the rooms are preset but theyre only toilets,kitchen and restaurant. You choose the wallpaper and stuff pretty much like the sims and the menu design. With the menus u get two choices for each category and then u gradually buy recipes from other people ow win them in the cool cooking competitions in this big stadium. You also control the finances of the restaurant(s) as youre playing which can be tricky at times. Overall the game is really entertaining and fun to play, deffinately worth the money if youre into these types of games.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars this is such a cool game, 1 Aug 2005
When i got this game i loved it from the start. the one thing i was a bit dissapointed with was the graphics, they are awful but playable.the game is a bit tricky to understand at first but then once you have got the hang of it,its great. If you want a building game this is such a brilliant game and good for all ages my brother and sister love it too and they are 10 and 7.
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