The Small-Town Diner
Run the diner on the square in a town of 12,000: the 6am regulars, the after-church rush and the truckers off the state road, against the drive-thrus at the exit and a family restaurant that has been there since 1974.
Every small town has a diner, and this one is yours: twelve booths, a counter with eight stools, a flat-top grill and a coffee pot that never empties. Twelve thousand people live in town and thirty thousand in the county; the regulars come in daily, families come on Sundays, and travellers stop when they see the sign. The decisions are the diner's: what a breakfast special can cost before the regulars grumble, whether to open for supper, how many cooks and servers to schedule for a Sunday that is three times a Tuesday, and whether to put a second sign out on the state road. It teaches the economics of a restaurant where loyalty is everything and margins are thin — food cost, labour per cover, and why a regular who comes in 200 times a year is worth fifty tourists.
$5.00 a seat · 3 simulated years, decided monthly · by SparkTower.