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• gamedeal user

  Oct 13, 2014

  Overall, it's a fun game but there are some negatives to it. Its fun setting up the restaurant. Placing the tables just right so there are no traffic issues. That way people don't have to wait too long for their food. Decorating the inside and outside of the restaurant so your place looks classy. Entering the cooking contests to climb the chef ranks. Being able to control every aspect of your restaurants and watching them make money is gratifying. There haven't been updates or improvements to this game from the first Restaurant Empire. Heck, you could probably consider this a long delayed expansion pack to the first one. Armand, the main character is still wearing the same pants. They were ugly then and they're still ugly today! If you didn't like the first Restaurant Empire, you won't like the second one. The AI of your employees is still really frustrating. Your restaurants are still not going to be perfect. And no matter what you do or how well you do it, customers are going to complain. They're never happy! (and I do mean never!) Some of the scenarios can be maddening to try and complete. Despite all this, the game does keep me entertained.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 28, 2013

  Restaurant Empire II is the sequel to Trevor Chan’s Restaurant Empire which was released back in 2003 and although I have not played the original fans of both games give you the distinct impression that Restaurant Empire II is really just a glorified expansion to the original. Taken on it's own merits however, it's a decent enough management game that unfortunately gets bogged down in minutia and micromanagement rather quickly. The game starts you off with the campaign from the original game, a new campaign based more around Desert House's and Coffee Shops and a sandbox mode. The sandbox mode however is pretty barebones and many of the staples from the campaigns, such as the minigames, chef reputation, cooking contests etc are removed. Add that to the fact that in Sandbox you start with pretty much everything already unlocked it becomes a rather futile experience. The campaigns start you off as a small restaurant owner and slowly unlocks content and areas as you progress through various scenarios with pre-set goals. A small dash of storyline is thrown in but it can be safely ignored. Your goals throughout the campaign vary rather wildly in difficulty and it's often best to delay winning the easier scenarios until the very last moment so that you can use the extra time for your chefs and staff to get more skilled and more money to flow into your bank account. The game at it's core is simple enough, you start a restaurant, place a kitchen, some bathrooms, furnish the seating area, hire some staff, pick a menu and off you go. However once you get going the game becomes anything but simple. The game will often tell you that you have trouble serving meals on time but doesn't give you any information as to why that is. Should you hire more servers? Hire more chefs? Move the tables closer to the kitchen? Solving problems with your restaurants quickly becomes purely trial and error until you get that perfect setup that you will never have to change. It doesn't help that the AI path-finding is nothing short of atrocious. And that brings us to the menu. As you progress through the game you will start to unlock specialty ingredient suppliers which allows you to increase the quality of your meals at a cost, however using these new high quality ingredient's have to be done individually for each recipe in each restaurant and likewise for changing the price making it an incredibly frustrating experience. All in all Restaurant Empire II is a game with a few good ideas that are unfortunately marred by it's many design flaws and it's not really a game I'd recommend to anyone but extreme fans of management simulations. If you have a burning desire to play a game that lets you build and manage a chain of eateries I suppose this is really your only choice but if not, then you can find better entertainment elsewhere.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 28, 2019

  Tbh Restaurant Empire 2 is a clunky game and hasn't aged well. Bugs in this game are clear. Managing menus can be tedious. Furniture in some restaurant themes are completely lacking compared to others. But for some reason this game is just such a nice and enjoyable experience to come back to. I'm surprised no developer has recreated this type of game yet. its genre reaches a pretty wide audience in my opinion. Designing your own restaurant and setting up menus with hundreds or thousands of recipes!? Sounds awesome! Not to mention the RPG side of the game of developing your chef to be the best! I really hope some day a good game developer makes a spiritual successor to this game. Kind of like what Stardew Valley did to HM, Planet Coaster to RCT, Planet Zoo to Zoo Tycoon, and etc. Restaurant Empire 2 is no classic compared to the ladder but honestly who wouldn't love a restaurant management sim with a touch of RPG in it? Overall 7.5/10
• gamedeal user

  Dec 3, 2019

  This is hands down the best restaurant sim I have ever played! Under the decent 3D graphics is a simulation that models the business of operating a restaurant with meticulous details. If you are a fan of realistic business simulation games and do not mind spending a bit more time going through the lengthy, but generally well executed tutorials to learn the ropes of running a restaurant, then you should definitely add this game to your sim game collection.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 1, 2020

  It's a fun game but I think it acts too much like an RPG with the cooking contest minigames and stuff. It also hasn't aged that well with the clunky and primitive UI. I think a full 3D game also doesn't suit this genre very well, as I think it should be more like prison architect's style. I also think it's very eurocentric with its cuisines(although little understandable with the game's setting), but I hope a spiritual successor would incorporate non-western cuisines and settings like Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Arabic, etc so we can truly create a global restaurant empire.
• John Smith

  Nov 17, 2022

  Very old game, still enjoyable. Be aware you need to find the patches like in the old days since the steam version doesn't include them. Unplayable after install.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 28, 2013

  This game has two storyline campaigns: 1. An improved version of Restaurant Empire 1 where you build French, Italian, and American restaurants 2. The actual sequel to the first game's storyline where you build desert and coffee houses as well such as French, American, German restaurants The scenarios were really easy to beat such as get X revenue/profit and/or Y customers in the allocated time. All you need to do is align your tables to maximize your servers' mobility and put a bunch of decorations everywhere to boost your restaurant's rating. --- I've played a lot of tycoon games in my childhood and it's saddening to see this genre die. After playing this game, I can see why. The concepts are great but the execution is terrible. Gameplay in a nutshell: 1. Pause game 2. Place tables and decorations in your restaurant 3. Hire staff 4. Add recipes to the menu 5. Save game 6. Fast forward time 7. ??? 8. Profit! My biggest complaint with this game is that whenever you get access to a higher quality ingredient supplier, you need to go into EACH recipe to change your supplier. Once you've done that, you have to adjust the price of that recipe in EACH restaurant. If you don't do these steps, your food ratings and/or your profit margins will drop. I guess the developers wanted to allow more micromanagement but it's annoying when you just want to update all of your restaurants. Other things to consider: - There's no 16:9 support - The textures/models are dated (this game was released in 2009) - The auto save for the campaign doesn't work for me - You have a finite number of chefs in the campaign so don't fire them Overall, I still think it's a decent tycoon game. If you're bored with the other popular tycoon games (e.g. SimCity, Game Dev Tycoon), give this game a shot if it's on sale.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 25, 2014

  ENG: This is all well and good and functional restaurant simulation game. I've played the previous game version, when I own it. The game is easy to learn and be able to play with this a while. The game is playing by the worm can be difficult and boring at first, like a dictionary to learn things as tutorials will be a bit difficult to follow. I recommend the game anyway. :3 FIN: Tämä on ihan hyvä ja toimiva ravintola simulaatiopeli. Olen pelannut edellistä peli versiota kun omistin sen. Peli on helppo oppia ja tätä jaksaa pelata tovin. Peliä pelaamatomalla voi olla hankalaa ja tylsää aluksi opetella erillaiset asiat, koska tutoriaalit tahtoo olla vähän hankalia seurata. Suosittelen peliä joka tapauksessa. :3
• gamedeal user

  Sep 18, 2022

  So just because the title of this game isn't clear, I purchased it because I wanted the old Restaurant Empire 1 and couldn't find it and figured I would give 2 a try. It is actually included, this is both the first and 2nd game. It works on my steam deck using the keyboard and mouse layout. I couldn't figure out how to use a controller so I don't think it has any controller support. I prefer this game to some of the other tycoon type games. The graphics and some of the gameplay are very dated but it's still fun.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 4, 2015

  Let me start with a story; A long time ago, back when Waffles© was just a wee lad, he had a grand total of ten dollars and fifty cents. Being the spendthrift little boy as he was, he ventured into the local Walmart store to find a jolly old game to play on his parents computer. Little boy Waffles© soon found a cheerful looking game by the name of Restaurant Empire that he immediantly began to want for. The total price of the game? $10.00 (and 50 cent tax). He gleefully skipped to the check-out counter where he paid his ten and fifty and ran home to enjoy his new-found game. Ohh but what fun he had playing this joy of a game! Hours upon hours where spent building restaurants, organizing menus, and hiring staff. The young boy who was Waffles© was overjoyed at this seemly limitless game! A dozen years later, grown man Waffles© browses the Steam store to find another game to review in a dire attempt to become noticed by the Steam community. Startled, he runs across a familiar title: Restaurant Empire II. What? Was he being decived? His childhood game had a sequel? And was on Steam? Thanking Gaben, Waffles© quickly bought the game instead of Super Noah's Ark 3D, downloaded, and installed it. A couple hours later, here he is, ready to give his honest opinion on the game. Restaurant Empire II is a restaurant tycoon simulator where you take control of a young chef, fresh out of culinary school and ready to take on the Omnifood corporation. The game plot is rather simple, and most of the mechanics are even more so. The main goal of the game is to keep your customer satisfaction level high in order to maintain a five stay rating. You do so by selecting dishes that have high ratings, updating your furniture to increase comfort levels, placing decorations to... well, increase your decoration level, and hiring and training staff to provide the best customer care possible. In the sandbox mode, this is actually quite easy as you start out with a large building and you cannot start out with lower than $500,000. I simply furnished the bottom floor, hired my staff and spent $10,000 a month on training them (after several months there were virtually no complaints about them), added only dishes that had a 75% or above approval rating, and decorated the floor so extravagantly that a four star rating was achieved in a few months in game time. The five star rating took only about a year! Really, the main strength of the game is the original campaign which only gives you $40,000 to start out with. Although you also begin with a fully decked out kitchen, dining room, and restrooms, you still have to add decoration, add dishes, hire staff, etc. Several of the options (such as advertising and training) are blocked so the jerks who are your staff act all high and mighty for the first dozen challenges without the ability for you to stop them. To throw a curveball when you least expect it, a well known character in the game gives you $250,000 to set up and maintain his nephew's new restaurant, which has no kitchen or restrooms. Meaning you have to set up everything with the money you've saved up to that point. The challenge is real and completing all objectives can be difficult but fun. Because the mechanics are so simple, I really have to look at the game as a whole in order to give my full opinion on it, and frankly, there is not much to see. Perhaps if the game had a fancy HD remastering, or an ambitious remake, the appeal would be greater. The game feels pulled out of it's time in the steam market with fancy titles like Prison Tycoon, or Tropico V to keep it company, but without the aesthetic of it's counter parts it largely goes unnoticed. Despite this, I wholeheartedly recommend Restaurant Empire II to the individual looking for such a game. Maybe it's the nostalgia kid in me happy to play this game once again, but REII is a joy to play and quite simply a time waster for tycoon fans to enjoy. I rate this game 6.5/10, would loose childhood in again. Thank you for your time! The Older but not Wiser Waffles©