Run a Restaurant! Wiki

Run a Restaurant! is a Roblox simulation tycoon developed by Burnt Toast Labs, launched in May 2026. Often described as a spiritual successor to the massively popular My Restaurant! by BIG Games, this title combines classic restaurant management with integrated farming, ranching, drinks, processing stations, and offline earnings.

The core loop is straightforward but deep: cook recipes, serve customers, earn cash, hire staff to automate tasks, expand your restaurant with new floors, and unlock advanced recipes through your own farm. Your restaurant continues generating income even when you are offline, making strategic automation essential.

Through July 2026, the game has received six major content updates adding weather systems, milestone goals, drink machines, processing stations, new crops and animals, decorative themes, restaurant saves, and performance optimizations. Over 19 million visits and 21,000+ concurrent players confirm its position as one of Roblox's top restaurant tycoons.

The tutorial walks you through taking orders, cooking, serving, and cleaning. Do not skip it — but know that the real game begins once you start reinvesting your first earnings. Your goal in the first half hour is to reach stable automated income, not perfect decor.

Focus on quest objectives on the right side of your screen. Completing quests unlocks farming — essential for unlocking higher-paying recipes. Follow this priority order after the tutorial: earn enough for your first waiter, then your first chef, then upgrade your stove before buying cosmetic items.

Staff are the backbone of automation in Run a Restaurant!. Each role handles a specific part of the service chain, and understaffing any role creates a bottleneck that caps your income regardless of how many floors you own.

Staff gain experience by performing their duties and level up over time, becoming faster and more efficient. Update 5 raised staff level caps significantly and added floor assignment — you can now restrict staff to specific floors, ideal for farming-focused setups on upper levels. The proven ratio is 1 waiter per 4 tables and 1 chef per stove.

Layout efficiency can mean the difference between 30% more income and constant customer complaints. The golden rule: minimize staff travel distance between kitchen, tables, and dishwashing stations. Reserve one quarter of floor space for the kitchen and three quarters for dining.

Place your kitchen centrally with direct sightlines to all seating areas. Staff and customers can walk through furniture — stack fridges directly behind stoves so chefs grab ingredients in two tiles. Update 4 added click-and-drag wall placement for faster construction.

Floor expansion is the single biggest driver of customer traffic. Each new floor significantly reduces customer arrival time. At ten floors, spawn rates can drop to 0.5-2 seconds. However, expanding without matching staff and appliance upgrades creates backlogs and unhappy customers.

What sets Run a Restaurant! apart from other Roblox tycoons is its integrated farming and ranching system. Instead of buying all ingredients, you grow crops and raise animals to unlock new, more profitable recipes.

Update 5 expanded farming with coconut trees, pineapple plants, sugarcane, and a new lamb animal producing lamb chops. Pigs now dig up truffles for premium recipes. Beehive limits were raised — you can now place up to 12 beehives to accelerate crop growth.

Harvesting crops like wheat, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, onions, and pumpkins unlocks advanced menu items. Some cuisines — notably Japanese from Update 5 — offer higher-paying starter meals.

Appliances directly affect service speed. Faster cooking and cleaning means more customers served per minute, which compounds with floor expansion and staff count.

Prioritize stove upgrades first — they reduce cook time on every order. Dishwasher upgrades come second, enabling faster table turnover. Update 5 added drink machines and processing stations as essential mid-game appliances. The High-Tech set offers premium late-game throughput but is a significant Robux investment.

Update 4 introduced a milestones system tracking long-term goals across cash, customers, farming, recipes, and black market with big rewards. Access milestones through the Skills menu in Manage.

The milestones menu also tracks skill progression across chopping, baking, frying, farming, and management. Leveling these skills unlocks new equipment, decor, and efficiency bonuses.

One of Run a Restaurant!'s most appealing features is offline income. Your restaurant continues generating money when you are not playing, as long as you have sufficient automation in place.

To maximize offline earnings: ensure you have enough waiters, chefs, and cleaners to handle your current customer volume without player intervention. Upgrade appliances to reduce service bottlenecks. The more automated and efficient your restaurant, the more you earn while away.

Beyond core restaurant operations, several items provide passive or conditional revenue boosts. Understanding which items are functional versus purely cosmetic saves you significant in-game cash.

The Golden Order Stand is arguably the strongest single item — every dish has a 5% chance to become a gold plate order, tripling its value. Jewelry cases increase celebrity customer spawns. During thunderstorms, raincoat customers pay 50% more.

Promo codes in Roblox games typically reward free cash, boosts, or exclusive items. Developers release codes during updates, milestones, and social media events. Codes expire quickly — redeem them as soon as you find verified active ones.

As of July 14, 2026, no verified active codes exist for Run a Restaurant!. The code RAR4EVER (Fancy Painting reward) has expired. Follow the official Discord and Roblox group for new code drops around major updates.

Run a Restaurant! offers game passes that provide convenience boosts rather than exclusive pay-to-win advantages. Common passes include starter packs, 2x speed boosts, deluxe tip jars, golden stoves, and VIP plot expansion.

These passes accelerate progression but are not required to succeed. The offline earnings system and skill milestones ensure free-to-play players can reach endgame content with patience and smart strategy.

Run a Restaurant! receives regular monthly content updates from Burnt Toast Labs. The game launched in May 2026 and has already shipped six major patches with new mechanics, recipes, animals, and quality-of-life improvements.

Update 6 (June 22, 2026) focused on new decorative items, backend performance optimizations for lower-end devices, and early-game progression balance adjustments. Update 5 (early June 2026) was the largest content drop with drinks, processing, farming expansion, and new recipes.

Update 5 introduced a full drinks system. Customers can now order drinks alongside their meals, adding a new revenue stream. Build a drink machine to unlock drinks and blend tropical recipes from farmed ingredients like coconut, pineapple, and sugarcane.

The processing station refines raw goods into advanced ingredients: milk becomes cheese, wheat becomes flour, and sugarcane becomes sugar. These processed ingredients unlock the seven new premium dishes from Update 5.

Recipe profitability depends on ingredient cost, cook time, and customer demand. Focus on dishes whose ingredients you can farm yourself to maximize margins. Japanese cuisine from Update 5 offers strong early-game payouts.

Late-game players should prioritize truffle-based and lamb dishes unlocked through Update 5 farming expansion. Use gems on premium recipes first — the increased cash per customer accelerates your entire progression.

Update 4 added dynamic weather to Run a Restaurant!. Thunderstorms can roll in during gameplay, creating new revenue opportunities. Customers brave enough to visit in raincoats pay 50% more cash for their orders.

Weather events are passive — you do not need to change your layout. However, ensuring your restaurant has enough seating during storms maximizes the bonus income from raincoat customers.

Run a Restaurant! offers multiple decoration themes and furniture sets. Some are purely cosmetic, while others provide real income boosts. Knowing which sets are functional saves you significant in-game cash and Robux.

Update 5 added the Japanese theme with higher-paying starter meals, a free Tiki chair and table set (~25% boost each), and the premium High-Tech appliance set. Update 4 introduced the Speak Easy theme as a cosmetic option.

Burnt Toast Labs runs recurring in-game events that temporarily boost income or introduce special customers. The most popular community strategy revolves around Taco Tuesday, when a special taco customer appears with higher payouts.

Weather events from Update 4 also act as passive bonus periods — thunderstorms bring raincoat customers paying 50% more. Weekend and holiday events occasionally coincide with new code releases on the official Discord.

Update 5 (June 2026) added a restaurant save system, letting you preserve and reload your restaurant layout. This is essential for experimenting with layouts without losing a profitable design, or for sharing build templates with friends.

The save system stores your floor plan, furniture placement, and appliance configuration. It does not replace your cash, staff, or progression — only the physical restaurant design.

Scattered across the game world are 15 hidden gnomes that grant permanent stat boosts when collected. These stack throughout your entire playthrough and significantly accelerate early progression.

Gnome boosts include increased cash earned, faster cook speed, and quicker dish cleaning. Collect all 15 before investing heavily in expensive appliances — the permanent bonuses make everything more efficient.

Watch community creators walk through the latest updates, optimal layouts, and beginner strategies. These videos are hand-picked for accuracy and relevance as of July 2026.