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 fresh systems including integrated farming, ranching, 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.

Whether you are a tycoon veteran or a first-time restaurateur, this wiki covers every system you need to progress efficiently — without the trial-and-error that costs hours of in-game time.

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.

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. Waiters are the early bottleneck — they seat customers, take orders, and deliver food. Without one, you are the bottleneck.

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. Higher-level staff reduce service times and increase throughput. Keep your restaurant busy — idle staff do not level up.

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.

Place your kitchen centrally with direct sightlines to all seating areas. Keep main walkways at least 2-3 units wide to prevent NPC collision stacking — when two workers occupy the same tile, both freeze for several seconds.

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.

Harvesting crops like wheat, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, onions, and pumpkins unlocks advanced menu items. Some cuisines — notably Japanese — offer higher-paying starter meals. Focus your farm on ingredients that unlock your highest-margin recipes.

Animals provide meat, dairy, and specialty products. Ranchers automate animal care, but you can manage early farms manually to save hire costs.

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. Advanced appliances like golden stoves are available through progression and game passes.

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

Do not ignore milestones while AFK farming cash. Active skill grinding — especially in cooking and farming — unlocks tools that permanently boost your income ceiling. Management milestones improve staff efficiency and unlock advanced hiring options.

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.

Offline earnings reward long-term investment in staff and upgrades over short-term manual grinding. Set up automation, upgrade key appliances, then log off confidently.

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.

Gumball machines provide small consistent passive income. Wishing wells offer periodic bonus payouts. Jewelry cases increase the chance of celebrity customers arriving — celebrities pay significantly more and temporarily boost customer arrival rates.

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 May 27, 2026, no verified active codes exist for Run a Restaurant!. We track unverified codes and update this section when confirmed working codes are found.

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 content updates from Burnt Toast Labs. The game launched in May 2026 with integrated farming, ranching, and offline earnings as headline features.

A major 'Next Update!' was scheduled for May 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM, promising new content and features. Follow the game's Roblox page and Burnt Toast Labs for patch notes and new code releases.