Restaurant

Frame · Work and creation thematic

Hospitality under pressure – creativity in the kitchen, timing in the service, satisfaction at the table.

Design question – Imagine your game is set in a restaurant. Who cooks, who orders, who rates – and what happens if the guest is dissatisfied?

Associations

• Typical Activities – Crafting (cooking), Managing, Serving, Competing
• Typical roles – hierarchy (chef/sous-chef/waiter), guest relationship
• Typical spaces – dining room, kitchen, pantry, terrace
• Typical conflicts – order, preparation, service, criticism

Atmosphere

hectic or elegant, sensual (smells, aromas), convivial

Coherence

Implied Activities: Crafting (cooking), Managing, Serving, Competing. Mechanisms: Real-Time (time pressure), Order Fulfillment (working through orders), Engine Building (improving the kitchen), Simultaneous Action (everyone works at once). Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (revenue), social order (service hierarchy).

Compatible with

• Serenity (AT-02)
• Joy (AT-09)
• Crisis (SI-08)
• Collaboration (SI-12)
• Family (SO-05)
• Cult (SO-07)
• Tower (SP-11)
• Antiquity (TM-02)
• Amid Upheaval (TM-09)

Tension with

• Jungle (TH-04) – A restaurant in the jungle that works only with local ingredients. Every dish requires an expedition; the menu changes with nature.