Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Rise & Dine

Your journey from owning a small hotdog stand, to running a restaurant starts here!

Rise & Dine is a business management and cooking sim where you start at the bottom and work your way up. Start with a humble small hotdog stand and work your way through seven business stages until you're running your own restaurant. Cook, serve, and manage your way to success while dealing with customers, inventory, staff, and all the chaos that comes with running a food business.

Level up from 1 to 100, unlocking new recipes, equipment, and opportunities as you go. Whether you want a chill cooking experience or a high-stakes culinary challenge, there's a difficulty mode for you.

Business Progression

Your journey starts simple: a Small Hotdog Stand where you'll learn the basics. Make some money, gain experience, and upgrade to a Bigger Hotdog Stand. Then the real upgrades start coming, first a Hotdog Truck, then you'll branch out with an Ice Cream Truck, Burger Truck, and Sandwich Truck. The endgame? A full restaurant. Each stage throws new challenges at you, more customers to handle, and better money-making potential.

Managing Your Fleet

Once you've got multiple trucks, you get to make some real decisions. Pick which truck you want to run each day based on the weather, where you're set up, and what you've got in stock. Hire workers for your trucks, and whichever ones you're not using will make money on their own. Build up a fleet, staff it right, and you've got multiple income streams running at once. Workers handle operations independently while you focus on the truck you're actively running.

Actually Cooking the Food

You're not just pressing buttons here, you're making the food. Stack ingredients to build burgers, hotdogs, sandwiches, etc. Watch your grill to cook meat to the right temperature without burning it. The menu's pretty diverse too: burritos, breakfast plates, fruit bowls, chips, milkshakes, fountain drinks, hotdogs, burgers and a bunch of different ice cream options. Everything needs actual attention and prep work.

Pick Your Difficulty

Chill Mode: No stress cooking. Customers don't get mad, there's no penalty for messing up orders or dismissing customers, weather doesn't matter, and food never spoils. Your reputation is locked at 5 stars with a permanent traffic boost. Great if you just want to relax, but you'll make way less money and XP.

Standard Mode: The default experience. Customers get upset if you're slow, mistakes have consequences, weather affects your business, food spoilage is real, and your reputation directly impacts customer traffic. Dismissing customers cuts your foot traffic for the rest of the day. Standard rewards for standard difficulty.

Chef Mode: For those who love a challenge. Customers lose patience way faster, penalties hit harder, bad weather really tanks your foot traffic, inventory management is tough, and reputation swings are more dramatic. Dismissals are even more costly. But if you can handle it, you'll rake in way more money and XP.

Dealing With Customers

When you open up shop, the day starts. You'll see the sun move across the sky, evening roll in, and foot traffic slow down as it gets darker. Meanwhile, your customers are waiting and they're not infinitely patient. Take too long and they'll get upset, which means less XP and money when you finally serve them. The challenge ramps up too: hotdog stands let you serve one person at a time, trucks handle two orders simultaneously, and the restaurant? You're juggling five customers at once. During slow periods with no customers coming in, pull up the games app on your phone to waste time and stay entertained while you wait for the next rush.

Reputation

Every day you're graded on a 100-point scale based on four factors: customer satisfaction, order accuracy, service speed, and mistakes. That daily grade affects your 1-5 star reputation, which directly controls how many customers show up. Drop below 2 stars and you'll see fewer people. Hit 5 stars and you'll get more traffic. Good service attracts more customers, which means more money and faster progression. Poor service creates a spiral where fewer customers make it harder to recover.

What Tanks Your Reputation: Delivering wrong items, customers leaving angry, burnt ingredients and more.

What Builds It: Perfect orders with zero mistakes, keeping customers happy by serving them quickly, and maintaining high accuracy rates.

The Dismissal Dilemma: Sometimes you can't complete an order due to being out of ingredients, overwhelmed, whatever. You can dismiss customers, but in Standard/Chef modes you'll lose some of your foot traffic for the rest of the day. It's a last resort that can save you in the moment but will hurt your reputation and bottom line. In Chill mode, dismissals carry no penalty, but your reputation is locked at 5 stars anyway.

Keeping Track of Inventory

Running out of ingredients means lost sales. You've got a phone in-game where you can order more supplies, and a delivery truck shows up with your stuff. But you need to stay on top of things. Items like ice cream and meat will spoil if you don't put them in the fridge before closing or leave them out for too long during the day. Even bread expires after a few days. It's a balancing act between having enough stock and not letting food go bad.

Your Phone Does Everything

Your smartphone basically runs your whole operation. Order supplies, check your cash and level, switch trucks, hire workers, mess with settings, play games, check the weather, upgrade to the next business, or look up the guide, it's all there. You'll get notifications when something important happens during the day, including your end-of-day performance report and reputation changes. There's even a music app that plays through your in-game speaker. You can use the built-in tracks or throw your own music files in a custom folder if you want your own vibe going. Check the weather app to view tomorrow's forecast, so you can strategically choose your location and truck setup before the day starts, as certain locations have positives & negatives regarding the weather.

Weather and Location

The world isn't static. Bad weather means fewer people walking around, which means fewer customers, and in Chef mode, weather swings hit even harder. You can unlock and buy new locations for your trucks as you progress, with each one having different advantages & disadvantages. Some locations offer better foot traffic, while others might give customers more patience. Pick your location wisely based on what's happening and what you're selling.

Progression and Customization

A hundred levels of unlocks, new items, recipes, equipment, all that good stuff. As you level up, you'll unlock new locations to set up your trucks, each with its own characteristics. When you finally get to the restaurant stage, you can arrange your kitchen however you want. There are also phone wallpapers for your phone to unlock if you're into that kind of thing. Something new's always coming as you level up.

Rise & Dine isn't just about cooking burgers and scooping ice cream, it's about building something from the ground up and dealing with everything that comes with it. You'll manage inventory, handle customers, watch your reputation and more. Whether you want a relaxing cooking experience or a high-pressure challenge, the game will play how you want it. From that first hotdog stand to your own restaurant, every upgrade and every satisfied customer gets you closer!

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Code: Only when I was absolutely stuck on something and needed help troubleshooting. All the actual development and implementation was hands-on.

Music: The in-game songs were created using AI generation tools.