ridiculous to make money

[GrillMaster ✿]

nothing makes money but gift shop
fast food place 3 registers line ups out the door and all the food options only make 700$ a day. then i saved some money trained 10 lawyers to above 75% only to lose money and every neighborhood has no demand and marketing does nothing but lose more money. takes all the fun out when even if u invest in your store it cant make money. also i tried doing import on food from sea but my 1 shop cant handle a $6000 minimum purchase cause ill have over stock every week. things definitely needs to be balanced

[GarfiidooDK]

You can see in the Ecoviewer whare you loose money.
Fastfood isnt the best at start, and need a high flow of customers ( high trafic index )
Also, make sure you meet the requirements in the Insight view, and you have the max number os customers pr hour.

Adding the full line of products makes it easier too.

[Rippinbongs]

Uncle Fred's big business ideas are bankrupting me. Day 47 things start to look bleek. Fast food with burgers and dogs + Gift shop making 700$ a day - the expenses on warehousing and loans, we -100 on a day. Luca's pizza and Joe's hotdogs just moved in accross the street.

I am about to restart, going full wine and cigar shop in districts where there are none.

[Dreamsurfer]

Just like in real life. Keep costs down.

[jdrake5839]

Look at the capacity of the shops you are opening in the beginning. Try and avoid the ones that are 10 and go for the ones that are 30+. You'll have a much easier time making money. It's also really hard to make a profit on restaurants early in the game (I don't think I saw profits until I started getting pizzas, even then I'm only making around 10k a day in mine).

As for your lawyers, go to inventory and pricing. If you're at 100%, increase the prices. This is another time where capacity matters. The 4 capacity offices you'll be lucky to break even. The 10 capacity offices you should be making around 10k a day if you're staffed up. I've got a 50 capacity web development agency that's staffed up that brings in over 50k a day.

Capacity in this game is everything. My 75 capacity clothes shop brings in over 80k a day for example while my 30 capacity jewelry store brings in about 7k. I just opened another jewelry store with 75 capacity that has a high demand on expensive jewelry and as I'm training the staff for it, I imagine that being the shop that blows the bank.

[Kesu]

Cloth shop and jewelry are solid money makers

[GunRunner89X]

Originally posted by GrillMaster ✿:

nothing makes money but gift shop
fast food place 3 registers line ups out the door and all the food options only make 700$ a day. then i saved some money trained 10 lawyers to above 75% only to lose money and every neighborhood has no demand and marketing does nothing but lose more money. takes all the fun out when even if u invest in your store it cant make money. also i tried doing import on food from sea but my 1 shop cant handle a $6000 minimum purchase cause ill have over stock every week. things definitely needs to be balanced

Funny. Everything you said... is wrong. Everything makes money. You're just doing it wrong.

[freelancer909]

Fast food is not a money maker. I do them just to watch the hot dogs spin. But my gift shops all make good money.

[Radgamer4life]

A simple way to make a profit with burger shop is to add the hotdog grill and keep it stocked

[Radgamer4life]

Suggest you make a law firm and a couple of clothing stores

[tatsumatu]

It's all about keeping costs down.

My first few hours of testing the water on my first save was to learn the fundamentals of the game. Once I had done that I created a new save.

I started off by opening a small capacity gift shop and worked slowly to earn some money. I actually found that when food prices shot up in my district I was able to actually earn from it by adding a burger, hotdog stands and drinks into my gift shop. I used this until I earned enough money to open up a small office and warehouse so I could buy in stock cheaper.

Once I got that under control I opened a full food premises as well selling as much food as possible. Again importing stock kept costs lower. I built up money until I could afford more office staff and equipment before I opened up a bigger store which sold clothes. Wasn't massive but I was the only one in the district and I was soon raking in money with buying clothes in cheaply from the docks. I was eventually earning roughly 45k a day so I expanded some more by opening a fresh and frozen food outlet. I liquidated my gift shop and takeway and added a full restaurant to my food store which seemed to work well although it took quite a bit of time. I eventually managed to save up enough to open a small jewellery store which although was turning a profit, it was still struggling.

I built my funds up to around 500k and then decided to full on invest in to a massive clothing store (keeping my original). Thos clothing store was massive, I employed something like 30 staff, running 6x tills and have close to 150 clothing racks. I employed the staff whist I was kitting everything out. It took my a good week ingame time to do this but whilst I was kitting out I was training all the staff as high as possible. I'm now making in the region of 400k per day and have some big investments. I'm now in the process of trying to get myself 100% happy.

I will be looking at other market ventures as well as upgrading things such as office and jewellery store. I have some big plans but where I'm now at, I'm looking at literally hours (real life) to get my stores/offices fully functioning.

Think logically with your investments. Take each one seriously and keep costs as low as possible. Also get them loans paid off ASAP, you can always get another when you need to but keep the daily costs as low as you possibly can.

Hope the above is useful.

[Zentra]

Originally posted by jdrake5839:

Look at the capacity of the shops you are opening in the beginning. Try and avoid the ones that are 10 and go for the ones that are 30+. .

I agree. I just started first game yesterday. I skipped the story line telling me to get the small shop. I went straight to the larger size building. I maxed it out with two shelves of cheap and two of expensive gifts. I put soda by the register for added impulse items and I am clearing 3-4,000 a day in my first few days.
I am making sure the store is super clean, shelves fully stocked, and painted one wall partially as an accent wall.
Sure, maybe I could have done with a smaller storefront, but I figure I am occupying it now and can repurpose it later if I decide; maybe a clothing store.

[Warsoul]

The fast food doesnt worth the time/space/money.

Simply scrap it after you finish your quest. Switch it for a cloth store and you will get 35k per day for a small store; 77k to 120k for a big one.

Nothing sell more than cloth for now because you have 8 kind of cloth to sell and their margin exceed 400% profit or almost.

The game is broken for now, not enough 12$/h salary to run fast food or small shop. Not enough product variety for opening a great super market and made big numbers. You are limited to 2 type of food (Fresh and Frozen) + Coffee Shop Food.

You will end to sell everything you can in you biggest store to fill the empty space like a Wallmart.

[Eilif]

There are two problems with selling food :
1 - They are cheap. So even if the profit from it are great, you need to sell so many of it before it gets any out of it.
2 - Each customers takes longer time to handle compared to a gift shop, as cashier needs to go and get all the customer order.

So to make a profit out of it, make shure you sell the more expensive food such as salad and pizza. And make everything as tight as possible to shorten down walking time the cashier need for getting what customer wants. In this way the cashier will be able to handle more customers per hour with an higher sale per customer.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Eilif:

There are two problems with selling food :
1 - They are cheap. So even if the profit from it are great, you need to sell so many of it before it gets any out of it.
2 - Each customers takes longer time to handle compared to a gift shop, as cashier needs to go and get all the customer order.

So to make a profit out of it, make shure you sell the more expensive food such as salad and pizza. And make everything as tight as possible to shorten down walking time the cashier need for getting what customer wants. In this way the cashier will be able to handle more customers per hour with an higher sale per customer.

Just to add on, as long as your queues are set right and your capacity is met, it will be fine.
If you watch your stores or work at them, it's worse than not being in them, as there are no lines when you are not there. (2 registers are supposed to handle 40 customers/hr anyways)

for me, fast food was profitable when i started importing my goods instead of using a wholesaler, as well as started selling all sorts of items (salads, burger, fries, donut, etc etc!)
basically equal to my gift shop

[GameMaster]

Increase the prices of your law firm significantly.
I used to only make about 3k a day from it, then I read a tip here and increased the price from 225 to 1250. Now my biggest law firm is making 130k a day