How to make burger business profitable?

[GrannyWithA50Cal]

Hi,

I followed the tutorial during my first play through. However, it was terrible. The profit margins were pretty bad. What do I need to do to make it run better?

My gift shop is making 3+k a day but the burger shop only like 100 dollars a day.

[Akameka]

In order to make profits, you need to sell costly things.
Simple maths.

Paying someone to sell 10 burgers worth 4.6$ per hour, at 25$/h
- gain 46$, lose 25. also lose 10$ to buy back thoses burgers. Thats makes 10$ per hour, deduce renting costs, you are barely in the green.

Versus, selling cheap gifts for exemple : 26$ per gift, will sell minimum 3 per hour, and up to 5-6 some days. With the same formulae, thats 78-156$ per hour, minus salary (assume 25$), 53-134$ per hour, deduce buying cost (13,5$- 27$), that makes between 39.5$ and 107$ per hour. Way enough to pay rent and rack some cash. And that's only with basic shop, the gap will increase even more with bigger shops and expensive gifts.

Conclusion, if you want to make profits with snacks and coffee, settle for costly products (CALL PIZZA lol)

[killakanz]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Notorious SMG:

Getting 1K+ now at the burger place. What worked for me:
- longer open hours, e.g. 12+ hours per day (hire staff and train their customer service)
- more food options (hotdogs, fries, etc.)
- pick a good neighborhood (look at the market stats and competition)
- give it some time.

1K is still rubbish.
One of my gift/flowers/wine shops is making 23K per day, it's only open 12 hours per day, 2 cashier staff at any time and 1 part-time cleaner doing 2 hours per day. It's building capacity is 30. I've opened 3 of them and my bank balance is skyrocketing.
Fast food just isn't worth it...

[Frosina]

Renovate your shop and train your employees is the key, trust me. It's NOT selling more different stuff (that help's a litte). It's all about the rating of your store - interior and staff skills seem to be very important.

[DmG_]

I had to same problem, started a new game and made sure to get some money before opening the burger shop. Yet the same happend, after reading here I demolished to burger shop and created a clothing store instead. Going great now

[Yoshi]

Make it very Big. I have 12000 Dollar on 1 Day.
Very Big Location. Marketing 100%. All Product. 24 hour open

[Kyle]

If you just want money then yeah it's better to use other types, but at a point money becomes less important and some enjoy to open new business types

As the person above me said, size!

Fast food and cafe are high volume sale type businesses, they will suffer a lot in a 15 capacity. They basically always have or are around peak customers, so if it's a 75 building then it'll probably be at 75, marketing at this point would only serve to increase some of your weaker hours/stabilize the ones hovering around 74~, personally i open them in 30 capacities because i stay in garment district for awhile for fun

Other than that, product variety, add all the primaries (and some non-primary items if you want, you can sell everything anywhere, technically)

cafe and fast food are basically the same business, but the cafe struggles more due to lack of primary non-penalized items compared to the fast food place, you can see all primaries via the F1 menu

24 hour is also good as person above said

somewhere around 7k average is pretty good for a 24/7 30 capacity in my experience when only selling the primary item types in a fast food place in garment (make sure to up your prices slightly without affecting the pricing index, you can experiment yourself or use the cheatsheet on the discord/ask someone to post it, basically just a list of prices you can set without screwing yourself over because it's tedious after the millionth time)

think i go through like 400-800 hotdog/burger a day (and like 4400 fries per week ;-;), which gets annoying without an hq automating my daily deliveries

[Mocha Latte]

The best thing I did to have huge profit early was start an electronics store after the gift shop. Admittedly I only did it because I work in IT and liked that idea better. Turns out it has MASSIVE profit margins.

[David Estes Creations]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από WhiteFuryM:

The best thing I did to have huge profit early was start an electronics store after the gift shop. Admittedly I only did it because I work in IT and liked that idea better. Turns out it has MASSIVE profit margins.

True, although this post was from a year ago, and things have been balanced a lot more since then (like Electronics stores will be in EA 0.5 :D ) !

[Erron Black]

When will information about the patch come?

[David Estes Creations]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Erron Black:

When will information about the patch come?

Very soon!

[PaTryk_Gracz0l]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από David Estes Creations:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από WhiteFuryM:

The best thing I did to have huge profit early was start an electronics store after the gift shop. Admittedly I only did it because I work in IT and liked that idea better. Turns out it has MASSIVE profit margins.

True, although this post was from a year ago, and things have been balanced a lot more since then (like Electronics stores will be in EA 0.5 :D ) !

you mean in 0.4

[David Estes Creations]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από PaTryk_Gracz0l:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από David Estes Creations:

True, although this post was from a year ago, and things have been balanced a lot more since then (like Electronics stores will be in EA 0.5 :D ) !

you mean in 0.4

True, the store was in EA 0.4, but the new balancing so it's not so HUUUUUUUGE will be EA 0.5 :D

[Farradin]

My burger business makes about 15k a day. I added salad, pizza and have the customer count at 30. I have 4 registers. It's busy 24 hours a day.

[GrannyWithA50Cal]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Farradin:

My burger business makes about 15k a day. I added salad, pizza and have the customer count at 30. I have 4 registers. It's busy 24 hours a day.

Having 4 registers does nothing, you can only serve the maximum of 30 customers each time. 2 is plenty.