How many hours to open?

[Brack]

How do I know how many hours I should open a specific business for each day? I'm currently just guesstimating based on what hours real world businesses of that type are open.

[CaponeAl [FR]]

you can see customers/hour in bizman : click on yesterday where you have the graph for 7 last days

[Mister Jofel]

It's indeed a little bit exploring using the customers/hour graph in BizMan to get an idea when it's best to open your business.
For the 2 businesses the game asks you to start with, I found these hours the most profitable:
- Gift Shop from 1 pm to midnight (full time employee doing 7 hours, part time doing 4 hours) You can open it 7 on 7 but if you want a closing day, Thursday is the least profitable.
- FastFood restaurant open 24/7: There are sometimes hours which has 0 customers, but it varies (sometimes even between noon and 1pm). Used 3 fulltime employees (6-7 hours) and 1 part time (3-4 hours). The variance in hours is that i let my most expensive employee work 1 hour less a day so it depends ;)