Restaurant tycoon for iPhone & Android
Flip your first burger, pour your first coffee, fry your first bucket of chicken. Then hire managers, stamp out blueprints, franchise, buy out your rivals and plant your sign in cities across 25+ countries.
An animated 3D model of a burger restaurant: customers walk in and queue at the till, cooks work a glowing grill, cars roll through the drive-thru, and the day turns to night.
Day one
Six kinds of restaurant, each with its own rush hours, equipment and crowd. Choose one to start your story, and open the others as brands of your own later.
The classic. A hot grill, a drive-thru and a lunch rush that never lets up.
Fryers, buckets and family meals. Dinner is your big hour.
Ovens, slices and delivery-sized orders on game night.
Fast, fresh and built to order. Lunch is everything.
Burritos and bowls down the line, made the way each guest likes them.
Lattes and pastries for the morning crowd before the sun is up.
…then decide who you serve
The whole menu
A real restaurant you can watch, and a real company you can steer: from the fry station to the boardroom.
No. 01
Watch every guest walk in, queue, order and eat. Cooks work the grill, cars snake through the drive-thru, and the lunch rush tests every decision you made. Wait times, prices and quality decide how happy they leave.
No. 02
Lay out the kitchen and the dining room, buy and upgrade equipment, write the menu and set every price. Small changes, big margins.
No. 03
Expand across real cities in 25+ countries. Every neighborhood has its own foot traffic, rent and rivals, and the property market lets you lease a corner spot or buy the building.
No. 04
Hire managers and choose how much they run on their own. Save your best restaurant as a blueprint and open a dozen at once, so you can think about the next city, not the next shift.
No. 05
Sell franchises to investors for fees and royalties. Build headquarters with departments and executives, then feed the whole chain through your own supply lines and distribution centers.
No. 06
AI-run rival chains fight you for every block. Win with marketing and a reputation people trust, then buy the competition outright and run several brands under one roof.
No. 07
Your restaurants keep serving while you're away, by the same rules as when you watch. Come back to a welcome-back report of everything they earned, and decide what to build next.
Your career
Five ranks, one save. Every promotion hands you bigger tools and bigger problems.
One location
Run the grill, write the menu, set the prices and keep the line moving. Every dollar is yours to reinvest.
Across your city
Open more doors in new neighborhoods, put managers in charge and save your best restaurant as a blueprint.
New cities
Move into new cities, sign franchise partners and run campaigns across the region.
Coast to coast
Build headquarters, hire executives, open distribution centers and start buying out the rivals.
25+ countries
Launch new brands, conquer new countries and race to become the most valuable restaurant corporation on Earth.
Franchise Empire is free to download and free to finish. Spend if you want to, never because you have to.
Every restaurant, upgrade, city and rank is earned by playing. Leaderboards rank the companies players built, not their wallets.
Gems speed up a build or skip ahead a little, and buy cosmetics: restaurant themes, signs and headquarters styles. You earn them from milestones too.
Watch a short video for a bonus if you want one: a few gems, a rush on construction, or extra offline earnings. Never forced on you.
Questions
A restaurant tycoon for iPhone and Android. You start with one small restaurant, a burger joint, a fried chicken shop, a pizzeria, a sandwich shop, a Mexican fast-casual spot or a coffee & breakfast café, and grow it into a global restaurant corporation with franchises, headquarters, supply chains and several brands.
Franchise Empire is coming to the App Store and Google Play. The buttons on this page will take you to it as soon as it is out.
Yes. It is free to download and free to play all the way to Global CEO. There are optional purchases (gem packs, a starter bundle, cosmetics and an Ad Pass that gives you ad rewards without watching the ads), but nothing you can buy is needed to progress.
No. Gems can speed up construction, research and training or skip a little time ahead, and buy cosmetic themes, signs and HQ styles. They never buy restaurants, cities, ranks or anything a player couldn't earn by playing, and you earn gems from milestones as you grow.
Yes, for real. Your restaurants keep trading while the app is closed, by the same rules as when you're watching, for up to 24 hours (you can raise that to 48). When you come back, a welcome-back report shows what they served and earned.
You sign in with Apple or Google, nothing else, and pick a username. Your company is saved to the cloud, so it follows you to a new phone and stays safe if you lose this one.
Global leaderboards rank every player's company by its valuation and by its number of restaurants. Your username and company name are what other players see.
In the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. Or write to [email protected]. The account deletion page explains what is deleted and what is kept.
Something else? Visit support or write to [email protected].
Coming soon
Free on iPhone and Android. Start with one tiny kitchen, finish with a crown.