Coming to Steam Early Access

Toque: Restaurant Tycoon

A restaurant tycoon where you are part of the crew. Work wherever you want, in the kitchen, at the register or on the floor, build the place yourself and pick one of four restaurant types.

Genre
Restaurant tycoon · simulation
Platform
Windows · macOS · Linux
Release
Early Access · January 2027
Lunch rush at a fast-food place.

The idea

The whole restaurant is yours to work in.

Cook, take orders, carry plates, fix a broken fryer, or step back and run the numbers. What kind of place it becomes is up to you.

The game

Work wherever you want

You start as one person with skills of your own. Click any station and you do the job yourself, and your skills decide how fast and how well it goes. Every order and prep task lands on the job board, where you pick your work alongside the crew you hire.

Build it your way

Rent a shop on the city map and lay out the kitchen and the dining room yourself, with stations from grills and fryers to stone ovens and walk-in coolers, and decor in four styles.

Four restaurants, four ways to play

A fast-food counter lives on speed and packaging. A café takes orders at the counter and brings plates to the tables. A diner cooks its pots in the morning and sells from the display. A bistro serves in courses, with reservations.

Out the door

Any of the four can add pickup and bicycle delivery, and on a street with a car lane, fast food and cafés can open a drive-through.

A dish needs a cook who knows it

Dishes from kitchens around the world, each built from its parts. A dish goes on the menu only if someone in the kitchen can cook it, so every hire is also a menu decision. Pay to train your cooks and the menu grows with them.

Recipes are trade-offs

Swap an ingredient, a sauce or a side, and the cost, taste, cooking time and station all change together. No slider simply makes food better. Save your own versions, name them and make one the signature of the restaurant.

The kitchen is a machine

During service the flow map shows where people walk, where they wait and which station is holding everyone up. Move a cook, add a second fryer or give tired staff a room to rest. Machines wear out: mend them yourself or call a technician.

Customers who remember you

Guests live in the city, each with a neighbourhood, a budget and a taste of their own, and they remember how their last visit went. Treat them well and they come back as regulars; let them down and it shows in the reviews. Rain, match nights and the day a food critic sits down keep every day different.

Rivals and a chain of your own

Rival restaurants share the city, and every season the city magazine ranks the best places and the people behind them. Perfect your formula, save it as a template and open branches across the city's districts.

First look

Select any screenshot below or click the frame to inspect it at full size.

A bistro's menu, with the profit and margin of every dish.

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Coming in Early Access

Toque is in active development and keeps growing through Early Access: new cuisines, dishes and recipes, and new districts and places, waterfront terraces among them, with special days and city events that shake up the week.

  • Fine dining, a fifth restaurant type, with tasting menus, guide stars and secret inspectors.
  • Managers to hand your restaurants to, so you can run them from afar.
  • Co-op is planned, to run a restaurant together with a friend.

Toque in the devlog

All updates
  • 0005

    Announcement2026-11-142 min

    Toque is on Steam!

    Toque: Restaurant Tycoon has a Steam page now. It comes to Early Access in January 2027, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Wishlist Toque on Steam If you'd like to play it, a wishlist is what he…

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    Update2026-11-134 min

    Toque: your restaurant now explains itself

    This update has one goal: when something goes wrong, you should not have to hunt for the reason. Your restaurant now shows where it hurts, guests react, and the kitchen cooks in front of yo…

  • 0003

    Update2026-11-023 min

    Toque: your own recipes, the world's kitchens and a partner

    Toque has grown a lot since it was announced. The menu now takes recipes you write yourself, the kitchens of the world have arrived, and a new restaurant no longer has to open alone: a part…

  • 0002

    Announcement2026-10-264 min

    Toque: Restaurant Tycoon, the first game

    The first game from Caria Core is Toque: Restaurant Tycoon, coming to Steam. It is a tycoon and a simulation at once: you build a restaurant and run the business, and you can also put on th…

Toque is coming to Steam Early Access.

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