Cook & Sail

You run a restaurant on a ship, alone or with up to three other players. Take the order, cook it, and get it to the table before the customer stands up and leaves. The money you make sits with the crew until the end of the week. Then the fleet names its cut. Pay it and you sail again. Miss it and the run is over. On the shift you set the day's menu and work the tickets as they come in. Ingredients are delicately prepared, which each process being its own experience. Plates get dirty and go to the sink. Leave a ticket too long and that customer walks. A bad plate pays less. A good one can tip, and the restaurant's reputation feeds into that. Rats cross the kitchen and steal food off the counters. Some days the regular crowd stays away and one big diner takes the room: Heavy Jones, The Glutton, or Barbazurra. They order a lot, and the shift is about feeding them. Crew money buys faster tools, better stations or miscellaneous objects. You can buy various props to enhance your restaurant, whether by reducing the customers' patience decline by playing a piano, hiring a cat to catch those pesky rats or get a parrot that... that does nothing important really. If the kitchen runs out of food to serve, someone can fish off the side. If the fleet share isn't met, you can always gamble your savings to make the week! The tables want a good meal. The fleet wants its share.