Food Chain Magnate Rules Reference
Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Each player starts as a single entrepreneur and builds up a fast food chain by hiring and training staff, represented by cards, and by running the operations of their company, which is done on a variable board. The game continues until the bank runs out of money twice. The richest player then wins.
Objective
Accumulate the most cash by the time the bank breaks for the second time.
How to Play
The game is played in 7 phases, some simultaneous and some in turn order. Phases are: 1) Restructuring (simultaneous), 2) Order of Business (based on open slots), 3) Working 9:00-5:00 (turn order), 4) Dinnertime (house number order), 5) Payday (simultaneous), 6) Marketing Campaigns (campaign number order), 7) Clean Up (simultaneous).