Fine Dining Fraud

You can't cook. You owe money to the mafia. You just opened a fine dining restaurant.

Fine Dining Fraud is a chaotic co-op cooking game for 1–6 players. Name your restaurant, open the doors of a "luxury" place in a building that was cheap for a reason, serve picky guests, lie to their faces when it goes wrong, and keep Don Metlloviconi's envelope full. Every third day, he comes to collect.

COOK (SORT OF)

Toast, hot dogs, soup from a packet, fried cheese, steak, schnitzel with fries and three kinds of frozen pizza. On the menu they have much longer names.

• Buy the equipment, carry the crates in and build your own kitchen layout – every counter, grill and shelf can be moved.

• Two toasters? A second plate stack? Go ahead. Your kitchen, your traffic jam.

• Plates run out, food goes cold, soup burns, and the freezer door locks from the outside. Nobody knows why.

SERVE AND LIE

Seat guests, hand out menus, take orders, clip tickets on the rail and run plates through the pass – carry a whole stack if you dare.

Wrong dish? Burnt steak? It's a deconstructed signature dish. Pick an excuse card and say it like you mean it. Your microphone decides how convincing you sound. And the grandpa at table 3? You'll have to shout.

Critics, gourmets, nervous first dates, football fans and the odd celebrity all want something different.

SURVIVE THE EVENING

• Fires, oil spills, food poisoning, guest rushes and an intercom that stays on at the worst moment.

• Leave a fire burning and the kitchen fills with smoke – leave it longer and it pours out of the restaurant into the night sky.

• Theme nights: romantic dinners, football fans after the match, gourmet night, pensioners' lunch, company parties.

• Every chapter ends with a boss evening: a very thorough health inspector, a mafia wedding, dinner with the Don himself and finally the Michelin inspector.

• Someone blocking the doorway with a tray of soup? Slap them. Just don't slap the guests.

PLAY TOGETHER

• Online co-op for 1–6 players through Steam. Invite friends straight from your friends list.

• Proximity voice chat: whisper in the kitchen, panic in the dining room.

• Visit your friends' restaurants as a guest – sit down, order, and judge them. They have to lie to you now.

• Each player can play in their own language.

BUILD A REPUTATION

• Earn stars, read your (honest) reviews and answer them. Politely, or not.

• How many guests show up depends on the day, your stars and your marketing – buy chairs, posters around town and a city banner. Guests who give up in the line never cost you stars.

• Buy furniture, upgrades and a little dignity. Move the tables, the menu stand and the piano wherever you like.

• Grow into Le Salon – knock through into the building next door for more tables and bigger evenings.

• Paint your own pictures for the walls. Hire Jean-Pierre. Pretend it was the plan all along.

• 17 Steam achievements, a few of them hidden. Disasters are clipped automatically with Medal.

• The goal: a Michelin star. Before anyone tastes the food.

Free to play. 18 languages: English, Čeština, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Eesti, Magyar, Polski, Suomi, Русский, Українська, Türkçe, Tiếng Việt, Norsk, 日本語, 简体中文 and Urdu (Roman script).