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Food Chain Magnate
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Food Chain Magnate

BGG Rank: 48
Players: 2 - 5, Recommended: 5+, Best: 5+
Playing Time: 240 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 4.19 / 5
Mechanisms: Delayed Purchase, Income, Market, Modular Board, Open Drafting, Simultaneous Action Selection, Victory Points as a Resource
Category: Economic, Industry / Manufacturing
Family: Brands: Restaurants, Components: Map (City Scale), Crowdfunding: Gamefound, Decades: The 1950's, Digital Implementations: Boardgamecore, Food & Drink: Beer, Food & Drink: Burgers, Food & Drink: Pizza, Misc: Made by Panda, Theme: Food / Cooking, Theme: Pub, Bars, Bistros..., Theme: Retro
Designer: Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga
Artist: Snow Conrad, Iris de Haan, Sarah Kelly, Victor Maristane, Matt Paquette & Co., Ynze Moedt, Kwanchai Moriya
Publisher: Lucky Duck Games, Splotter Spellen, Angry Lion Games, Ediciones MasQueOca, Fox in the Box, Galápagos Jogos, MINDOK, MS Edizioni, New Games Order, LLC, One Moment Games, Portal Games
Category: Economic
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"Lemonade? They want lemonade? What is the world coming to? I want commercials for burgers on all channels, every 15 minutes. We are the Home of the Original Burger, not a hippie health haven. And place a billboard next to that new house on the corner. I want them craving beer every second they sit in their posh new garden." The new management trainee trembles in front of the CEO and tries to politely point out that... "How do you mean, we don't have enough staff? The HR director reports to you. Hire more people! Train them! But whatever you do, don't pay them any real wages. I did not go into business to become poor. And fire that discount manager, she is only costing me money. From now on, we'll sell gourmet burgers. Same crap, double the price. Get my marketing director in here!" Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The game can be played by 2-5 serious gamers in 2-4 hours. German: "Limonade? Sie wollen Limonade? Was ist mit der Welt los? Ich will Werbung für Burger auf allen Kanälen, alle 15 Minuten. Wir sind die Heimat des Original-Burgers, kein Hippie-Gesundheitsparadies. Und stellen Sie eine Werbetafel neben das neue Haus an der Ecke. Ich will, dass sie jede Sekunde, in der sie in ihrem schicken neuen Garten sitzen, nach Bier lechzen." Der neue Management-Trainee zittert vor dem CEO und versucht, höflich darauf hinzuweisen, dass... "Wie meinen Sie das, wir haben nicht genug Personal? Der Personaldirektor berichtet an Sie. Stellen Sie mehr Leute ein! Bilden Sie sie aus! Aber was auch immer Sie tun, zahlen Sie ihnen keine echten Löhne. Ich bin nicht ins Geschäft eingestiegen, um arm zu werden. Und feuere diese Discount-Managerin, sie kostet mich nur Geld. Von nun an werden wir Gourmet-Burger verkaufen. Derselbe Mist, nur doppelt so teuer. Holen Sie meinen Marketingdirektor her!" Food Chain Magnate ist ein schweres Strategiespiel über den Aufbau einer Fast-Food-Kette. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Aufbau des eigenen Unternehmens mit Hilfe eines kartengesteuerten (Personal-)Managementsystems. Die Spieler konkurrieren auf einer variablen Stadtkarte durch Einkauf, Marketing und Verkauf sowie auf einem Stellenmarkt für wichtige Mitarbeiter. Das Spiel kann von 2-5 ernsthaften Spielern in 2-4 Stunden gespielt werden.

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Average Playing Time

4-8 hours

Best Player Count

3 Best, 4 Best

Collection

Kevin

Difficulty

Heavy

Played

Unplayed

Recommended Player Count

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players

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Players: 2 - 6, Recommended: 6, Best: 5
Playing Time: 240 minutes
Weight (Complexity): 4.50 / 5
"Chef! Some of our guests are asking for ketchup. Do we have any?" "We don't serve ketchup in this company." "Also they are asking whether the restaurant will expand anytime soon? There's a restaurant in the new quarter and with all the roadwork lately, it is getting a lot of traffic." "Can't you see I am working on my new masterpiece? How can I concentrate like this? I need that Michelin star! And this new sushi dish is just the thing. Or maybe if I combine kimchi with ice cream..." "But chef. Your guests are not asking for fancy stuff; they want ketchup and coffee. And better decorations. And a new menu." "Get out of my kitchen. Now!" The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas is an expansion for Food Chain Magnate. Includes: a new set of milestones that completely changes strategic options coffee and barista's: places where people stop on the way to get food new districts with different types of buildings lobbyists that can place parks and new roads new types of food: kimchi, sushi & noodles new marketing types: mass marketeers, rural marketeers and gourmet food critics new employees: French fries; movie stars and working the night shift hard choices materials to play with 6 players ketchup!

linh1987 rated: N/A/10

In Stockholm

Dino25 rated: N/A/10

In the end, just a little too much take that for my tastes. Great game, just not for me.

rahdo rated: N/A/10

really smartly designed game, but way too harsh, cutthroat, and sandboxey for Jen and me 🙂

jbuergel rated: N/A/10

location: garage, cabinet 2

Tiamat rated: N/A/10

I want a simpler version of this game that just has the board play. I'm allergic to all those cards.

Nostradamus71 rated: N/A/10

[floatleft] [ImageID=1132201micro][/floatleft][b]Food Chain Magnate[/b] Splotter game, 2-5 players From description: [i]Food Chain Magnate is a heavy strategy game about building a fast food chain. The focus is on building your company using a card-driven (human) resource management system. Players compete on a variable city map through purchasing, marketing and sales, and on a job market for key staff members. The game can be played by 2-5 serious gamers in 2-4 hours.[/i] Rules https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/123433/english-rulebook-v10 FAQ https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1456190/faqs-about-fcm/page/1 Online play (as of Feb 3, 2016): http://play.boardgamecore.net/ Sleeves: 330 cards 56 X 87 MM 7x 50 Standard American Board Game sleeves (57x89mm) by Fantasy Flight- with the Green top

Tanelorn rated: N/A/10

preordered

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Meeple source upgrade Insert thing

samoan_jo rated: N/A/10

(70)

der_Nic rated: N/A/10

Reprint Essen 2018

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