A very nice game where you run your own restaurant or chain of restaurants. Its really great and you can decide whats on the menu, the prices, discounts and who to hire. You can deside if you want to give a customer his favorite dish even if its not available on the restaurant meny. Another cool feature is you furnish your restaurant, kitchen and toilete on your own taste.

Restaurant Empire II adds some new FLAVOR to the game, but, not that much more from the previous orgional game except for the missions of course are a bit different since you are more or less running a coffee shop/pit grill vs a real restaurant although there is one of those included. Same ole customer interactions for new ingredients and them telling you how the best way to prepare a recipe is included. Same ole towns scenes. Omni is still around but not as powerful as the first time around You do get the origional game included with the new one so for those that have never played RE then this is a pretty good bargain for you. Elements of training your employees, hiring and firing them are included. Buying advertisement and upgrading your front of your restaurants is there. For the most part money isn't an issue so it's rather silly to use low comfort low eye candy tables, chairs etc when you start out. The higher the comfort and eye candy the more restaurant stars you will get so you can upgrade the front to draw in more customers. You rarely if ever need to construct upstairs and at any rate this just slows down delivery times and makes your customer complaints go up thus your star ratings go down. What I use the upstairs for is rest rooms and training room. I put new low pay low rank employees upstairs and let them train until they get full or near full bars then bring them downstairs or to other restaurants I've started. Works great that way as customers don't complain about having to go upstairs to use the restroooms. Overall for a newcomer it's worth the $19.95 price tag. I spent many hours playing the origional game until it finally became boring and redundant. Would have been nice if it had more missions and they were harder than the ones in the game as most are pretty easy to fulfill in the alotted times. You might want to wait for another $4.99 special onsale price as that is what I paid for it a few weeks ago. I'd give it a 7.9 overall and replayability score.