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Food Chain Magnate

#175914BGG ↗

2015 · 2-5 players · 240min · weight 4.19 · 23,048 ratings

v2 v3

BGG raw

ID
175914
Name
Food Chain Magnate
Year
2015
Rank
29
Min players
2
Max players
5
Playing time
240
Min playtime
120
Max playtime
240
Avg weight
4.1883
Num weights
1110
Bayes avg
7.77552
Average
8.03913
Users rated
23048
Num owned
28277
Wanting
1504
Wishing
10653
Num comments
3892
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (8)
Delayed PurchaseIncomeMarketModular BoardOpen DraftingSimultaneous Action SelectionTech Trees / Tech TracksVictory Points as a Resource
Categories (2)
EconomicIndustry / Manufacturing
Description (2554 chars)

"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.

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
draft staff, route cards
Decision shape
mixed:combinatorial+social
Reward schedule
engine_compounding
Aesthetics
["Challenge"]
Core loop pitch
Build a corporate org chart by drafting milestones and staff; place marketers to generate orders, race deliveries.
Translation difficulty
Hard
Difficulty reason
Player-vs-player marketing geography and milestone-grabbing IS the game; AI cannot capture the cutthroat read of opponents. No official digital port.
Direct digital port
Port kind
Closest loop translation
none yet
Primitive tags
["org_chart_as_action_engine", "milestone_first_to_claim", "marketing_radius_demand", "salary_treadmill", "no_random_pure_strategy"]
Confidence
0.8
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (872 chars)
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  "core_verb": "draft staff, route cards",
  "decision_shape": "mixed:combinatorial+social",
  "reward_schedule": "engine_compounding",
  "aesthetics": [
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  "core_loop_pitch": "Build a corporate org chart by drafting milestones and staff; place marketers to generate orders, race deliveries.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Hard",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Player-vs-player marketing geography and milestone-grabbing IS the game; AI cannot capture the cutthroat read of opponents. No official digital port.",
  "direct_digital_port": null,
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "org_chart_as_action_engine",
    "milestone_first_to_claim",
    "marketing_radius_demand",
    "salary_treadmill",
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LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).