OrganicSuperlube

Oh, it's great stuff, great stuff.

You really have to keep an eye on it, though--it'll try and slide away from you the first chance it gets.

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The Restauranteur is a restaurant management strategy/simulator game released in 2001 that (despite its french title) puts you in charge of a Chinese restaurant. Players have to research new recipes, maintain a healthy stock of ingredients, buy the necessary equipment and decorate the restaurant to attract as many guests as possible. Where it stands out, aside from its striking visual style, is in its campaign mode: The Restauranteur features three distinct playable characters with their own personal backgrounds and requirements when it comes to a successful business, and their unique personalities could determine the outcome of the game - at least according to the developer's own description.

Sadly, you will likely never get to play this game; it is nigh impossible to find anything regarding The Restauranteur anywhere. The game seems to be completely lost to time.

Three sites seem to have hosted the demo at one point: Softonic, 4players and FilePlanet, all of which either lead to bogus files, viruses, error messages, or all of the above... and to think I had just managed to download the SimGolf demo from FilePlanet a few months ago, too. At least 4players has a lot of screenshots..!

Information on its developers is incredibly sparse as well - screenshots of the title screen list both "Fanone Soft Corporation" and "Futurearena Corporation", and even then I only managed to track down Futurearena's website which does not give us much more to go on.
It was evidently published by Raajmenon, which was run by members of the Australia-based Ellipse Studios who most notably created the game Submarine Titans. You can even find a message from Raaj on the gog.com forums right here, so perhaps reaching out is not yet out of the question...?

Only time will tell if anything can make this game resurface.
If you or anyone you know has any information or materials regarding The Restauranteur, please do not hesitate to send me a message. I would love to preserve this little piece of my childhood in any way I can.


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