cafedays

Cafe Days is a small cafe you run one day at a time, where the whole game is inventory. Each morning you buy beans, milk and pastries, knowing some of it will spoil. You price the menu, and customers notice. Then the day runs: the regulars, the lunch rush, the thing you ran out of at eleven. At close you see what sold, what went in the bin and what it all cost. Pour the latte art yourself. Once a day a customer asks for a heart, a tulip or a rosetta. Grind, tamp, pull the shot, steam the milk, then pour: hold and the milk lands, a second drop pushes the first into a crescent, a quick high pour pulls through for a heart. The milk moves like milk, so a steady hand earns a better tip. Over the weeks you buy a chiller, a second machine, an ice machine. You decorate. Regulars come back. A good rating fills the room; a poor one empties it, and the morning tells you why. No ads. No in-app…