Restaurant Empire II

Restaurant Empire II is the sequel to Restaurant Empire. It has new features such as new themes for American restaurants, over 700 pieces of new internal and external furniture and decorations, the addition of German cuisine and the city of Munich, and several others. The game has also been ported to Mac OS X by Virtual Programming, Ltd.

Restaurant Empire II
Developer(s)	Enlight Software Virtual Programming (OS X)
Publisher(s)	NA: Paradox Interactive EU: Iceberg Interactive
Designer(s)	Trevor Chan
Programmer(s)	Michael Wong Gilbert Luis
Artist(s)	Li Kai
Writer(s)	Marwin So
Platform(s)	Windows, OS X
Release	May 26, 2009 (PC)[1] May 21, 2012 (OS X)
Genre(s)	Business simulation
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

The player controls the kind of cuisine the restaurant serves (American, French, Italian, German). Along with Munich, other cities include Los Angeles, Paris, and Rome.

As a new feature, the player can also own various kinds of restaurants, including a coffee shop and a dessert house. In the campaign mode, many new features have been added, such as organizing performance in your restaurant and changing the colors of the uniforms on your staff. Returning characters are Armand and Michel LeBoeuf, Delia Delecoeur, and Don Corleone.^[2] The campaign mode features a remade version of the campaign in the original Restaurant Empire. The game also focuses more on the managerial aspects of running a restaurant empire.

Critical reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	64/100[3]

Review score

Publication	Score
IGN	6.9/10[4]

Reception

Reviews have been mixed, with praise for adding new content and keeping the game alive, but complaints about micromanagement and the recycled graphics.^[5]

Metacritic rates it as "Mixed or average reviews."^[6]