How to Play Food Chain Magnate

Learn how to play Food Chain Magnate in just 24 minutes (plus a bit of silliness in the front)

0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Important Info
1:30 - Game Overview
2:15 - Set up and Key Concepts
4:06 - Turn Overview
4:57 - Restructuring
6:15 - Set Turn Order
6:53 - Working Overview
7:17 - Recruiting Employees
7:51 - Training Employees
9:07 - Get Food & Drinks
10:39 - Dinnertime and Marketing Overview
11:27 - Initiate Marketing Campaigns
12:37 - Resolve Marketing Campaigns
14:28 - Feeding the People
16:41 - Placing Houses/Gardens
17:14 - Placing/Moving Restaurants
18:03 - Waitresses and CFO
18:29 - Payday and Cleanup
19:30 - Milestones
22:07 - Reserve Cards and Endgame
23:22 - Outro

Corrections:
Less of a correction than an addendum, but some milestones only have three copies. It's unlikely that more than three players will ever achieve these on the same turn, but if that happens, just use some kind of proxy.

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[RTFM]

Thanks for watching! Did I get anything wrong? Reply to this comment with a timestamp and I'll make sure to add a note.

[bhamiltoncx]

Nice job! I’ve heard this game is ultra brutal, so having a calm rules explanation helps a lot.

[andresmaccleesh]

18:43 oof, we’ve played this game so many times and completely overlooked the “pay employees at the beach” rule. Will change the dynamic for sure. Thanks for the great video!

[TheSludgeMan]

We all watched this a couple of times through before playing at the weekend. Had an absolute blast with the game. Thanks for this resource! You're the best teacher on YouTube (and the bar is high).

[healthygamingnetwork]

14:03 If you always place the aircraft with the nose touching the board that will ensure you get the orientation correct! If you place the nose away from the board your airplane is flying in the wrong direction.😅

[KSweeney]

Wow, great video. The rules don’t seem that complicated. It’ll be in the playing that the complexity will show.

[eimeartheirishstitcher]

Fantastic tutorial, I found this so easy to follow! I'm playing it for the first time at a con tomorrow, I can't wait!

[timoseppa]

Looks kind of fun but kind of also like thinky homework.

[lislgoesskateboard]

Perfectly explained - thanks a ton for that! 🤝🏻

[absol]

Thanks for this! I've been curious about this game since the wonderful SU&SD review so many years ago. Their explanation left a few things unclear, so now that i have a much better understanding, i may get this! I have a few friends that love ultra-crunchy games like this so it may be a good fit!

Also, i love the aesthetic of this game - it's so evocative of that period of advertising! And your choices of music/ images for each section were on-point!

[ShadyNetworker]

This is the best boardgame, ever made.

[thecaryou]

I have a question when paying workers does that money go back to the bank or out of the game?

[GreenGearStudio]

You so nearly got the pronunciation right. You say the 'sp' in both 'splotter' as well as 'spellen' the same way you do as in 'spelling' or 'spells'. Great job on the rest of it though!

[IceColdAetius]

Question on the drink pathing at 10:04. In the example, you go past the lemonade and the beer, collecting them. Instead, could you have chosen the lemonade and the soda next to house #4, skipping the beer near house #15?