THE PASS

You're on the pass. Tickets print faster than you can read them, four stations are going at once, and every dish has one window where it's perfect — miss it and it's raw, miss it the other way and it's in the bin.

 Fire the ribeye seven seconds before the oysters so they land together. Season on the early beat, flip on the yellow, pull on the green. Send the table out hot. Then do it again tomorrow, with a harder book.

THE PASS is a restaurant service sim built by a working line cook.

CAREER — Start alone on two stations as a commis. Earn rank by cooking, not spending: line cook, chef de partie, sous, head chef. Hire a brigade, send them on stages to learn real skills, dress every one of them. Renovate from a late-night window up to a Michelin room.

 THE REGULARS remember you. Feed Chef Duvall well three times and he becomes a patron. Send Rosa's family table out cold twice and they book at Meridian instead.

 THE GUIDE eats here for a week, unmarked, any ticket. Saturday she rates you, and the rating is permanent money.

 THE COOK-OFF — Meridian sends a challenge order every night for a week. Win four and you take the street back.

ENDLESS RUSH — one service that never closes, same fixed kitchen for everybody, three walkouts and you're done. That's the one to beat your friends at.

Two restaurants, 38 dishes, 47 pieces of gear that unlock from things you actually did, and a night that can genuinely beat you.

 CONTROLS — Click a dish to fire it · Click a pan (or press its key) to pull in the green window · F fires the oldest ticket, your panic button · SPACE plates · P pauses. Plays on phones too.