Hello, 👋

Welcome back to this edition of our activity roundup. The last edition introduced the Burger Inventory section and how it works. Today, we’d go a step further.

Inventory management is one of the activities you will be carrying out daily to ensure you have enough stock for the next day.

You will frequently have to increase or decrease your stock to avoid buying more or less than what you need. For Burger Inventory, this means managing quantities for all your ingredients individually.

As you expand, it’s only normal that you will want to automate your inventory process. We implemented a pay-per-use solution called Auto-stock to provide this automation.

With one click, auto-stock helps you calculate the quantity of ingredients you require for the number of buns you have in stock. This way, you can quickly balance your order quantity across multiple stands, save time, and avoid overspending on inventory.

You will pay a fee every time you use the auto-stock function, so keep an eye on your account balance when you use it. If you are running low on cash, you can always manage your stock manually. 😊

After implementing this function, we were impressed with its impact on the gameplay experience. We are sure you’d appreciate the convenience it introduces to your business management activities when you can afford to use it.

That’s it for today. Cheers🥂.

Don’t forget to Wishlist the game if you haven’t: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1429080/Business_Heroes_Food_Truck_Simulation/

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello, 👋
Glad to have you here for our latest round-up. We’ve been spending a tremendous amount of time just debugging the financials section. 😭 But we managed to still get some work done on the Inventory section for Burgers. There’s an Inventory section for drinks, and you’d get to see that soon.

The Burger Inventory section is where you manage all the stock you need for your burgers – Buns, Patties, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Cheese, and Sauces.

Here’s an overview of how it works:

Stock (Total) – Helps you track how much of each ingredient you have left in stock and your new total (in brackets) after you make an order.

Next Day’s Purchase Order – Where you order how much of each ingredient you need for the next business day.

Burger Counter – Shows the number of burgers you can make with your current ingredient inventory size.

Side Note: Whenever an ingredient is not enough for the number of buns you are ordering, the stock total stays red. It turns green when it’s enough.

Daily Cost and Excess Loss – Daily cost is the amount your next day’s order costs. Excess loss is the cost of all wasted ingredients. Ingredients get wasted when you order after your storage is full.

Storage Capacity – The brown bar represents how much storage your total stock has used up and how much is left.

In our next round-up, we’d share a little bit more about the challenges we are facing in developing this section. We’d also show you a special auto stocking function we are working on. It automates the order selection for each ingredient, so you don’t have to do it manually.

That’s it for today. Cheers🥂.

Don’t forget to Wishlist the game if you haven’t: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1429080/Business_Heroes_Food_Truck_Simulation/

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello,

It’s so great to catch up with you this new year. Most of the team took time off during the Christmas and New Year celebrations to unwind, and now we are back at it in full swing.

We resumed integrating the financial system into multiplayer and fixing the inevitable accounting bugs. You may recall we had successfully deployed the system for single-player in December.

During the integration, amongst other things, we ensured that:

• All the correct financial models are updated during the business day so that your accounting always tallies whenever you check it.
• All data values relating to your business’s financial history (Today, Year-to-date, Lifetime, etc.) get updated with each sale.
• The Day, Month, and Year financial views are also updated with each sale.

With that done, we started implementing a special popup to highlight some of the more critical notifications in your business. We noticed you might miss them because we placed them at the bottom of the screen in the environment.

We’re now about 64% done with the new popup’s design and implementation, and we can’t wait to show you how it looks in our following email.

The entire team and I wish you an extremely productive 2022, and we certainly look forward to a fantastic time together this year.

That’s it for now. Cheers🥂.

Don’t forget to Wishlist the game if you haven’t: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1429080/Business_Heroes_Food_Truck_Simulation/

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello,

Welcome to another round-up of our development activities prepared specially for you. Since the last time we reached out, we’ve been setting up the Financials section.

You can consider it your automated accounting system, and it comes fitted with all the main financial components of a real-world business. You will be able to generate and review your Income & Expense, Cash Flow, and Balance Sheet statements to help you stay on top of your business.

Specifically, you’d get access to detailed reports of all aspects of your costs and income for each stand and the overall business.

For example, you can track how much you are spending on operational costs like permit fees, inventory, and stand maintenance over a period of time and make management decisions based on your findings.

The system can also display the daily, monthly, and yearly versions of the Income and Expenses, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Reports so you can track your business’s growth over time.

We included detailed tooltips to help provide more information about accounting terms like revenues, depreciation, current assets, liabilities, gross profit, and so on to players unfamiliar with financial statements.

The financials section is designed to help improve your decision-making by providing you with all the financial management information you need. Hopefully, you’d use it to take your burger truck business to higher levels of profitability.

That’s it for today. Cheers🥂.

Don’t forget to Wishlist the game if you haven’t: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1429080/Business_Heroes_Food_Truck_Simulation/

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello,

Hope you had a splendid week. We sure did on our end. We got to welcome a new member to the team! His name is Motawea and he is a talented developer based in Egypt. We are excited to have him join us as we bring Business Heroes to life.

Over the last couple of weeks, we worked on a multiple save/load files system and integrated it into the game’s User Interface. Multiple save/load file systems are a MUST today, and a game without it shouldn’t be released. 👀

How it works is, new games in Career mode are automatically saved after each business day. Currently, saved games display your company name, the number of stands you have, your cash balance at the time of your last save, and the date and time of the save.

Is there anything else you’d like to see shown here? You can reply to this email with your suggestions.

We also caught a bug that gets customers stuck in front of a stand and simultaneously removes the employee responsible for that stand. It’s a chase condition error that removes a dealing employee when trying to serve customers.

The bug probably likes seeing customers get frustrated 🤣. Fixing it has been a little bit tricky, but we’d get that bug annihilated soon enough. We certainly can’t have frustrated customers walking around the city.

That’s it for today. Cheers🥂.

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello,

It’s great to catch up with you again and show you what we’ve been doing. We spent some time polishing up the Add-on Management section of the game.

Add-ons are equipment upgrades or enhancements that improve your service offering to customers when added to your burger stand. There are 21 available, ranging from Bluetooth speakers and freezers to stronger grills, super blowing fans, and even a nitro vehicle booster.

Not all add-ons are compatible with every stand though, and you can tell them apart by the blue padlock on some of them.

Want to make those impatient customers wait in line longer? Get a LED TV screen 📺 to entertain them. Need to cater to more diet-conscious customers? Get organic veggies and start using organic tomatoes 🍅, lettuce, and cheese 🧀 in your burgers.

Add-ons are a great way to deal with bad weather conditions and improve your customer satisfaction. Both of which ultimately improve your business profits. Knowing when to invest in purchasing them would play a big role in your success as a food truck entrepreneur.

That’s it for today. Cheers🥂.

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello,

Welcome to another edition of our progress update prepared specially for you. Still giddy from our release of the gameplay trailer, we spent the last two weeks implementing the employee management section of the game.

In a manner of speaking, the employee management section is your Human Resources department. This is where you take care of the earning 💰 and training 🏫 needs of your employees.

Your employees expect to earn a daily salary that’s comparable to the prevailing Market Rate in the city. Their salary is marked up against this rate, and paying a higher daily salary increases their happiness. You can also supplement their daily salary with bonus payments from time to time.

Training improves the performance of your employees and enables them to serve your customers better. Each level of training increases their service speed and customer service quality by a fixed amount.

Successful entrepreneurs know the impact of happy and skilled employees on the growth of their businesses. Remember to keep a keen eye on employee welfare as you grow your burger truck start-up.

That’s it for today. Cheers🥂…and don’t forget to Wishlist the game!

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team

Hello,

First off, happy World Food Day! 🥳🎉 Every year since October 16, 1945, Governments, Businesses, NGOs, and Individuals come together globally to celebrate World Food Day, the founders’ day of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The interesting thing to note about World Food Day is that it is not really about the FAO but about food and our actions to produce, transport, and consume it sustainably. This year’s theme is Our actions are our future: better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and better life.

Our action for the day is captured by revealing the first gameplay trailer for…you guessed it…Business Heroes: Food Truck Simulation! 🎆 And we are so excited to share it with you.

We firmly believe that everyone can become a food hero in one way or another. Either by joining the food value chain on the production side or cutting down on food waste on the consumption side.

Revealing the gameplay trailer on this special day is our way of raising awareness of the need for action and inviting more people to contribute to a sustainable future.

As we celebrate #WorldFoodDay together, we hope that the game inspires more food heroes around the globe and helps promote fair, sustainable, and inclusive collaboration along our food value chain from farm to table.

Cheers🥂…and don’t forget to Wishlist the game!

That’s it for today. Catch you in 2 weeks…

Live Long and Prosper 👋,
Kunal & the team