Business simulation games

Run a business, test decisions, and learn what drives profit.

Play free, no-login simulations for restaurants, motels, dry cleaning shops, pet stores, grocery stores, coffee shops, lemonade stands, food trucks, bakeries, bookstores, comic shops, childcare centers, car washes, fitness studios, hair salons, auto repair garages, landscaping companies, ride-hailing, and indoor racket courts.

Quick answer

Every simulator turns operating choices into a visible profit-and-loss result.

Adjust pricing, staffing, demand, capacity, quality, and service tradeoffs, then use the report to decide what to improve next.

Choose your starting point

Start with the outcome you want

The simulations are free, browser-based, and do not require a student account. Choose a direct play route or a ready-to-use learning path.

Independent play

Run a business and test a decision

Choose a restaurant, shop, service business, or route-based challenge. Change operating choices and use the profit-and-loss report to decide what to try next.

Choose a business

Student activity

Make a prediction, run a test, explain the tradeoff

Use a printable worksheet to record a baseline, one controlled change, the result, and a recommendation supported by evidence.

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Teacher-led lesson

Plan a focused class in 15, 30, or 50 minutes

Match a simulator to a business topic, use a clear lesson format, and debrief with discussion prompts and an assessment rubric.

Plan a teacher-led lesson

Built for classroom & independent learning

1-Click scenario codes, CSV evidence export, and interactive calculators

Every simulator supports instant classroom coordination with URL scenario codes, formula-safe CSV evidence export, 4-language localization (EN, ZH-Hans, ZH-Hant, KO), and free business calculators.

Business simulation games

Choose a business to run

Each simulator turns everyday operating decisions into a clear profit-and-loss challenge.

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Restaurant Profit Simulator

Build a restaurant that can satisfy guests and still make money after every expense is paid.

  • Choose a city, location, restaurant concept, and opening strategy.
  • Balance menu pricing, ingredient quality, promotions, delivery, and staffing.
  • Read daily profit breakdowns and monthly reports to improve the business.

Ride-Hailing Driver Simulator

Work a shift one trip at a time, where every accepted order affects the rest of the day.

  • Set an income or trip target before starting your day.
  • Assess live dispatches by fare, trip distance, surge, and risk.
  • Manage time, fuel, fatigue, platform fees, and your driver rating.

Motel Simulator

Fill rooms without sacrificing the service, condition, and margins that make occupancy valuable.

  • Set nightly rates and manage room quality to influence demand.
  • Choose booking channels, marketing, staffing, and maintenance priorities.
  • Track occupancy, RevPAR, guest satisfaction, reviews, and monthly profit.

Dry Cleaning Business Simulator

Run a dry cleaning shop where turnaround, stain quality, machine uptime, and service capacity all affect profit.

  • Choose a city, storefront, business model, and challenge mode.
  • Set pricing, service quality, turnaround promises, promotions, and staffing.
  • Track backlog, on-time rate, rework, machine condition, reviews, and monthly profit.

Pet Store Business Simulator

Run a pet store where retail shelves, grooming appointments, animal care, cleanliness, and community trust all affect profit.

  • Choose a city, storefront, store model, and challenge mode.
  • Set pricing, product mix, grooming quality, animal care, events, and staffing.
  • Track cash, inventory health, pet welfare, habitat cleanliness, reviews, and monthly profit.

Grocery Store Business Simulator

Run different grocery formats where price, freshness, shelf availability, checkout speed, shrink, and staffing drive profit.

  • Choose neighborhood, discount, organic, international, convenience, or fresh-market formats.
  • Set pricing, product mix, freshness investment, supplier strategy, promotions, and checkout model.
  • Track cash, shelf availability, freshness, shrink, checkout wait, reviews, and monthly profit.

Coffee Shop Business Simulator

Run a cafรฉ where pricing, queue time, barista staffing, drink quality, pastry sales, and waste all affect profit.

  • Choose a city, location, cafรฉ format, and challenge mode.
  • Set pricing, menu focus, quality investment, supplier strategy, staffing style, and promotions.
  • Track cash, orders served, queue time, drink quality, bean inventory, waste, reviews, and monthly profit.

Lemonade Stand & School Fair Booth Simulator

Run a beginner-friendly booth where pricing, recipe quality, weather, helpers, serving capacity, and waste determine profit.

  • Choose a neighborhood stand, park kiosk, school fair, or sports event.
  • Set cup price, recipe quality, batch size, helpers, signs, and opening inventory.
  • Track demand, cups served, lost sales, waste, contribution margin, and profit.

Food Truck Business Simulator

Run a food truck where menu pricing, event locations, prep capacity, queue speed, food quality, and waste shape daily cash.

  • Choose a city, curbside location, food truck format, and challenge mode.
  • Set pricing, menu focus, supplier strategy, staffing style, promotions, quality investment, and prep plans.
  • Track cash, orders served, queue time, food quality, prep inventory, waste, reviews, and monthly profit.

Car Wash & Detailing Simulator

Run a car wash where package pricing, bay capacity, chemical cost, labor, memberships, reviews, and equipment uptime drive profit.

  • Choose a city, traffic location, car wash format, and challenge mode.
  • Set wash packages, quality investment, chemical supplier, staffing style, promotions, and restocking.
  • Track cash, cars washed, queue time, wash quality, chemical inventory, waste, reviews, and monthly profit.

Fitness Studio / Gym Simulator

Run a fitness studio where memberships, classes, trainer staffing, churn, equipment condition, and marketing drive recurring profit.

  • Choose a city, studio location, gym format, and challenge mode.
  • Set membership pricing, class mix, trainer staffing, maintenance vendor, promotions, and equipment investment.
  • Track cash, member visits, class quality, equipment condition, churn risk, reviews, and monthly profit.

Hair Salon / Barbershop Simulator

Run a salon or barbershop where appointment pricing, stylist utilization, walk-ins, product sales, wait time, retention, and tips shape profit.

  • Choose a city, salon location, service format, and challenge mode.
  • Set appointment pricing, service mix, product supplier, staffing style, promotions, and quality investment.
  • Track cash, clients served, wait time, service quality, product inventory, retention risk, reviews, and monthly profit.

Auto Repair Garage Simulator

Run an auto repair garage where diagnostic time, parts margin, mechanic staffing, bay capacity, comeback repairs, and trust shape profit.

  • Choose a city, garage location, repair format, and challenge mode.
  • Set repair pricing, service mix, parts supplier, mechanic staffing, promotions, and quality investment.
  • Track cash, jobs completed, diagnostic time, repair quality, parts inventory, comeback risk, trust, and monthly profit.

Landscaping / Lawn Care Simulator

Run a landscaping company where route density, crew staffing, fuel, seasonal demand, equipment maintenance, contracts, and margin shape profit.

  • Choose a city, service area, operating model, and challenge mode.
  • Set lawn care pricing, service mix, equipment vendor, crew staffing, promotions, and maintenance investment.
  • Track cash, jobs completed, route time, service quality, equipment condition, route inefficiency, reviews, and monthly profit.

Bakery Simulator

Run a bakery where production planning, ingredient cost, freshness, waste, morning rush capacity, wholesale orders, and profit all compete.

  • Choose a city, bakery location, operating format, and challenge mode.
  • Set bakery pricing, product mix, ingredient supplier, baker staffing, promotions, and freshness investment.
  • Track cash, orders filled, rush wait, freshness, ingredient stock, waste, reviews, and monthly profit.

Bookstore / Comic Shop Simulator

Run a bookstore or comic shop where inventory curation, events, staff recommendations, slow-moving stock, online competition, and margin shape profit.

  • Choose a city, store location, retail format, and challenge mode.
  • Set pricing, inventory focus, book source, staffing style, events, and curation investment.
  • Track cash, sales completed, checkout wait, recommendation quality, inventory fit, slow stock, reviews, and monthly profit.

Childcare / Daycare Center Simulator

Run a childcare center where enrollment, staffing ratios, tuition, safety and quality, licensing pressure, parent satisfaction, and cash flow shape profit.

  • Choose a city, center location, care format, and challenge mode.
  • Set tuition, care focus, supplies partner, staffing style, promotions, and quality investment.
  • Track cash, children enrolled, enrollment wait, safety and quality, licensing readiness, ratio pressure, parent satisfaction, and monthly profit.

Indoor Racket Court Simulator

Operate a court facility where memberships, bookings, programs, and upkeep all compete for attention.

  • Build a club around table tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball, or pickleball.
  • Set court rates, membership plans, promotions, programs, and staffing levels.
  • Manage utilization, equipment condition, member satisfaction, and profit per court hour.

See a simulation before you play

One business model, different operating tradeoffs

Restaurant Profit Simulator changes its assumptions for each concept. These real gameplay examples show how format, capacity, delivery exposure, pricing power, and service expectations create different decisions.

Guides, worksheets, and classroom activities

Keep learning after a simulation with strategy guides, printable worksheets, and short classroom prompts.

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