Restaurant Tycoon 3
Restaurant Tycoon 3 Events Schedule: Ice Cream Update Countdown
Restaurant Tycoon 3’s Ice Cream Update is live now, headlined by a new ice cream stand that lets you design custom cones, bowls, and tubs from more than a dozen flavors — and it doubles as the game’s birthday celebration. It runs through Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET, with less than a day left left, and has already drawn about 16,000 sign-ups.
The game itself draws about about 9,100 players at any given moment and has crossed about 350,000,000 lifetime visits with more than about 850,000 favorites, keeping it among Roblox’s long-running tycoon hits. This page covers the event calendar — what’s live, what’s next, and what just wrapped.
A short birthday admin event ran on Sunday, August 23, and the developer’s next weekly drop — the Earn Offline Update — is set for Friday, August 28, this time with its headline feature already announced. Restaurant Tycoon 3 has held a steady weekly rhythm through the summer: a Friday-morning start, a six-day run, and a single day off before the next event begins. Last updated August 26.
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Ice Cream Update
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Aug 21, 11:00 AM – Aug 27, 11:00 AM ET
The ice cream stand update lets players design custom frozen treats with multiple flavors, sauces, and toppings. Birthday celebrations unlock new rewards at EKEA.
Upcoming events2 scheduled
Earn Offline Update!
Cash register upgrade!
Aug 28, 11:00 AM – Sep 3, 11:00 AM ET
Restaurant operations now generate revenue offline as customers pay automatically, with earnings collected from the manager desk instead of each table.
Next Update
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Sep 4, 11:00 AM – Sep 10, 11:00 AM ET
Upcoming update for Restaurant Tycoon 3.
Recently ended3 wrapped
RT3 Birthday Admin Event
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Aug 23, 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
Birthday celebration admin event for Restaurant Tycoon 3.
Fun Update, Pt. 1
Trampolines and more!
Aug 14, 11:00 AM – Aug 20, 11:00 AM ET
The Fun Update adds decorative furniture like trampolines and conveyors, plus the ability to remove restaurants from franchises.
Starter Restaurant Update
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Aug 7, 11:00 AM – Aug 13, 11:00 AM ET
Restaurant Tycoon 3 receives a starter restaurant update bringing new playable content.
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Current and upcoming events
Ice Cream Update — August 21 to 27
The Ice Cream Update opened Friday, August 21, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET and closes Thursday, August 27 at the same hour. Its centerpiece is an ice cream stand you can unlock in build mode at serving level 6, or reach at the ice cream shop near the port: from there you design your own creations as a tub, bowl, or cone, with fourteen flavors and eight sauces and toppings to unlock. The update also folds in the game’s birthday — Restaurant Tycoon 3 launched on August 20, 2025 — with three new global goals at EKEA, each unlocking a celebratory item: two birthday posters and a birthday trophy. Smaller fixes round it out, including stand decor that no longer clips through nearby walls, a new button to follow the next update from the update log, and event multipliers that now take priority over the friend boost. Interest stands at about 16,000.
RT3 Birthday Admin Event — August 23
Breaking the weekly pattern, a short birthday admin event ran Sunday, August 23, 2026 for just half an hour, from 10:30 to 11 a.m. ET. Admin events are developer-run in-game sessions rather than content drops, and this one marked the game’s anniversary. It drew about 21,000 sign-ups — unusually strong for a 30-minute window, and on par with the turnout of the week-long updates.
Earn Offline Update — August 28 to September 3
When the Ice Cream Update closes, the Earn Offline Update opens Friday, August 28, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET and runs through Thursday, September 3. Unlike a placeholder slot, this one already carries an announced headline: the developer is retiring the old franchise setup in favor of a reworked system that lets your restaurants keep earning while you’re offline, paired with a cash register upgrade. Interest already sits at about 18,000.
Next Update — September 4 to 10
Further out, the developer has already reserved the following week’s slot: Friday, September 4, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET through Thursday, September 10. It’s a placeholder for now — the date is locked in, but what the update will add hasn’t been announced. Interest is modest so far — a fraction of the turnout the headline updates pull (about 2,100).
Fun Update, Pt. 1 — the update that just wrapped
The Fun Update, Pt. 1 ran Friday, August 14 through Thursday, August 20, 2026, both at 11 a.m. ET. It was a build-mode wave: trampolines in standard and classic bounce styles, directional conveyors that move players along, regular and hidden bookshelves — the latter opening like a door — a revolving door that spins continuously when used, ringable church and restaurant bells, and new ladder and truss pieces. It also let players remove restaurants from a franchise and cleared several bugs, including empty menus earning money from food critics and demolished restaurants lingering in the Franchise menu. It closed with over 25,000 sign-ups, and the “Pt. 1” in the name points to at least one more installment ahead.
Starter Restaurant Update — earlier in the run
Before that, the Starter Restaurant Update ran Friday, August 7 through Thursday, August 13, 2026, going out under its name and dates without published patch notes. It closed with over 28,000 sign-ups, the most-followed event of the recent stretch.
The weekly rhythm
The cadence has held all summer: a Friday start at 11 a.m. ET, a six-day run, and one day off before the next event opens. That line runs from the Starter Restaurant Update to the Fun Update to the Ice Cream Update now live, with the Earn Offline Update set to follow on August 28 and another slot already reserved for September 4. The birthday admin event is the outlier — a brief Sunday session rather than a full six-day update.
FAQ
When is the next Restaurant Tycoon 3 update?
The Ice Cream Update is live through Thursday, August 27, 2026. After it, the Earn Offline Update opens Friday, August 28, replacing the old franchise system with a way to keep earning money while offline. A further update is already slotted for the following Friday, September 4, though its contents haven’t been announced yet.
What time do Restaurant Tycoon 3 events start?
The weekly updates open at 11 a.m. ET — that’s 8 a.m. PT, 3 p.m. UTC and 4 p.m. BST — and close at the same hour on their final day. The one exception was the birthday admin event, which began at 10:30 a.m. ET on August 23. Exact dates and times for each are in the schedule above.
How long does each Restaurant Tycoon 3 event last?
The weekly updates each run six days, opening Friday morning and closing the following Thursday at the same time, with the next event beginning a day later. The birthday admin event is a one-off exception, lasting only about half an hour.
What’s in the Ice Cream Update?
Its main addition is an ice cream stand, unlocked in build mode at serving level 6 or found at the shop near the port, where you design custom ice creams as a tub, bowl, or cone from fourteen flavors and eight sauces and toppings. It also celebrates the game’s birthday with three global goals at EKEA that unlock birthday items, plus a handful of bug fixes.