Roblox Restaurant Empire: How to Clear the Day 1 Goals

Day 1 in Restaurant Empire on Roblox is a tight loop. You take orders, cook on the stoves, run plates to tables, and wash up, all while a numbered Goals list ticks along in the corner. The trick is knowing which of those goals unlock money and which unlock automation, because the first two staff hires are what let you stop doing everything by hand.

Quick answer: Serve your first counter order to close out Goal #1 Grand Opening, then hire a waiter for $500 and a cook for $500 to clear Hired Help. Once you have roughly $250 spare, buy Chicken from Otis’ General Store to unlock the Skewers recipe.

What you can cook and serve on Day 1

The opening menu is short. Baguettes and Frosted Cookies are what customers ask for first, and both are cooked on the stoves in your kitchen. Customers arrive either seated at tables or standing at the counter, and both order types count toward early goals.

The full manual cycle is take the order, cook the dish, deliver it to the customer, then collect and clean the dirty plate. Plates get washed at the sink. That last step matters more than it looks, because dishwashing is its own goal.

Restaurant tab showing seated customers with order icons and the Goals panel tracking progress — The Restaurant tab during service, with order icons above seated customers and the Goals panel tracking progress on the side.

The first ten goals, in order

Goals are numbered and appear in a fixed sequence. You do not have to finish them one at a time, and several complete on their own while you are working through service.

#	Goal
1	Grand Opening
2	First Cook
3	Hired Help
4	Squeaky Clean
5	Widen the Pantry
6	Light It Up
7	Take a Seat
8	Table Service
9	A Real Menu
10	Kitchen Crew

Grand Opening closes once you have handled a counter order alongside your first table service. First Cook completes around cooking and clearing plates. Squeaky Clean requires you to wash dishes at the sink yourself. Hired Help and Light It Up both close out as you start spending money on staff and the room itself.

Note: rewards are not automatic. Open the Goals panel and claim each completed goal, otherwise you are leaving payouts sitting there while you are short on cash for furniture.

Hiring your first waiter and cook ($500 each)

Staff are the single biggest quality-of-life change on Day 1. Both a waiter and a cook cost $500, and you hire them from the Staffing screen. Marco is the first waiter available, and Pierre is the first cook. The wider roster you will see across the game includes Jade, Jack, Penny, Darcy, Cleo, Gustav, Poppy, and Remy.

Open the Staffing menu and select the Staff button to bring up the employee cards. Each card shows either a Hire or a Manage option depending on whether that character already works for you.

Staffing screen with the Staff button highlighted and employee cards showing Hire and Manage options — The Staffing screen with the Staff button selected, listing employee cards and their Hire or Manage buttons.

Hire Marco as your waiter for $500. He will start seating guests, taking orders, and running food while you stay on the stoves.

Open Marco’s Employee Details page and review his task permissions. Seating, order taking, serving, and cleaning can each be switched on or off individually, so you can stop him from wandering off to wash dishes when you would rather he kept tables moving.

Employee Details page for Marco showing his statistics and toggled task permissions — Marco’s Employee Details page in Staffing, showing his statistics and the task permissions you can toggle.

Hire Pierre the Cook for another $500 once your balance recovers. With a waiter on the floor and a cook on the stoves, service runs without you touching anything, which is what Kitchen Crew is pushing you toward.

You will know the hires registered because the employee card flips from Hire to Manage, and the Hired Help goal marks as complete in the Goals panel.

The Bronze mutation and what it pays

Dishes can roll mutations, and Bronze is the first one you are likely to see. A bronze dish is worth 1.2x its normal value. The unlock is announced with a New Mutation Discovered dialog that offers View Collection or Awesome. Neither button changes the reward, so tap through and keep cooking.

New Mutation Discovered dialog revealing the Bronze mutation with View Collection and Awesome buttons — The New Mutation Discovered pop-up revealing Bronze, with View Collection and Awesome as the two options.

Unlocking Skewers at Otis’ General Store

New recipes come from ingredients, not from the cookbook. Otis’ General Store is the ingredient shop, and buying Chicken there for $250 unlocks Skewers on your menu. That is the fastest way to move past Baguettes and Frosted Cookies on your first day.

The store stocks a wider ingredient list you will draw on later, including BBQ Sauce, Basil, Beef, Broth, Butter, Carrot, and Cheese. Those feed into dishes such as Onigiri, Fried Egg, Toast, Basil Soup, and Croissant. Check the cookbook, recipes, and pantry menus after any purchase to confirm the new dish appeared.

Day 1 costs and what each purchase does

Money is the bottleneck early on. Furniture purchases will simply fail if your balance is too low, so it is worth knowing what each spend is actually buying you.

Purchase	Cost	Effect
Waiter (Marco)	$500	Seats guests, takes orders, serves food
Cook (Pierre)	$500	Handles cooking on the stoves
Chicken	$250	Unlocks the Skewers recipe
Industrial Chair	$70	Adds seating capacity
Small Potted Plant	$20	Decoration that feeds early goal progress

Decorations are the cheapest way to keep goal progress moving when you are broke. A Small Potted Plant at $20 costs almost nothing and still counts toward the early decorating requirements.

Decoration purchase screen with the Small Potted Plant selected for twenty dollars — Buying a Small Potted Plant for $20 from the decoration menu.

Upgrades worth noting before Day 2

The upgrade list you will be saving for covers Left Expansion I, Right Expansion I, and Back Expansion I for floor space, Tier 2 Appliance Unlock for better cooking equipment, and Gratuity I for tips. None of these are urgent on Day 1, but they are where your money goes once the two $500 hires are paid for.

Once Marco and Pierre are both working with the right task toggles enabled, the restaurant will keep serving while you stand back and watch. That is the point where Day 1 stops being manual labour and the goal list starts clearing itself.