Self-Made Mogul

📖 The story

A shuttered storefront, a thousand Simoleons, and a dream. You'll sweat the floor yourself — stocking shelves, ringing up customers, charming the regulars — and claw your way from a one-person operation to a five-star institution.

💝 The goal

Build a **five-star retail store or restaurant** starting from near-zero funds.

🎀 Packs required

Packs recommended

🏡 Setup

🚀 Getting started

• Create one owner with the *Fabulously Wealthy* or *Master Chef* aspiration. Buy a tiny home and the cheapest commercial lot you can:

⌨️ Cheats to type

📋 General rules

• No money cheats after the §1,000 start.
• All household income comes from the business once it opens.
• No outside transfers or gifts.

✨ Specific rules

• The owner must work the business in person — no fully absentee management.
• Reinvest profits into stock, staff and perks before personal luxuries.
• Letting the business go bankrupt (forced closure) is a fail.

✅ What you can do

• Run either a Get to Work retail store or a Dine Out restaurant — your choice.
• Keep a small personal skill income to fund the opening.
• Hire and manage employees, and use `bb.moveobjects`.

⛔ What you can't do

• No money cheats — save the opening capital honestly.
• No opening the business with cheated funds.
• No perk-point cheats; earn perks through real operation.

🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist

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🎮 If you don't own the packs

Requires Get to Work or Dine Out — there's no base-game storefront. Base-game stand-in: run a 'home business' selling crafted paintings/woodwork and treat a savings target as your '5-star', but the true challenge needs one of those packs.

💡 Strategy tips

• Open small. A handful of high-margin items beats a huge shop you can't keep stocked.
• The *Retail/Gourmet perks* are the real progression — prioritise the ones that speed up customers and boost markup.
• Set markup carefully: too high and customers walk, too low and you never bank perks. Watch the satisfaction icons and adjust.

💕 Milestones — track your progress

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🔥 Want it harder?

• Run two businesses at once and get both to five stars before the owner reaches elder.
• No hired staff — the owner does everything, every shift.

🏆 Scoring

+1 per star reached; +5 for a perfect-rating week with no customer complaints.

🎭 Variations

Theme the business strictly (a bakery, a bookshop, a vampire-only bar) and only sell on-theme goods. ---