Keep the performance service and the concession stand apart. The actor's dressing room and the stage crew's costume booth are listed as different workstations, so check both.
1. Opening steps#
- Decide which products and services you will carry, and the space for them. Compare floor area, neighborhood and capacity in the building list with the actual lease terms. Check in game that a Theater can open there before you sign.
- Set the business type to Theater. Check the requirements in the business management screen.
- Prepare the equipment. Prepare the display equipment and stock for the products you chose. If you also sell a service, check that person's workstation and equipment separately.
- Check shifts, supply and security. Actors and stage crew are recruited through C.A.S.T, while customer service and cleaning come from Anderson Recruitment Corp. Prepare workstations and schedules per role.
- Review the results once you open. Watch demand by hour, gaps in the schedule, stock-outs and the sales equipment, and adjust.
These steps are an editorial guide. The minimum floor area, the full list of required equipment, exact quantities and headcount have not been verified in game — check the business management screen as well.
2. Products, services and supply#
The source business data lists no separate main products. See the service information below.
Services
| Service | Charged | Lowest listed fee |
|---|---|---|
| per service · check the exact terms in game | $85.00prices by neighborhood |
Services are not stock you buy in. An hourly rate multiplied by your opening hours is not actual revenue.
4 additional products
| Product | Display equipment / capacity | Supply route | Lowest sale price / unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concessions Display Caseholds 167 | 6 wholesalersUnited Ocean Importsupply detailsfactory recipe | $15.00prices by neighborhood | |
| Concessions Display Caseholds 167 | 6 wholesalersSeaSide Internationalssupply detailsfactory recipe | $8.50prices by neighborhood | |
| Drinks Shelfholds 50 Cocktail Bar (Drinks Counter)holds 50 Cocktail Bar (Drinks Counter Wooden)holds 50 | no wholesaler listedUnited Ocean Importsupply detailsfactory recipe | $20.00prices by neighborhood | |
| Drinks Shelfholds 50 Cocktail Bar (Drinks Counter)holds 50 Cocktail Bar (Drinks Counter Wooden)holds 50 | no wholesaler listedUnited Ocean Importsupply detailsfactory recipe | $26.00prices by neighborhood |
Sale prices are reference values at 100% satisfaction with trained staff. Purchase data assumes default difficulty and a fully skilled purchasing manager, and can move with supply. A missing entry does not prove an item cannot be bought. We do not quote a margin from comparing wholesale and import prices that use different units.
3. Equipment and setup cost#
This links the display equipment from the product table, the staff workstations and the listed security equipment. It includes alternative displays and equipment for additional products, so it is not a shopping list. Read product capacity and customer capacity as two different things.
| Equipment | Why it is listed | Customer capacity | Lowest listed price / unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| extra product · Cheese Platter extra product · Popcorn | 50 | $895.00Red Carpet Décor1 stores
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| extra product · Martini extra product · Whisky | 10 | $850.00Essential Appliances1 stores
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| extra product · Martini extra product · Whisky | 50 | $800.00Essential Appliances1 stores
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| extra product · Martini extra product · Whisky | — | $690.00Essential Appliances1 stores
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| 1 unit counted in the example total | staff workstation · Stage Crew | 100 | $1,600.00Red Carpet Décor1 stores
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| 1 unit counted in the example total | staff workstation · Actor | 80 | $1,400.00Red Carpet Décor1 stores
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| 1 unit counted in the example total | staff workstation · Customer Service | 20 | $900.00AJ Pederson & Son4 stores
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| 1 unit counted in the example total | staff workstation · Cleaning | — | $100.00AJ Pederson & Son4 stores
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Related furniture worth checking
Theater Ticket Booth · Theater Chair · Stage Lights
These are suggestions based on equipment names and uses. Whether they are required, and in what quantity, is unverified, and they are not in the example total below.
The example total is neither the full startup cost nor a minimum requirement. It counts one unit each, without duplicates, of the first listed display equipment for every main product plus the staff workstations and security equipment that could be linked. Equipment only used by additional products is left out. Budget separately for rent, deposit, desks, chairs, other furniture, stock, delivery, wages and extra units as you grow.
4. Staff and shifts#
| Role | Listed workstation | Recruited at |
|---|---|---|
| Costume Booth | C.A.S.T - Central Association of Stage & Talent | |
| Dressing Room | C.A.S.T - Central Association of Stage & Talent | |
| Cash Register | Anderson Recruitment Corp. | |
| Cleaning Station | Anderson Recruitment Corp. |
Actors and stage crew are recruited through C.A.S.T, while customer service and cleaning come from Anderson Recruitment Corp. Prepare workstations and schedules per role.
The listed roles are not a headcount. Build the schedule from the hours you actually open, the number of workstations and the contract terms, and check in game whether roles missing from the list are needed.
The security field is empty in the source business data. Do not read that as security equipment being unnecessary.
5. Opening hours and footfall#
Averaging the daily figures hour by hour, 18:00 · 19:00 · 20:00 is the busiest slot, at 70.0%. That is the mean across all seven days — see the table below for the differences between days.
| Day | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 3 |
| Tue | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 38 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 32 | 5 | 5 |
| Wed | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 26 | 26 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 72 | 85 | 85 | 85 | 60 | 9 | 9 |
| Thu | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 38 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 32 | 5 | 5 |
| Fri | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 85 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 70 | 10 | 10 |
| Sat | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 30 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 85 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 70 | 10 | 10 |
| Sun | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 27 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 77 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 63 | 9 | 9 |
These are visitors as a share of maximum capacity, not revenue or margin. A 0% is a recorded value, not a closed hour. Blanks show as ‘—’. Set your real opening hours by weighing demand against wages and running costs.
6. Checks while running#
What to check first in a Theater
If the performance side has problems, start with the actors, the stage crew and their workstations; for the concession stand check stock, display and the register separately.
The equipment is there but nothing runs
Check the business type and opening requirements, then whether staff are linked to workstations, then the hours they work. If you sell products, check stock and display equipment too. The capacity column alone does not tell you how many customers can actually be served.
Checking supply and delivery
Check the vendors in the purchase data per item. If you import, review the warehouse, vehicles, drivers and logistics setup in Importing and delivery.