The Moment
The dish is done. It’s weird. It’s beautiful. It’s weird and beautiful. Now you show it to the client.
You hold up the drawing. In character, enthusiastically, you pitch what you made. Why each strange ingredient belongs. What the client should taste when they take a bite. You perform. That’s the whole job. That’s why the diner landed here.
Then you flip a card. That’s the client’s reaction. Surprise, delight, confusion, tears. The card decides. Your job is to narrate what happens next.
This is the ending. Hold up what you made and find out how it lands.
The Pitch
Everyone holds up the dish drawing and presents it to the client, in character. No rules here. Just perform. Justify the weird things on the plate. The stranger the dish, the better the pitch.
The Reaction
The Reaction
One player flips a card. Check the rank. Read it aloud.
| Rank | Client Reaction |
|---|---|
| A | Speechless. Long pause. Then: slow clap. |
| 2 | Takes a bite. Chews for a very long time. Says nothing. |
| 3 | Confused. Picks it up, turns it sideways. "Is this... intentional?" |
| 4 | Politely horrified. Smiles through clenched teeth. |
| 5 | Hates one thing specifically. Will not let it go. |
| 6 | Genuinely impressed by one detail. Completely ignores the rest. |
| 7 | Has questions. Many questions. All unanswerable. |
| 8 | Loves it. Already planning to book you again. |
| 9 | This dish reminded them of something. They're crying a little. |
| 10 | The wrong person tried it first. Their reaction is the one that counts now. |
| J | Hates it personally. Everyone else at the event disagrees loudly. |
| Q | Loves it so much they want to name it after themselves. |
| K | On the spot, offers to hire one of your team away from you. |
Every result is a punchline, not a score. There is no passing. There is no failing. There is only what happened.
After
Does the dish get a name? Did something unforgettable happen? If the group loved it, write it on the menu. That’s your restaurant’s history starting to form.