Lay out cards: Lay out the employee and milestone cards according to the reference image. For each employee card marked with ●, remove cards based on player count.
Fill the bank: Place $50 per player into the bank pool using practical (small) bills. Put the rest back in the box.
Choose chains: Each player chooses a restaurant chain and receives a CEO card, 3 restaurants, and a set of 3 bank reserve cards.
Determine initial turn order: Collect turn order markers of chosen chains, shuffle them, and randomly place them on the turn order track in drawn order.
Place first restaurants: Starting with the last player in turn order and ending with the first, each player may either place a restaurant or pass. If anyone passed, do a second round in turn order where remaining players must place.
Set reserve goals: Each player chooses one of their three bank reserve cards and places it face down next to the bank. Discard the other two unseen.
Player-count adjustments and additional steps available in the interactive app.
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