How to Play
Lemonade Tycoon is easy to start and fun to master. Here's everything you need to know.
A day at the stall
Every day has three parts: opening, business hours and closing. A full day takes about five minutes. Customers arrive during business hours, and at closing you see how the day went — how much you earned, what you spent and what customers thought.
Mix your recipe
Open the Recipe panel and move the three sliders: lemon, sugar and ice.
- On hot days, people want it icier and a little less sweet.
- On cool days, they want it sweeter and less icy.
- Look at the faces over your customers: 😀 means they love it, 🙁 means something is off.
The Recipe panel also lists what customers complained about and gives you advice.
Set your price
Every district has its own price level — beach-goers pay more than the park crowd, and the stadium pays more than the beach. Hot weather lets you charge a little more too. If lots of people walk away saying "too expensive", lower your price. If nobody complains, try raising it.
Keep the lemonade flowing
Your stall sells from its stock. When it runs low you'll get a warning, and when it's empty an Out of stock sign appears next to your stall. Restock from the Recipe panel — just enough to last until closing, half, or completely full. Stock also refills automatically every morning, and some of it goes off overnight, so don't overfill late in the day.
Watch the weather
Check tomorrow's forecast on the result card. Sunny and hot days bring crowds; rain keeps people at home — especially at the beach and the amusement park. Bigger stalls with proper roofs lose fewer customers when the weather turns.
Upgrade and hire
Open Upgrades to improve your stall and equipment:
- Juicer — makes cups faster.
- Cooler — holds more stock and less of it spoils.
- Sign — brings in more passers-by.
- Register — faster checkout and shorter queues.
- Staff — more hands at the counter.
Each stall type has a limit on equipment level and staff. Upgrade the stall itself — from handcart all the way to flagship store — to unlock more. Big upgrades take time to build; you can come back later or watch a short ad to finish sooner.
Open more shops
Open the City panel to unlock new districts in order: City Park, School Gate, Beach, Office Towers, Stadium, Forest Park, Amusement Park and Chain HQ. Each new shop pays rent every day, so make sure it earns more than it costs.
Shops you're not looking at keep selling, but slower. Hire a manager and they run at almost full speed while you're away. If a shop keeps losing money, you can sell it in the City panel and get half of what you spent back.
Promote
Run campaigns from the Promote panel: a newspaper ad, an online ad, an influencer visit or a TV ad. They bring more customers for a while and let you charge a bit more.
Come back every day
- Claim your daily reward and finish daily tasks to open a chest.
- Check this week's events: every district has a big day each week.
- Climb the weekly league against players at your level.
- Your shops earn while you're away, for up to 3 hours.