In Rival Restaurants, the culinary competition is heating up! Your goal is to be the first chef to accumulate 20 popularity points and be crowned 'The Wiener'. To achieve this, you'll need to buy and trade ingredients to prepare increasingly elaborate recipes. The more complex the dish, the more points it's worth, bringing you closer to victory. The game unfolds in 'days,' each with three crucial phases. First, in the 'Money and Move' phase, you collect your income and decide where your chef will go. Be careful: this choice is final for the day! Then comes the 'Buy and Barter' phase, a minute of pure adrenaline where you can buy ingredients from your current location and, even cooler, negotiate and trade with any other player at the table, no matter where they are. Finally, in the 'Cook and Counter' phase, it's time to turn your ingredients into delicious dishes and tally your popularity points. But there's more! Each player commands a chef with a unique asymmetrical power, allowing them to bend some rules in their favor. The base game already comes with twelve different chefs, and at the start of the game, each player chooses a restaurant, which offers a 'level-up' structure with rewards for reaching 3, 7, and 12 popularity points. And if you want to spice things up even more, you can buy action cards, which are single-use development cards capable of turning the game around when least expected. Get ready for a delicious and strategic race!