Maid Cafe Simulator Walkthrough — Opening Hours to First Rating

Maid Cafe Simulator walkthrough is less about a fixed sequence of levels than about moving from a failing café to a rated one. The store page sets the opening: you inherit a rundown café on the brink of closing, and a kemonomimi girl walks into your last hiring interview with an idea that changes everything. From there the path runs through opening the doors, staffing the counter, growing the room, and finally facing the Maidchelin inspector. The stages below follow the order the store page implies, from first shift to first rating.

Stage One: Open the Café and Serve a First Order

The first stage is simply getting the doors open and a drink out. The store page describes the working loop as mix drinks, serve customers, scan receipts and count out the change, and the published achievement names confirm the early milestones: Maid Cafe Opened and First Sale. Nothing in this stage asks you to optimize. The goal is to learn the geography of your own café, which station makes which drink, and how long a round trip to a table takes.

• Take an order and identify the drink.
• Make it at the correct station, one of three documented types.
• Serve it, scan the receipt and count change.
• Note the milestones: Maid Cafe Opened, First Sale, The First Cup.

Stage Two: Bring the Maids Into the Workflow

Once a single order is routine, the next stage is sharing it. The store page says you share the workload with your maids when orders pile up, and it opens the hiring premise with the first maid arriving at your last interview. Five maids are documented in total. This is the stage where delegation starts to matter: routine service goes to the staff, and the manager keeps the till, the phone orders and the disturbances. It is also where the first bond content begins, since the maids carry 36 bond stories and 25 text messages each.

Stage Three: Grow the Room and the Menu

Growth is the middle game. The store page says more customers mean it is time to think bigger: expand the dining area and kitchen, arrange furniture and equipment, and make the café your own. The menu grows alongside it, with 49 drink recipes across three station types and a festival menu of special drinks served when festivities begin. This is the stage where the café stops being a single room you can memorize and becomes a layout you have to design deliberately.

Stage	Focus	Documented basis
One	Open and serve	Maid Cafe Opened, First Sale, The First Cup
Two	Staff and delegate	Five maids; share the workload when orders pile up
Three	Expand and upgrade	Dining area, kitchen, furniture, equipment
Four	Perform and promote	Stage dances, tips, Dance Video Day
Five	Chase the rating	The exacting Maidchelin inspector

Stage Four: Performances and Public Image

The store page adds a performance layer once the café is running. You add a stage and give customers a show, and when your maids dance, heads turn and tips fly. After closing, a Dance Video Day lets you choose a maid and an outfit, record a longer dance performance, and share it on in-game social media. The maids also post to that social feed themselves, which the store page lists as a feature. This stage is optional in the sense that it is not the café's core service, but it is one of the documented income and progression routes.

Stage Five: The Maidchelin Inspector and the Rating

The final stage is the rating. The store page says to get ready for your toughest guest yet, the exacting Maidchelin inspector, and frames the whole game as one rundown café, five maids and three stars to chase. Because the rating sits above the café rather than inside a single shift, it rewards everything built in the earlier stages: a well-arranged room, a deep menu, staff you actually know, and a business that can absorb a demanding guest. How many attempts the inspector takes or what each star requires is not documented yet.

Throughout all five stages, the bond stories run in parallel, and the maids page covers that content while the gameplay page covers the loop in more detail.