Story Mode

Story Mode is a game mode found in Burger Shop and Burger Shop 2. Story Mode is the first game mode available, and features the majority of the game's plot.

Overview
Story Mode is the main game mode available in both games. Story Mode advances the storyline of both games. Progress along Story Mode also opens up the other game modes as certain points are met, with Relax Mode and Challenge Mode unlocking after the completion of the first restaurant. Story Mode consists of multiple levels, 80 levels in 8 restaurants in the first game, and 120 levels in 8 restaurants in the second. Each Level will have a monetary goal to meet, and a specified amount of customers that will arrive during that level.

During the first level, the player will have a limited amount of food items to choose from. Each subsequent level gives the player the option of choosing an Upgrade, usually a food item or, in early levels, a powerup or other accessory. As play progresses, the food combinations become more advanced. In both games, the dude, is the first available customer, with new ones appearing at predetermined levels. As the player completes customer orders, the customer will give a rating of their service, 0 to five stars.

If the player manages to complete the level with all customers giving five stars, they will receive a bonus for a perfect level. In the second game, they will earn an Expert award for serving all customers with 4 stars or above. The amount of stars given affects the tips a player is given, with higher tips given for better service. The player can also earn trophies for completing Perfect or Expert Service on all levels of a restaurant.

Finishing Story Mode will give the first version of the credits, which will give trivia and names to the various customers. In Burger Shop 2, the credits for Story Mode, including all character trivia, can be replayed by tapping the box stating the money the player has made. Burger Shop places the option to replay credits on the main menu, but this option does not include trivia. Expert Mode, a more advanced version of Story Mode, will be available following completion of Story Mode. In both games, the menu will change to reflect that the player has completed Story Mode.

Burger Shop
Story Mode for the first game sees the player receiving a set of blueprints in the mail. Upon successfully building the machine detailed in the plans, the player discovers that the machine is an artificially intelligent robot chef. The player uses the robot, dubbed BurgerTron 2000 to create a successful Diner restaurant. Appearing a short time later is a smaller robot, Burgerbot. Soon after, BurgerTron 2000 clones itself, leading the player to open another restaurant, this time with a western theme. Over time, the player will continue to open restaurants, opening one in the city, another near the boardwalk, and a sports bar.

While going on a cruise, the player, BurgerTron 2000, and Burgerbot are shipwrecked. They open a successful restaurant on the island while awaiting rescue. The player is eventually rescued by Sumo Wrestlers in a boat, and is given a ride to their homeland, where they open a pagoda themed restaurant.

Eventually, the player receives a map with a location in the desert marked. Traveling to the spot, the player is taken in a spaceship where they meet a trio of Aliens. The aliens reveal that BurgerTron is actually their invention, sent out with the goal that someone would build it an create the perfect burger. Over the course of the player's travels, they have done so, creating the triple bacon cheeseburger with ranch. The aliens return home with the creation, while the player is given the spaceship to travel to their different franchises. The player is shown to have successfully created an intergalactic franchise.

Burger Shop 2
Story Mode opens with the player having been found in a dumpster with little memory of how they ended up there. Traveling to the Diner, the player realizes that the restaurant has been abandoned. Though ignorant of the reasons why, the player chooses to rebuild from the ground up, this time serving a full service of Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

The plan becomes successful, and the diner's full service menu is a hit. However, the player's attempt to hire a detective to find out what happened to their restaurants is unsuccessful, leading the player to begin investigating themselves. The player then rebuilds their Boardwalk restaurant, but has few leads, leading the player to worry about the possibility of future sabotages.

Arriving at the abandoned Western Restaurant, the player finds a yellowed newspaper claiming that the player embezzled funds, and used endangered species to make burgers. Investigating a website touting this rumor, the player finds the web designer, who claims that the website was requested by an unknown client wearing a trench coat. The player then rebuilds the western restaurant, while wondering if the aliens carried out the sabotage.

Upon confronting the aliens, the player finds that they are innocent, as they note that their planet lacks taxes. However, they name another alien named Becky, who took over the players extraterrestrial restaurants. Confronting Becky after rebuilding the city restaurant, the player finds that she was not responsible for the website. Becky had been offered the Earth restaurants from a clown, but turned them down. Finding the clown at a rundown circus, the clown had tried to sell the restaurants after loosing everything trying to run them. The clown offers the player the circus, noting that it came with a key found in the diner.

Realizing that the key is to a storage container near the dumpster they awoke in, the player travels to the location and finds an old accounting ledger with wrong looking numbers. The player wonders if they really embezzeled funds while rebuilding the sports bar. While looking over the accounting ledger, the player cannot make sense of it. Going off of a small umbrella as a clue, the player travels to the beach hut to rebuild it and look for more clues.

Eventually the player discovers rumors of a small creature living in a cave. Investigating, the player sees only a glimpse before finding a book on Japan, leading the player to rebuild their Japanese restaurant. While closing the restaurant, the player runs into the small creature, which reveals itself to be Burgerbot from the future. Burgerbot had been sent by the player after BurgerTron become autonomous and self-aware and destroyed the universe. When the present player did not believe the claims, Burgerbot cooked the books and got the player thrown in jail by the IRS. When the player got out of jail, they had confronted Burgerbot but fell out the window into the dumpster. Resolving to prevent the bad future from happening, the player repurchases their extraterrestrial restaurants from Becky.