Can you run this?
A 30-day drive-up tea shop simulation

Can You Run a Karak Tea Shop for 30 Days?

Strong black tea boiled with evaporated milk, sugar and cardamom, sold in small paper cups to drivers who pull up and flash their lights. Each cup earns a few cents, so you live on volume: how many cars your runners can serve at 9 p.m., at a price the shop on the next corner can’t undercut. Then the bank offers a loan to open a second location.

  • 4 weeksone page of decisions each
  • A few centsprofit per cup, thousands of cups a week
  • +3 monthsRamadan nights, winter, rivals and loan payments

About this simulation

Difficulty
Advanced High risk. Debt, leverage, crises and big systems. Many runs end early.
Length
4 weeks + 3 months, about 10 minutes for the first part
Category
Run a business
You decide
Cup price, volume, branches, loans

How it plays

  1. Week 1 · Lighting the boiler — Set up your karak shop
  2. Week 2 · The chain arrives — Handle week two
  3. Week 3 · The bank calls — Decide how to grow
  4. Week 4 · Closing the month — Finish the month

After the debrief, “Keep going — 3 more months” continues the run with calendar events, new challenges and opportunities that build on what you chose earlier. Every decision page has a live preview that shows what your picks do to the numbers before you lock them in.

What you get at the end

A debrief with your outcome, charts of where the money went, your biggest mistake and roughly what it cost, and a full report you can copy or save as a PDF. Everything runs in your browser: no sign-up, nothing to install.

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