Ramen Shop Simulator ticket machine menu is the board at your door: the machine at the entrance is called the kenbaiki, and it holds the menu of your shop. Every recipe you have unlocked can be added to it, each one shows its own decal, and customers can only order what is listed there.

Ramen Shop Simulator ticket machine menu: the steps

  1. Stand at the kenbaiki at the entrance. This is the machine at the door, and it is the only place the menu is edited.
  2. Add the recipes you have unlocked. Each unlocked recipe can be put on the board; the machine is the menu, not the Notebook.
  3. Check the decal. Every recipe on the menu shows its own decal on the kenbaiki, which is how you confirm the right dish went up.
  4. Check the price boards. The menu boards hanging in the shop display the price of each dish, so this is where you confirm what a customer is about to pay.
  5. Never leave the menu with no food on it. If no food recipe is on the menu at all, the game warns you that the restaurant will close — and the shop will indeed close.
  6. Open and close the shop with the noren. The curtain at the entrance opens and closes the shop, and you can also interact with the posters on it.

Step six is separate from the menu but belongs in the same routine. The menu is what customers see; the noren is what decides whether anyone is coming through the door at all. Once somebody is through it, the order itself is the next thing on your list, and that is covered in the serve customer orders guide.

The kenbaiki, the decal and the price boards

Three separate surfaces tell you the same thing, and each catches a different mistake:

  • The kenbaiki itself shows which recipes are listed and carries the decal for each one. A recipe with no decal is a recipe that is not really on the menu.
  • The hanging menu boards inside the shop show the price of each dish, which is the check you want before the lunch rush.
  • The Notebook shows what you have unlocked, so it is where you find out that the dish you want to list is not there yet.

The decal matters because it is the visual confirmation that a dish actually went onto the board. If you add a recipe and no decal appears, it did not take.

Never leave the menu empty

The kenbaiki has a "Clear" option that empties the menu, and using it with nothing to replace it closes the restaurant. That is the one hard rule in this whole screen: the menu can be short, but it cannot be empty of food.

The other half of the rule is that you cannot list a dish you have not unlocked. A menu is a mix of two things — the recipes you have, and the slots your receipts have given you — and the unlock recipes guide covers the first while the unlock receipts guide covers the second.

There have been demo builds where the menu disappeared from the ticket machine, leaving only "Clear" and no way to add dishes, and where customers kept ordering items that were not on the menu. If the board looks wrong like that, the fix is a restart rather than anything you did.

Opening and closing the shop

The noren curtain at the entrance opens and closes the shop, and the posters on it are the other way to do the same thing. This is the action that starts and ends a service, and it is worth getting into the habit of using it rather than leaving the shop open.

One caution about closing up: in a broken state, opening and closing the shop with the noren does not bring customers back. If the day has gone wrong, the stuck no customers guide explains the two causes and what actually helps.

Once the board is right, the next job is the person standing at the counter — taking an order and handing over a bowl is covered in the serve customer orders guide.