Customers

Customers are the NPC patrons of the player's cafe establishments in their town. They visit the establishments, order items, eat them, and pay afterwards.
Different customer "types", shown with different outfits, are unlocked at different points in the game. Four customer types are unlocked at the start of the game with no preferences. The rest of the customer designs, which all have a preference, are unlocked by completing certain tasks to add specific new equipment that produces new types of products in the Cafe. 
== Functionality ==
Customers can spawn from various locations and visit any of the three establishments in the player's town - the Coffee Truck, Outdoor Cafe, or Cafe. They will queue up in a line (sometimes in groups if not for the Coffee Truck). More customers are likely to spawn if the player's town has a higher popularity rating.
=== Behavior ===
For the Coffee Truck, there is only a solo line. Customers walk up to the front once it is their turn, ask for a coffee, and leave once given a coffee.
For the Outdoor Cafe and Cafe, there is a grouped line. The player or an staff member assigned as a waiter must direct queueing customers to a table for them to be seated. After a random period of time, the customer will have an order ready, which must be picked up. The order must be completed with the relevant equipment, and then the food can be picked up from a pick-up counter to be taken to the customer. After some time passes, the customer will finish eating, in which they will leave happy with payment waiting on their dishes. Dishes must be picked up to open the seat to be able to be used by a new customer. Customers queueing in groups cannot be seated unless enough seats are open (not necessarily at one table) to seat the group all at once.
Customers may leave from the Outdoor Cafe and Cafe upset without paying if:
* They have waited too long for an unavailable product that the player has unlocked the equipment for, but has no equipment placed (where it is impossible to make the product)
* Their order is "cancelled" when a player has taken it completed from the pick-up counter (or from preparing it themselves) and was in the process of bringing it to them
* Their seat or table furniture that their current seat was assigned to was removed
==== Child customers ====
Some customer types - typically sized smaller than other customers - rarely queue on their own, typically only appearing and queueing with the larger customers (except for the Coffee Truck, which only has a solo line). There is no differing functionality for these customers otherwise.
Some of these "child customer" models can appear in the playground on the second floor of the Cafe once the playground has been unlocked.
=== Preferences ===
Excluding the default four customer types, customers have preferences for certain products (typically linked to the product that unlocked them).
A customer having a preference for a certain product only means that they are more likely to order that product over other products. It does not refer to that they will always order that product if they appear.
== Gallery ==
=== Default customers ===
customer01.png
customer02.png
customer03.png
customer04.png
=== Unlocked customers ===
customer05.png|Prefers Espresso
customer06.png|Prefers Cheesecake
customer07.png|Prefers Cappuccino
customer08.png|Prefers Croissant
customer09.png|Prefers Hot Chocolate
customer10.png|Prefers Muffin
customer11.png|Prefers Tiramisu
customer12.png|Prefers Chocolate Ice Cream
customer13.png|Prefers Chocolate Cake
customer14.png|Prefers Donut
customer15.png|Prefers Pudding
customer16.png|Prefers Yogurt
customer17.png|Prefers Lemonade
customer18.png|Prefers Boba Tea
customer19.png|Prefers Milkshake
customer20.png|Prefers Pancake
customer21.png|Prefers Soda
customer22.png|Prefers Sweet Roll
customer23.png|Prefers Super Cupcake
customer24.png|Prefers Canelé
customer25.png|Prefers Turkish Coffee
customer26.png|Prefers Matcha Tea
customer27.png|Prefers Waffle
customer28.png|Prefers Italian Coffee
customer29.png|Prefers Apple Pie
customer30.png|Prefers Trifle
customer31.png|Prefers Smoothie
customer32.png|Prefers Chimney Cake
customer33.png|Prefers Chicory Coffee
customer34.png|Prefers Cotton Candy
customer35.png|Prefers Blue Tea
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