A field guide to Donut Place
MONEY
One number in the top-right corner, and it moves in both directions. This page is the ledger of what we watched it do — the prices inside the shop, and what a session of serving does to the balance.
- TESTED cash read at seven points in two sessions on 2026-11-05
- IN-GAME 400, and the green price tags in the room: 25, 75, 120, 125, 155, 170
- OFFICIAL ONLY no store page prints a starting balance or a price
- NEEDS CHECK what a single donut sells for, and whether prices rise as you build
The shape of the number
Cash is printed with a green banknote icon in the top-right corner. It starts at 400 and behaves like a budget rather than a score: it drops when you buy, climbs when customers pay, and it can sit at 0 without stopping the game.
Readings from our two sessions, in order:
| reading | what had just happened |
|---|---|
400 | fresh shop, before the first purchase |
124 | after tables were bought |
60 | after more fixtures |
9 | still buying |
0 | nothing left, shop still running |
54 | customers paying again |
170 | later in the same run |
The price tags
Prices are not on a menu. They appear in the room as a green octagon with a banknote and a number, floating over whatever is for sale. The ones we read:
- 125 — a table, from the prompt
Buy more Tables! - 120 — the HR room, from
Hire a HR Manager! - 25, 75, 155, 170 — small pads, stands and later fixtures; we did not always catch what the tag belonged to before it was bought
That last line matters: the tag shows a price, not a label. Two of them turned up beside objects we had already assumed were free scenery, which is why the page lists what we could actually read rather than a tidy catalogue.
What we have not measured
- the sale price of a donut. Customers pay, and the balance goes up, but we never isolated one sale to read the amount.
- whether tags rise as the shop fills. The later tags were bigger numbers, but they were also different objects, so we cannot call it inflation.
- whether anything costs money over time — rent, wages, a licence.
Those three are the difference between a price list and an economy, and this page stops where the readings stop.
Last checked against the client: 2026-11-05 · client web build 2026-11-05