--- title: "Customers and service: API" package: "@phaser-ae/customers" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "The guests of a service game from the door to the bill, with arrivals, a queue, seating, patience in hearts, orders, eating, paying and tips." url: https://phaser.io/packs/customers/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Customers and service: API `@phaser-ae/customers` — A service shift's guests from the door to the bill: arrivals, a queue with a limit, seating, patience in hearts, orders, eating, paying and tips. ## The pack ### `customers` ```ts function customers(): Pack<{ customers: CustomersApi }> ``` The `customers` pack: `game.customers`. No options. ## Helpers ### `createService` ```ts function createService(options: ServiceOptions = {}): Service ``` Open a shift. Throws, with every fault, on options `validateService` refuses. ### `createServiceAutopilot` ```ts function createServiceAutopilot(service: Service, options: { pace?: number } = {}): ServiceAutopilot ``` A host for `service`, acting every `pace` seconds (default 0.8). ### `dinerMenu` ```ts const dinerMenu: MenuItem[] ``` The built-in menu. ### `guestKinds` ```ts const guestKinds: GuestKind[] ``` The built-in guests. ### `validateService` ```ts function validateService(options: ServiceOptions = {}): string[] ``` Check a shift's options. Empty when it can be played. ## Types ### `CustomersApi` ```ts interface CustomersApi ``` What the `customers` pack adds to a game: `game.customers`. - `create: typeof createService` — Open a shift. - `validate: typeof validateService` — Check a shift's options. - `kinds: typeof guestKinds` — The built-in guest kinds. - `menu: typeof dinerMenu` — The built-in menu. - `autopilot: typeof createServiceAutopilot` — A host for an attract mode or a test. ### `GuestKind` ```ts interface GuestKind ``` A kind of guest. - `id: string` — Its name, unique among the kinds; a party's `kind` and a scheduled arrival's `kind` refer to it. - `name?: string` — Display name for a presenter to show; the pack itself does not read it. - `weight?: number` — How often it comes, against the others. Default 1. - `party?: [number, number]` — People in a party. Default [1, 2]. - `hearts?: number` — Hearts of patience it arrives with, and seconds waiting that cost one. Default 5 and 8. - `patience?: number` — Seconds a party of this kind waits on the player before it loses a heart; above 0, default 8. - `tip?: number` — Tips are multiplied by this. Default 1. - `think?: number` — Seconds looking at the menu, and eating. Default 3 and 8. - `eat?: number` — Seconds a party of this kind spends eating; default 8. - `items?: [number, number]` — Items each person orders. Default [1, 1]. ### `MenuItem` ```ts interface MenuItem ``` Something on the menu. - `id: string` — Its name, unique among the items; an order, `serve` and the events refer to it. - `name?: string` — Display name for a presenter to show; the pack itself does not read it. - `price: number` — What one costs on the bill, in the game's money units; 0 or more. - `weight?: number` — How often it is ordered, against the others. Default 1. ### `Party` ```ts interface Party ``` A party of guests. - `id: string` — Its name in the shift, `'g1'`, `'g2'` and so on; the actions and events refer to the party by it. - `kind: string` — The id of its guest kind. - `size: number` — People in the party, a whole number; never more than the seats of the biggest place. - `phase: PartyPhase` — Where it is in its visit. - `hearts: number` — Hearts of patience left; at 0 it leaves angry. - `maxHearts: number` — Hearts it arrived with, the most it can have. - `place: string | null` — The place it sits at. - `order: string[]` — What it ordered (once it has), and what has come. - `served: string[]` — The items of its order brought so far, as menu ids. - `timer: number` — Seconds left thinking or eating; seconds towards losing the next heart while waiting. - `waited: number` — Seconds of waiting counted towards the next lost heart; back to 0 when something is done for the party. - `arrived: number` — Shift time, in seconds, at which it arrived. ### `PartyPhase` ```ts type PartyPhase = 'queue' | 'seated' | 'order' | 'wait' | 'eat' | 'pay' ``` Where a party is: in the queue, seated and thinking, waiting to order, waiting for food, eating, waiting to pay. ### `Place` ```ts interface Place ``` A table, a counter spot: somewhere a party sits. - `id: string` — Its name in the shift, `'p1'`, `'p2'` and so on unless the options gave one. - `seats: number` — The biggest party it takes, in people. - `party: string | null` — The id of the party sitting there, or null when it is free. - `dirty: boolean` — True after a party has left and until the place is cleared; no one is seated at a dirty place. ### `Refusal` ```ts type Refusal = string | null ``` Why an action was refused, or null when it was done. ### `Service` ```ts interface Service ``` A shift. - `readonly state: ServiceState` — Where the shift stands; it changes as the shift runs. - `readonly options: Readonly<{ kinds: GuestKind[]; menu: MenuItem[]; flow: Required; duration: number; goal: number }>` — The options with defaults filled in. - `seat(party: string, place: string): Refusal` — Seat a queued party at a free, clear place with enough seats. - `takeOrder(party: string): Refusal` — Take the order of a party waiting to order. - `serve(party: string, item: string): Refusal` — Bring a party an item of its order. - `collect(party: string): Refusal` — Take the money of a party waiting to pay. - `clear(place: string): Refusal` — Clear a place after a party has left. - `step(dt: number): void` — Advance, in fixed steps of 1/60 s. - `bill(party: Party): number` — A party's bill: the menu prices of what it ordered. - `drain(): ServiceEvent[]` — Events since the last call; the latest 512 are kept. - `snapshot(): ServiceSave` — The shift as plain JSON. - `restore(save: ServiceSave): void` — Pick up a saved shift made with the same options; pending events are dropped. ### `ServiceAutopilot` ```ts interface ServiceAutopilot ``` A host that acts on a shift. - `act(dt: number): string | null` — Advance its clock; when it is ready, do the most urgent thing and say what. ### `ServiceEvent` ```ts type ServiceEvent = | { kind: 'arrive'; party: string } | { kind: 'walkout'; party: string } | { kind: 'seat'; party: string; place: string } | { kind: 'ready'; party: string } | { kind: 'ordered'; party: string; order: string[] } | { kind: 'served'; party: string; item: string } | { kind: 'eat'; party: string } | { kind: 'done'; party: string } | { kind: 'paid'; party: string; bill: number; tip: number } | { kind: 'heart'; party: string; hearts: number } | { kind: 'angry'; party: string } | { kind: 'cleared'; place: string } | { kind: 'over'; won: boolean } ``` Something that happened. ### `ServiceFlow` ```ts interface ServiceFlow ``` Which steps a game uses. - `order?: boolean` — The order waits for someone to take it; without this the party orders as it sits. Default true. - `eat?: boolean` — The party eats before paying. Default true. - `pay?: boolean` — The party waits for someone to take its money; without this it pays as it finishes. Default true. - `dirty?: boolean` — The place needs clearing after a party leaves. Default true. - `autoSeat?: boolean` — The next party in the queue takes a free place by itself. Default false. ### `ServiceOptions` ```ts interface ServiceOptions ``` A shift's options. - `seed?: number` — Default 1. - `kinds?: GuestKind[]` — Guest kinds. Default `guestKinds`. - `menu?: MenuItem[]` — The menu. Default `dinerMenu`. - `places?: number | { id?: string; seats?: number }[]` — The places: how many (two seats each), or each with its seats. Default four of two and two of four. - `flow?: ServiceFlow` — Which steps it uses. - `arrivals?: { every?: [number, number]; ramp?: number; schedule?: { at: number; kind?: string; size?: number }[] }` — Seconds between parties, from the start to the end of `ramp`; or exact arrivals. Default [14, 6] over the shift. - `queue?: number` — The most parties waiting in the queue; another walks away. Default 4. - `duration?: number` — Seconds in the shift, and the money that wins it. Default 180 and 0. - `goal?: number` — The money that wins the shift: it is won when money is at least this at the end. Default 0, which any shift wins. - `tip?: number` — The tip at full hearts, as a share of the bill. Default 0.3. - `restore?: number` — Hearts each thing done for a party wins back. Default 1. ### `ServiceSave` ```ts interface ServiceSave ``` A shift saved as plain JSON. - `state: ServiceState` — The shift state. - `next: number` — Seconds until the next arrival at the rising rate. - `serial: number` — The count of party ids handed out so far. - `schedule: number` — How many scheduled arrivals have already happened. - `carry: number` — Seconds of `step` time not yet spent, less than one fixed step of 1/60 s. - `rng: RngState` — The state of the shift's random stream. ### `ServiceState` ```ts interface ServiceState ``` Where the shift stands. - `time: number` — Seconds into the shift. - `phase: 'open' | 'over'` — `'open'` while it runs; `'over'` once the time is up and the last party has left, or 120 s after the time is up. - `won: boolean` — Whether the shift was won: set when it ends, true if money reached the goal. - `money: number` — Money taken so far: the bills and the tips. - `tips: number` — The part of `money` that is tips. - `served: number` — Parties that paid, left angry, or walked away from a full queue. - `lost: number` — Parties that left angry or walked away from a full queue. - `walkouts: number` — Parties that walked away from a full queue; each is also counted in `lost`. - `parties: Party[]` — The parties in the shop now, queueing or seated. - `places: Place[]` — Every place, with who is at it. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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