Burger Shift: Team Rush Who stands where

A Burger Shift: Team Rush lobby fails in the menu, not on the grill. If three people all walk to the flat-top, the drinks, the dumpster, and the drive-thru are already dead. This planner is the seating chart for 1–8 player online or LAN crews. Say the jobs in voice chat before anyone customizes a hat.

Use it with the role tier list and the co-op guide. The tier list is which jobs leak first. Co-op is how you talk. This page is who occupies the tile. Crew roles names the same jobs in player language if your friends do not read tables.

How to read the tables

Coverage is ownership, not a fence. A grill main can plate one burger. A window main can grab a soda. What you cannot do is leave a named station with zero bodies for a full patience bar. Dumpster Duty bins still fill to 100% and block. Burger Flow still lets you unwrap a mistake, which is useless if nobody is looking at the ticket.

Early Access from 11 September 2026 adds fryer baskets, ice cream, a window lane, and NPC employees. Prologue crews that never left the dining room should add those columns the first time they host the paid build. Until you hire, treat the NPC column as empty.

1 player

You are the restaurant. Loop in this order: start the patty, build whatever is already cooked, pour the drink that is on the ticket, check dining and bins, then return to the grill. Do not chase a single soda across the room while meat burns. Trainee is the honest solo mode because patience is doubled. Manager solo is a drill, not a plan.

Station	Solo coverage
Grill / flat-top	You. Drop patties first, then leave only while they cook.
Assembly / wrap	You, between flips. Hover the receipt before you wrap.
Drinks	You, only when a ticket names soda or coffee.
Fryer / ice cream	You, only when a ticket names them. Never start a basket if the grill is empty.
Dining / trash	Between tickets, not during a flip. Empty bins before 100%.
Drive-thru	Window after the bag is built. Do not wait at the glass with nothing in hand.
NPC (if hired)	Dining restock and trash. Never grill.

2 players

Split food from everything else. Player A owns heat. Player B owns tickets, drinks, window, and talking. If both of you assemble, drinks die. If both of you pour, patties die.

Station	Player A	Player B
Grill / flat-top	Main	Emergency only
Assembly / wrap	Helps during cook time	Main
Drinks	No	Main
Fryer / ice cream	Basket drops if adjacent	Owns plating
Dining / trash	No	Between window tickets
Drive-thru	No	Window and bags
NPC (if hired)	—	Dining restock and bins so B can stay on drinks

Voice: call extras (no pickle, extra onion), not station names. B already knows they are on assembly.

4 players

This is the first size that can hold Early Access extras without collapsing on Manager. Lock four lanes and stop floating until a bin alarm.

Station	Owner
Grill / flat-top	Player 1
Assembly / wrap	Player 2
Drinks + ice cream	Player 3
Dining, trash, drive-thru	Player 4
Fryer	Player 1 drops baskets if the fryer sits next to grill; Player 3 plates. If fryer is far, Player 4 takes baskets and Player 3 stays on cups.
NPC (if hired)	Restock + dining wipe so Player 4 can live at the window

If you only have three humans, delete ice cream from Player 3 and give that player drinks only. The missing human is dining, which is exactly where an NPC belongs.

8 players

Eight bodies should mean no hero plays. Duplicate the dangerous jobs instead of creating a mascot who “helps everywhere.”

Job	Count	Notes
Grill	1–2	Second grill is backup and fryer baskets, not a second expo.
Assembly	1	Hands on the board.
Wrap / expo	1	Unwrap checks, bags, ticket calls.
Drinks	1	Soda, ice, coffee.
Ice cream	1	Soft-serve is its own queue in Early Access.
Drive-thru	1	Window only. Does not leave for lettuce.
Dining + trash	1	Bins, trays, table turn.
Floater	1	Covers the first alarm: empty fryer, full dumpster, missing bun stack.
NPC (if hired)	1	Ingredient restock so the floater is not a walker.

If you do not hire, the floater is the restock. Do not steal the window player for tomatoes.

Trainee versus Manager

Dumpster Duty retuned difficulty. The planner changes with it.

Setting	Traffic	Coverage change
Trainee	Patience doubled	1P and 2P can float. Learn unwrap and bins here.
Supervisor	About +10% customers	Lock drinks or dining onto a body. Stop sharing both.
Manager	About +35% customers	Trash, window, and drinks each need an owner. 4P is the floor if fryer and drive-thru are both on.

Raise difficulty for money, not for pride. Faster service still pays extra tips, but a full bin wipes that bonus. If your crew still merges stacks into the wrong ticket, stay on Trainee.

Where to park an NPC employee

Official copy says employees keep tables clean and ingredients stocked. Park them on walking jobs.

• Best: dining wipes, ingredient restock, Dumpster Duty bins.
• Acceptable: watching a far fridge so humans never leave the line.
• Do not: grill timing, wrap inspection, or drive-thru talk. Those need a player who can hover a receipt and unwrap a mistake.

Hiring is an Early Access promise, not a Prologue toggle. If the button is still locked in your build, run the tables as human-only and keep the NPC column as the first job you give a late joiner.

Pre-shift script

1. Count players. Pick the table above.
2. Assign names, not vibes. “Sam is window” beats “someone grab cars.”
3. Set Trainee / Supervisor / Manager out loud.
4. Point at the dumpster. If nobody answers, you do not have a plan.
5. Open the recipe checklist for extras, then start the day.

If the rush still breaks, look at kitchen stations for layout and employees for hire cost versus a ninth human. Come back to this page only to change the seating chart, not to rewrite how a burger is built.