Kitchen Equipment Maker Nakanishi Brings Lunch Master Game to Tokyo Game Show 2026
A kitchen equipment manufacturer using its real lunch-center design know-how as a game system is the kind of booth that only works at Tokyo Game Show, where the draw is the oddity, not the GPU demo.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Nakanishi Manufacturing, a commercial kitchen equipment maker founded in 1946 on school lunch aluminum tableware, ran a Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth styled after the royal palace in its smartphone game Lunch Master: Relaxed Lunch Center Management in Another World. The booth opened with a mysterious entrance and a throne. The game received its Ver.2.0 update on September 17, TGS opening day.
The booth's entry is built to read as a gate into another world, and inside it the throne from the game's opening scene waits for visitors. Nakanishi Manufacturing started in 1946 selling aluminum tableware for school lunches, then moved into dishwashers, rice cooking systems, and sterilization storage equipment for schools, hospitals, offices, and restaurants. Its game casts the player as the manager of a lunch center in a world where food culture has faded, handling kitchen layout, menu planning, and hygiene control while rebuilding the town.
- Ver.2.0 update: released September 17, TGS opening day; adds rarity elements to dishes and unlimited cooking development attempts
- Nutritionist quiz: new feature based on the school lunch mass-cooking facility hygiene management manual
- Multiple endings: the outcome changes based on how the player runs the lunch center
- Master Potion novelty: limited-quantity booth giveaway reproducing an in-game item
- CAREER ANSWER: alternate reality game serving as episode 0 of Lunch Master, shown at the booth
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