Stocks help

You can buy or sell various restaurant stocks in stock market.
Owning stocks gives you user score based on your ownership.
It can also give you the privilege of controlling another restaurant, if no one's ownership is above 50%.
Your ownership in a restaurant can pay you dividends, which are equal to your ownership. Dividends are paid when money is taken out of the restaurant.

You can take your restaurant to stock market under management page.
There you can set the initial amount of stocks you get.
After going public you can see your new stock in stocks page and your ownership in "my stocks" page.

Select the stock you wish to buy or sell, enter the amount and then the price per 1 stock.
If there's matching offer already on the market, then the transaction is completed.
If there are no matching offers, or there are partial offers, then a new purchase/sell offer is created.
If a partial offer was found, then only part of your offer gets processed and a new offer is created.
When you make a purchase offer, then money will be deducted from you balance immediately!

You can edit and cancel your stock offers.
When you cancel a purchase offer then you get a refund.

Restaurants themselves can also buy and sell stocks.
Restaurants are not allowed to own 100% of another restaurant.
Restaurant can sell more stocks than it owns. You can use this to emit more stocks.

If no one's ownership is over 50%, then board meetings are used to make decisions.
Board meetings allow every shareholder to make proposals and vote for them.
If a proposal gets over 50% of the votes, then it is accepted.
Your vote is equal to your ownership.

Dividend is your share of the money taken out of the restaurant.
Your dividend is equal to your ownership. Restaurants themselves can not get dividends from another restaurant