🍽Design Your Own Restaurant Project — Math Meets Creativity!

Engage your students in a fun, real-world learning experience where they become restaurant owners! This project-based learning (PBL) activity combines math, design, creativity, and business skills to give students a meaningful hands-on challenge.

Students will:

• Design their own restaurant (choose a theme, name, and logo)
  
• Create a tri-fold menu with real-world prices for appetizers, entrees, desserts, and drinks
  
• Use grid paper to plan a restaurant layout, calculate seating capacity, and manage space
  
• Apply math skills through menu pricing, addition, multiplication, area, and budgeting challenges
  
• Solve real-world word problems involving money, payroll, and profits
  

Perfect for upper elementary and middle school (Grades 4–6), this resource can be used in:

• Math centers
  
• Early finisher projects
  
• Real-world math lessons
  
• End-of-unit enrichment
  
• Sub plans or cross-curricular PBL units
  

🎯 Skills Covered:

• Addition & multiplication with money
  
• Area and spatial reasoning
  
• Budgeting and payroll
  
• Critical thinking and decision-making
  
• Creative design and planning
  

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