Thanks for playing the game! You can definitely play for just the well-drawn soups~ One of the original goals of the game is that romance is not required and you can just build friendships with your customers. This is sort of shown through Fleur's neutral route where you two build a connection and develop a friendship. We would love to flush out the friendship system more in the future with other customers, but sadly time and manpower do not currently allow it. We hope you still enjoyed your experience~