This study examines how work motivation and work discipline shape the job performance of employees at Cafe Empat, Serang City. The culinary and hospitality sector relies heavily on human resources as the backbone of service quality, given the high frequency of direct customer interactions involved. Adopting a quantitative, causal-associative research design, this investigation encompassed the entire workforce of 45 employees through a census or total sampling approach. Structured Likert-scale questionnaires served as the primary data collection instrument, and the resulting data were subjected to multiple linear regression analysis via IBM SPSS version 26, after satisfying the prerequisites of classical assumption tests covering normality, multicollinearity, and heteroscedasticity. The analysis reveals that work motivation exerts a significant positive impact on employee performance (t = 4.217; p < 0.05), and the same holds true for work discipline (t = 3.985; p < 0.05). An F-test further confirms that both variables, when considered jointly, produce a significant combined effect on performance (F = 29.843; p < 0.05). The coefficient of determination (R2 = 0.684) indicates that the two predictors collectively account for 68.4% of the variance in employee performance, with the remaining 31.6% attributable to other factors outside the model. On the basis of these findings, it is recommended that management at Cafe Empat invest in structured motivational frameworks and reinforce discipline systems as complementary levers for sustained operational excellence.