Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game Reviews

by Blissful Eyes

I really like this game. I would say that it’s one of my favorites because it is the great mixture of challenging and quick paced. I have a few issues and that’s what caused me to knock off two stars for what should be a five star review. As I said, it’s fun and I could play for hours and I have before. But my problem is 1) when going to a new world, you lose all your coins from the previous world. Because it’s also supposed to be harder levels it’s harder to upgrade and advance to new levels. That for me isn’t too big of a deal but it’s definitely not my favorite thing. I’m not saying I should keep all my coins but I shouldn’t have to leave them all behind, especially since I had about 90k when I left NY. 2) But my biggest issue is that I’m stuck on this level and I’ve upgraded all the things available to me to the highest level possible and I’m losing the level by 40 or 50 coins. I might be able to win if I had a boost but I don’t have enough spoons to buy one. If you’re going to have a level, make it possible for someone to win without any boosts, especially if that person upgraded everything in the “restaurant” to the highest level.

EDIT: I got past the level I had trouble with but now I’m having trouble 2 different levels in Paris. I can’t seem to get enough customers in the 60 seconds. Like I’m 5 away from winning the level. I’ve used free boosts given to me like insta cook do it’s not me. It’s the game. The game won’t let me win the game. I’ve given up.

by NeeleyNeel

Editing my review in which I critiqued an update that caused issues with some buttons, and the fact that you must spend money in order to move forward in the game. The buttons that were temporarily unresponsive to tapping are back to normal which is great, and also I feel like the challenge of the levels has returned to genuine instead of feeling set up to force you to spend money. I’m not sure if the devs actually changed anything or not, this is just how I feel. Mind you, I spend money on the game anyway, so it makes no difference really, but it’s way more fun than being forced to do so.

The new issue at hand is that I am not receiving my daily rewards. The rewards will pop up on my screen, and then just disappear instead of adding them to my coins, health, power ups, etc. Very frustrating as I just lost them all (including a free play, my favorite!!) at the very end of the week I spent accumulating them. I also experienced an issue I found surprising where I used a power up that didn’t work during the level I played. I failed the level as a result lol. It was confusing. Not sure if anyone else has experienced that specific type of glitch before, but I felt it was worth noting. Anyway I hope these issues are addressed, especially the rewards issue, as the free play rewards are one of my favorite aspects of the game. Thanks!

by Mfaith1983

UPDATE to point out major flaw. Game forces you to waste 35 spoons when you choose to pay for 3 more customers or 30 more seconds but you already have something cooking. When it restarts you, your customers are gone meaning you automatically burn whatever you were making when you “lost.” So sick of using spoons for no reason. Needs to be fixed. It’s a fun game for a while. Until you leave NY and none of your money comes with you. Even then, you can survive for a while if you are willing to play the extra shifts over and over for hours to buy the necessary upgrades to pass the levels. Even then, there are extra shifts that you will pass the first time you play and then suddenly not be able to beat the second time even though everything is exactly the same. If you aren’t willing to spend money to continue playing, I’d suggest not getting hooked on this game. I’m not exaggerating when I say it takes HOURS to build up enough coins to buy upgrades. I will admit the developers are genius at getting players to spend money. I still refuse to pay, so I will probably delete it now that I’ve been trying to get past the same spot for weeks. If you’re making a time management game, make it that. Allow players to be rewarded sufficiently when they are technically beating the levels to continue playing. If you want to make a paid game, charge me to download it.

by EscapeandRelax

I’ve been playing this game for quite a while I would have rated the game 5 stars until the last few weeks. It all started a little over a month ago when I was receiving messages that I could not participate in Tournaments because I wasn’t connected to the internet. That wasn’t correct because I don’t have any lives if I’m not connected. I reached to the Help Desk and they provided assistance to get it corrected. One round of Tournaments passed by then all of a sudden my Team Tournaments and Daily Chef Tournaments don’t work at all. Both are showing up but they both say to Please wait. Collecting scores. It’s been that way for weeks now and I’ve submitted tickets to the Help Desk but they responded that they don’t have a fix for it yet. I do pay REAL cash to get Tasty Ticket and other things in the game but then I can’t complete them because I can’t participate in the tournaments and gain extras from those. This is the first time I’ve ever not been able to complete a Tasty Ticket run. The Help Desk did provide me some freebies and unlimited lives for the inconvenience, which I do appreciate. However, when will there be a fix for the issue. I cannot spend anymore money on CookingCraze until the problem is fixed. Please make this problem a priority.

by MizzCarolyn

Overall I like the game but there are way too many ads. But honestly go find some other game that doesn’t harass you with ads and promotions. Yes you can pay for no ads but then they are constantly popping up promotions. EVERY TIME YOU PLAY THE GAME. Yes every time. Whether you play once a day or 10x a day. Every time you open CookingCraze you have to put up with 5 pop ups letting your know there’s promotions you can buy and events all day every day because apparently you’re too stupid to realize that they are running promotions all the time. And it’s the same promotion over and over again. Who wants to go through roughly 5 pop ups just to clear all the crap out and actually play? It’s always for a limited time but then a new one starts afterwards. And those promotions are littered all around the perimeter of the screen so it’s always there. It’s not like you don’t know about it. What’s the point? It’s a waste of time. I just want to start the game not be bombarded with pop ups. For those who say you can pay to get rid of that. No there isn’t. The pop ups would still be there so why would I want to pay? And I’ve played plenty of games that aren’t nearly as annoying as this one. I’d stay away from it and find something else that doesn’t waste you time on ads and pop up and actually let’s you play.

by Mikmoo007

Edit: i now have to be done with the game. They have a ridiculous policy where you must update to play and i keep getting so close to finishing all the levels only to be required to update to keep playing and new levels added. I find this unbelievably aggravating and will not give a single dollar to support this game again. Even worse, their updates take a ridiculous amount of time to install, have to be done in several stages , and then you have to update EVERY SINGLE RESTAURANT when you have to play old content. Yes, one at a time. This is the most ridiculous update system i have ever come across.

I have to say- THIS GAME IS AMAZING!!! This is how games should be designed. I came to here from Cooking Fever because of the awful way they have their gem system set up. I have been a fanatical player since- about two weeks now. At first, I didn't like how it was different: it seemed just a bit too easy. But there are challenges and it gets better as you progress and best of all: you can play and actually earn their premium currency. They have a great support team that was so friendly and extremely helpful the first time I hit a roadblock in my play and it was just an amazing time. I will be staying with this game and buying from them for a LONG time.

by Jessylee717

Adding to my review!! So I’m in Paris level 21... there is no way of passing this level without putting money it to it only because they don’t give you enough costumers which is a bad big turn off for me!! That right there might just make me stop playing the game!! It’s unfair and upsetting!!!

I too love this game, it’s a lot of fun and the challenge is great but unfortunately very unfair. I started reading everyone’s reviews and I have to agree with every single review!! I do have one other thing that’s annoying that I didn’t see much complaining about. When I lose instead of going back to map it gets stuck, not frozen because I’m still able to cook, but it won’t bring me back to the map so I have to get off the game close it out completely and then start again, it’s happened to be a couple of times but last night it happen when I was playing a bonus round I made about 1,000 bucks but since it got stuck and I had to get off I lost the money I made. It’s it upsetting. I did write to them I’m not sure if they will get back to me hopefully they will. It’s sad because I really do like to play but if they don’t take what everyone is saying into consideration then I’m going to have to stop playing as well. It’s not worth getting frustrated!! I could just go play one of the other millions of game out there. So please I hope you guys look at we are all writing and do the right thing!! Thank you!!

by Mrkcook

So I love this game, the design is fun and its overall a great game, but I have some big issues with it that WILL stop me from playing. My 1st issue is that when you travel to a new country, none of your money is taken with you, which makes the money you made previously unimportant, especially if you got all the upgrades. For example, when I left New York to go to Paris, I had over 80k coins, and now in Paris I have to start fresh. Normally I wouldnt mind, but the paris levels are incredibly unforgiving and without much pay off. By level 10 you need already a lot of upgrades so you constantly have to replay the same mundane levels. So, it would be nice if there was some form of currency conversion. Like I could use my 80k to get, say 20k of the paris coins. Something like that. Now, my next point, and possibly my biggest issue with the game isn’t difficultly but rather, impossibility. In many of the Paris levels (and some of the NY levels), when your goal is to get “likes” they dont give you enough customers to achieve that goal. Say you need 12 likes, they will only give you 11 customers so you HAVE to use a power boost of +3 customers which is ridiculous. This isnt a matter of, “oh I didnt perform fast enough” because it often isnt timed and you just dont get enough customers. Its a ridiculous money scam, and poor game development that needs to be fixed.

by Pita4ever

I think this is one of the best designed cooking games and it used to be my favorite. I would have given a 5 star review, however The last few updates have caused levels to be impossible to pass unless you drop real money on boosts. Which I will sometimes but not again. Since the last update when you replay a level that you used a boost on it automatically steals your boosts. Example used the coin double boost passed the level went to the next. Did NOT use a boost, replayed the level and it forced me to use my double coin boost on a level I just need to serve customers.
The challenges are almost impossible unless you use boosts which is not fair. I stopped playing them because once you get to a certain point they do not give you enough time on the clock, enough customers etc. example... had 20 sec left on the clock and only one customer came out. Any other time they are back to back.
Stop being greedy. If you keep making us pay to pass levels we will just stop playing. I have been stuck on one level in New Orleans for 3 days because I refuse to drop another dime on this game.
It would be nice to use our coins earned in the game for boosts and not just upgrades..the coins earned once all upgrades are purchased are useless. Allow them to carry over or be used to purchase boosts.

by Q8ee21

I wrote a review the first time I played and was disappointed at how much money you have to spend. This was a BIG complaint by many ppl so I quit playing for a while. I gave it some time and tried again and did better. Either the creators listened to their customer base or I got better :) I worked the system, spent a bit of money and really loved it. But I have to say it’s gotten a bit ridiculous. I’m on the Greece level and I defy the makers of this game to play the last restaurant’s levels without a ton of boosts. I’m pretty good and fast and I’m telling ya EVERY level on that restaurant needed a boost or even several to get the ticket. Totally stuck without them. No way to make money to upgrade no way to go back to do it. That really sucked. I kept playing to see if it was just a few hard levels, because yeah there are a few, but seriously it was nuts. I’m gonna try the next country, to see if it was just this one. They could really help things along if they allowed money to transfer to other countries. Then you could tackle the harder levels if you got stuck. Might take some time but you could do it. Even if it wasn’t an exact exchange the money on past levels wouldn’t be wasted.
If the next country is this bad they’ve lost me as a fan.

by Kckranzzz

My previous review is below for all to read but I would like to update this review to include the updated in the game. The updates have pretty much ruined the game for me. I’ve been playing for jeez like, almost a year now I think? No less than 9 months without a doubt and prior to the update it was perfect. Some levels are challenging but not IMPOSSIBLE if you really try your best. Finishing up Dublin because there are no more locations to travel to at the moment and some of those levels are literally impossible without a paid upgrade and then some. It has become so frustrating I find myself closing the game to play others even when I have lives left. Something I would not previously do. If you want to alienate your previous fan base, this is how you do it. You don’t gain ANY money if you lose a level, it’s impossible to beat a level just doing your best without upgrades. It’s quite frustrating. I’ve thought of uninstalling however I do love this game.

Please give us new locations! I have passed all locations and waiting for the next! Also I agree, the trash should not be double tap. It makes no sense and is the only non-user friendly part of this game. Some levels were hard, yes but I cannot wait until the new destinations!

by Tee Cee 8

Except there are still bugs and fixes that need to worked on.
1. For example I can double tap on some of the “correct” food items to serve the customers and it won’t serve them. Better yet that food goes straight into the trash, which has cost me to fail many levels, especially the bonus restaurant level which is my favorite part of this entire game. I wish the bonus restaurants didn’t take so long to unlock, 4 hrs. This happens allll the time and frustrates me so much, because of this I’ve lost several times. I have to tap food over and over again. But sometimes I think they designed it that way for you to lose levels.
2. Also, after I’ve been fully upgraded and you have to pass the levels based on dollars, some levels you just can’t pass until you purchase like two and sometimes three boosters. That’s insane.
3. Also, they added a limit to the cupcakes that were very useful.
4. After reading a lot of reviews we are all pretty saying the same thing. I’m very new to this game, level 97 New York but I don’t have a desire to progress, I’m going to just keep playing the bonus restaurant that unlocks every 4 hrs, which at first before a few days ago every 3 hrs.

by Puff-puff100

I find some of the levels virtually impossible to beat without spending money to get more spoons because there’s no previous levels available to get more since you have beat them all. Another problem I have discovered which is not necessarily the games fault, but I have a iPhone and the bar to close the game is always in the bottom of the screen, which makes the sensitivity messed up, and you unable to click on items that are done, causing you to loose levels because you either burn something or can’t get the food out of the cooking area and customers leave. I may have to try to finish these levels on a tablet which will cause other problems because of the tablet size. Another issue I have found is that if you technically beat a level but the timer hasn’t run out and you make a mistake you loose the level. For example; serve 12 plates of food without trashing anything. I had 14/12 plates of food with time still in the clock and double clicked a plate and lost. Even though I had surpassed the amount of plates needed to pass the level.

by Alana360

I don’t appreciate that I have to put in a lot of personal information just to contact support. Why do you need to know my birth year and full name and email just so I can tell you that I can’t click on an object—again—and I’m losing games because of it? This continues to happen in various cities; certain objects become impossible to click on no matter how many times you try, whether you click directly on or all around it, and this is a very fast paced game Ive been playing for a year and a half. On the slow levels there is no difficulty clicking on these items, yet when it’s a faster level with more challenge suddenly the third waffle maker in Amsterdam simply won’t register my touch, or the three sausages crammed together in Germany won’t let me select the correct one. EXTREMELY ANNOYING. DEVELOPERS THIS IS YOU. AND YOU DONT NEED ALL MY PERSONAL INFO FOR THAT.

However, other reviewers hit the nails on the head with beautiful graphics and fun levels. Yes sometimes it’s hard to beat a level and gets super annoying but I keep playing because this game feeds a need in my brain to do a million things at once quickly and come out on top. No you don’t have to spend money to do it, just be persistent and play the “free” levels to upgrade your items and keep at it.

Lots of good dining out ideas; I’ve found a ton of new restaurants and tried a lot of new foods thanks to this game.

by Stepnflee

I gotta say, this is my absolute favorite game I’ve ever downloaded on CookingCraze Store. It’s super fun and addictive. I appreciate all the details they put into every country and the different ways to cook the foods and the ability to earn boosts / spoons in a way that I think is fair. Other games I’ve played pretty much force a player to pay but I’ve never really felt that with this game. You just have to be patient and keep plugging away at the levels or the weekly challenges to earn those extra boosts. Personally I’ve never had too many issues with it, sometimes it does freeze but very rarely for me and it’s usually if I lost a level. It does glitch out on occasion where if I use a boost and then lose, the next time I try that level or any other level I’ve lost, my boost will reactivate. Sooo I guess I’m not really complaining about that glitch as much lol. I will say that the levels where you have to make a certain amount of money can be a little annoying / frustrating but I usually wait until I either have infinite lives so I can keep trying to beat that level or play extra shifts to earn enough money to upgrade my stuff so that I can earn more money. I think the thing I appreciate the most about this game are the weekly challenges, they are so fun and keep the game interesting for me, especially since I’m still only in Rome at the moment. So thank you to the creators for making such a fun game and continually adding updates!

by IYarelisx3

I must say the graphics in this game is the best. I love how detailed every aspect of this game is. The best part? Absolutely no ADs! I hate waiting on ads & the fact that this game doesn’t have any, just makes it so much better. I like that you can earn spoons in a lot of ways & there really is no reason to have to pay money for boost when there are so many ways to earn them. Reading through other reviews, I see a lot of people talk about how some levels are way too hard & having to use boost but I mean, it’s a game, it’s meant to be hard. I don’t really see a downfall, I mean yes it’s frustrating but you can play extra shifts to earn money or spoons & use those boosts. I was definitely upset that you couldn’t transfer your money from one country to the next but it makes sense. If we could transfer money from one country to the other, than we’d be able to upgrade real fast & I feel like that would take the fun away from having to re-earn that money. Overall, this game is so amazing & I wish I could find more games like this. I would definitely recommend people to download & play.

by Nino27366

First let me start by saying that I absolutely refuse to pay for a game. Because once you start, they will get you into an infernal cycle. The game by itself is very addictive and fun and well designed. And I have reached and advanced level, i’m not a beginner. However, the low review is for the developers. They send you a survey to ask you about what you prefer in the game in order to “improve the game experience”. And when you take the time to honestly reply, they take it away from you. I answered that i loved the daily challenges, so they made an update where it became absolutely impossible to complete any daily challenge. I answered that what motivates me to play the special events is to win the boosts, they took away the boosts from the rewards. And suddenly, although I completed the levels with very much ease, now going back to play the daily challenges, every other level becomes extra hard. They took away any pleasure I had playing the game and I am seriously considering deleting it. So if you enjoy the game don’t answer their surveys. They are designed to make you pay more, not because they care what your opinion is.

by Sev Bear

I’ll start by saying this is a good game overall. I’m impressed with the responsiveness, graphics, and overall fun it has been to play this game. I also enjoy the ability to earn spoons as you progress on new levels. Again I enjoy playing and the game is one of my most played when I need to unwind.

My issue is with the difficulty as you progress to the higher levels. I understand a certain amount of challenge in the group of 40 for each restaurant, but when I can’t complete a level because the game doesn’t factor enough people within the time limit or I don’t make enough money as the goal because customers only ask for one item for all 4 on the screen, this is when I have to say enough is enough. In the levels for Athens and beyond, I see this more and more (Mexico City, Tokyo, Shanghai, Moscow). I can only progress when I use my boosts that I’ve been trying to save for later cities, but I have to use 2-3 at a time to make it through then the next level is the exact same goal with 5 seconds less than you had previously.

Please fix this. I really do enjoy playing this game, but it might just end up being another app that I get frustrated with and delete because it’s too difficult. Thanks for reading this and I hope to see a fix in an update soon.

by Rawrrritskarrr

I love this game. It’s got a ton of levels and individual events as well. It seems very well made. You don’t have to watch ads unless you want extras in the game, which is really nice. A lot of games make you watch an ad in between each round/level, which gets annoying. It is very difficult at points, which I appreciate, because that’s hard to find in free mobile games. But it is possible to pass really hard levels if you use strategy and do the 3 bonus tasks every day. It seems like some levels are a little harder than they need to be, though. I feel like some are literally impossible without a lot of boosts, mainly because you have to serve a certain amount of customers in a period of time that seems too short. But like I said, with enough patience and strategy, I’ve been able to pass ones I’ve thought were impossible. The only issue I’ve had with the game is the fact that over the past several days, no matter what I do, whenever I open the map, I get the leaderboard result of an event that ended like a week ago, and is no longer relevant. I can’t get it to stop popping up, but I am able to close it. That’s a really small gripe though, something I’m sure will get sorted out in the next update. I’m a little confused as to why Pac-Man is in the icon now, but I guess I’ll find out eventually? Haha.

by Island_boy2000

Nearly a year ago now, I discovered this amazing time management cooking game. There is no doubt, this is the best one out there on CookingCraze Store — nothing even comes close in my opinion. Currently cooking my way through Jerusalem and enjoying every moment I play! The colorful and detailed graphics, characters and even city maps are created by CookingCraze designers with great attention to detail. In my opinion, they also balance making the game challenging but not overly frustrating. For me it is been a great escape from the stress of everyday life.

My only suggestion for improvement is adding cities more frequently. Having played the game for a while now, I have noticed cities are added around every 2-3 months now rather than on a monthly basis. Really enjoying this game but quickly running out of cities, even after trying to ‘ration’ the remaining levels by dragging them out. I know a lot goes into designing these amazing cities but it would be amazing if they could be added just a little more quickly! Nonetheless, I really love this game and it is definitely one of the best games out there, period.

by Sakermelis

I am updating my review because I have run into another problem. I am in Spain, on the last restaurant, and every time I go to add lemons to the paella or serve a drink, it won’t work. It is extremely frustrating. It makes me lose levels I would otherwise easily win. This is not acceptable. It is not my device. My iPad works on every other level and food item. Please fix this or I won’t be able to play anymore.

Ever since I have gotten a surplus of spoons the game has done everything it can to make me spend them. Trying to trick people in to spending their hard earned spoons is despicable. The game does not do these tricks when you are low on spoons. Only when you have an abundance. There was a pop up telling me that I had an upgrade for a kitchen product and I had no choice but to accept. Stealing 300 of my spoons. You also don’t have the option of watching an ad to gain a new life if you have spoons. Why should I be punished for earning spoons or in this case actually purchasing them? When you are trying to trick me I don’t feel inclined to spend more money on spoons. Quite the opposite actually. I will never spend another dime on this game. Had I actually gone through my spoons on my own and felt like I was still in control , I might consider contributing to your game, because I am getting entertainment out of it. But I have no desire to be tricked out of my hard earned money.

by Kristin1838572927

I am SO disappointed in this game now. I almost finished the New Orleans level and I’ve played this game for like 2-3 years now? The only game I’ve every continuously played in my life. Now whenever they update they purposely add something sketchy to it. They just “added” to the bonus level (the only time you can actually get money to upgrade) and made it to where you can’t accidentally click the wrong thing AT ALL. It’s so sleazy they would do that...I’m so sad that I have to uninstall this but when it’s not fun anymore because they ruined it, it’s not fun anymore. They also keep adding all these weird events that creates bugs like not saving your game progress and not being able to earn any rewards you get...one time I was trying to win the event and kept winning, they weren’t adding my score up, it was the same number after every level I won! This game originally had 5 stars from me, but yeah have to give it 1 for screwing over the people that have played this game since it started. Bottom line - don’t F with the bonus level...not cool. Bye Cooking Craze 👋