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The mechanics of this game were very fun and easy to progress while still being challenging, though the rate of gem rewards is very low compared to how quickly it starts requiring them to purchase even small upgrades - I would much prefer if they were tied to stage completion rather than levels. This was a little annoying and stalled my progress for a bit, but I still liked playing. However, the first time I saw a ‘challenge’ pop up that promised a reward of double the entry fee (which was somewhat high for where I was at that point, but not unreasonable), I decided to save up my gems to enter. It quickly became very clear that the challenge was impossible to complete without having multiple gem-costing upgrades, if not every single upgrade for that level, as otherwise you could not hit your coin goal on the upper stages even if every customer left with a full bar. I got all the way to the second-to-last stage before stalling out with no more gems for upgrades or cupcakes, and I had already spent over the amount I would have gotten as a reward. That was a whole lot of progress lost with no way to get it back. Nowhere was this mentioned when paying the coins and gems to enter - these challenges seem to be meant to gouge players for their coins in hopes they will spend more than the reward, or pay for more gems. That frustrated me enough to make me delete the app. I’m going to find a different one that’s not pay-to-play.

I recommend finding another diner/cooking game in which you don’t have to spend nearly as much money or time as I did to play. It is a fun game, which is why I hung in so long. But it requires too much money and time to level up and expand on restaurants. As other reviewers have noted it is one of the stingiest games I have ever played. Everything costs coins, often a combination of coins and gems. Coins are earned every time you play a round and for watching a video or logging in, et al. That isn’t the problem. The problem is acquiring a reasonable amount of gems to use. Items can cost anywhere from one to 30+ gems in addition to the coins. And few gems are given freely. The gems are necessary to purchase upgrades to the restaurants’ interior decor, food quality, and to expand appliances’ capabilities. This is all necessary to pass levels in any restaurant. There is a casino in which you can bet, 100 or 500 coins, or view a video to spin for free. But I have only ever won coins after spinning more than 100 times—not consecutively. It is unfortunate. Greed is killing these games. Over the course of a week, I have spent too many hours playing, paid over $45 (something I never do), and opened about seven restaurants. More people need to stop playing these games so developers will understand they can’t fleece us for every penny. It is designed to be addictive, like gambling, and preys on our natural tendencies. Gamer beware.

Honestly I love the game function and overall idea, but it is almost impossible to play without paying for diamonds. As a game pure-it’s who doesn’t spend money on games it is a real bummer. I have been trying to play this game for literally 3 1/2 years and the only way I make progress is getting the daily log in to max so I get 2 diamonds and then just log in for a month without playing then I can upgrade like 2-3 things and beat a few levels then wait to build up diamonds again. Also I get excessive amounts of money which is worthless without diamonds. They have a slots to get diamonds, every so often I spend 10 whole min spending like half my million dollars to maybe get 15-30 diamonds. Which is a joke because the slots is rigged where you will never get the 2-3x diamond only the single and even then it is time consuming and pretty frustrating. Also the addition of the ads you have to watch when you beat a level is pretty unclassy. I don’t mind having ads available to get free stuff but the game just is trying to find more ways to make money and doesn’t really care about the users expirence. Last pet peeve, when you start unlocking a lot of restaurants you have to click each one to collect your money. Why is there not like a collect all button?!!! Like seriously, never trying to make the game more user friendly.