Cooking Dash™ Reviews

by Bwilli34

This game is fun to play but they've designed it to make it VERY difficult to earn gold...... which you have to have to buy upgrades to win the levels. The upgrades are super expensive compared to the gold you can earn without using your real, hard earned money to buy more. The prep kitchen recipes you need to really win levels take hours and days to prep (no joke people.... 20 hours, 14 hours, 2 days, etc.). You can earn “free gold” by watching 30 second videos or completing other tasks tasks. BE WARNED....... this process can be glitchy and even though you did your part, you won’t get your gold. Don’t bother contacting customer service, “It’s beyond their control”. Free gold is handled by a third party and they “have no control over it”. They are super great about telling you how it’s all your fault though ( your device doesn’t have enough memory, your bandwidth isn’t good enough, etc), AND, they will NEVER offer to give you anything free in return for all your trouble. They are even good enough to tell you that you can uninstall your game and reinstall it to solve any glitching and everything will be great b/c they have a backup of your game saved..... BE WARNED!!!!! THEY DON’T!!!! Customer care is a joke!!! My 4 year old is more helpful. You will lose everything for good. Very hard lesson learned here. A LOT of time and energy wasted.

DON't WASTE YOUR TIME PEOPLE! I will be deleting this game as soon as I hit send!

by ATMM16

Another update: The problems I stated below still haven't been fixed and yet there's a bug for the daily goals. Today, I completed all 3 daily goals and was supposed to get the wheel spin prize. However, at the daily goals page, it says I only completed 1 out of 3 goals when obviously I completed 3. Developers really need to read all these reviews and fix these problems or else people might stop playing your game.

Update: I started a game at Medieval Dines: Bavaria Fest, but just seconds after I started the game, it forced me out of that level and the supplies and VIP I used were lost. The game itself didn't crash, but there's just this small glitch that forces back out of the level I'm playing, I don't know if it's only this certain level or the game itself. Please fix this error.

It used to be guaranteed a gold or amount of time to prep recipes reduced. But now every time I watch a video to earn gold or to reduce the time to prep recipes, I never receive the gold or the amount of time to prepare recipes stays the same. Developers need to recognize this bug in the game and fix it. Players wouldn't want to waste time watching videos just to get nothing back in return. They also need to realize that gold is very hard to get, everything costs a lot of gold as you unlock more restaurants, but gold being rewarded is not enough for even 1 upgrade. This needs to be fixed in order for players to enjoy the game.

by Squishie2016

As others have said, the game itself is fun. In order to get to new levels you need lots of gold. You need it to upgrade your restaurant. You can purchase gold with real money or there are, “Free” offers. These are managed by an unethical company, TapJoy. Free offers are usually very time consuming. If you want your reward you need to screenshot everything, even with doing that they will not always give you your rewards. There are several misleading and fraudulent advertisements on the site. It will say, enter an e-mail and answer a short survey. That short survey is never ending and takes you to a million more questions, prompting you to give them all your information and trying to sell you a multitude of items. One offer was to download a game and get to a certain level. It took me a month as the game was awful, then I never got my reward. Then I downloaded Tinder for a free two day trial. Tinder required my credit card information. Fine. I was charged three times, by three different companies the first night (so no free trial).This caused my credit card company to put a fraud alert on my credit card. Tinder never gave me an account. Even with a screenshot of the charges, TapJoy would not give me my gold. They say to contact Tinder , who has yet to respond after a week. TapJoy doesn’t always respond either. GLU says, contact TapJoy. Seriously, considering deleting the game, depending on if I can ever get my issue resolved.

by -Anonymous_

First off your not gonna get anywhere or complete anything in the game without spending money; which I wouldn't mind doing from time to time if I didn't get lied to by free offers. Several times I have wasted my precious time completing these offers only to not get rewarded and then customer support refuses to payout, even when they realize you have in fact completed the offer.
After the last time, I refused to download or play this game any longer. But the game is fun if you have the money to spend or actually get your rewards; and so I thought you know, maybe I gave up on Fyber too early. I came back and completed an offer for which you had to reach level 10 in final fantasy. If you've played final fantasy or any game like it you know how long it takes to reach level 10 or upgrade anything to level 10. It took me three days only to not receive my rewards. When contacting customer support they refused to payout claiming that they paid out when I reached level 6. However I only got 82 when the original reward was 500. Now I come on here to read the reviews and see if anyone else feels the same way and holy cow, everyone does!
Please fyber if your not gonna value people's time money or even interest in your game, just take it off the market. I will be deleting and not playing anymore and letting everyone know about the long shortcomings of this game. I mean come on, it's getting pretty disrespectful.

by SirKnowsALot

I was loving this game, becoming obsessed with it every time I started playing. Growing up with Diner Dash, this game was really exciting to have. Yet recently, the game glitches quite a few times. In order to play a round, you have to give in 10 grocery bags, like using a coin to play a game in an arcade. You have to be patient if you want more without having to pay for them. So I wait patiently all the time. But quite a few times, I used my grocery bags and I pressed play, and the game took me back to the main menu, where all the restaurants are. It made me upset, because it wouldn’t let me play, but it took the groceries I used to play as well... I keep playing, even though it happened 4 or five times more. But I became angry when I waited 6 hours for one of the power boosters that I prepared in the prep kitchen, and then used it to play and it did the same thing. I waited six entire hours. It’s probably just a glitch, but sometimes it feels as though that may be an intentional thing to get people to spend more money on a free app. I don’t like buying in-app purchases because if I ever lose my account, then what? And I was going to play with a booster just before writing this, and it did it again. This makes me furious, so I wouldn’t recommend this game until this problem gets fixed.

by Sugar Sweet KC

This game is money Hungary. I’ve had this game since it came out and have had to reset it 50 plus times because no matter what you do, you can’t win. You spend tons of money and upgrade your tail off and still ya can’t win. It takes months to get anywhere and you can’t even barely win the competitions! I’ve almost fully upgraded restaurants and even bought the auto chef. And served everything fast and perfectly, still lose. Over and over. I used to waitress for 20 plus years, and bartended, too. I was the cook, waitress, chef maid and all, and I’m now a professional chef... They call me The Tasmanian devil, “Taz”... because I could spin circles in the restaurant and serve perfectly and speedy, and I was so smiley and chipper and made people’s day, they called me the perfect waitress. So I can run circles around this game and if in real life they were really the waiter,cook, chef, whatever, they could not run circles around me at all in the real world. And one more thing, if ya mess a plate up, in the real world you can set it down. And remake and wrap the food and save it or sell for someone who needs it. You can set it down, right? Well not in the game. Real not real world at all. I’ve found way better cooking games that don’t take your money and run.

by Calamities

2 stars because you can play about a week before you would wind up spending more and more money to progress. I’ve been playing for about 2 weeks, and I loved it, but I’m about to quit. The first level is easy to get through and basically free, but as you progress with each level, you need more and more gold. The offers to earn free gold will never be enough to allow progress at any reasonable level without spending money…and lots of it. I’ve forked over some cash—developers have to eat, companies need revenue—because it’s a fun game, but I’m curious how many people have gotten sucked into this game and had money sucked out of them because it’s so easy to purchase something with your thumb. I’m about done with this game. I’d pay a small amount for each restaurant, but if you monetize the amount of gold required to complete a restaurant based on the “purchase” to open it and upgrades, you’re looking at $2.99 per game and it will take you a several days earning free gold to get past the first season of restaurants after the 2nd one. Glu must be making money, but they may make more by considering reasonable price points that would encourage players to continue.

by KelseyNova

I love this game. The game play is so fun, the characters are entertaining, there's A LOT you can unlock and do, it's mostly an awesome game!

However, it really is very difficult to get anywhere without spending real world money. At first, it seems easy to gain gold bars, complete levels, unlock necessary and helpful upgrades, etc. But the more you play, the less you see. For instance, I completed the first restaurant (Table Steaks - all three seasons) with ease and managed to get 5 stars on every level with little help. I have since purchased Taco Train and find it impossible to get 5 stars on the majority of levels without VIPs, which cost gold as do upgrades to the restaurant, plus coins and only gaining a couple stars per level, I'm not getting many coins either. So no matter what I do, even using gold to buy things to help, I'm getting nowhere. I purchased the vegan restaurant next, even WITH upgrade, VIPs, serving all customers quick and efficiently I'm only able to get 2-3 stars per episode. Why is that? I feel like the work I'm putting into each level is monumental compared to the rewards. I'd spend real money on this game if I felt like it would actually help but to be honest, I don't think it will.

And lastly, I've only been playing this game for about a week, maybe not even that long, at first I didn't notice many ads. Now all of a sudden there are video ads that pop up frequently and oftentimes crash the game.

by Fire_flies

I really love this game and would really love to give it 5 stars because I play this for hours on end almost everyday but I have come across one issue. Every time I join all the restaurants say “downloading” even ones I have not purchased yet. To download the content of trial of style the game has to download the content of each restaurant in the game, which there are a lot of. Not to mention the download speed is very long. There is also no background downloading so you have to be on the main map screen for the restaurants to even beginning downloading, you can’t play levels while waiting for it to download. This whole process takes 30+ minutes in my experience and makes it unenjoyable to play since I can almost never play trial of style unless I want to wait 30 minutes. I would also agree with those that say this game is money hungry. Gold is very hard to receive in this game and you should have more ways in getting gold instead of paying or watching videos.

by Gunnyjester

Was enjoying this game. It is very grindy for those who enjoy that kind of thing unless you spend money on gold. Gold is hard to come by in the game but a lot is need for up grading equipment and food. Up until recently you could get about 11 gold a day doing the 3 daily challenges and watching 8 ads for free gold. For completing the 3 daily challenges you would also get a free spin on “the deal wheel” which offers various prize including more gold. Recently the ads have stopped resetting everyday so I cannot get the 8 free gold the ads provide. Also one of the daily challenges is typically to watch ads for gold so this challenge cannot be completed. So now I’m left with only 2 gold a day and no free spin on deal wheel. Typically items are relatively inexpensive to upgrade early on. However to upgrade to higher levels even spending 10 gold to do so get expensive when you only get 2 gold a day. When I got 11 gold a day it took a long time to save up enough to get items upgraded so you could advance the game. Now it take way to long. I have contacted customer care and they have told me have no control over if ads are available to me. The ads are controlled by a third party. But ads still pop up between games which is normal but ads won’t reset for free gold. And one daily challenge is usually to watch ads so can’t complete that for free spin. It would not surprise me if this issue was unique to me but the game is not playable in this condition.

by Byebye1214

But this was a game I would love to play and I did not mind spending money in it at all. It is expensive like people say but I would take my time with it. And my game unfortunately got uninstalled and I wasn’t aware for a while. So when I downloaded it back I’ve been trying to sync through facebook but it hasn’t been working.😩 So I contacted customer service. They basically told me to do the same thing I’ve already tried . I feel like they should have a better way to get people their game progress back cause people like me don’t mind spending the money on the game but I worked so hard and spent so much money already. They should have some way to troubleshoot people’s game progress back. It took me months to get where I was and a lot of money spending . I had 5 stars on every episode, auto chefs, and total food upgrade FOR EVERY SINGLE RESTAURANT I HAD OPEN. Not to mention it gets more expensive the farther you get . That took a lot of hard work and if they can’t find another way to get me my progress back I will no longer playing cause I’ve already had to start the game over twice I will not a third time .

by Miss_eyez87

I have been playing this game for a few months now and I've fallen in love with it, however the Gold wall where u go to get free food by completing different task doesn't always work and sometimes I'll break my neck to do a task waiting for hours to get my reward and a lot of time i don't. Also now the Gold wall to get coins isn't working it's been an issue all day. This game was once fun but it be better if the gold bars were a bit easier to come by especially when it comes to upgrades. I can already tell with this game that eventually I'll stop playing all together and delete CookingDash you guys seem to take the fun out of it I don't want to spend real money on a game when the coins go so quickly please make it a bit easier or I'll just delete and free up some space on my phone.

Update: what ever happend to the extra finale and “buying flo clothes” that you guys added on and took away? Why does CookingDash take so long downloading restaurants I can’t even play the game because I have to wait for them to download I’m beginning to get tired of this game where I see myself deleting CookingDash completely

by Mroser16

I love this game! It’s super fun and challenging at times. I do wish there were more ways to get free gold, because I refuse to spend money on a game on my phone. I do understand that the game makers should be paid for their hard work though! My current issues I’m having are quite frustrating to me. I missed collecting the trial of style awards for a period of time, and now it is locked saying that I need to collect them, but won’t let me or play any new trials. So the trial of style is not working for me at all now. The other issue is the menu is broken for me. It won’t pull up the menu fully, so I can’t actually use it, and it will get stuck with me looking at a broken menu. After touching around the screen with the broken menu up, I have found where the close button should be, so now I can actually play the game. I still cannot see the menu or look at any notifications, wheels, etc… I would love for both of these issues to be fixed, so I can go back to fully enjoying the game!

by MMK16

Hello everyone. I’ve been experiencing this extremely annoying bug since the December 2020 update as well. After doing further research, I found a fix: DO NOT watch your eight free gold videos until after you finish your daily tasks or any other levels you want credit for. Personally, my videos refresh at 4pm PST everyday. I make sure to have my tasks finished and keep playing as much as I want. All the levels work great! Around 3pm, I watch my videos and receive eight free gold, then the glitch starts again until my videos refresh at 4pm again. Hope this helps! This method is working for me so far and I’m so happy to play this game and advance again. I’d give a five star if the bug was fixed, however I have waisted recipes, VIP tickets, and even saucers before I discovered the patch.

P.S. - I do NOT know if this method will grant you credit in Trial of Styles levels, as I haven’t been playing those lately, but all my regular restaurant levels seem to be working great as long as I put off watching my free gold videos.

by E|i

This game is a lot of fun. Don’t get it.
Seriously, I love playing, but the game’s main function requires groceries to play, and they are expensive to buy. What ends up happening is you have fun for 20 minutes, spend another 10 waiting for a few groceries, and then move on to something else because it’s not worth waiting any longer.
There are probably over a thousand levels spread between the different restaurants, and it would take a year to complete them all with this problem, even if you played all day, every day. From what I understand, there’s no way to speed up how quickly the groceries come, or raise the maximum that you can have from waiting (50 may seem like a lot but that’s only 5 games). You can only pay gold to get some more, and it’s a lot to pay all the time.
They should have a function that lets you use real money to permanent have infinite groceries, kind of like games that spam you with ads but you can pay to remove them. I think it would be worth the developers’ time and money.

by Sugartoes

I’ve been playing this game awhile now, and very recently have had issues with the game crashing while in the midst of a game. Customer service has attempted to assist but there solutions were to uninstall and reinstall and finally they removed the Trial style stating that the since they had new games going on that “could be” the problem, or my device, which is new they said it could be outdated. I’m disappointed that they just removed the trial style rather than leave it after all the time and games I’ve played and also made in-app purchases only to have it all lost! Thanks customer service for just throwing my gold down the drain.... players BEWARE!!!!! Expect to lose money with no real solution and or compensation. I don’t think they can even bring back the level reached which has all gone to WASTE! Thanks GLU! 🤬🤬🤬

by Slowgame79

I honestly love this game. I have been playing for over five years now and they do have glitches but sometimes they work them out haha and they still working progress and that means they love the energy and the time and work that they put into it to . I my self have put thousands in these games I’ve played that’s how much I love the game but I found a way not to spend so much anymore lol just being patient with thier glitches and I know it gets frustrating trust me, I play for hrs and lose sleep over this game and I’m constantly talking to them about the issues. Because just like my son we stuck inside all the time because of this virus and this playing games online is what we do to past time and get things off our minds so we don’t go crazy lol. Well I think most of you gamers understand so if we stay on their butts about issues maybe they will keep working out the glitches and make us even happier. But I do thank them and I will for sure keep playing because yes also it’s
An addicting game as many more other games lol so that’s all I have to say for now thank you for your time and keep pushing for them to fix the glitches say hell to the yay yay lol good luck friends and be safe

by Annoyedcustomer13

I’ve been playing this game for a few years and I love it, but I’m about to delete it because of recent bugs and loss of progress with no help from customer service. I don’t mind spending some real money on it because it’s the only game I play. About a year ago, there must have been a bug in the game and I lost my progress, but customer service was amazing and helped me get it back to almost exactly where I was . HOWEVER, I just lost a significant amount of my progress from about a month of playing, including the new restaurant that I already bought and finished two seasons. I used lots of gold and valuable prep recipes to get that progress. Customer service eventually claimed they couldn’t detect any loss of progress, so could not compensate me. After all the time and money I spent on this game I find that unacceptable. I know they can see it from their end because it happened before! I’m still waiting for another response but I’m very disappointed.

by MommaT412

I’ve been playing this game since Diner Dash. I love playing the games. However, you write them and the don’t answer. And if they do answer it’s usually some whack response. I have purchased gold, tickets, lives and venues using real money. I never asked for anything accept to fix my issues that I write you about. Another downside to this game is the take to long to put new venues out. I have played and mastered every venue. I have been waiting for months for them to unlock the Thai arcade venue. Please don’t get me started on those bug fixes that crashes my game. I ‘be been stuck on fame tier 99 since 2018. I wrote them they wrote back not addressing my issue. But some cockey mammy response. I say all of this to say if you’re just starting out. Find another time management game. They move too slow and cost a lot of money. You will get bored once you’re at my level. Just waiting for them to unlock a venue. If the game has come to an end they should say so. Very disappointed with the Glu team. Homescapes is a very good game try it.

by ShavyT

I’ve read quit a lot of reviews and here’s what I have. First of all- I don’t try to earn gold by doing anything that takes me out of CookingDash . I only watch the commercials. Secondly, I used to see that even after watching the commercials I wouldn’t get my gold. Here’s the thing- I’ve realized that after the commercial is over, you have to wait a second till the pop up says you’ve earned your gold.
I’m pretty far along in the game- I’m up to level 93. I really enjoy it. Yes, the price of upgrades has gone up but you also have the chance of earning 3 gold bars a day. That helps. I’ve also learned to use my upgrades wisely and not just spend so I can get to the next level. I have never spent a single dollar on this game. Ever. And I never will.
I have not downloaded the newest upgrade because last time this kind of thing came up it looked WILDLY complicated. The spinning, the dressing, who cares?? I just wanna run restaurants. I was so glad to see it go away last time.
I have almost 2 million coins. I want the offers to but surprise gifts with coins!!