Restaurant Games

In restaurant games you play the server or the manager: customers arrive, sit down, order and get impatient if you take too long. Your job is to take orders, carry the food and collect payment before they walk out. There are about 150 games.

Which places you'll run

Burger joints and fast food are the most common: Burger Restaurant 3, Burguer Restaurant 2, Unfabulous Burger Bustle or Burger Chef Restaurant. You'll also find pizzerias and ice cream shops: Mommas Pizza, Papa's Cheeseria or Papa's Freezeria. If you prefer a coffee shop, look at Cafe Waitress, Goodgame Cafe or Sami Tea Restaurant, and for a sit-down restaurant there's Family Restaurant, Sue Restaurant or The Waitress. In Diner Dash Home Town Hero you wait tables in the classic style of the genre.

How a round goes

Each level starts with an almost empty place that slowly fills up. When a customer comes in, you seat them, wait for the order, pass it to the kitchen, serve the dish and collect payment. In some games you cook too (in the Papa's games, for instance, you build each order step by step). In others you only serve. Nearly everything is handled with the mouse or a finger, tapping the customer and then the table or the plate.

You earn money for serving quickly and well, and many games add a tip if you chain customers without mistakes or don't keep them waiting. That money goes into upgrading the place: more tables, a faster kitchen, nicer decor.

Tips

• Early on, don't serve the first person you see. Serve the one who has waited longest, since they're usually the least patient.
• Use the waits: while a dish is cooking, clear one table or collect from another.
• Memorize what each customer ordered, and don't trust your memory once the place fills up.

If you have time to spare, replay earlier levels: they usually give you a better score and more money to upgrade.