Cooking & Restaurant Flash Games

Orders up

Cooking and restaurant games turned the chaos of a busy kitchen into a game of timing. Customers arrive, you take their orders, prepare each part correctly and serve before their patience runs out. Do it well and you earn tips to upgrade the restaurant; do it badly and the queue walks out. It is simple to learn and hard to master, which is why these games were everywhere on Flash portals.

Penguin Diner and the classics

Penguin Diner is the one most people remember: Penny the penguin seating customers, taking orders and bringing food in a little Antarctic diner, saving up for nicer tables and faster shoes. Bartender: The Right Mix asks you to mix drinks from memory and a recipe book, and Maternal Hospital applies the same time management rush to a hospital ward.

Papa's games

The Papa's games by Flipline Studios are the best-known restaurant series on the web: each one gives you a different restaurant of Papa Louie's – burgers, sushi, pizza and more – with separate stations for taking orders, cooking, building and serving. Customers score every order, so precision matters as much as speed.

Tips

Serve in order of patience, not order of arrival – the angriest customer first. In multi-station games, keep every station busy: start the next order cooking while you build the current one. And upgrades that save time (faster cooking, more seats) beat cosmetic ones.