January 30, 2016

Cook, Serve, Delicious Review

Cook, Serve, Delicious is a simulation game where your goal is to make the best restaurant in the world, hopefully by serving every meal to perfection. This game might be simple, but sure will make you hungry!


Food Prepping
The main mechanic is very simple, there are a plethora of foods that you can serve, each have their own recipes. In order to correctly serve a meal you have to hit the buttons in the correct order, always at client request. You can further "upgrade" each food for an increase in profit per meal, but that will also increase the quantity of recipes you have available for that particular food.

Our favorite menu
The game is not just about cooking, so there is also a restaurant managing aspect to it. Other than buying food recipes you have to decide what your menu will be, what equipment your kitchen has available, as well as Catering Events, Iron Cook and Hungry Festival. All this micro-decisions will affect your buzz, the more buzz the more people will come to order food. Near 100% is like every time is rush hour, pretty daunting!

We wish that the food orders had the thumbnail looking like the recipe that should be made, instead of the "regular" order. Not every food can have that, but would be a nice extra to the game. We also would like to see a button to throw away the current food and start from scratch, after all, if you are cooking and you clearly got the recipe wrong, would you serve it? We also recommend that you try at least every food in the menu, as many recipes look hard, but when it comes to the actual making, they are straight forward.


Overall the game is simple, but enjoyable. It is nice to play something that does not involve violence of some sort. An extra point for having controller support, a local-coop and online multiplayer modes, so you can play with your friends!

Final Score: 9 out of 10.

Beginner Tip: We recommend starting with Corn Dog and Pretzel, as they are cheap, easy and will be blocked once you raise the reputation of your establishment. To complete, we recommend any of the Sopapillas, Fried Chicken, French Fries and Beer, as their prepping are the same, very easy to learn and gives a fast return on investment.

Pro Tip: Learn the names of the recipes other than having to read the instructions every time. It will allow you to serve any food in an instant!