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Idle Diner: Restaurant game – Simulation Game Review
Idle Diner: Restaurant game is a Simulation/Strategy game from Playstack Ltd, first launched in 7th January 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 314+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Diner: Restaurant game Stand Out
Ready to run your own coffee shop empire and become a diner tycoon? If you're a fan of idle games (and restaurant games), this one is for you!
Turn your diner around from humble beginnings to global coffee franchise! Add more tables, hire better staff and buy extra facilities as you see your profits multiply!
• Customize your diner:
Become an interior designer and change the appearance of your diner walls, floor and tables which unlock as the game progresses. Name your diner! The possibilities are endless so release your creativity and make sure those ""too cool for school"" influencers want to be seen in YOUR diner!
• Become a five star business:
How do I improve my diner? Get in the lab to research tasty new food and drinks! Start off with basic cheese burgers and over time upgrade to serve delicious foods from around the world! That's not all! Every new item on the menu increases your diner rating which unlocks special perks such as earnings or cooking speed boosts! Can you collect a five star menu?
• Upgrade staff:
Any business tycoon knows that more customers means more work! Do you have enough waiters or do you have staff standing idle? Are your chefs skilled enough? Can the manager count the money fast enough? Make sure you employ the right staff to keep your diner running efficiently and keep the tips coming in!
• Keep customers happy:
Have you ever seen an angry customer? If you have then you must know it is best to keep them happy! Make sure you meet their requests to obtain awesome rewards!
Remember: happy customers = good restaurant reviews!
• Daily prizes:
Who doesn't like a reward? We certainly do! You can also get yours by achieving certain milestones: cooking certain number of dishes, having a number of customers in your diner or performing certain upgrades. Some of these goals refresh daily. Come back often to check your progress!
• Exciting expansions!
It won't be long until you need to expand your diner to make room for more customers! It's a land grab! Make it rain!
• Expand your diner empire around the world:
Are you ready to take your diner franchise to the next level and become a successful tycoon? Why stick to a single country when you can go global? Open diners in other countries and see your empire (and your cash flow) grow!
Follow our game on Social Media for the latest updates!
Facebook: http://facebook.com/IdleCafeGame/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IdleCafeGame
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Diner: Restaurant game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th July 2021
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Idle Diner: Restaurant game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Diner: Restaurant game on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its fun but the sandwich thats floating around doesnt let us watch videos when we click on it, it just disappears! Please fix it so we can collect the money after watching the video.
We like the game pretty well, but the flying bread thing wont let us watch the ad to get money, and we cannot collect our offline earnings.
The ads actually dont work at all. Usually we would complain about all the ads but we cant do the speed boost or click to watch an ad for money in the game. Also, maybe at another option or two to the game to make it a little more interesting. Its a cute game.
Also the ads arent loading up.
The game is fun, but it dont work. Never get our offline money, when we click the flying bread that dont work. A menus would be great to have where we can control our sound and other stuff. But a great way to waste time.
Why release a game if its not completed properly? Ads wont load, cannot double money when youve been away and theres no setting screen where the player can shut the music or notifications on/off. This game has a lot of potential if it was developed properly.
So far this game has been fun, and we can see it being fun to play long term. However, theres one thing about the game that is driving us nuts. Every time you click a button(seriously, ANY button) the phone vibrates. Not annoying in and of itself, but its obnoxiously loud when it happens constantly. We wouldnt mind it so much if we could turn it off, but we cant find a settings menu, menu of any kind, or any other way of turning off the vibrations. If they got rid of that this would be a great game.
We love this game please dont stop working on it.
This game is good we like it but im having an issue of when we research and we get a wallpaper or table, we can use it once and then it disappears and we cant use it again. Also, some of the times we watch a video it then disappears and we dont get our money. App crashes a lot too.
The game is good and all but every time when we press an admit always puases.
We dont understand how we have 3 people at a table and we still get $48 total? If we upgraded our table to be $48 EACH and the money symbol when collecting says x3 or x4 shouldnt we be getting $144 or $192 each time. It gives us $48 no matter how many people at our table so we have to sit here and wait collecting a ton of money before we can do anything. More tables helps but we wish it worked the way it was supposed to. Other than that its pretty fun to pass the time.
Maybe Im doing something wrong but we cant unlock any other menu items. Will increase our stars if we get some kind of feedback on how to do this.
Once we got the almost the second island we started to lag and we stopped getting smiles people explain this to us.
Some idiot literally put a fridge in front of the ticket board.
We cant progress past the second restaurant, we would play for a while and unlock new recipes, wallpapers, carpets, etc but when we close the game and open it again all our progress is completely gone and it starts us right back at square one. Also the upgrades are ridiculously expensive.. :/.
Super glitchy. We watch videos and the app crashes instead of giving us money and the lab will reset after the five minutes are up, or it will make us watch a video anyways because the clock will freeze at 00:00:00.
If your looking for a fun free game to play in your free time look further because this is not it. You cant upgrade most things without having to make a purchase, so why make the game free? This game just feels very unfinished and not well thought out.There are so many better games exactly like this one, go play one of those.
This game is really well designed, kept us entertained for hours.
Yes we know Im one of the first people to review it but it is a really fun game, not much going on in it just make a cafe, no long tutorials or annoying adds, this game a perfectly paced and it is really nice to play it.
Every time we reopen the game its starts us from the beginning. Also one of the waiters glitches outside the building and is frozen. Besides those things its a great game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 69.1.250
- Size: 367.26 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Playstack Ltd
Last updated: 15th July 2021 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Playstack Ltd