Cooking Express - Match & Serve Restaurant Game

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Cooking is a fundamental skill and can be a lot of fun when you're making something that you're excited to eat or serve like in Cooking Express - Match & Serve Restaurant Game. You're the youngest in the family business which is a food truck. After an accident that sets the family back a bit, the youngest decides to take over for the family while the rest focus on other things. You start at the ground floor of the food truck business where you're learning how to cook and how to serve so that you can keep your customers fed and happy.

About Cooking Express - Match & Serve Restaurant Game

You can find all sorts of cooking games on any platform and some of them can be quite practical in terms of what they like to show. This game won't teach you that much about cooking but it could teach you about efficiency. Your station is arranged so that ingredients will come flowing to you and you can arrange them in ways to suit your needs. Using that, you can set up systems so that you can quickly get orders out as soon as they come in. As more customers come in and orders get more complex, the challenge comes with trying to manage it all.

How to Play

Cooking Express - Match & Serve Restaurant Game is a 2D cooking puzzle game about working in a food truck using only the mouse. The entire game is played with UI that you interact with by moving the cursor to the right places and then clicking with the Left Mouse Button. The goal is to serve as many customers as possible as quickly as possible. The better you do, the higher your score and the better your reward. You can then put your earnings toward boosters to help you out.

The main menu gives you options to buy boosters and check on tasks to see if you've earned some additional rewards. After that, you can jump into the level select to play any unlocked level with more becoming unlocked as you make progress. Each level puts the serving station in front of you and the customer line appears at the top of the screen. Customers will show images of their order and you have to put them together using the ingredients that come by on the conveyor belt surrounding the serving area. Click on empty places to place ingredients and when you have all the ingredients for an order, you have to match them together using straight lines. If you make too many mistakes you'll have to try the level again, but the more successful orders fulfilled, the bigger your completion.

Tips and Tricks

This is a matching game that gives you control over where the pieces will fall based on how many empty spots you have available. As long as you keep the customer's order in mind, you can use the empty places however you want. The conveyor belt is quite roomy so don't rush to keep it clear.