Later, after the burger is grilled (you have a color meter telling you when it’s cooking, when it’s done, and when it’s on fire), the customer tells you which burger s/he wants, say the Ryan Davis,* which is meat, bacon, two cheese, and tomatoes, and you quickly type M, B, CC, T.

They tell you how many patties they want (you start out with only meat and later can upgrade to meat and chicken), and you tap M in accordance to that. You go throughout a day serving customers by typing letters that correspond with the ingredients they want for their order. In the beginning, you can have up to four items on your menu (you have to have at least three) and four customers at one time. Oh, and buzz is how much people are talking about your restaurant, and you can have both positive and negative buzz, and obviously, you can put foods on your menu and do actions that will affect your buzz. Every item has its pros and cons, such as Unappreciated (negative) which means a customer won’t tip with the item, Menu Rot (negative) which will give your buzz a hit if you have it on your menu for more than two days, The Big Tipper (positive) which is self-explanatory, and The Health Nuts (positive) which is a health food that is ‘somehow not gross’. You can buy a few items, but you have limited resources, so you want to be careful with what you buy. You own a restaurant in an office building, and at the beginning, it’s a shithole. What is it, exactly? Well, it is a cooking sim – kind of.

It’s made by one guy, David Galindo, and published by indie devs, Vertigo Gaming. It went on sale of Steam because of course it did, and I picked it up. Yes, it looked hard, but it also looked fun. Amirite, fellas? Then, I saw Northernlion take a look at it (twice, as it was released on Desura before Steam picked it up), and I was intrigued. If I’m going to play a hardcore game, I’m going to be shooting things in the face. Now, I like my cooking games, but I like them casual. It was supposed to be a hardcore cooking sim, and all the reviews I read emphasized how hard it was. I was aware of Cook, Serve, Delicious (which shall be known as CSD for the rest of the post) way before I ever bought it.

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