If you are looking for games like Restaurant City, think in three pieces: running a business, furnishing a space with the coins it earns, and visiting your neighbors. The closest relatives are Pet Society, made by the same studio, other management games on FB Games such as CityVille, Car Town, Zombie Lane and Bola Social Soccer, and other restaurant games such as Café World and Diner Dash. This page compares them by genre, without rankings, and says what sets Restaurant City apart.
Here is the game: open it in your browser, create a free account of your own and see if running a restaurant is your kind of game.
Customize your chef, hire a cook and a waiter, pick the menu, serve your customers and decorate your place in this classic Facebook restaurant game.
In beta: some parts of the original game are not complete yet and you may run into bugs.
Restaurant City is a restaurant management game. You hire a cook and a waiter, pick the menu from 107 recipes (25 starters, 35 mains, 27 desserts and 20 drinks), serve customers and earn coins.
Three hooks keep the game going: you decorate your place with the coins you earn, using tables, chairs, stoves and ornaments; you visit the restaurants of your neighbors on Friends Street; and you grow your business with every level. We use those three as the yardstick for the games below.
CityVille, from Zynga, is about building your city: houses, businesses, plots and rents. It is the closest to the run-a-business-and-grow side of Restaurant City.
Car Town, from Cie Games, lets you buy cars, put them to work in your garage, decorate and run friendly races against neighbors. Zombie Lane, from Digital Chocolate, mixes farming and survival: you defend your house from zombies, grow crops and help your neighbors. Bola Social Soccer, from Three Melons, has you run a football club with a team, a stadium and tournaments; it is similar only in the management side.
All of these are beta editions on FB Games.
Yes: Pet Society, also from Playfish, which came out on Facebook in August 2008. You create your pet, decorate its house, take care of it and walk around the town. FB Games has it as a separate beta game.
Pet Society is the closest in spirit if what you liked in Restaurant City was designing a place of your own. It swaps serving customers for caring for a pet.
Café World, from Zynga, launched on Facebook on September 30, 2009, and is a social restaurant simulation, so it belongs to the same genre as Restaurant City but comes from a different studio.
Diner Dash, from Gamelab and PlayFirst, was a PC game built around managing your time in a restaurant. We name both only for their genre and we do not say whether they can be played today.
If you want to run a business and expand it, look at CityVille. If you enjoy fitting out a home and caring for a character, look at Pet Society. If you prefer cars, teams or farming and survival, look at Car Town, Bola Social Soccer or Zombie Lane. If the restaurant theme is what you want, Café World and Diner Dash are the genre relatives.
If the social side matters to you, remember what Restaurant City offers: each visit to a neighbor gives you a reward, and your first visit to a neighbor gives you an ingredient.
Restaurant City has 62 ingredients with a rarity from 1 to 5 and 65 levels, and recipes depend on ingredients. As you level up you unlock more employees, more dishes on the menu and a bigger restaurant.
This edition is also independent, free and in beta, with an account of its own and no Facebook. The game itself is in English only, while the FB Games website comes in Spanish and English.
Restaurant City on FB Games is in beta. The basics work: employees, menu, service, decoration and visits. The garden, mail, gifts, ingredient trading and market, challenges, camera and random street exist but have not been checked in depth.
If you want a finished experience in every corner, weigh that. If you want to run a classic restaurant game again, the basics are there to try.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
Games like Restaurant City mix management, decor and visiting neighbors. On FB Games, CityVille, Car Town, Zombie Lane and Bola Social Soccer are management games, and Pet Society comes from the same studio. Café World and Diner Dash are other restaurant games.
Yes. Pet Society, also from Playfish, is the sister game of Restaurant City. You create a pet, decorate its house, take care of it and walk around the town. FB Games has it as a separate beta game.
Café World, from Zynga, launched on Facebook on September 30, 2009, and is a social restaurant simulation. It belongs to the same genre as Restaurant City, which is from Playfish. We do not say whether Café World can be played today.
Both are set in restaurants. Diner Dash, from Gamelab and PlayFirst, is a PC game about managing your time, while Restaurant City is about staff, menu and decoration over many levels. We do not say whether Diner Dash can be played today.
CityVille is about building a city with businesses, Car Town about cars and garages, Zombie Lane about farming and survival, Bola Social Soccer about running a football club and Pet Society about a pet and its house. Restaurant City is the one about running a restaurant.
Pet Society, from the same studio as Restaurant City, lets you decorate your pet's house, and Car Town lets you decorate too. In Restaurant City you decorate your place with tables, chairs, stoves and ornaments bought with your coins.
Restaurant City combines a menu of 107 recipes, 62 ingredients with a rarity from 1 to 5 and 65 levels that open more staff, dishes and space. This edition is independent and in beta, and the game is in English only.
Yes. Restaurant City on FB Games opens in your browser with no Flash and nothing to install. You create a free account of your own, and you do not need Facebook. It is designed for a computer screen.
Yes. Restaurant City on FB Games is in beta. Employees, the menu, service, decoration and visits work, but parts such as the garden, mail, gifts, ingredient trading, challenges and the camera have not been checked in depth.
Brand notice: Restaurant City is an original game by Playfish (Electronic Arts). Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. Pet Society, CityVille, Car Town, Zombie Lane, Bola Social Soccer, Café World, Diner Dash and any other game named on this page belong to their respective owners and are mentioned only for comparison. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Playfish, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Meta or those owners. This is a browser edition.
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