Restaurant City opens in the browser of a phone, but it was built for a computer screen and a mouse, and on a phone it looks small. We have tested it with simulated touches in a test environment, not on real iPhones, iPads or Android devices, so we cannot promise it works well on yours. There is no app. For a comfortable game, play on a PC and keep the phone as a second option, since your account is the same everywhere.
Here is the game: open it in your browser, create a free account and judge for yourself how it feels on your screen.
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.
You can open it. Restaurant City is played in a browser tab, so on Android or iPhone you open restaurantcity.fbgamesweb.com in your phone's browser, sign in and play. The FB Games website adapts to small screens, but the game itself is designed for a computer screen.
You need your own free account, with no Facebook. Your restaurant is saved on the server, tied to your account, so you can start on a PC and carry on from the phone, or the other way round, though not both at once, because only one game can be open per account.
The tests were done in a lab, in a simulated environment: an iPhone 13 held sideways, an iPad Mini and a desktop Safari, the first two with simulated touches. On all three, signing up, hiring staff, saving and reloading worked.
Not tested: Safari, iPhone and iPad on real devices, and any real Android phone or tablet. The honest summary is that it was tried with touches in a test environment and not on real devices.
The game stage has a fixed size of 760 x 600 and is scaled to fit the window. On a simulated phone held upright (390 x 844) the game takes up only about 380 x 300 pixels, so buttons, icons and text are small.
That is a limit of the design rather than a bug. Turning the phone sideways gives the game a wider window, which is the position used in our iPhone 13 test.
Restaurant City is built around the mouse: click to choose, drag furniture from the shop to the floor, scroll lists with the wheel or the trackpad, and close windows with Esc or their button. On a phone, a tap stands in for a click, and a window's own button replaces Esc.
We have not checked dragging furniture with a real finger, so treat the decoration editor as the part most likely to be awkward on a touch screen.
In lab tests with Chrome, a new account and an empty cache, the first load was about 4.7 MB. That is worth knowing if you are on mobile data. Later visits are lighter, because the browser keeps files in its cache.
In the lab the game ran at 60 frames per second, lowering its drawing quality by itself if the device struggles. Phones were not measured, so we cannot tell you how smooth it will be on yours.
The page has an “Enlarge” button that shows the restaurant in a wide view inside the window, and the game bar has a full screen icon. Both exist, but we have not verified what they do on phones. Try them, and do not count on them to fix the small size.
No. There is no app, installer or APK for Android or iPhone, and the only site for this edition is restaurantcity.fbgamesweb.com. The original did have an iOS edition, Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition, but that is a different product from this one.
The alternative is a PC with Chrome or Firefox, the browsers we have tested the most. Your account and your restaurant will be waiting there, exactly as you left them.
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.
You can open Restaurant City in an Android browser, but it is designed for a computer screen and looks small on a phone. We have not tested it on real Android devices, so we cannot promise it works well. A PC with Chrome or Firefox is the safer option.
Restaurant City opens in a browser on iPhone and iPad, and in a simulated test with touches, signing up, hiring staff, saving and reloading worked. It has not been tested on real iPhones or iPads, and the game looks small on a phone screen.
No. This edition of Restaurant City has no app, installer or APK for Android or iOS. You play it in a browser tab at restaurantcity.fbgamesweb.com. The old iOS edition of the original, Gourmet Edition, is a different product.
The Restaurant City stage has a fixed size of 760 x 600 and is scaled to your window. In a simulated upright phone of 390 x 844, the game takes up only about 380 x 300 pixels. It was designed for a computer screen.
Restaurant City is built for the mouse. In our simulated tests, touches worked for signing up, hiring staff, saving and reloading. We have not tested real fingers, and dragging furniture in the editor is the part most likely to be awkward.
Yes, in principle: your restaurant is saved on the server, tied to your account, so you can log in from another device and continue. Only one game can be open per account, so opening it on the phone closes the one on the PC.
In lab tests with an empty cache, the first load of Restaurant City was about 4.7 MB in 133 requests. Later visits use files kept in the cache and are much lighter. These figures come from Chrome in a lab, not from a phone.
A computer with Chrome or Firefox and a mouse, because Restaurant City is designed for that and we have tested it there the most. A phone is a second option that you should try for yourself, given what we have not been able to test.
Enlarge shows the Restaurant City restaurant in a wide view inside the window, and the game bar has a full screen icon. We have not verified their effect on phones, so do not count on them to solve the small size.
Brand notice: Restaurant City is an original game by Playfish (Electronic Arts). Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. Android, iPhone, iPad, Safari, Chrome and Firefox belong to their respective owners. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Playfish, Electronic Arts, Facebook or Meta. This is a browser edition.
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