Restaurant Simulator: Burgers & Pizza

Restaurant Simulator: Burgers & Pizza combines a kitchen and an office. In the kitchen you cook in real time, filling orders by combining ingredients into burgers, pizza, fries, drinks and desserts. In the office you decide what to do with the money those orders bring in.

The management side is spelled out in the game description: open new locations, hire staff, manage finances and increase profits. That gives the game a second layer of goals once the cooking becomes routine, and it changes the question from how to make a burger to how to run several places that make them.

The menu is broad by the standards of the genre, which keeps the cooking varied. It is a good pick for players who like both halves of a restaurant game — busy service and the long view of a growing business.

1. Take orders and combine ingredients to cook them in real time.
2. Serve burgers, pizza, fries, drinks and desserts.
3. Use profits to hire staff.
4. Open new locations and manage the finances.

Hire staff before you open a second location. The kitchen you already have needs to run smoothly without you, or expansion only spreads the same bottleneck across more restaurants.