# Restaurant Cafe Idle Tycoon — user reviews > 16 indexed App Store user reviews of Restaurant Cafe Idle Tycoon by Meow Studios, rated 4.60/5 from 139 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/restaurant-cafe-idle-tycoon/id6450751507/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/restaurant-cafe-idle-tycoon/id6450751507.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 116 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-01-27* Keeps crashing affter intro demo. Would have loved to have played it; looked good.t ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-01-15* Started out fun but, at level 29, there are NO customers coming in. After I've put a fair amount of money into it, it's now worthless. I cant even play it. ### 1/5 — Bypass this game --DO NOT DOWNLOAD *2025-02-24* don't waste your time. the recipe shows the expected return on the menu. However, the system does not provide us with that amount of money. If it did, we would be able to play the game well. However, due to either ERROR IN CODE or SCAM ...this game does not function properly. ### 1/5 — Not Play Tested *2024-06-21* The gameplay is fundamentally flawed as there will be customers that will come in asking for food that you don’t have which makes no sense to do and only adds an unnecessary hurdle. It’s a copycat from restaurant story but which is what I am looking for but they failed still. ### 1/5 — it made my computer go laggy i think it hacks *2024-05-30* dont get it ### 1/5 — Problems *2024-04-20* Right out the gate, you can’t play the game because the tutoria circle covers up the things you need to click on and doesn’t register when you try to serve the food. The graphics look like CafeLand graphics so I’m guessing another spin off? Wont be able to play till they fix the tutorial. ### 1/5 — Extremely broken right off *2024-02-29* I get a weird through a telescope view that won’t go a at and fingers pointing at the screen and I can’t even tap. Basically can’t make it through tutorial. Too bad because it remind me of my favorite game restaurant story. Playing on iPhone 14 Pro. ### 1/5 — Not that great *2023-09-01* This game is ok if you want to stay on the game as you can’t make money unless you are in the restaurant, this is not like other restaurant games where you make money no matter whether you are on or off the game. This game would be better if we didn’t have to be on it all the time to make money **Developer response:** Hi! Thank you for reviewing. The game has been through massive updates. We've added many features and complexity as well as new ways to earn passive revenue while you are away or hire up to 4 waitresses to help you easily serve customers. We've added many other features like boosters, new recipes, a supermarket to buy ingredients from. We really hope you give the game another chance in its current form and we hope you will enjoy the changes. Kind regards! ### 1/5 — Extremely Slow & Boring! *2023-08-10* For anyone used to playing a restaurant Time Management game, don't get this one. It is extremely slow & boring. You click on the food & wait at least a few minutes for it to cook. Click on food & it automatically is served. Customers can even leave with responses of there not being room for them, despite there being an empty table. **Developer response:** Hi! Thank you for reviewing. The game has been through massive updates. We've added many features and complexity as well as new ways to earn passive revenue while you are away or hire up to 4 waitresses to help you easily serve customers. We've added many other features like boosters, new recipes, a supermarket to buy ingredients from. We really hope you give the game another chance in its current form and we hope you will enjoy the changes. Kind regards! ### 2/5 — would be great *2025-01-20* this is a fun gme but its unbalanced. Either they are making it so you have to spend money to play or thees a bug. you have to hire a server to make money when off line but its 2000 gold. you make like 10-50 gold when you sell an entire recipe. they sit people at tables that want food you don't hve and they stay a while taking up space. the machines break often. My coffee machine has broken every 2 or 3 recipes and its 50 gold to fix which I am not making in between breaks. The mechanics ae fun but you can't make actual progress. edit: I am lowering my score as it is so frsutrating. I had to spend 150 coins becuase my dishwasher broke bakc to back to back. This would be my favorite game if they fixed this insanity. My coffee machine breaks every 3 turns. you can only make so much money and it costs more to fix it. There is no making prgreas. The worst part is this game would be epic ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — fire *2025-04-17* Fire game but dont sell ur dishwasher gift for profit. Trust me ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2024-02-17* It's fun and time consuming! ^^ ### 3/5 — Fun but too many bugs *2025-10-26* I am frustrated because this game is actually so fun and addicting, but unfortunately there are so many bugs. Sometimes they work in your favor (like immediately finishing a recipe that usually takes awhile), but more often then not, the bugs screw up recipes and make you pay to redo them, or if yo move furniture it deletes all your food. I bought walls and they keep disappearing. Plus, it takes so much money to buy groceries for your recipes that making money is quite difficult. I swear some recipes cost more to make than its worth to serve! ### 3/5 — would be great *2024-12-21* this is a fun gme but its unbalanced. Either they are making it so you have to spend money to play or thees a bug. you have to hire a server to make money when off line but its 2000 gold. you make like 10-50 gold when you sell an entire recipe. they sit people at tables that want food you don't hve and they stay a while taking up space. the machines break often. My coffee machine has broken every 2 or 3 recipes and its 50 gold to fix which I am not making in between breaks. The mechanics ae fun but you can't make actual progress. ### 3/5 — Nice but slow *2023-08-19* Good little game. No ads to speak of. My only gripe is that it takes ages to make any money to upgrade or purchase new furniture and the subscription works out far too high. A simple one off payment to remove ads to assist in upgrading is far more palatable than weekly subs for most people. ### 2/5 — Meh *2024-06-29* This would be so much better if i didnt have to pay to play. Without buying the in-game currency its almost impossible to do even moderatly well in this game. everything is overpriced that you have to buy and you barely make any profit because all of the appliences break all the time. If the ratio of money spent vs money gained was better, this game would have at least 4 stars. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*