Comparison

Restaurant Story vs Diner DASH Adventures

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Restaurant Story

Design, decorate, and customize your own virtual restaurant. Serve delicious meals to customers and socialize with other players. New content is added weekly to keep your culinary empire growing.

Highlights
  • Design and build personalized restaurants
  • Decorate with thousands of items
  • Customize a menu of delicious meals
  • Socialize with other restaurants
  • Invite Facebook friends
  • Weekly updates with new content
Features
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Enjoy the #1 virtual restaurant game! Decorate a restaurant and share with your friends! Impress your customers with beautiful decorations and tasty treats! - DESIGN and build the perfect personalized restaurant! Stunning variety and unlimited creativity! - DECORATE with thousands of items, choose from tables, chairs, wallpaper, art, and more! - CUSTOMIZE a menu of delicious meals that makes tummies grumble for more! - SOCIALIZE with other restaurants, and collect bonus tips from players! - INVITE Facebook friends to set up shop right next door! Share secret recipes! - Download and play weekly updates with new dishes and decorations! New content is released every week to keep your restaurant growing! Restaurant Story is the MOST delicious and BEST looking restaurant game for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch! Restaurant Story is an online game. Your device must have an active internet connection to play. Please note that ou can purchase in-app items with real money. To delete this feature, on your device go to Settings Menu -> General -> Restrictions option. You can then simply turn off In-App Purchases under "Allowed Content". In addition, Restaurant Story may link to social media services, such as Facebook, and Storm8 will have access to your information through such services. Follow Storm8 www.storm8-studios.com facebook.com/storm8 twitter.com/storm8

About

Diner DASH Adventures

Engage in a fast-paced cooking and time management game where you serve delicious dishes, renovate a town, and uncover a heartwarming story. Beat the clock, manage multiple restaurant types, and design your dream town.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced cooking action with hundreds of levels
  • Restaurant simulation across various locations
  • Time management gameplay with order matching
  • Town and restaurant decoration and renovation
  • Storyline with characters and plot progression
  • Collectable pets and customizable items
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This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items. Can you beat the clock? Take casual cooking up a notch, and play the classic cooking and time management game, Diner DASH Adventures! Cook delicious dishes, match customers to orders, serve food and renovate the town! Enjoy cooking games with time management challenges to give you a fast-paced cooking experience. Think you have what it takes? Serve and cook food as quickly as possible as you battle against a flurry of orders to keep customers happy. Take Diner DASH Adventures with you wherever you go. Reveal the heartwarming story of our hero, Flo, as she returns to her hometown to help a unique cast of citizens and adorable animals of DinerTown. Stop Mr. Big and his mischievous goons as they cook up their evil plans! Serve hundreds of unique foods to customers. Design DinerTown YOUR way to #savetheday! FUN COOKING ACTION • Get cooking fever with hundreds of fast levels. • Fun cooking games with hundreds of customizable foods, recipes and menus. • Cook up fun: Donuts, burgers, milkshakes…from breakfast to dinner and more! • Crush cooking competitors: Team up with the top chef in town, Cookie, to beat Mr. Big and other rivals. RESTAURANT SIMULATION MANIA • Simulate cooking with fast-paced gameplay in unique locations. Manage your own restaurant, cafe, bakery, food truck and more! • Server, master chef and designer - control all aspects of your restaurant and town. FAST-PACED TIME MANAGEMENT GAMEPLAY • Tap to cook food, serve customers, and manage your restaurant. • Match food to customer orders. • Hundreds of fun levels with challenges, boosts, mini-games, and puzzles! • Classic and casual puzzle play for fans of challenging and fun franchises. DECORATE. RENOVATE. EXPLORE. • Design and remodel restaurants, gardens, houses, cruise ships, mansions, and more. • Renovate an entire town and choose your favorite decorations. • Choose from thousands of design and decor combinations. • Cute pets can be yours to collect. • Adventure awaits! Discover the Diner DASH story filled with colorful characters. Supports most devices from iPhone 6S to iPhone 13 and iPad 5th Generation to 9th Generation. This app: Requires acceptance of EA’s Privacy & Cookie Policy and User Agreement. Requires an Internet connection (network fees may apply). Includes in-game advertising. Collects data through third-party ad-serving and analytics technology (See Privacy & Cookie Policy for details). Contains direct links to the Internet and social networking sites intended for an audience over 13. User Agreement: terms.ea.com Privacy and Cookie Policy: privacy.ea.com Visit help.ea.com for assistance or inquiries. Do Not Sell My Personal Information: https://tos.ea.com/legalapp/WEBPRIVACYCA/US/en/PC/ EA may retire online features after 30 days’ notice posted on ea.com/service-updates. Follow and Join the Conversation at: Website: dinerdashadventure.com Facebook: facebook.com/dinerdash Instagram: instagram.com/dinerdashadventures Forums: https://communities.glu.com/diner-dash-adventures Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiO8zURuUdCyl1uFf3J1HCw?view_as=subscriber Giphy: https://giphy.com/dinerdashadventures

Screenshots

Restaurant Story4 screens
Diner DASH Adventures4 screens

Verdict

The call

Restaurant Story and Diner DASH Adventures both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Restaurant Story's written reviews are positive against 32% of Diner DASH Adventures's. Diner DASH Adventures's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (71K vs 7.5K). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Restaurant Story sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Diner DASH Adventures sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Restaurant Story against 4.4 for Diner DASH Adventures. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diner DASH Adventures has 71K ratings behind it against 7.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Restaurant Story's written reviews are positive against 32% of Diner DASH Adventures's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Restaurant Story ships an update every 4 months, Diner DASH Adventures monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Restaurant Story versus Diner DASH Adventures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRestaurant StoryDiner DASH Adventures
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (7.5K ratings)4.4 (71K ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews — better31.6% of reviews
Number of ratings7.5K71K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size378 MB204 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperStorm8 StudiosGlu Games LLC

Customer experience

Restaurant Story

All ratings7,324 ratings
Positive79.0%
Neutral6.8%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2,452 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral11.0%
Negative18.3%

Diner DASH Adventures

All ratings70,593 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.7%
Written reviews727 reviews
Positive31.6%
Neutral18.3%
Negative50.1%

Bugs and requests

Restaurant Story

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Diner DASH Adventures

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes and crashes
  • Rewards not properly credited
  • Connectivity issues causing progress loss

Requested features

3 requests
  • More free ways to earn in-game currency
  • Longer and more challenging levels
  • Option to disable automatic power-up usage

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Restaurant Story

One-time11
  • 9 Gems$2.39
  • Bundle Pack$2.39
  • 24 Gems$4.79
Show 8 more
  • 24 Gems$5.99
  • Bundle Pack$5.99
  • 50 Gems$7.99
  • 50 Gems$8.39
  • 50 Gems$11.99
  • 105 Gems$16.49
  • 105 Gems$23.99
  • 275 Gems$41.99
10 purchases

Diner DASH Adventures

One-time10
  • Handful of Coins$0.99
  • Handful of Gems$1.99
  • Continue 1$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Stack of Coins$2.99
  • DASH Pack$2.99
  • Key Pack 2$2.99
  • Vault 1$2.99
  • Fistful of Gems$4.99
  • Super DASH Pack$6.99
  • Pocketful of Gems$9.99

Questions

Is Restaurant Story free?
Restaurant Story is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Diner DASH Adventures free?
Diner DASH Adventures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Restaurant Story or Diner DASH Adventures?
Diner DASH Adventures is rated higher. Restaurant Story averages 4.2 out of 5 from 7.5K ratings, while Diner DASH Adventures averages 4.4 from 71K ratings.
Do Restaurant Story or Diner DASH Adventures have ads?
Both Restaurant Story and Diner DASH Adventures show ads.
Which is updated more often, Restaurant Story or Diner DASH Adventures?
Restaurant Story ships an update every 4 months, and Diner DASH Adventures monthly. Most recently, Restaurant Story was updated on October 25, 2026 and Diner DASH Adventures on October 24, 2026.

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