Cooking Fever is a 2014 iOS game made by Nordcurrent. It revolves around cooking and time management.
This game contains examples of:
- Asians Love Tea: The Asian restaurants in the city region serve tea as their drink of choice — the Chinese restaurant has green tea, the Indian Duner had masala chai, the Sushi Restaurant has generically named "tea" in handleless cups.
- Brits Love Tea: Alluded to in the Breakfast Café, which serves British breakfast foods and tea as the drink of choice. It's also zig-zagged in that several other restaurants serve tea too.
- Burger Fool: The first restaurant available to the player is the Fast Food Restaurant. However, whether the trope itself applies varies based on players' personal experience playing the levels there — at worst, a player may be unable to serve up orders quickly enough to satisfy customers.
- Cooking Mechanics: The point of the game is to prepare ingredients, cook food, and serve it to customers.
- Experience Points: Earned by earning money and upgrading all your restaurants and bakery.
- Hollywood Cuisine: A fair amount of the cuisine served in restaurants are based on ethnically stereotypical food:
- The Café Mexicana (Mexican) serves tacos, nachos, and quesadillas, with churros as a bonus food.
- The Frog and Snail restaurant (French) serves frog legs and escargot, as well as baguettes and garlic bread.
- The Italian Buffet serves spaghetti and ravioli.
- The Sirtaki Taverna (Greek) serves gyro wraps as a major foodstuff.
- The Dumpling Venue (Russian, formerly known as the Three Matryoshkas) serves pelmeni dumplings, caviar, borscht, and tea.
- It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: The Chinese Restaurant offers mooncakes — which are only eaten around the Mid-Autumn Festival (or at most the weeks leading up to it as a result of marketing) — as a bonus food regardless of time of year.note
- Money for Nothing: Coins build up quite quickly after a while, but gems don't.
- Play Every Day:
- Restaurants used to payout a certain number of coins based on how many levels have been completed (and to what level) every 24 hours. This mechanism has since been replaced.
- The game will also give you coins every day for opening the game, after 7 days (in a 31-day month) you also get gems, which are needed for most upgrades. You can also gamble at the Slot Machines, but once you win 15 Gems at the 500/spin payout, you can't win Gems again until the next day.
- Premium Currency: While coins are fairly easy to come by, Gems are only available in limited quantities through leveling, up daily rewards, and gambling. Or you could buy one of the bundles, ranging for £0.89 to £89.99.
- Renaissance Fair: The medieval faire is one.
- Unsatisfiable Customer: Without lots of restaurant upgrades, customers are incredibly impatient and will leave.
