How to play

Your first match, step by step

1. Open the game and press play. A guest session is made for you — no sign-up needed.
2. Create a room and pick a level, or join a public room from the room list.
3. Set the room to public so strangers can fill it, or keep it private and share the room code with your friends.
4. When everyone is in, the host starts the match and the kitchen loads.
5. Read the order tickets at the top of the screen: each one lists the ingredients a dish needs.
6. Click where you want your chef to walk. Walk into a station to use it: the board chops, the pan fries, the oven bakes.
7. Carry the finished ingredients to a clean plate, then run the plate to the serving counter.
8. Dirty plates pile up in the sink. Somebody has to wash them, or you run out of plates mid-rush.
9. Serve as many orders as you can before the timer ends. Your score decides the stars for that level.

How to actually score well

• Agree who owns which station in the first ten seconds. Two people at one pan is two people doing one job.
• Keep one person on plates and washing during a rush — an empty plate rack stops the whole kitchen.
• Start the slow steps first. Anything that bakes or fries can cook while you chop the rest.
• Talk. Voice chat is in the game for a reason, and three stars is much easier with it on.
• A dish served wrong still costs you the time it took. Check the ticket before you run it out.

Controls

• Click or tap the floor to walk there.
• Walk into a station, an ingredient crate or the counter to interact with it.
• Hold your phone or tablet sideways — the kitchen is a landscape screen.
• Sound, graphics quality, language and microphone all live in the settings panel behind the gear icon.