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Happy Chef 
Develop expert culinary skills in Happy Chef, a gripping Time Management game with tons of different dishes! Take command of the kitchen and demonstrate the skills of a master chef. Start with hamburgers and hot dogs and work your way to becoming the best known restaurant in the country! Decorate your restaurant, buy new furniture, find awesome accessories, and upgrade your kitchen to become a Happy Chef!
- Decorate your restaurant
- Upgrade your menu
- Become a Happy Chef!
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Vista/Win7/8
- CPU: 800 Mhz
- RAM: 256 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 419 MB
Game Manager System Requirements:
- Browser: Internet Explorer 7 or later
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Fast Game
OK, this will seriously challenge your hand AND your mouse. It's fast-paced, a few upgrades which make sense (didn't finish yet the game but it's a buy for me). Honestly, I gave 4 stars for visual / sound quality but I didn't have too much time to watch the characters because you need to make the burgers / hot-dogs and serve'em FAST. There's not too much time to breathe either. This will be a lot of fun ONLY if you like fast games. If not, it's not for you.
January 9, 2012
More stressing than fun
I found this game very similar to Hogdot Hotshot but not half the fun.
You have to prepare and serve dishes and drinks to a series of customers that appear on the top half of screen, picking ingredients, cooking them without burning them - if possible, and serve everything as fast as you can.
Graphics are quite alright but items in the counter area are sometimes weirdly difficult to point and click at. When you have to add a complement, such as lettuce or ketchup to a burger, you have to pick the complement every single time (no way to make a row of it). There are not particular bonuses for serving in a row nor any other targets these sort of games usually have.
My mouse appeared to be "lagging" all the time so, after completing around 40 levels, I ended the initial hour more annoyed than willing to continue.
As with other games like this, you always may leave the money on the counter to avoid other customers coming in, and there seems to be no one interested on stealing it so far :)
Graphics are ok, but mechanics and functioning do not help to make this simple minded time-management game anything special in its category, which includes quite better and more entertaining alternatives.
January 9, 2012
Fun Game
Good and fun game!
I'm not a fan of time management, but this game is cool
January 11, 2012
Not challenging
Very elementary type of play, no useful bonuses or way to make linked servings, should be able to at least serve the drinks to more than one at a time. Hard to get the food on the buns, shouldn't have to click the food & then click the bun again to get it into it, should be able to drag & drop onto buns. Just doesn't make for a fun game. Made my arm hurt more than anything.
January 9, 2012
Great time-management game
Great game, I love it. It's unique that it's like a first-person game, never seen anything like that. But it is fun - you need cook different dishes, hot dogs, eggs, etc. I like it.
January 10, 2012
An Addicting TM Game
I liked this time management game quite a bit! Something about it makes you want to keep playing.
Basically, you play the unseen chef behind the stove. Customers come up to your counter, order food, and you dish out the goods before they storm out in a huff. You play every day over the course of 30 days before you move on to a different (non-upgraded) restaurant with different food. As is expected in a TM game, you start off with only a few easy to make foods and a few patient customers, then advance to a slightly more complicated menu and lots of impatient customers.
What I did *not* like about this game was that it was a bit repetitive. It would be nice if there was something different thrown in every few days. It would be nice to really see a difference in the upgrades (upgraded clock, stereo, seats, etc.), but there's almost no visual difference in the upgrades because most of the screen is your stove, the counter and your customers and the clock, stereo, tables, etc. are the "background" of the scene. I also did not like that you can't "stack" picking up items. For example, if you have three burgers ready to place on the buns, you can't pick up all three, you have to pick them up one at a time.
But overall, the pros greatly outweigh the cons. What I really enjoyed about this game: Really cute graphics; I like the way the food is drawn. I love that the upgrades have no restrictions. A lot of times, TM games will only let you upgrade certain things at certain levels. This game lets you upgrade whatever you want, as long as you have the money for it. That makes it a lot of fun.
I love that you can pre-cook the food and have the food ready to go. Putting the food together for orders is fun too, adding the ketchup to the hot dogs, etc. I love the challenge level in the game ... it starts out really easy and in the end gets pretty difficult (unless you customized the game so your customers are more patient, but I made it so they doled out more cash.) ;) Overall, a lot of fun and definitely worth buying for any lover of TM games!
January 9, 2012
Not My Cup Of Tea
I personally do not like this type of Time Management. With that said: This game is a mix of Amelie's Cafe and Hot Dog Hotshot. If you like either game I mentioned you'll love this one.
January 9, 2012
Happy Chef
This is alot like Hotshot Hotdog w/o the fun. I was looking forward to playing this because I'm a die hard fan of time management games and miss seeing any new ones lately. Unfortunately having to click so much ruined it for me. More than not food burned because I didn't click precisely on the tiny little food item and they are pretty small in size. It's not very user friendly having to do 5 clicks just to create one burger then multiply that by the 3 alloted burger spots then tack on dbl of that for the eventual hotdog upgrade. My wrist was screaming for me to stop playing this game after day 6. It's impossible to keep up with the customers demands by day 12 because the constant clicking takes up so much time plus there isn't much for equipment upgrades. It would have been better to include a bigger stovetop and bigger area to store precooked items and as other players have mentioned it would be better to drag and drop. I've always wanted to see more right clicking to deliver items once created on many games like these because they are easier on gamers wrists. A good example of right click delivery is Burger Shop which is still one of the best food themed time management games out there.
I only played 30 min. of the 60 trial. I never quit a 60 min. trial early. EVER. This game needs some work. I would not recommend this game to anyone unless they want to start out happy and end it frustrated.
I think this game has potential if they tweaked it. As of now it needs an overhaul IMO.
January 10, 2012
You'll need an aspirin.
I played about 15 minutes of the trial and WOW does my hand hurt. The cursor drifts quickly over the screen and causes one to grip the mouse tightly in order to control it. Because of the drift it became even more difficult to manage the gameplay as the speed increased. Also, having to click on an item each time the player wanted to serve it (in succession) produced even more mistakes due to the drifting cursor. If the player is serving fries to 3 customers why the need to click the fries each time to select if it's already been selected? Sorry, I'll pass on this one.
January 10, 2012
Seriously?
I have been waiting for a GOOD TM game, this is not it! The mouse FLOATS, there is no fixing that, the game is like some of the OLDER TM games, It seems to be recycled from previous games and sold under a different title. I am disappointed that BF would sell a game of this quality when there are so many better ones out there. The fun of this game was trying to figure out what games it was recycled from...that is sad.
January 9, 2012
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