Cooking Games
Sixteen cooking games, and almost all of them are Papa Louie restaurant games. This is close to a complete run of the Papa's series, which is the best thing that has ever happened to the browser cooking genre.
All 16 games run in a browser tab with nothing to install.
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The Papa's series, more or less complete
Fourteen Papa's restaurants are here: Pizzeria, Burgeria, Taco Mia, Freezeria, Pancakeria, Wingeria, Hot Doggeria, Cupcakeria, Pastaria, Donuteria, Cheeseria, Bakeria, Sushiria and Scooperia. Papa Louie 2, which is a platformer rather than a restaurant game, is here too, along with Five Nights at Freddy's Pizzeria Simulator, which is a horror game wearing a management game as a disguise.
Having the series in one place matters, because the games are close enough that comparing them is half the fun and different enough that people have strong preferences.
How the formula works
Every Papa's game splits a customer order into stations. You take the order, you assemble the base, you cook it for the right length of time, and you finish it with toppings placed accurately. Each station scores separately and the four scores combine into a tip.
What makes the series work is that the difficulty comes from overlap rather than from any single task. Nothing you do is hard on its own. The pressure comes from a burger on the grill while three customers wait to order and a previous order sits half-topped, and from deciding which of those to let slip. It is a time-management game dressed as a cooking game.
Where to start
Papa's Pizzeria is the first game in the series and the simplest, with only three stations. It is the right place to learn the loop. Papa's Freezeria is the most popular entry and probably the best designed: the drink-building station gives it a rhythm the others lack, and the difficulty curve is the fairest in the series.
Papa's Burgeria is the other common starting point and adds the grill timing that later games build on.
The harder entries
The later games add stations rather than complexity, and the ones people find hardest are Papa's Scooperia, Papa's Pastaria and Papa's Bakeria. Bakeria in particular asks you to weave lattice pie crusts accurately while everything else continues, and it is the point where a lot of players decide they have had enough of the series.
If you want the challenge without the sprawl, Papa's Wingeria is the sweet spot: enough stations to keep you moving, not so many that you lose track.