Turbo Pizza

Rebecca and Robert are on a quest to build a successful restaurant franchise! In Turbo Pizza, you have full control over their pizza destiny. Decide when its right to purchase new appliances, better menu options, or put resources behind developing Rebecca and Roberts skills. Save enough money to open a second location in an even MORE unique setting. Meet your customers needs and word of mouth will bring the masses. Remember though, different customers have different needs.

A great recipe for fast family fun!

Full Review from Gamezebo

       Turbo Pizza is like Diner Dash on steroids - it's an arcade-like restaurant simulation for "seasoned" gamers as it gets insanely crazy.
       In case you've never played Diner Dash and its many copycats (well, it can be argued Diner Dash is a clone of Beer Tapper from the '80s!) you play as a restaurateur who must take care of patrons at a restaurant. This involves giving them a menu, processing their order before they grow impatient, picking up tips and improving the look of your surroundings with the cash you collect.
       In Turbo Pizza, you play as Rebecca who decides to open a pizzeria in a rundown castle. Rather than seating customers at tables, they walk up to a huge round counter to give their order, such as a pepperoni, mushroom or cheese pizza, and a soda. When you see their order which floats above their head like a speech bubble, you walk over to your partner, Robert, who gives you the pizza to place in an oven. After the pizza is finished you hear a ding, take it out and give it to the customer. Other foods and drinks they may order include popcorn, coffee, cakes and such. If you pick up the wrong food you can ditch it in the trash can but will lose some cash from your daily total. Oh yes, similar to Diner Dash, you must make a minimum amount of money per day or else you need to repeat the level. More on this in a moment.
       With the exception of drinks and dessert, all foods and drinks require at least one step before you get the item to serve to the customer: the popcorn machine must first be turned on; the ice cream must be scooped into a cone and the coffee must be percolated. Performing the same functions multiple times in a row gives a bonus, such as taking three orders in a row or carrying two ice cream cones. In some cases the customers will request multiple foods but you can only get them one at a time since one "speech bubble" overlaps the other.
       As with Diner Dash, different types of customers come in, such as impatient knights on horses and guys that look like Robin Hood's merry men (hey, the restaurant is in a castle, after all). Others include chubby men and women, headphone-wearing students, attractive bookworms, busy golfers and so on. After level 15 or so, some customers prefer food with different temperatures, and other twists and turns come into play, too. Oddly, every single customer is Caucasian, but I might be the only one who notices this.
       At the end of each day you can choose how to spend your hard-earned cash, such as buying multiple ovens to expedite the cooking process, adding fancy new desserts to the menu, improving your waitressing skills by taking a course, fixing up the joint, and so on. Who knew buying premium soft drinks would cost $10,000 but repairing the floor is only $500? (Shouldn't it be the other way around?).
       Turbo Pizza probably sounds like fun - and it is. But it's no, er, cakewalk. The game goes from simple to insane in one level (around level 10 or 11). Next thing you know you've got six impatient customers ordering food at the same time, who will all leave if they don't get their eats fast enough. Even the mini-games are tough. After a few levels gamers will play a pizza-making game where they have to pluck ingredients off a conveyor belt to make the same pizza as premade ones, such as five pepperonis in a half-circle, three hot peppers in a row and four pieces of cheese. Not an easy exercise, I forewarn you.
       Because of its difficulty, Turbo Pizza is perhaps better suited for serious players more than newbies who might prefer a casual, relaxing digital diversion. But on the flipside, veteran gamers might not find new here compared to other Diner Dash-like games.
       That said, it's multitasking madness, cute story and graphics, and fun mini-games all make Turbo Pizza a very fun and challenging restaurant simulation that's hard to put down.

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Game Review from Gamemile

       Turbo Pizza - an Energetizing Arcade
       Welcome to Turbo Pizza - an innovating pizzeria located in the rundown castle with a wide choice of food and drinks and quick service. After all, it's just a nice place to stop in. A rapid flow of over 5 customer types of different temperament each; every day is a big thing, and there are only Robert and Rebecca there to handle this insane pace. Is there anybody else to help them? It might be you, if you like Diner games and have ever surrendered to the crazy pace of restaurant frenzy.
       The first trick of this game is to be very-very quick, otherwise you'll not pass even through the first level...
       So, fasten your belts and... fasten yourself. Or you won't be able to progress a lot. Customers come quickly and won't wait long. By the way, there are over 5 types of the customers: men, women, bookworm ladies, school students, golfers, and crazy impatient knights.
       Each of them may order anything that comes to his/her mind. And the menu of your pizzeria does offer a vast choice of food and drinks: three types of pizza, cakes, ice-cream, pop-corn, soda, coffee and so on.
       Some of the food items are easy to serve as you are just to grab them from the counter and hand to the customer, and that's it. But, in order to deliver other food items, you'll have to accomplish complicated actions. Say, in order to prepare any kind of pizza, you're to grab it from Robert, your coworker, and place it to the oven. Coffee should be brewed, popcorn prepared on a special machine seated in the center of the playfield, and ice-cream should be prepared on a special machine.
       So, here's a general picture of the game: customers are coming out of the blue, order different food and drinks that you can't deliver in one click, and if you don't do that as quickly as they expect, they'll just leave.
       The whole thing is even much more complicated since some of the customers would like to get several food items. And you just won't let them go by serving them once. So, this game is played at a crazy pace only, and you can handle it as long as you let it absorb you. Though Turbo Pizza has an undeniably absorbing effect(tested on the several people from our department), it is a good energetic game that you can use in the beginning of your business day for training your reaction.
       The other good thing about the game is that it is not monotonous at all. The multiple restaurant levels are mixed with mini-games. The point of each one is to fix a pizza out of ingredients on conveyor belt.
       Moreover, similarly to Diner Dash you'll be able to get upgrades between the levels here for the money earned during each level.
       There are three types of upgrades. The first type includes the upgrades that will make Robert and Rebecca work faster and better handle their tasks(like pizza-making and waitressing course); 2. the second type is aimed at quickening the work on machines(ice-cream, coffee, and pop-corn). 3. Lastly, the third ones will let you to renovate and decorate your pizzeria to make it look attractive for the coming customers.
       Of course, I recommend that you first train your stuff to ensure the future success. Just like in real life, education is of great use in Turbo Pizza. After a waitressing course, Rebecca will rush like crazy, and Robert will make pizzas a way faster than he did before the course.
       The speed and complexity of your work will depend on every specific day. Say, some days are proclaimed pizza contests, or pizza days, so you'll be serving mostly pizzas. On a hot summer day (like this one:)) you'll be serving cool soda mostly.
       In terms of gameplay Turbo Pizza is a smart mix of The Apprentice: LA and Cake Mania in terms of general concept and gameplay. But it is so engagingly vivid, that it cannot be compared with any other Diner arcade.