Cooking Craze: Restaurant Game 4+

I’m now on Moscow, the 9th city, having fully completed the previous 8. This means that as each level must be played 3 times to get a star I have played over 2,850 levels (not including the bonus levels, extra shifts and all of the times I have lost a level!).
Each day you receive free bonuses to help you through the game (spoons, power ups, coins etc), meaning it is entirely possible to get through the levels without spending any money, something other players have complained about having to do. Admittedly when I first started playing I did give in and buy a few spoons when I got stuck in Paris (the second city) but haven’t needed to since! Perseverance and patience will get you there. There are often bonus events that again offer power ups as prizes to get you through the levels.
This is honestly the best, and most expansive free game I have downloaded. It is fast paced (eventually when you are a few levels in to a new restaurant) and engaging. It doesn’t require you to spend money unless you’re totally impatient which makes it great for all ages. I hope I don’t get to the end before more restaurants are added!

I love this game, I’ve been playing it for years, as the reviews from 5 years ago tell you, it’s fantastic!
However, year on year, performance has been getting worse. No disagreement here that the tasty graphics and animations all look great, but do there have to be so many? Especially in the backgrounds of levels and maybe cut a few in the level select? It looks like that’s having a significant impact on loading speed. I counted 8 seconds as the fastest and an excruciating 20 sec wait for the upgrades screen. Glitches have also been increasing year on year. Now the sound and screens going out of sync, freezing levels and all out app crashes are common place. In 30mins I had 3 glitches, and now I only get about 20m on average before the app crashes.
Yes, the forced ads between every 2-3 levels are irritating, but idk, maybe that’s what you have to do to keep the game free. ( although I’d rather pay you for no ads). Maybe there was an option, I’ll look again.
But guys, I’m coming at this from the pov of someone who really wants to play this game, I suspect others are going to lose patience really quick or give up on the app crashes all together. You might not be able to continue without ad funding, but surely the performance can be looked into? The animations don’t need to be so long or so numerous if you can’t reduce the file sizes. The loading speed is going to start losing ppl.

I have played this game most days for the last 6 months. I have reached Rio and haven’t spent any money so it is possible if you are patient, wait for the daily free gifts and keep doing the daily tasks to win extra bonuses, etc.
I agree with the double tap to dispose - caught me out a couple of times too! Maybe you could drag and drop the dish into the bin? And also the coins cannot be transferred to other levels. The daily tasks often require you to go back to other cities to play and you earn coins in that city that can’t be transferred and spent in your current one. Bit frustrating to have thousands of coins sitting in New York that I can’t transfer to spend in Greece. Could be done perhaps with the added dimension of an exchange rate?
Despite this I would highly recommend this game as fun and entertaining. I always look forward to what the next restaurant/city will bring and the graphics are fun and bright.