Food Lift Tycoon: Idle Chef
Gianluca De Mare Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Food Lift Tycoon: Idle Chef is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Gianluca De Mare. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 19, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 411 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v3.0.1
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About Food Lift Tycoon: Idle Chef
Build a tower of kitchens, send the dishes down with the food lift and become the richest restaurant tycoon in the world! Food Lift Tycoon is a relaxing idle cooking game with a fresh twist: every floor of your tower is a kitchen. Chefs cook, runners stack the dishes, the lift operator carries them down and your waiters serve hungry customers in the dining room. Tap to speed everything up, hire managers to automate the work and watch the coins roll in, even while you are offline. FROM ONE KITCHEN TO A FOOD EMPIRE Start with a tiny ramen shop in Tokyo with a single kitchen. Upgrade your chefs, open new floors and cook more expensive dishes: ramen, bao, onigiri and many more. Every upgrade makes your restaurant earn faster, and every milestone doubles the profit of a floor. 10 RESTAURANTS AROUND THE WORLD Ramen Ya in Tokyo, Pizza Palace in Naples, Sweet Bakery in Paris, Rocket Diner in New York, a gelato shop in Rome, Taco Loco in Mexico City, Sushi House in Kyoto, a coffee bar in Seattle, a donut shop in Chicago and the Tasty Tower in Dubai. Each one has its own look, its own dishes and its own challenges. THE FOOD LIFT The lift is the heart of your business. Upgrade its capacity and speed so no dish is left waiting, then hire a lift manager to keep it running all day long. TAKEAWAY AND DELIVERY Riders stop at your takeaway booth, grab the bags and pay extra. Upgrade from a bike to a scooter, a tuk-tuk, a van and finally a food truck, and paint them in your favorite colors. 30 STAR MANAGERS TO COLLECT Junior, Senior, Star and Legend managers unlock as your empire grows. Each one has a permanent bonus and a special skill: cook faster, carry more dishes or get big discounts on upgrades. Put them in the right place to boost your income. RECIPE CARDS Open chests to collect recipe cards. Level up your recipes to make every dish worth more, in every restaurant. RENOVATE AND GROW When a restaurant is complete, renovate it: start again with permanent earnings multipliers and climb even higher. With ten restaurants and many renovations, there are hundreds of hours of cozy cooking fun. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO DO - VIP customers with big tips - Mystery gifts floating in the sky - A lucky wheel and daily rewards - Rush hour twice a day with double earnings - Quests, trophies and milestones - Offline earnings: your managers work while you rest HOW TO PLAY 1. Tap a kitchen to cook: the chef prepares the dish and the runner puts it on the counter. 2. Tap the lift to collect the dishes from every floor and bring them down. 3. Tap the dining room: waiters serve the tables and you earn coins. 4. Spend coins on upgrades, new floors and managers, then let your tower work by itself. PLAY YOUR WAY Play in short sessions or keep your tower running all day. No timers block you and no ads interrupt your game: you only watch a video when you choose to, for a bonus. Cute hand drawn graphics, cheerful music and 16 languages. Open your first kitchen today and become the greatest food tycoon of all time! If you enjoy idle games, tycoon games, cooking games, restaurant games, food games, chef games, kitchen games, Food Lift Tycoon is made for you.
What’s new
Version 3.0.1 · Updated October 19, 2026
Thanks for playing! • Small improvements
App privacy
The developer, Gianluca De Mare, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics
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