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Become a hot-shot waitress in Diner Dash. Diner Dash is a restaurant management game. Help our iconic character to run the busiest restaurant, and satisfy each customer that comes with delicious food and good service. This game is all about time management - players must work quickly to serve customers and ensure they have a pleasant experience at your restaurant.First, seating customers is important - once they are seated, take their order and deliver it to the chef so he can cook their meal. As soon as it is ready, deliver it with a smile and let them enjoy their tasty dishes! Finally, clear the plates away and receive payment! Simple right?
It may seem simple but timing is key. Players must think about the order in which they complete tasks. Also, players must remember that the waitress can carry more than one item at the same time - this allows multiple tasks to be completed at once.
The money players earn can be used to upgrade the restaurant. Players can purchase new items such as shop blinds, more tables, and cool decorations. This all helps to make the restaurant more popular and attract even more guests.
This is one of the most interesting free online games we feature and is one of our top-rated cooking games. This free to play game will give you a real taste of the hectic world of waitressing. Play diner dash today and see how many happy customers you can manage.
In Diner Dash you play as restaurant-owner-cum-waitress Flo starting up her own business venture. The main goal is rake in more and more customers in the pursuit of earning more money and therefore expanding the franchise with additional restaurants. I played the iPod version as seen in the video above. You can try a demo of Diner Dash here. Otherwise there are versions for the Steam, WiiWare, PSN and other download services.
As you can see by the screenshots, each set of customers has 5 hearts floating above their head which represents their level of satisfaction. The quicker you set them down, take their orders and deliver their food, the more satisfied they will be. When the customers come to pay for the meal, their tip is dependent upon the number of hearts, so you want to get the job done quickly.
The screenshot above shows the different states of the customer throughout the process. When the customer is either lining up, requesting an order, awaiting food or ready to pay the bill, an invisible timer will be counting down. As the waiting time for the customers increases they become visibly agitated, before finally losing a heart of satisfaction. If a set of customers wait too long their hearts will decrease until they storm out in anger, cutting a chunk out of your profit.
Different types of customers become impatient at different rates or more or less impatient when in certain states. For example: Mr. Hot Shot. These types of customers can wait patiently in line but have no patience when it come to being seated.
You may have also noticed that the customers and chairs are coloured. If you match the customers wearing certain coloured clothing with the respective coloured chairs then you will gain $100 for every match. An additional multiplier on the base $100 is added for every consecutive same colour, same chair match thereafter. So, for example, match the same colour 3 times in a row and the cash goes up to $300.
In Diner Dash, profit is proportional to difficulty. This is enforced in each level as a cash requirement which must be met to advance to the next stage (otherwise the player must retry). Therefore as profit increases and the players advance to higher stages, the profit is used to buy new nicknaks for the restaurant. Each of these items adds a new wrinkle of variation and difficulty to the game. For example:
The goal of each level is to meet the requisite dollar value to progress to the next stage. In this case, exploiting the most out of the abstract systems is critical to success. As mentioned, there are 3 ways that the player can make more money: more customer satisfaction (hearts), colour matching customers and chairs, and the action chain bonus system, so doing the same $ task in succession.
The action chain bonus is a system, which earns the player the most amount of money, is best exploited by the player lining up groups of customer sets and repeating the same $ action. Diner Dash supports the player maxing out this technique by continually adding tables to each level, allowing for bigger lines of actions to chain. The video above is a nice demonstration.
Despite this connection, you may be wondering what the factory model of cooking has to do with capitalism? Well, the factory model of food production and delivery is the cheapest means of production. Cheapening production is the easiest and most typical way to fulfil the profit motive: the core tenet of capitalism. Therefore, Diner Dash uses a capitalist model of food production and Flo/the player is the agency that sets the system in motion. My argument is based on 2 facts that have been established so far:
In the same way the player comes to master the strategy that I dot-pointed earlier and aggressively stick to it, people in business have such an endearing dogma towards this property of the free market. Once either player (gamer or businessman) realises that this strategy of factory-style labour is the most effective for winning (the game or the market), then there is little reason to change.
Diner Dash is a game about expansion (see expansion heading above) just like capitalism is a model of continual progression. Where capitalism seeks to advance new technologies for the sake of even cheaper production (in allegiance to the profit motive), Diner Dash expands the set of items in the restaurant and arguably the depth of the gameplay.
Diner Dash is a little unique here in that the worker of the restaurant is also the boss. Despite this, Diner Dash still presents a workers vs profit motive argument which can be interpreted as waitress Flo vs Flo the boss.
If there's one thing Diner Dash has taught me, it's that I never want to work in a restaurant for as long as I live. That's not necessarily because Diner Dash is no fun, but I just know that in real life, I could never handle the sheer amount of anger I seem to inspire in the game's customers.
For those who don't know, Diner Dash is a frantic restaurant simulation franchise that first appeared as a lightweight downloadable computer game, and has since been ported in various forms to the Nintendo DS, the iPhone, Xbox Live Arcade and a variety of other platforms. Actually, "restaurant simulation" might be putting it too strongly - there's no managing income or opening new locations in this game; instead, the game focuses on the fast-paced world of waitressing. In this installment, the main character, Flo, and her friend Darla are heading on a cruise for a much-needed vacation. But when they lose their luggage in the opening scene, they are forced to work in the ship's restaurant to earn some cash to get their wardrobes back together. Pretty lame vacation if you ask me!
As in previous Diner Dash games, the gameplay area consists of a dining room with tables of various sizes, a counter where the food is cooked, and a bus tray. Customers come in and you have to seat them, take their order, bring their order to the food counter, grab their food when it's prepared, take it to the table, hand them their bill when they're finished, and take their dirty dishes to the bus tray. Simple enough when you're dealing with a single customer, but unfortunately, you never are. Customers keep coming and coming, and each customer is usually in a different stage of their meal than all of the others, so keeping track of where to go and in what order becomes a gargantuan task. The longer customers have to wait for anything (whether it's being seated, receiving their meal, receiving their bill, etc.), the less happy they become, as indicated by a heart graphic that slowly depletes as time goes by. You can also see a customer's happiness level through their facial expression, and a simple scowl can feel surprisingly cutting when you're doing your best to dash around and fulfill everyone's needs.
As the game progresses, layers of complexity are slowly added to the basic gameplay. An optional drink dispenser can raise a table's happiness level, a mop can be used to clean up spills, and different customer types need to be placed strategically (keep those crying babies away from the other customers!). On top of that, different customers wear different-colored clothes, and arranging them at tables to sit in matching chairs can net you some extra points. The game reaches a surprising level of complication once all these extra elements are thrown into the mix, and it's pretty easy to lose your head trying to take care of everything that's going on.
The entire game is controlled with the stylus, and it works very well. This is one of those games that could never work well with buttons, and as such, it's perfectly suited to the DS. The real fun comes when you realize you can "stack" Flo's movements - that is, you can select her destinations faster than she can actually move to them, and the game remembers where you've been clicking such that Flo catches up eventually. Once you get the hang of it, you can reach a certain level of Zen as you smoothly click on the places Flo needs to go and simply trust that she will get there in the right order. Once you achieve this level of mastery, the gameplay can become quite addictive and satisfying.
However, the game's low-budget roots are evident in its graphics and presentation. The graphics are SNES-quality at best, featuring low-detail cartoon-style character sprites. Some of the interface elements are so small and pixelated that they are difficult to interpret, such as the little thought bubble that appears over customers' heads when they want their area mopped. It took me a while to figure out what the heck they were asking for. It's reasonable to expect a certain level of flash and polish when playing a game on a modern platform such the DS, and this game simply doesn't deliver. Cutscenes between sections of the game are weak as well - the story takes place in the form of comic-style panels, with word bubbles that don't actually contain any words. The words are located on the second screen, making for a pretty confusing reading experience. Fortunately, these sequences are short and inconsequential.
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