Diner Dash is a fun, casual game that can entertain, but once players get the hang of it, gameplay can get repetitive.
Flo is in a hectic job she hates, so she decides to open a small restaurant with dreams of making it big. Before that, she'll have to prove herself by being the best waitress ever and moving up the ranks of the restaurant business.
== Overall Gameplay Description ==
The player is Flo who is trying to make $$$ to advance her new restaurant business. The screen shows a restaurant layout with a kitchen, lineup, dirty dish bin, and several tables. On each level (called a shift) customers enter and line up. They must be seated, ordered from, served and their tables cleaned using a simple "point+click" interface. Flo attempts to minimize the number of dissatisfied customers before the shift ends for the day. The main modes, are "career" where there are over 50 levels of increasing difficulty. Also is "endless shift" where players play one shift to score as high as possible.
Easy at first but really, DDash DOES get hard. Customers start pouring in and if you do things sloppy you'll quickly encounter either a crowded lineup, all tables full, too many orders to service.
The game is a relaxing (but fast paced) way to spend some time. A few shifts have unique rules such as all customers of one type, or a "quick round" where customers leave RIGHT after eating, these are uncommon however. After getting the technique down of handing the customer types, the strategy does get repetitive but trying to beat the high score on a shift adds replayability.
DDash can be picked up for less than $10 in the software section of a Wal-Mart or similar store. It can be played free online and there are a few hand-helds that have versions too. For such a small investment, players should definitely pick it up and try it out without expecting anything groundbreaking.