Help Flo save her diner

Diner Dash is a free strategy mobile video game wherein you must serve customers and keep them happy. This 2D single-player time management game is another iteration of the popular Diner Dash game series—featuring the classic heroine Flo in another table-bussing mission to improve her restaurant. The story isn’t the same as the first game but still retains the need for Flo to earn enough money and buy objects for her diner.

What is Diner Dash?

First launched in 2003 as a PC game, Diner Dash became a hit fast-paced time management game and one of the top-selling downloadable games of all time that’s available on multiple platforms. Its success spawned numerous sequels to chronicle Flo’s rise to fame but sometimes, the games just handwave any progress on that story and simply bring players back to her origin story. There is no difference in the 2014 second reboot of this popular restaurant game. 

Here, Flo mans the floor in her diner while her chef-partner Cookie rules over the kitchen. They have to improve the restaurant while having to deal with the antagonistic Mr. Big who wants the place to fail. The gameplay is still pretty much the same here. You have to seat customers, take their orders and send those to the kitchen, serve their order, taking their money, and then hauling their dirty plates away to the wash bin. 

There’s no timer but there is a set number of customers whom you must serve quickly—if they run out of hearts, you won’t get a high score. You gain additional points by doing chain actions of taking orders and serving meals and even color-coordinating customers with the tables and chairs. There are also new customers and VIPs available. However, you can only clear levels by completing their various goals and not getting a high enough score.

Highly nostalgic

All in all, this mobile version of Diner Dash brings back the nostalgic experience of the previous game with the same title, as well as its original gameplay. While there new objects and characters added to keep things fresh, the gameplay itself is still that classic restaurant time management mechanic that’s made the franchise so popular. It’s only too bad that you can only clear levels by achieving specific goals and not beating a recommended high score.