Flo's on her own now, and heading for the top! To get there she'll have to start on the ground floor¿and she needs your help to survive and thrive. Diner Dash blends the best in fast paced-action puzzles with a build-your-restaurant-empire theme that encourages players to serve their way from a two-table diner to the top of the restaurant ladder ¿ starting with a run-of-the-mill greasy spoon and ending in a dream restaurant.
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You play Flo, who has ditched her boring desk job and is now rolling up her sleeves and setting out to build her own empire of high-class restaurants. Flo will have to move fast to master the art of Diner Dash! Seat your customers speedily, keep them happily fed, and watch the tips and profits roll in!
Features:
50 challenging levels
Grow your restaurant through four complete renovations
Five different types of customers, each behaving uniquely
Two modes of play--Career and Endless Shift
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I played Dinner Dash online and enjoyed it so much that I ordered it from Amazon. But to my surprise when I received it and downloaded the cd onto my computer....my computer stopped it because it was full of several trojans and virus. I hope that Amazon checks out their cd's, because this is sure bad for business. Amazon did send me a full refund, so that is good. Remember Dinner Dash is bad....put out by PlayFirst.check it out for yourself..
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2006
Diner Dash is a simple little computer game that is easy to catch on to. You take orders, deliver meals, and keep the customer satisfied.
I really tried to like this game. It seemed like a simple, fun concept. There are four main restaurant areas, and you go through several levels in each area. As you go you improve your restaurant's decor, gain new equipment, and get new types of customers.
There are several types of customers to keep an eye on. There are old men who are patient but slow. There are businesswomen who tip well but who are very impatient. These customers come in several different colors. If you seat the red customers on the red seats, you get extra bonusses.
You have a sequence of tasks to perform for each table. You have to take their order and bring it to the chef. When the dish is ready, you have to bring that to the table. When they're done eating, you drop off the check and then clear the table.
The game runs along pretty easily for the first half of the game - you can get through that half in maybe 2 hours. Then all of a sudden the difficulty ramps up. The game suddenly goes from being mildly fun to being really annoying.
Here's the problem. In the real world, you seat people as soon as you can, and you wait on people when they are ready. You get credit for prompt, efficient service. Not in this game, though. In this game you're supposed to torture people - make them all wait so that you can create "chains". You have the people all sitting at the table, fuming upset, until they all are ready to order so you can take all the orders at once. The same goes for serving and clearing. In the meantime, a line stacks up of people wanting to get in to the restaurant.
So you're running around like a madwoman, antagonizing all of your patrons, feeding them tons of drinks so they stay happy, sweet-talking the line so it doesn't stalk out, while your diners fume with anger. Honestly, this isn't my idea of a fun game. I like games where everybody is happy with my work and gives me praise - not games where angry businesswomen snap at me within seconds of sitting at a table.
I really did try to get into it. I tried several times. I like the idea of a female businesswoman starting her own restaurant, adding to it as she goes. That's the sort of sim-game that appeals to me. If it had a more positive message while you played, then I could have dealt with the relatively low quality graphics and sounds. It just wasn't fun for me, though. There are so many other games for me to play that *are* fun, that after a while I just couldn't force myself to keep playing this one.
I give these guys an A for effort - but somewhere in the game testing system, they should have given thought to positive reinforcement during gameplay, instead of populating the world with angry people.
If it doesn't break your hand, you probably aren't human.
Combine this with painfully inadequate and mostly worthless 'help' objects, and you get a game that gets virtually unplayable without a fathomless well's worth of patience for replaying.
Shipping through Amazon was great. The game itself came in a broken case and not sealed in any way. Almost as if used. Was Leary of installing game. So far it works fine.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, fast paced game!
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2020
Shipping through Amazon was great. The game itself came in a broken case and not sealed in any way. Almost as if used. Was Leary of installing game. So far it works fine.
This game arrived on time and in a protected tin case. The product was new and true to the picture. I'm satisfied with my purchase and recommend this buyer to others seeking this product.
I enjoy this games it is relaxing, challeging, and it is in execellt condition when I received it. When I play it was also in excellent condition. I got the game in great timly matter. This game is on of my favorite games.