Before we begin, let me give you a short bio of what the game Diner Dash is.

Basically, diner dash is a restaurant-strategy-time management  game where you control a waitress named Flo who runs an assortment of restaurants. To win this game, the object is to make enough money by the end of the level to reach your daily goal. To do this, you must seat, serve, and treat your customers by sitting them strategically  so that the loud people are on one side, the impatient people on another, etc…. If you neglect a customer too long, or sit them next to a person they don’t like, they will leave your restaurant, causing you to lose money. If too many customers leave, you will not make your daily goal and will have to start over.

Many diner dash players have trouble with this game because they use the wrong strategy on the wrong levels. Here are the three strategies that I use when playing this game. (If you don’t succeed using one strategy, try the other two, or a mixture of all three).

1. The sit-everyone-down-at-once strategy.

Pros:

•     You can make lots of chain bonuses and extra cash by sitting customers all at the
•     You can make lots of chain bonuses and extra cash by sitting customers all at the same time, serving them at the same time, etc…same time, serving them at the same time, etc…  
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•  Easy to clear your ever-growing waiting line so you can see how many customers you still need to serve.
•     Good for making fast money.

Cons:

•     If you sit a noisy, slow, or extremely impatient customer, you will not make good money and will lose lots of customers if you’re too slow to serve them.
•     If you seat a lot of slow customers and impatient customers show up but there are no empty seats, you will lose them. (And no, screaming hurry up at the computer will not make them eat faster. I’ve tried this strategy and it didn’t work.)
•     Once you seat everyone, that’s it. If a very rich or important customer shows up and hates waiting, you might as well restart the game.

2.  The place-only-one-type-of-customers strategy.

Pros:

•     Good for making money, snacks, and tip chains.
•     Makes it easy to clear out a large crowd of the same customers.
•     You learn how a certain customers want service. For example, business women want quick service and tip very well. If you don’t meet those priorities, you….you don’t want to know.

Cons:

•     If you screw up just once, you will have the risk of losing all your customers in either the waiting line or in the main restaurant area, or both, *yikes*.
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•     Again,  seating slow eaters will make it difficult  impossible to reach your goal unless  you continuously stand at the podium.
•     Hard to keep track of who’s getting madder: the people waiting in line or your customers waiting for food.

3. The sit-only-a-certain-amount-of-people strategy

Pros:

•     Easier to keep track of customers,
•     Don’t need to rush and make fewer mistakes.
•     Can stand at the podium longer and make your line-waiters happier.

Cons:

•     Not a good strategy to do if you have a hellish amount of visitors waiting at the same time.
•     May completely forget about the strategy and sit more people down.
•     Not a good strategy for higher levels, but on rare occasions this strategy can work if you do it right.

Those are my strategies for playing diner dash. Please post your strategies in the comments section below and have fun playing.

(Note: These strategies apply to the entire diner dash game series and I’m sorry for not having any photos, Triond is acting screwy again).

–A peek at Diner Dash 4