Diner Dash Help!!!

[littlecc]

Originally Posted by elmi25

Could you please send me a copy...... im still stuck at rest 2 level 10....

Thanks!!

This is for all you that wanted the sheet the company that makes Diner Dash sent me:
Flo’s Guide to Better Restaurant Management

When I left my dreary office job and started the life journey of running my own restaurant, I had to learn the ropes all on my own. As my restaurant business grew, I learned how to best manage my business and keep my customers happy.
Now I want to share what I’ve have learned with up and coming restaurateurs like yourself. The following information shows the ways I use the upgrades I’ve purchased for my restaurants, and tricks of the trade I’ve picked up to keep my customers coming back. I hope my advice can help you grow your own restaurant business. Let’s do this!

Happy serving,
Flo

Restaurant Improvements:
Drink Stations (coffee, tiki punch, wine, etc.):
• Giving a customer a drink will make them happier while they are dining.
• It’s not required to give a drink to every customer.
• While the type of beverage changes from restaurant to restaurant, their effects don’t change.
• Drinks are not always available for use; a highlight will appear when it is. Drinks are most useful to stop customers from leaving when their hearts are very low.
• It is best to give customers a drink after making them wait to be seated for a long time, or delaying their food delivery.
• If you have a drink with no customer to serve it to, drop it off in the dirty dishes bin.
Podium:
• Podiums are used to keep customers happy while waiting in line to be seated.
• For podiums to be effective, you must stand at the podium until the heart is full.
• Leaving the podium before the heart is full resets it to empty and you will need to start over when returning.
• It is best to use the podium when seating customers at their tables, all seated customers are reading their menus, or customers are eating their meals.
• Try to return to the podium often when the waiting line is long.
Snack Stations (bread, Nan, etc.):
• Only serve snacks to customers that specifically request them. Customers will not accept snacks otherwise.
• Do not serve snacks while in the middle of performing an action chain (order taking, food serving, etc.), as that will interrupt the chain and any bonus point earning.
• On the other hand, snacks give a good amount of bonus point and you should certainly try to serve them when you are not in the middle of a chain.
• If you fail to serve customers an ordered snack, you can still serve them a drink to raise their happiness again.
• If you have a snack with no customer to serve it to, drop it off in the dirty dishes bin.
The following restaurant improvements are only available in Endless Shift mode:
Oven:
• Purchasing an oven will allow your chef to complete customers’ meals faster. Upgrading ovens will increase the speed.
• Faster food delivery times will help you ‘turn over’ your tables and seat customers faster.
• An oven is always active once chosen.
Performer:
• Hiring a performer will slow the rate at which customers become unhappy in line. Upgrading performers will increase the unhappiness rate reduction.
• Using a performer can be used in conjunction with using a podium.
• A performer is always active once chosen.
Running Shoes:
• Running shoes allow you to run faster. Upgraded running shoes increase your running speed further.
• Faster running speed means customers will have their order taken, food & drinks delivered, and checks delivered faster. This keeps customers happier and help ‘turn over’ tables faster.
• Running shoes are always active once chosen.
Stereo System:
• Purchasing a stereo system for the restaurant will slow the rate at which seated customers become unhappy.
• Upgraded stereo systems increase the unhappiness rate reduction.
• Stereo systems are always active once chosen.
Customer Types:
Customer Colors:
• Seating customers in an uncolored seat will change it to their color.
• Seating customers in a colored seat earns you points. It will also increase the multiplier (x1, x2, x3, etc.) of points earned for future matching seatings.
• Seating a customer in a different colored seat than the previous customer will reset the scoring multiplier to zero.
Young Lady:
• Standard, average customer; tips well and is moderately patient.
• When waiting in line, seat after College Students and Business Women.
• When seated, serve after Business Women and Hot Shots.
Kindly Senior:
• More patient waiting in line and at the table, but doesn’t tip so well.
• Take the longest to place an order and eat their meals.
• Seat them last when waiting in line.
• Serve them last at the table.
Business Woman:
• Tips very well, but is not as patient as others.
• When waiting in line, seat after College Students.
• When seated, serve them after Hot Shots.
College Student:
• Average tippers; very impatient in line, but they linger at the table.
• When waiting in line, seat them first.
• When seated, serve them after Hot Shots and Business Women, and Young Ladies.
Mr. Hot Shot:
• Tips well; is patient in line, but has no patience while waiting at the table.
• When waiting in line, seat them after College Students, Business Women, and Young Ladies.
• When seated, serve them first.
The Restaurant Critic:
• Restaurant Critics are VIP customers; seat and serve them as fast as possible when they appear.
• If a critic leaves very happy, you will earn an extra star.
• If a critic leaves unhappy, it will cost you lots of points.
• Try to seat critics in an uncolored seat, so a seat’s color multiplier is not erased.
Best Restaurateur Practices
• Chaining your actions is key, particularly chaining multiple tables. Chaining as many tables as you can is the key to high scores.
• Seat customers to matching colored seats for color bonuses. Save the highest seating bonuses for as long as possible.
• In later stages (i.e. Restaurants 3, 4, and 5), be sure not to lose customers. It costs a tremendous number of points. This is particularly true of restaurant critics. If a customer is very close to leaving, seat them immediately and give them a drink.
• Generally try to seat customers at the smallest tables possible. This leaves bigger tables open for bigger parties.
• Emphasize the seating and serving order of different customers. Often knowing who to seat first will save you from losing several customers.
• Business women are very impatient. You have to seat them and serve them faster than other customers if you want to keep them happy.
• The last level in each restaurant is particularly long. You need to be very careful not to lose customers here. The earlier you can get into a chaining rhythm (seating many customers at once and serving them in long chains), the better you will do in the level.
• Restaurant 3, Level 4: The seating arrangement of the restaurant will determine who you can seat. Time the seating so that the most patient groups remain waiting in line. If there’s an impatient group in line, be sure to continually return to the podium to keep them from leaving.
• Restaurant 3, Level 5: The key to this level is following the snack station advice above.
• Restaurant 4, Level 4: Use the bar as an open table of many sizes. Seat impatient customers there as a way to get them out of line.
• Restaurant 5, Level 1: Without a drink or a podium, you need to rely on color bonuses and quick service to impatient customers to keep customers happy.
• Restaurant 5, Level 9: Losing color bonuses means that you have to be really attentive to the mood of customers in line. Use the podium to get them really happy before seating them and be careful to seat the most impatient line customers (business women and college kids) first and the most patient (old men, hot shots) last.

I HOPE THIS HELPS!!!

[jannl4]

hi there i have been playing diner dash for some time now i am stuck on 3 th rest 4 Level i have tryed every thing and can not get past it i will get up too 7450 and it say i need 8000 on this level plzz can you help me email is jannL4_ca********com thank you

[jannl4]

hi there i have been playing diner dash for some time now i am stuck on 3 th rest 4 Level i have tryed every thing and can not get past it i will get up too 7450 and it say i need 8000 on this level plzz can you help me email is jannL4_ca********com thank you

[jannl4]

hi there i have been playing diner dash for some time now i am stuck on 3 th rest 4 Level i have tryed every thing and can not get past it i will get up too 7450 and it say i need 8000 on this level plzz can you help me email is jannL4_ca********com thank you

[littlecc]

Read my above post and you shouldn't have any problems.

[CosmicGal]

Hi, Im new to Diner Dash and i have been reading your posts for help. Ive just finished my 3rd rest. and 3 things have helped. 1. always have your hands full (whether that be 2 meals, 2 orders, an order and dishes etc) 2. Use as little tables as possible - and always keep your waiting patrons happy and 3. Utilise the flags on the tables, try different ways of seating people, you gain more money by seating the same colours on the same seats. This is a really great game that utilises all your hand/eye co-ordination, take your time and dont freak out if you get too many people (just like a real rest. really)

[lizeroo]

Hi. I have played this game to completion several times and am now going for expert on all levels. Has anyone else noticed that it is physically impossible to get expert scores on 2-5 and 2-6? I used every seating bonus, gave drinks to everyone, used the podium both after taking orders and while they were eating and chained to beat the band and STILL could not make the expert score. It doesn't make sense that the expert score for level 2-6 is 12,000 but for 2-7 it is 11,000. Getting frustrated! Anyone else noticed this?

[littlecc]

Originally Posted by lizeroo

Hi. I have played this game to completion several times and am now going for expert on all levels. Has anyone else noticed that it is physically impossible to get expert scores on 2-5 and 2-6? I used every seating bonus, gave drinks to everyone, used the podium both after taking orders and while they were eating and chained to beat the band and STILL could not make the expert score. It doesn't make sense that the expert score for level 2-6 is 12,000 but for 2-7 it is 11,000. Getting frustrated! Anyone else noticed this?

YES, I noticed the same thing. I got expert scores ALL the way throught except for those two levels. Made no sense to me either. At least I know it's not just me now!!

[cindee1115]

I have at this very moment...FINISHED THE GAME!!!! with a whopping score of (drum roll please) - 529,715 - not as much as some...but good for me! Wow, I can't freakin' believe it. With the help of Erinreid and Stephanology's tips/hints (thank you so much y'all!) - I was able to complete the game. What a rush! Now, what's next - I'm not going to know what to do with myself? Does Diner Dash 2 exist?

[cindee1115]

Originally Posted by menaina

OK...i am finished Diner Dash, even got Expert on most of the levels.
Want to play something new which is similar to it. Kinda Addictted u see.
PLease please please ..........
Tell me some more games!

Naina

Did you get any info on similar games...I just finished and I'm addicted too!

[Jilly]

Hi everyone,

I'm still working on the 10th level of the second restaurant of DD. All your tips have really helped, thanks!

I wanted to recommend a couple of other games that are similar to DD. One is Roller Rush. It's set in the 50's and you wait on people in their cars at a burger joint. Really cool. The other one is Betty's Beer Bar. Do a search on line for both of these and you should have no problem finding them.

Enjoy!

Jilly

[scfirefox]

OK - I wanna thank everyone for the great tips I've gotten here. I know the colors, chaining, etc.

And with a podium - I can keep them there FOREVER!!!! And seat them when ever I like. BUT - I gotta get past Level 5-1 to get my podium!!!! ANY help, or secrets on that? Eveytime someone leaves - I'm loosing points!!

HELP!!

[scfirefox]

OK - I got through and finished the game.

A word of advice - if you get stumped like I did, go to the ENDLESS SHIFT part of the game, and PRACTICE keeping customers happy WITHOUT A PODIUM!! That got me past the starting level of the Rest. without the podium easily!

OK - hints on the Indian Rest. When you get to Level 5-8, it goes FAST!!! They will order IMMEDIATELY upon seating. And when you deliver the food - they will finish IMMEDIATELY. So seat 4 tables, & go right back & get the orders. THEN GO TO THE PODIUM!! If the food comes - wait until you have "pleased" the podium folk. Then take the food & go right back around and take the money, then clean the tables.

Then go back to the podium again, and please the podium while seating 4 more. Etc. Follow that until you are done.

CAUTION - the Business ladies are NOT the only ones that will get mad quickly!! Watch how many hearts appear over their heads in line, and pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the Students / College boys. They will sneak in some fast to anger ones on you. And if they leave - you loose ALOT of points!

For the VERY LAST LEVEL - you will continue to get people in line. Seems like it goes on FOREVER. You will easily get the 45,000 points needed - with ALOT of people left in line. DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!! If anyone gets up from the table mad - you loose 2,000 points!! Only a few of those and you will not finish the game. So when you get to Level 5-10, be prepared to be there for a good 20 mins / half hour.

Anyway - hope that helps some of you out there. Happy gaming!

SCFirefox

[scfirefox]

OK - I was playing the Endless Shift in the 5th / Indian Rest, and got 180,000

Is that high?

SCFirefox

[Asifiknow]

I tried the chaining thing and my score was lower than ever. I need 10,000 pts to beat level 10 and with chaining I only had 3180. So, what am I doing wrong? Obviously I don't understand the chaining thing.