The first job is to seat the customers and, if it’s a family, furnish them with a high chair to make the baby more comfortable and therefore quieter.

Your task is to guide Flo around that busy cafe floor, looking after the customers and keeping the cash register full. There's a selection of different restaurants that Flo must manage - all on her own - which basically translate into difficulty levels, but also provide a welcome change of scenery as the game progresses.

So it’s no big deal that Google’s platform is skipping a generation in the Diner Dash canon.

The trouble comes when real life gets a little complicated, and running a salon, or a sushi bar, or a particle accelerator begins to detract from the essential, quick-fingered gameplay.įortunately, the original and the best, Diner Dash, had a simple and recognisable premise of running a cafe as efficiently and profitably as possible, and that’s something most of us can easily relate to.įlo, the dashing diner manager, has now made her way onto the Android Market in an adaptation of the sequel, which is pretty much the same as the original. These time management games are becoming essential on the mobile platforms, as they lift the usual dexterity and puzzle genres into a far more accessible format through their clever use of real life situations.

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