This game can be called the most successful title in all cooking and restaurant games: not only does it involve serving customers, it will get you prepare the meals as well. Though game fans have done that in a bunch of time-management hits like Hell's Kitchen, Turbo Fiesta, the key advantage of the Cooking Dash is one simple fact: the game is featuring Flo and her grandma as title characters.

So, the story begins as Flo’s friend and colleague Cookie leaves his diner to become a TV show celeb. Flo needs to take the business after him. So, she and her grandma will have to serve customers in 5 restaurants(Cookie’s, Darla’s and others) each featuring special courses on the menu, new customer types and upgrades.

Needless to say, between the levels you’ll have to buy upgrades for your restaurant. You’ll play 10 levels for each restaurant and will proceed to the next one once you purchase all the upgrades.

The game will enchant you with classic Diner Dash graphics. But since you’ll have to do twice more actions(preparing and serving meals), you’ll see your playing field is totally animated since everything is being fried, grilled, customers are losing their patience or shining with happiness, your grandma is busy fixing salads or sandwiches and Flo rushing back and forth. It all adds gripping dynamics to the game play.

Ok, enough of accolades. Try this game (which is absolutely for free) and see it for yourself.

I’ve played this game about an hour and have discovered several key laws for it:

1.    Chain, chain, chain. Try to chain your actions as frequently as possible. Serve two customers, bus two tables at a time.

2.    Always try to have some meals prepared in advance. First of all, it concerns orange smoothies. When you serve one, be sure to grab a fresh orange and bring it to smoothie making machine to ensure that your next smoothie is ready when somebody orders it.

3.    When you buy two tables for your grandma, it’ll be reasonable to always have different kinds of sandwiches or salads ready before your customers order them.

4.    Keep an eye on what your customers order on each level. And be sure to prepare these meals in advance. Tip for level 10 in the first restaurant: the only way for me to pass it was always boiling(or sautéing) the two portions of vegetables in advance.

5.    Use coffee machine to raise your customer patience once you have it. Serve coffee to a customer, who is about to pay and go – to increase your tips.

6.    Happy customers will order desserts in the end. So, if your customer is done with his/her meal – do not click on them too early – wait and see if they want a dessert.

7.    Food can’t wait, so if the food is being cooked on the grill, or in the oven – don’t overdo it – or it’ll turn into a pile of cinder.

8.    But it’s okay to make your customers in line wait. Just turn the jukebox on(click on it and wait until the melody starts to play).

9.    Try not to lose any customers on a level. Serve the most unhappy customers first. Serve coffee to them and keep them away from the noisy guys with cell-phones.

Of course, this is just a small part of a huge absorbing mystery called Cooking Dash. Have you discovered something that I haven’t noticed? Share your wisdom with us!

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