Diner Dash

The gameplay involves seating customers and guiding Flo around the restaurant to serve them. If players earn enough money after each level, they progress to the next; failing to earn enough cash costs them one of their stars. As the game progresses, Flo updates the dilapidated restaurant, and she builds three more restaurants, which provide new settings. The game is over when all of the stars are lost.

Flo can be moved around the restaurant to complete tasks. As customers arrive at the restaurant, the player must drag and drop them onto a table, where they sit down and read menus. The player then must guide Flo to the table to take their order, which must be taken to the service hatch. After the chef has prepared the meal, Flo must deliver the food.

Flo is a white-collar worker with a job at a big stock market company in Dinertown. She is tired of doing all the work and feeling unfulfilled. Flo quits her job, wishing she could work somewhere else. She spots a run-down old diner, which she buys.

She has to make enough money to fix up the diner. Later, after earning enough money, she opens a new restaurant called Flo's Tiki Palace, after that a seaside diner called Go with the Flo Fine Seafood Dining, and finally a dazzling restaurant called Chez Flo's.

Diner Dash has been mentioned in The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and a variety of casual game studies, including Nicole Lazzaro's analysis of player emotions at the 2005 Game Developers Conference. Games Magazine gave it a favorable review, calling it "remarkably flexible". The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Diner Dash for "Computer Downloadable Game of the Year" at the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.