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Have you ever longed to be a waiter or waitress in a restaurant? If your answer is yes then it’s your lucky day. Meet Flo, an office worker who hates her job, big surprise right?

When she gets chased out of her office while trying to get away from a mob of angry coworkers wielding various reports, she stumbles upon a broken down and abandoned old restaurant and decides that this is her ticket out of her office life and into the world of food service.

Meet Flo, an office worker who hater her job, big surprise right?

There’s your premise and during the career mode you’ll spend your time seating a bunch of impatient people, taking ungrateful people’s orders, dropping the order at the cook, picking up the food and dropping it at the right table and then picking up the plates for the dishwasher…This is basically how a real server works.

What’s the difference between playing this game and working at a restaurant then? Well its simple! At a restaurant you get paid but you don’t have anywhere near this much fun.

Diner Dash is strangely addictive. Something about doing the same task may sound boring but when you finally get some hands on time with it, you suddenly realise that hours can pass without you noticing.

Diner Dash never really offers any kind of break, from the moment you start a level, you serving a bunch of people who all want to eat and get out. In the later levels this becomes a frantic rush as you end up with multiple tables at once and these people only give you a few moments to do what they want.

You’ll suddenly realise that hours have passed without you noticing

In addition if your anything like me, you are going to find yourself trying to do many things at once and you can easily be carrying around someone’s ticket (the piece of paper your character wrote the order on) and not even realize it. This makes that person extremely angry and they could even get up and walk out if they become too aggravated.

Sadly, and unsurprisingly, the one-dimensional game play becomes repetitive after about five minutes. On the upside however you’re having way too much fun to notice that all your doing is the exact same thing over and over.
The graphics are deliciously cartoony as everything has a great cell shaded effect to it. However, unless you are playing on a HDTV you will find yourself squinting at your T.V. trying to read the tiny text that pops up at the end and beginning of each level.

Once you get bored with the career you can simply switch gears to multiplayer. Or you could if a lot of people we’re online on a regular basis. This isn’t really the developer’s fault, as it’s more of an issue with the Xbox Live community not shelling out the 800 Microsoft Points for it. However lets say you get lucky and you find someone to play this game with. What you will end up with is a frantic fun filled time.

That’s an incredibly simple way of describing Diner Dash “fun”. This game becomes ridiculously addictive and anyone with a spare 800 Microsoft Points should not pass this one up. With the single players frantic fast pace and the multi players Co-Op casualness mixed in with a frantic competitive angle, it becomes clear that people who have not already played this game have been missing out on a great Xbox Live Arcade Game.