Flo’s at it again. In this spin-off from the Dining Dash series, Flo’s cook, aptly named Cookie, has taken a vacation to participate in a broadcasted cooking competition show. This gives you another opportunity to play Flo as she gets busy around her diner. Cooking Dash contains as much goodness as you’d expect from the previous “Dash” titles, giving you hours of time-management fun, just that this time round, you’ll be behind the counter instead of before it. And as part of the game’s wholesome atmosphere, you’ll get to meet Flo’s grandmother, who’ll gladly help out in the restaurant.

We can assume that most of us have experienced Diner Dash. Cooking Dash is very similar in the way it’s played, in fact. Customers step in through the door, and you’ll have to usher them to empty seats by clicking and dragging your mouse. They’ll read the menu, take orders, and that’s where you get busy by preparing the food, serving it, collecting bills and clearing the dishes after them. For those familiar with time-management games, you’ll recognise the bonuses in place — you can score more points by performing the same actions consecutively, and also by matching the colors worn by customers to the seats you bring them to. You’ll have to perform the actions promptly, because if you wait too long, their satisfaction level drops and they tip less. Same old thing, but if it’s fun, there’s not really much reason to deviate.

What’s slightly more interesting this time though, is that because you’ll have to cook, timing becomes a factor to look out for. When you put steak on the stove or potatoes in the fryer, you’ll have to pick it up at the precise moment when it’s ready. Doing so gets you perfection points, and leaving it to get burnt costs you money.

It appears that the difficulty in Cooking Dash has been cranked up a little right from the start. That’s not an uncommon phenomenon in game genres that have been existing for quite a while. You see, as players get seasoned, they play better, and they naturally expect more of a challenge. The good thing about Cooking Dash’s design is that for such players, you’ll find yourself getting to the meat of the game quite quckly.

Cooking Dash comes with some nifty features too, like an “Endless” mode, where you get to play, well, endlessly until the customers become too difficult to cope with, plus a global highscore system that lets you pit your performance worldwide. The game has plenty in store to keep the die-hard time-management player happy.

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(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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