🍽️ Diner Rush

🍽️ The job

Guests arrive at the door and wait in a line along the front of the room; the number over the door says how many. Tap an empty table to seat the first party in the line that fits it. Tap again to take their order, again when the food is ready, and (on Hard) once more to clear the table.

🪑 Where you put them matters

A couple in a six-seater locks four seats for the whole meal — and the party of six at the door has nowhere to go. Small parties on small tables, and keep the big ones free when you can see a big group coming.

🍳 What you start matters

Dishes take different times to cook: quick, medium, and slow. With only a few burners lit, a slow dish started late finishes last and holds its table longest. Get the slow ones on early.

🪙 Who you serve matters

The greener a guest's bar, the bigger the tip — the coin number above each table counts down while they wait. Save the red ones first, then take the biggest tip that's left.

🍳 Shift and ♾️ Endless

A Shift is one service with a target: serve enough guests and you move up a level. Endless never stops — guests keep coming faster and the room keeps opening tables, and the only question is how long you can hold it. To stop, pause and tap 🏁 End service: you keep every coin you earned. Everything about the room is yours to change in ⚙️ Settings; turn on 😌 Relaxed and there is nothing to lose and no target at all.

👩‍🍳 Who goes?

Once you have two waiters, a row of them appears under the room and you can say who does what. In ⚙️ Settings:
Automatic — the nearest free waiter takes every job. You never choose.
Assign — tap a waiter, then tap a table, and that waiter takes it. Your pick then clears, so it is one job at a time.
Stay with one — the same, except your pick sticks: everything goes to them until you tap someone else.
With only one waiter on shift there is nothing to choose, so the row does not appear.

❤️ Hearts

A party that runs out of patience walks out, and that costs a heart — whether they were at the door or at a table. Run out of hearts and the shift is over.

🪑 New tables

In Endless — and any room you set to grow — the diner starts small and opens Tables that are not open yet are greyed out, and a bar underneath fills up as they get closer. The one opening next also shows the time left.

♨️ Steam and dust

Steam rises from every plate that is being eaten, so you can see at a glance which tables are busy eating. Dust drifts in the lamp light (and confetti, on a birthday). You can turn both off in ⚙️ Settings.

🔎 What everything means

📊 Your shift report

At the end you'll see what you served and what a good shift here looks like. It isn't a maximum — beat it and that's a perfect shift!

🪴 My Diner

Every shift pays coins, and coins buy things for your diner — a palm, a jukebox, a cat. They turn up in the room while you work. Tips fade while guests wait, so serving quickly is what pays for them. Coins also buy new colours, and the 🖌️ Diner designer lets you pick the colour of every part of the room yourself. A colour with a ✕ would make the room hard to see with the rest of your choices — tap it to find out why.

👩‍🍳 Levels

Easy: guests seat themselves, nothing to lose.
Normal: you seat them, booths appear, the kitchen gets busy.
Hard: stools and a big round table, you clear up, and a second waiter to direct.