History VideoGame / DinerDash

** While they're more like grown adults rather than teenagers, Cellphone Addicts from ''Restaurant Rescue'' and ''Flo on the Go'' are always on their phones, annoying most types of customers whose seating is adjacent to them.

** The Teen Girls from ''Hometown Hero'' onwards are a more standard example.

* PhoneaholicTeenager: While they're more like grown adults rather than teenagers, Cellphone Addicts are always on their phones, annoying most types of customers whose seating is adjacent to them.

** Plenty of the series' staple customer types, such as Bookworms, Joggers and Cellphone Addicts, don't appear here. The game also has two customer types not seen in the later games: College Students and Hot Shots.

* ''Diner Dash Classic'' (2012 reboot)

* ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=] Diner Dash'' (crossover with ''Franchise/SpongeBobSquarePants'')

* DolledUpInstallment: There's a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' version of the game.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first game has a lot of these.
** There's no option to choose which upgrades to build. Every upgrade is done automatically.
** Some of the customer types, such as Bookworms, Joggers, and Cellphone Addicts, don't appear here. In addition, this game has two customer types not seen in any other game: College Students and Hot Shots.
** The artstyle is slightly more cruder than in later games, with Flo noticably [[TheNoseless lacking a nose]].

** There's significantly less cutscenes than in later games, with only three: The intro cutscene, the cutscene before the final restaurant, and the ending cutscene.
** The game was released for consoles and the Nintendo DS and PSP (with the latter two being subtitled ''Sizzle and Serve'') in addition to PC. Later games would only be released for PC until Classic/2012.
** [[spoiler:The final resturant has Flo transformed into a goddess with two extra arms, allowing her to carry four items at once. This form isn't acknowledged or mentioned in later games, and Flo simply has someone else be the extra set of hands.]]

* AllJustADream: The ending to the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' version reveals [[spoiler:the whole game was just a dream Mr. Krabs had.]]

* SaveTheVillain: The plot of the final stage of ''Restaurant Rescue''. After his plans to take over the restaurants from the previous stages got overriden by Flo helping their owners, Mr. Big is left empty enough to consider retirement, only for Flo to come and offer him a different plan for his own restaurant.

* PhoneaholicTeenager: Cellphone Addicts always on their phones, annoying most types of customers whose seating is adjacent to them.

* PhoneaholicTeenager: Phone Addicts always on their phones, annoying most types of customers whose seating is adjacent to them.

** The game title itself is a pun on "Dine and Dash".

** Also Seymour Senior and the other seniors (See more seniors, get it?). Colin Cellphone (Call in Cell Phone). Tina Teenager. The first name sounds like the first or two syllable of what she is- a Teenager. Simon STAR the Celebrity. Starla the Starlet (and her little baby, Sky). Trip and Tipper the Tourists, Cookie the Chef, Bobbi ''Sew''er in ''Dress Shop Hop'' works with clothes, and, how could we forget Flo (who goes with the Flo) and some fans believe her name could be short for 'Florida' which, according to Avenue Flo, is the street where Flo's Diner is located. 'Flo' could also be short for 'Florence', of course.

* SaveTheVillain:

* BigBad: Mr. Big is the main antagonist of ''Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue'', ''Diner Dash 5: Boom!'' and ''Diner Dash Adventures'', being a CorruptCorporateExecutive who wants to demolish other restaurants (including Flo's) so he can repossess the assets.

* PhoneaholicTeenager: These types of customers are always on their phones, annoying other customers adjacent to them.

* TheNoseless: In the first game, all the characters were depicted without visible noses. They gained progressively prominent noses with the ArtEvolution over the later installments.

* ''Diner Dash'' (2003)

* ''Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue''
* ''Diner Dash 3: Flo On The Go''
* ''Diner Dash 4: Hometown Hero''
* ''Diner Dash 5: Boom!''

* ''Diner Dash''

* NamedByTheAdaptation: A lot of the customers received official names in later installments. The Young Lady became Rosie the Regular, the Businesswoman became Barb, and so forth.

** [[spoiler:The final resturant has Flo transformed into a goddess with two extra arms, allowing her to carry four items at once. This form isn't acknowledged or mentioned in later games, and Flo simply has someone else as the extra set of hands.]]

** Many iconic characters in the series either don't appear here or weren't named yet, with Flo herself being the only named character (Cookie does appear, but he's a sillouette and wouldn't be named until ''Seasonal Snack Pack'').

** Many iconic characters in the series don't appear here, with Flo herself being the only named character (Cookie does appear, but he's a sillouette and wouldn't be named until ''Seasonal Snack Pack'').

* ''Diner Dash Adventures''

* ''Diner Dash: Sizzle and Serve'' (Remake of the first ''Diner Dash'' released for UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable)

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Customers can get fed up with waiting and leave at any time, this means they can eat a meal and then run off without paying for it. In the real world, this would count as theft.

* ''Diner Dash: Sizzle and Serve'' (Handheld version)

* WorldOfPun: Wendy the Cat and Rocky the Dog from ''Doggie Dash'' are full of puns about cats and dogs.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Gender-Inverted. While the game is technically not part of the main series story-wise, the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' version is notable for being the only game in the series that's not a spin-off to have a ''male'' player character[[note]][=SpongeBob=][[/note]] instead of a female player character[[note]]Flo[[/note]].

* SuddenlyVoiced: ''Avenue Flo'' includes full voice acting for everyone.

* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Flo is originally a stockbroker working for Mr. Big's corporation. After being bombarded by spreadsheets, she promptly bolts out. When she sees a run-down diner, she starts running her restaurant business.

See also ''{{VideoGame/Plantasia}}'' for a similar game made by the same developers.

* AllJustADream: The ending to the ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' version reveals [[spoiler:the whole game was just a dream Mr. Krabs had.]]

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Tyler, Tina, and the Teenagers, once you see them open their eyes. A couple other customers may have this trope. Subverted for Tyler and Tina in ''Dinertown Detective Agency''.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Sometimes the Dinertoons could be drawn with a little more detail; other times more simple-looking. An example would be the ''Wedding Dash'' characters and how detailed and animated they look in the ''Wedding Dash'' games compared to 'Dinertown Tycoon' and how simple they look to fit the ''Diner Dash'' style.

* DolledUpInstallment: There's a ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' version of the game.

* HiddenObjectGame: The ''Dinertown Detective Agency'' spinoff falls into this.

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: As he says in ''Dinertown Detective Agency'', Poor Bernie Bookworm didn't have many friends as a kid.

* MegaCorp: Big Corporation, naturally. WordOfGod says that prior to the first game, Flo was one of Big Corp's stockbrokers. Confirmed in ''Avenue Flo'' and ''Dinertown Detective Agency'', when she mentions having worked at Big Corp as she navigates the cubicle maze.
* MotorMouth: Colin and the Cell Phone guys, and possibly the Teenagers as well (but only when they're on their cell phones). Also Barb (sometimes named Martha) from 'Wedding Dash'.

* ShipTease: Flo and Bernie, particularly the grocery store and Movie Theater cases in ''Dinertown Detective Agency''.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Gender-Inverted. While the game is technically not part of the main series story-wise, the ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' version is notable for being the only game in the series that's not a spin-off to have a ''male'' player character[[note]]Spongebob[[/note]] instead of a female player character[[note]]Flo[[/note]].

** Dinertown characters Minerva Mink (Mr. Big's other daughter) from ''Pet Shop Hop'' and Coco seemed to fallen this trope. They haven't been seen since ''Dinertown Detective Agency''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not counting the characters' duplicates, the series feature at least ten different types of customers, some of which are groups made up of several distinct individuals (e.g. the family contains Duncan the Dad, Maggie the Mom, Kingston the Kid, and Bobbi the Baby)