Dave the Diver Guide | Restaurant's Essential Tips

In Dave the Diver, running Bancho Sushi is an important part of your daily life. If you want to make more money and keep people happy, you need to improve every night of service. This business management method is based on three things: serving food, serving drinks, and restocking your supplies. Keeping customers quickly moving through these jobs must be balanced.

Understanding the Basics

Each night, you must focus on delivering food and drinks quickly while keeping your menu and Wasabi stocked. You will often need to switch between various duties to maintain operations.

Managing Your Menu

Before opening each night, you must define your menu. You will unlock more menu slots as you progress. You can open the menu to pause the shift and check your remaining inventory on the board behind you. 

When selecting dishes, pay attention to two criteria: price and taste. Price is the amount you charge. Taste relates to customer satisfaction. You should try to focus on taste over price, as better taste leads to more customers and impacts your Cooksta rating.

Monitoring Cooksta

The Cooksta app is essential. A higher taste rating and faster service encourage customers to leave better Cooksta reviews. Ranking up in Cooksta unlocks new recipes, menu spaces, and staff spaces. 

Conversely, if you leave a customer waiting too long, a red meter above their head will fill and they will leave. This negatively impacts your Cooksta rating. If their ordered dish was already prepared, you must dump it and waste the ingredients.

Maintaining Wasabi

Wasabi is essential. Near the kitchen, a small meter shows your current Wasabi level. If you run out, you cannot make any dishes. You need to keep an eye on this meter and refill the Wasabi during the evening when you have a free moment.

Earning Artisan’s Flame

After each night, you receive a performance report. This includes Artisan’s Flame. You earn more Artisan’s Flame based on your star rating for the evening, which is determined by your customer ratings. Artisan’s Flame allows you to research new recipes as you rank up in Cooksta.

Hiring Staff

Initially, you handle everything yourself. Later, you can hire employees. You must place ads to find them. There are three ad types: a Flyer Ad for 50 gold, a TV Ad for 150 gold, and an Internet Ad for 400 gold. The more expensive the ad, the higher the Cooksta level of the recruit. After posting an ad, you wait a full in-game day for recruits to appear. They remain available until you post a new ad or hire them.

Placing and Dispatching Staff

You can place two employees in the kitchen and two in the serving area. You are not limited to four employees total; you can keep others in the waiting room and swap them in. You can also send employees on dispatch missions to gather ingredients like Soy Sauce or Miso.

Reviewing Staff Stats

Employees have four stats: Cooking (speed), Serving (speed), Procure, and Appeal. Procure and Appeal can raise tip amounts and your Cooksta rating. The Cooking and Serving stats are the most important to monitor.

Training Staff and Unlocking Skills

You can spend gold to permanently boost an employee's stats through training. This is important to keep your staff effective and to unlock their skills. Each employee has two skills that unlock as you level them up. 

These skills can enhance cooking and serving, or provide other benefits like guaranteeing a tip or allowing the employee to restock Wasabi and serve drinks.

Enhancing Your Dishes

You can enhance the flavor of your dishes. This gives a permanent upgrade, increasing both taste and price. It is important to enhance basic dishes early, especially those using common fish like Blue Tang. Each enhancement level requires progressively more ingredients. 

It is best to enhance most dishes while keeping a decent stock to serve. Consider having one or two dishes that act as "flavor dumps" to continually level up and help meet the taste requirements for each Cooksta rank.

Also, check our Dave the Diver Review and other guides below:

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