Based on the popular casual game with a similar name, puzzle action game Diner Dash: Sizzle & Serve has a few nice additions but is chronically slowed down by the PSP controls.

After a long day at the office or tending to your kids, the way you want to relax is by spending hours serving cranky patrons, mopping floors and grabbing high chairs for crying babies, right? Well, maybe you would if all that work came in the form of an addictive casual game.

Based on the popular casual game with a similar name, Diner Dash: Sizzle & Serve is a puzzle action game where you control Flo, the cute and friendly waitress, in her quest to earn the biggest tips and buy a better restaurant.

As customers enter your restaurant, you seat them at a table, take their orders, bring the orders to the cook, serve their food when it is ready and clean up when the are finished. To make matters more hectic, customers get cranky when the wait too long for food or too be seated or are seated near unhappy babies. To help make customers happy she can server extra drinks, play some background music, have them wait in comfy benches, mop up messes and give the kiddies highchairs. With only two arms and limited table space, every new customer means more pressure and divided attention.

All of this is done by moving a cursor and clicking a button on Flo's next destination, which is a bit more difficult and time consuming than simply pointing and clicking with a mouse in the PC version (or, in the case of the DS version, pointing and clicking with a stylus on the touchscreen). That also means a few of the early, seemingly simple levels take a lot more tries than necessary to complete and some later levels are be simply frustrating instead of challenging or fun.

For those who enjoy perpetual, marathon style waitressing torture, the Endless Shift mode makes an appearance here as well, allowing you play ad nauseam until you piss of enough customers to end the level. This ends up being more enjoyable than the Career Mode primarily because you don't have the same sense of failure and frustration as coming within a couple dollars of your income quota for the umpteenth time.