Dave the Diver Best Staff and Restaurant Setup

The Dave the Diver best staff and restaurant setup is not simply the five people with the highest combined numbers. Bancho Sushi needs fast cooking, reliable serving and coverage for jobs such as drinks, cleaning and wasabi. Staff left in the waiting room can also unlock recipes or collect seasonings through dispatch.

A strong setup assigns each person by role. Use cooking specialists in the kitchen, serving specialists in the dining area and high-procure workers for dispatch. Train the active team enough to unlock its useful skills before spending heavily on employees who have no immediate job.

The official Google Play listing confirms that restaurant management is included in the complete mobile port. The core staffing principles therefore carry across Android, iPhone, iPad, PC and console, even if the touch interface changes how quickly Dave performs manual tasks.

Dave the Diver best staff and restaurant setup

For the established core roster, this is a dependable late-game structure:

This is a destination, not a required opening lineup. Hiring is random, training is expensive and story unlocks arrive over time. Use the best available person for each missing role while building toward the final structure.

What each staff statistic actually does

Four statistics appear on staff profiles:

• Cooking affects performance when the employee works in the kitchen.
• Serving affects speed and effectiveness in the dining area.
• Procure affects how much staff can bring back from dispatch.
• Appeal supports customer-facing value and also influences dispatch results.

Do not compare employees only by the total of all four. A cook with exceptional Cooking and weak Serving is still an excellent cook. A server does not become worse because their kitchen number is low.

Special skills matter just as much as raw speed. A dining-room employee who handles drinks, cocktails, cleaning or wasabi removes a complete task from Dave’s workload. That can prevent more unhappy customers than a small difference in Serving.

Best cooks for Bancho Sushi

Maki is a natural main-kitchen choice because her growth and cooking-focused skills make her exceptionally effective after training. Yone is another premier cooking specialist and pairs well with her for demanding services.

Other capable kitchen options include James, Charlie and Tohoku. The practical choice depends on who has appeared in the hiring list and how far each employee has already been trained.

Cooking speed should match the menu. A service built around many different slow dishes places more pressure on the kitchen than a focused menu of upgraded recipes. Before paying for another staff level, simplify the menu and check whether food preparation is still the bottleneck.

A good kitchen rule is:

1. Place the two strongest available cooking specialists at the main restaurant.
2. Train until their relevant skills and recipes unlock.
3. Watch whether prepared dishes are waiting at the counter.
4. If plates are waiting, serving is the problem, not cooking.
5. If customers are waiting before plates appear, improve cooks or reduce menu complexity.

This diagnosis prevents expensive training in the wrong department.

Best servers for automated service

El Nino is one of the strongest dedicated servers, combining excellent service performance with skills that cover important dining-room work. Raptor is a popular partner because his service skills can automate tasks Dave would otherwise need to interrupt serving to complete.

The goal is not merely moving plates quickly. A balanced pair should cover as many recurring actions as possible:

• serving prepared dishes;
• pouring drinks or cocktails;
• cleaning used places;
• refilling wasabi;
• keeping enough time free for Dave to solve emergencies.

Cohh, Billy and Drae are useful alternatives depending on the exact skill coverage needed. For example, a fast pair that cannot handle one recurring job may still require Dave to cross the full restaurant repeatedly. A slightly different combination can produce smoother service by removing that journey.

On mobile, automation may be particularly valuable because fewer frantic touch movements make a busy service easier to manage. That is a practical advantage of staff skills, not a claim that restaurant mechanics have changed in the port.

What should Dave do during service?

Once trained employees cover routine work, Dave should fill the remaining gap rather than competing with them.

If staff handle drinks and cleaning, Dave can stay near Bancho, deliver close plates immediately and refill wasabi when required. If a server already handles wasabi, Dave can focus on food at the far end of the bar or respond to backed-up seats.

Watch the room for one full service before changing the lineup:

• plates accumulating at the counter indicate insufficient serving;
• empty seats waiting to be cleaned indicate missing cleaning coverage;
• customers waiting with drink icons indicate missing drink coverage;
• an empty wasabi meter indicates nobody can refill it quickly enough;
• customers waiting before plates appear indicate a kitchen bottleneck.

Change one role at a time. Replacing the entire team makes it difficult to learn which adjustment fixed the problem.

Best branch manager and branch team

The branch adds another restaurant that must function without direct control. Its manager needs balanced development because manager quality affects what the branch can handle, including customer capacity and the ingredient ranks available to its menu.

Drae is a widely used manager choice because his overall profile suits the role. A practical branch arrangement is:

• Manager: Drae
• Kitchen: James and Charlie
• Dining area: Itsuki and Billy

This keeps Maki, Yone, El Nino and Raptor at the main restaurant while giving the branch a complete independent team. Exact assignments can change when a save has trained different people or unlocked additional staff, but the structure remains useful: balanced manager, two cooks and two servers with complementary skills.

Do not open the branch and immediately send every best employee away from Bancho Sushi. Build the second team gradually and check its nightly report. If ingredient rank prevents a desired dish, improve or replace the manager. If food or service cannot keep up, address that department directly.

Best staff for dispatch

Employees who are not scheduled for restaurant service should not remain idle. Dispatch sends them to collect seasonings used by recipes, turning the waiting room into part of the supply chain.

Prioritize Procure for reliable quantities and consider Appeal when comparing otherwise similar workers. Davina, Masayoshi and Yusuke are commonly useful dispatch choices, but the best available team is often simply every unused employee with reasonable procurement performance.

Use dispatch with a recipe target:

1. Choose the profitable dish you plan to enhance or serve repeatedly.
2. Identify the seasoning limiting that dish.
3. Send suitable unused staff specifically for that item.
4. Repeat until the stock supports several services.
5. Change the target instead of accumulating seasonings with no menu purpose.

Hiring extra people can therefore be valuable even when every active restaurant position is filled.

Which employees should you train first?

Training consumes increasing amounts of money, so spread it according to return:

1. Train the active main-restaurant servers until their task skills are available.
2. Train the active cooks enough to handle the current Cooksta rank and unlock useful recipes.
3. Improve the branch manager and branch team when the second restaurant opens.
4. Train dispatch specialists when a seasoning shortage blocks a profitable dish.
5. Pursue high-level recipe unlocks after the daily operation is stable.

Do not level every employee evenly. A staff member working every night returns value immediately; an unused employee may only need enough training to unlock a recipe or improve dispatch output.

Before dismissing someone, inspect their future skills and recipe unlocks. A weak level-one profile may develop into a specialist worth keeping.

Build a profitable menu around the team

Even the best staff cannot rescue an unfocused menu. Choose a small set of dishes with ingredients that can be supplied consistently. Upgrade recipes with a dependable farming route rather than spending everything on a rare dish that can only be served once.

Auto Supply reduces waste by adding portions as customers order, but it does not create ingredients. Keep enough stock for expected demand and avoid listing too many dishes that compete for the same limited ingredient.

Connect the restaurant plan to the next dive:

• identify the highest-value repeatable dish;
• calculate which fish and seasonings are running low;
• equip the appropriate live-capture weapon;
• reserve cargo and Recovery Drone capacity;
• dispatch unused staff for the missing seasoning.

Our Dave the Diver best weapons and upgrades guide explains how to choose between damage and live-capture tools for those dives.

Common restaurant setup mistakes

Avoid these expensive errors:

• ranking staff by combined stats instead of their assigned role;
• ignoring service skills that automate drinks, cleaning or wasabi;
• training the entire waiting room while active workers remain underdeveloped;
• leaving unused staff idle instead of dispatching them;
• expanding the menu until ingredients and kitchen speed cannot support it;
• moving every top employee to the branch and weakening the main bar;
• dismissing staff before checking later skills and recipe unlocks;
• preparing excessive portions instead of using Auto Supply carefully.

Restaurant performance is a workflow. The cooks, servers, menu, ingredient stock and Dave’s own position must support one another.

Best setup for smooth nightly service

Aim for Maki and Yone in the main kitchen, with El Nino and Raptor covering the dining area. Let Dave handle whichever task their skills do not automate. Use Drae as branch manager when available, build a competent second team around him and send everyone else to gather the seasonings required by the next profitable recipe.

If those names have not appeared, copy the roles rather than waiting indefinitely: two cooking specialists, two complementary servers, a balanced branch manager and procure-focused dispatch workers. That creates the Dave the Diver best staff and restaurant setup for the employees your save actually provides.

For the broader progression loop connecting dives, equipment and Bancho Sushi, return to our complete Dave the Diver mobile guide.