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DAVE THE DIVER
👥 Staff and characters
All12 character entries, covering roles, skills and recruitment. Story characters are distinguished from employees you can hire.
🎯 Staffing priorities
① Bancho: the established head chef
Bancho is the restaurant’s head chef. Learn cooking and service around him. Recruitment after Chapter 1 and automatic VIP unlocks are not verified requirements for running the restaurant.
② Use Maki’s Cooking after she joins
Maki specializes in Cooking, cannot be dismissed and does not take wages, making her a useful foundation for the kitchen after she joins. Her specific recruitment event or request requirements have not been cross-checked here; check the current request screen.
③ Improve service: Raptor / El Niño
High-Serving employees improve delivery speed and help service. Raptor and El Niño are recruitment options; fixed recruitment timing and a best-in-roster ranking have not been checked here. Follower counts form part of Cooksta promotion requirements.
④ Support procurement and cooking: Davina / Yone
Davina is an option for dispatching to collect supplementary ingredients, while Yone is an option for strong Cooking. Rankings at equal employee levels have not been checked. Duff is the weaponsmith and Dr. Bacon is an archaeologist; neither is a kitchen employee.
👥 Character details
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Dave(Dave)
Protagonist and diver
Skills:Collects fish and materials while diving
The player character, diving by day and helping at the sushi restaurant at night.
Recruitment:Starting
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Cobra(Cobra)
Investor and partner (former arms dealer)
Skills:Business founder (story character)
Starts the Bancho Sushi venture and invites Dave to the Blue Hole.
Recruitment:Early story
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Bancho(Bancho)
Head chef and sushi specialist
Skills:The restaurant’s main chef (story character)
A quiet, disciplined chef focused on food quality and customer satisfaction.
Recruitment:Early story
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Maki(Maki)
Cooking
Skills:Cooking specialist; cannot be dismissed and receives no wages; a top ranking is unchecked
A quiet Cooking specialist who supports the kitchen without wages.
Recruitment:Specific recruitment event or request requirements are unchecked; consult the current request screen
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Duff(Duff)
Weaponsmith
Skills:Weapon crafting and upgrades (blueprints and upgrade trees)
A gifted, socially awkward enthusiast who lives in a container. He is not a kitchen employee.
Recruitment:Early “Weaponsmith Duff” quest
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Dr. Bacon(Dr. Bacon)
Archaeologist and researcher
Skills:Research-related gear access, including later knife upgrades
Research materials open upgrades such as improvements to the knife.
Recruitment:Story progression; knife upgrade around Chapter 6
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Raptor(Raptor)
Serving
Skills:Serving specialist
A capable server in a dinosaur costume.
Recruitment:Recruitment through Yoshie
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El Niño(El Nino)
Serving
Skills:Drink-service and Serving specialist; the highest roster ranking is unchecked
A server to consider in recruitment; fixed availability timing and the highest roster ranking are unchecked.
Recruitment:Later recruitment through Yoshie
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Yone(Yone)
Cooking
Skills:Cooking specialist; a top ranking is unchecked
A kitchen option focused on Cooking; its equal-level ranking against Maki has not been checked.
Recruitment:Through Yoshie
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Davina(Davina)
Dispatch and procurement
Skills:Dispatch support and high Appeal
An option for gathering supplementary ingredients on dispatch; yields have not been compared with every employee under equal conditions.
Recruitment:Through Yoshie
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Itsuki(Itsuki)
Service and management
Skills:High Appeal and Serving
A versatile employee combining appeal and service.
Recruitment:Through Yoshie
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Raul(Raul)
All-rounder
Skills:Balanced statistics
A balanced employee who can fill several roles.
Recruitment:Through Yoshie
⚡ Combining roles
Bancho + Maki (kitchen foundation)
Combine head chef Bancho with Maki’s wage-free Cooking specialization after she joins to support kitchen quality and service throughput.
Raptor / El Niño + Davina (service and procurement)
Use strong Serving for service while Davina supplies ingredients through dispatch. This supports both Cooksta progression and a wider menu.
Sea People story support + Dr. Bacon (exploration)
Treat them as story and research roles, separately from hireable staff bonuses. A combined rare-item discovery or equipment-discount bonus is unverified; follow their quests and research unlocks.
Complete your staffing goals
Check the actual recruitment roster and train for the jobs you need. These twelve characters are not the complete hireable list, and a universal bonus to every activity is unverified.
