Lost and Found Co Dirty Dishes: Where to Find the Last Plate in Sheriff Beef

What the "Put Away the Dirty Dishes" Objective Actually Asks

If your Lost and Found Co dirty dishes counter is sitting at 4/5 and the restaurant looks spotless, you are not imagining things — one plate in Sheriff Beef is tucked into a spot most players never think to click. The objective is one of the optional tasks inside The Goddess is a Part-Timer!, the burger-joint case where you also hunt hidden ninja boys, round up cow plushies, swat bugs, and build a series of increasingly strange burgers.

The dirty dishes task appears alongside those goals on the community-maintained main and optional objectives checklist for Lost and Found Co., which lists it as a side objective rather than part of the main story chain. In practice, that means you can finish the case without it — but if you are chasing full completion, it has to be cleared.

Players in the Steam discussion thread on putting away the dirty dishes describe a five-plate checklist, and the recurring complaint is always the same: four plates get cleared fast, and the fifth turns into a scavenger hunt.

Where the Last Dirty Dish Is Hiding

The short answer from the community: the plate is on a trolley or cart parked behind the serving station where Ducky assembles the burgers, tucked near the right end of that counter area. It is not on a table, not in the sink, and not on a tray in plain sight — which is exactly why so many players click the entire dining room and come up one short.

Two Steam users broke the location down in more detail as the thread went on:

• Start at the barrel-shaped juice dispenser where Ducky stands to serve burgers.
• Look just to the left of that dispenser, below the red signage.
• The cart is partly obscured by the ceiling signs, so it reads as scenery rather than an interactive object at first glance.
• You may need to click between the gaps in the clutter to actually register the plate.

One player in the same thread initially replied that they already had that plate, then came back to correct themselves: the cart was there, they simply had not recognized it as a trolley. That is a useful warning — the hitbox is small and the visual read is confusing.

A quick route to test first

1. Pan to the serving station where burgers are made.
2. Find the juice dispenser and trace left along the counter.
3. Zoom in on the area under the red sign and behind the hanging ceiling signs.
4. Click the cart itself, then click the plate sitting on it.

If the objective still will not tick, do not assume the game is broken. Sweep the rest of the restaurant once more with the counter reset in your head.

A Sweep Order That Catches the Easy Plates First

Most misses in Lost and Found Co. come from scanning the whole scene at once instead of in layers. The Casual Game Guides walkthrough for Lost and Found Co. recommends working from the top of a scene downward and clearing one zone before moving to the next, which suits a busy restaurant interior well.

Try this order in Sheriff Beef:

• Overhead first: hanging signs, ceiling fixtures, and anything suspended above the counter line.
• Counters and serving stations: trays, trays' edges, dispensers, and the carts tucked behind them.
• Tables and seating: plates left on surfaces, plus anything sitting just off the edge of a table.
• Floor and corners: clutter that blends into the background art.

The same guide notes that many objectives are obscured, meaning the item is hidden inside or behind something clickable — so if a prop looks interactive, open or move it before deciding the zone is clean. Zooming and panning deliberately beats rapid-fire clicking every time.

Why Your Counter Sticks at 4/5 — and Why It's Probably Not a Bug

It is tempting to blame the game when the last plate refuses to appear, but the Steam thread does not support that. One player confirmed they had collected every dish and explicitly stated there was no bug involved, and others followed with the same result once they found the cart.

The more common culprits are:

• A cart that reads as background scenery rather than a container.
• Signage overlapping the plate, so only a sliver is visible.
• Clicking the wrong layer of a stacked prop instead of the object underneath.

If you are down to one dish and nothing on the tables is left, go back to the serving station before you re-search the dining room a third time.

Hints, Zoom, and Finishing the Rest of the Case

Once the dishes are done, the remaining optional objectives in The Goddess is a Part-Timer! are mostly spread across the same restaurant — hidden ninja boys, cow plushies, bugs, the ordering kiosk, and the frozen customer. Because the case achievement requires full completion of the episode rather than just the main story, it pays to clear the side tasks in one pass while you already know the layout.

On hints: a third-party guide at Tpose Gaming's breakdown of The Goddess is a Part-Timer reports that Dilly's "Divine Sight" hint recharges roughly every 60 seconds and that quest items emit a faint chime when you are close. Treat those as community-reported tips rather than official documentation, and save the hint for the moment you are down to a single object — not the moment a room first annoys you.

For the wider game, the official Lost and Found Co. page on Steam is the best place to check patch notes, since stage fixes and objective display issues have been adjusted in past updates.

FAQ

How many dirty dishes are in Lost and Found Co.? Players in the Steam discussion thread reference a five-dish count for the Sheriff Beef objective, with most getting stuck at four. No official number is published in the sources reviewed here, so treat five as the community-reported total.

Where is the last dirty dish in Lost and Found Co.? On the trolley behind the serving station where Ducky makes burgers, near the right end of the counter, partly hidden by the ceiling signs and just left of the barrel juice dispenser. Zoom in and click between the gaps.

Is the Lost and Found Co dirty dishes objective bugged? Community reports say no. Multiple players confirmed they collected every plate, and the usual problem is simply not recognizing the cart as an interactive object.

Do I need the dirty dishes objective for the achievement? It is listed as an optional objective within The Goddess is a Part-Timer!, and the related achievement is tied to completing that episode fully — so if you want 100% on the case, put the dishes away before you move on.