Cafe World Tips and Tricks

One of the things that draw people to Facebook are social games.  An example is Cafe World.  It is a restaurant simulation game.  When you play you will be given a small restaurant. Your avatar is the cook and you can choose one friend to represent your first waiter.

How to Play Cafe World

You will be given a starting 3000 coins.  You need to cook food for your customers. You do this  by buying the ingredients of your chosen dish from the menu. Each dish will have different cost and cooking duration. And each one returns different amount of coins (your profit).  As you level up,  you will gain more coins. You will be able to expand your restaurant. You will be able to buy additional stoves, counters, better chairs, and nicer tables. You will be able to hire additional waiters.  And you will be able to cook more dishes.

Some Tips

Cafe World is one of many  Facebook Social Games. Therefore, it was designed to encourage interaction between players.  For example, you need to visit your friends restaurant. Once a day when you visit them you will be assigned a task. The task is actually simple. You will just be given a message saying your friend is asking for help to cook a certain food. And then it will ask if you want to help them or not.  When you say yes, you will be awarded with coins and bonus experience points.

You can also send your friends free gifts. They can serve this gifts to their customers. And it will help them level faster.

Lastly, you are gain additional coins if you invite new players.  I think this is the main reason why Cafe World quickly became very popular.

Level Up Faster

Dishes that takes longer to cook bring more coins and experience points. That is why when I play I mostly cook foods that takes 12 hours to two days cooking period.

Some Tricks

If you don't wont your buzz rating to go down when you aren't serving any food, sell your door. Your customers will never be able to get inside hence you have no dissatisfied customer.

Enclose your cook and waiters within the counter and the stoves. This will impede them from moving to the tables. The side effect of this is that food begins to magically appear on your customer's table.  And the tables magically get cleaned after they finish eating.

Personally, I don't do these because I like to see the cute chibi characters walking around.  Another thing, this exploits are actually program bugs.  They are not guaranteed to work in the future after Zynga patches them.

Real Life Lessons

Cafe World is only a game but it actually teaches some point that we can apply in real life.

1. You need a budget when you are going to run a restaurant.

2. There are expenses to be paid. In this game, the expenses are simplified. You pay for the ingredients of the dishes.  In real life, you have to pay for the ingredients that you will need when you cook.  Your employees must have their salaries plus benefits. Then there is the matter of the electric bill, water, and rent.

The lesson being taught is that you must plan before you spend.  When you decide to spend, your chosen actions must return the biggest profit possible. Or else the business will close and you lose the game.

So you see, it's not actually just another silly game.  Don't get addicted however. Manage your time wisely.

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