Cafe World Domination

So, I saw something the other day that caught my eye, and at first I couldn’t tell if it was in a good way or not. The thing in question was a guide for Café World – one of those PDF guides that tells you how to get through a game without having to stop and think about anything. At first, I thought it was silly – this is just a social game after all.

But, when I thought about it some more and how hard it is to get anything done in this game without a good chunk of real world cash or willingness to spend immense amounts of time in it, I wasn’t shocked to see that the game had a guide out already and I decided to check it out and see how it worked.

My Verdict

The Café World guide has been written to help guide you through every aspect of the game from start to finish. Basically, you are going to get an outline that shows you how to set up an account then effectively choose which dishes you cook, how you cook them, and who you will feed them to. The guide will then go on to showcase some hot tips on how to keep your café growing as you are offline, loading up on cash and making sure nothing ever spoils.

You’ll learn how to snag new neighbors, load up on cash and expand your restaurant without needing to ever spend real world cash on a game that doesn’t require it. This is basically one of the most streamlined and effective outlines of how to play this game I’ve ever seen.

Honestly, I’m not sure how the writer did it. These social games are so disjointed, that most of the time guides like this are just giant lists of features in the game, without any real insight. This guide however delves right to the root of what you need to be doing to succeed and never lets up.

If you need a helping hand or are just getting started in Café World, you ought to check out this guide. I’m telling you – it really helps.

There are a lot of different social games on sites like Facebook and MySpace. I’ve seen a dozen of them in the last few months blow up and frankly I didn’t get it at first. I saw people playing very simple, albeit free, games and while they looked interesting enough, they really weren’t all that engaging considering what they were.

But, then I started playing Café World. Don’t ask me why it was Café World. It could have been any of them probably. They’re all the same generally, and in that they are extremely addictive. But, it was Café World and now two months later I’m a bit of an addict – I love this game.

So, when I heard there was a guide coming out for it that would help to speed things along, I was first in line to read it. I wanted to know exactly what it was that this Café World guide could offer that I couldn’t figure out on my own.

Turns out, it was quite a bit. As of the two month mark, I was roughly 25 levels into the game. I would play about 3-4 days a week, and the last day would rarely count because I would usually let all my food spoil in the interim when I took the weekend off.

The Café World guide, however, showed me exactly how to outline and master the process of what to cook, when to cook it and how to set up the café before I logged off each night. Turns out you can actually make quite a tidy profit while not even logged in – for days on end if you want.

I couldn’t possibly touch on all the cool things that this guide does right, but here’s the bottom line – Café World is a tough game without some guidance. There are dozens of dishes, possible combinations and ways for you to mess up with. This Café World guide, I was able to create the perfect combination of tactics. I’m now at level 45 and have way more cash than I’ll ever need – and I’m having more fun than ever. That’s what a good guide should do. Check it out

If you’re familiar with some of the other social networking games out there, you’ve probably come across the practice of giving free gifts to your neighbors and receiving gifts from them.  These gifts are generally items that you could buy yourself.  But of course, it’s always nice to get things for free.  In Cafe World though, the gifts you give and receive break from this mold in several ways.  They may actually be more important to your success in Cafe World than they are in any other social networking game that fits this same general mold, so don’t be too quick to write them off just yet.

Unpurchaseable Merchandise

All of the items that can be gifted in Cafe World cannot be acquired any other way, and they give you a distinct advantage.  These mysterious drinks actually consist of drinks, appetizers, and cookies, but when you serve them to your customers, you get extra coins for each customer in your cafe at the time they’re served.  For this reason, it’s a big help to have a lot of gifts on hand, but to get a lot of gifts, you’ve got to have a lot of neighbors.  Each of your neighbors will be limited on how many gifts they can send you within a certain time period, so the more neighbors you have, the more gifts you’ll be able to accumulate.

Give to Receive

Of course, you can’t just expect your friends to keep sending you gifts at the earliest possible opportunity on a regular basis.  They need to be getting something out of the deal, and they also may just need to be reminded once in a while.  That’s why the best thing you can do if you want to get a lot of gifts is to give a lot of gifts.  This is the easiest way to both remind your friends to send one your way and to put them in the mood to do it.  And that way, you both benefit.

Don’t Squander Your Gifts

The benefit you get from the gifts you receive will depend greatly on when you choose to use them.  For instance, the chocolate chunk cookies will get you 5 coins per customer, but those customers have to be seated in your cafe when you use your gift for you to get the bonus for them.  That means that if you use your cookies when there are only 4 customers eating in your cafe, you’ll get 20 coins total from that gift.  If you want until there are 10 customers seated at once, however, you’ll make 50 coins off of the exact same gift. 

These details make it easy to see that, not only are gifts very important to the ultimate success of your cafe, but that you actually have a lot of control over how many you receive and how much of a benefit you get out of them.  It’s easy to just write off things like gifts as nice bonuses to get, but aspects of the game that are of secondary importance.  If you want to get ahead in cafe world though, you’d be wise to think of gifts a little differently in this context.

There are lots of tempting options when it comes to the items you can choose to put on your menu in cafe world.  As you advance to higher and higher levels of game play too, you only wind up unlocking more and more options in this regard.  It can be very tempting to cook one item or another because of your own personal tastes, and really there’s nothing wrong with indulging yourself from time to time.  If you want to be successful in this business though, you’ll have to make some more objective and analytical decisions when it comes to dish selection for your cafe.

Planning Around Your Schedule

The first thing you have to take into account when you’re trying to decide what to cook is how soon you’re going to be able to get back to check on your cafe and transfer prepared entrees from the stove to the serving counters.  No matter how well planned your menu is, it won’t do you much good if you don’t get back to serve it in time. 

Food that sits on the stove for too long will spoil rather quickly, and this is something you want to avoid at all costs.  Not only will you lose the opportunity to serve this food, and so have to wait longer to replenish your serving counters, you’ll lose the money you spent on the ingredients that went into making is.  You’ll also have to pay to clean up the mess which, while not a hefty sum, starts to loom larger and larger when you’re not making money off of the food you’re preparing.

Maximizing Your Earnings

Another factor to consider when you’re making your decision about what to cook in any given situation is how many servings each preparation of that dish will create.  This is important for a couple of reasons.  One is that you want to be able to make enough food to last until you can get back to your cafe and refill your serving counters.  That way you can continue making money all day and night, which is obviously the ideal situation. 

The other reason this is important is because you need to have an empty serving counter when you’re taking a new dish off the stove.  If you’re simply bringing out more of one of the dishes you’re already serving, you can simply add those new servings to what was left of the old.  However, if you have an entirely new entree coming off the stove, you’ll need to have an empty serving spot available on the counter.  This is a part of the menu planning process that is easily overlooked, but it can lead to a lot of spoiled food if you have entrees ready to come off of the stove but nowhere to put them.

Cost Per Serving

And of course, you want to pay attention to how much you’ll make each time a customer purchases an entree.  Maximizing this number will help you get the highest return per hour because it will mean you’re getting the most out of each customer who walks through the door.  And that, after all, is the goal of any good business owner.

There are a lot of things to keep track of when you’re trying to keep your cafe up and running in Cafe World.  You need to make sure your dishes are coming along nicely, that you have enough servings left on your counters, and that the food you’re making isn’t going to spoil before you can get back to attend to it.  If you’re like most people, you also want to spend some time decorating your cafe and putting your own personal touch on things. 

All of this is fine – that’s what’s so great about this game.  There are so many options for game play and you can make so many decisions on your own that the possibilities for what you can accomplish in Cafe World really are just about endless.  But with all of these decisions to make and avenues to explore, you do have to remember to take care of one other thing as well – your customers.

Business Is Business

If you want to be successful in Cafe World, you have to remember why your cafe exists in the first place.  And that’s to serve your customers.  You can decorate your cafe, rearrange your tables, and explore all kinds of menu options, but at the end of the day, none of it will do you any good if you aren’t able to keep customers coming through your door.  Just as with any business, you have to give your customers what they want if you want to stay in business.

Cashing In

It’s easy to focus on making coins as quickly as possible when you’re working to build up your business in Cafe World, and there’s nothing wrong with that.  You’ve got to make money if you want to keep your doors open.  And keeping your customers happy is the best way to maximize you profit potential.  The more satisfied customers you send out the door, the more people will venture into your cafe. 

Your Buzz Rating, the “thumbs up” number in the upper right hand corner of your screen, is a direct reflection of how happy you’re making your customers.  It’s also directly related to the number of customers that walk through your door.  The higher your Buzz Rating, the more quickly your customers will start to stream in, and so the faster they’ll spend money. 

Dishes vs Service

You can take all of the time you want planning out the perfect cooking and serving rotation so that you’re maximizing your earning potential per sale.  But that’s not how you’re going to bring in the most coins quickly.  No matter how much your entree costs per serving, you only make money as quickly as you can serve it.  Essentially, the quicker your sales, the more money you’ll make. 

Keep you customers happy and coming back regularly, and you’ll see the coins piling up fast.  This may not sound like what you want to hear.  After all, there are much more interesting things to do in cafe world than pay attention to all those people walking in and out of your door all day long.  It’s not nearly as complicated as it sounds.  When you make the right decisions for your cafe, you’ll be making the right decisions for your customers too.  After all, it’s just good business sense.

A lot of the fun of playing Cafe World is the fact that you can customize your cafe in all sorts of ways.  You can choose to add many different kinds of tables and chairs, doors and windows to create just the atmosphere you’re looking for.  You can also select from any of a number of other tasteful and interesting decorations.  There are even several stylish options for the clothing that your own character wears. 

But no matter what you decide to do when it comes to decorating your cafe, you need to remember that the way you set up your tables, chairs, counters and stoves will not only impact the ambiance of the place.  It will also have a lot to do with your ability to succeed in the game and grow you business overall. 

Easy Access Means Easy Money

First and foremost, you need to arrange your furniture so that your customers will actually be able to get to all of the available tables and chairs.  If you have, for instance, three chairs in a row up against a wall, the middle chair is simply wasted space.  Your customers can’t walk past the outer chairs to get to the middle one, so you’ll actually likely lose customers needlessly when they walk in and can’t find a place to sit. 

Since you know you never want to let customers walk away unsatisfied, you want to make sure that you have enough seating.  It’s easy to lose site of this aspect of your cafe.  After all, you’re the most actively involved in preparing and serving food – trying to make sure you always have food available and that the food on your stoves doesn’t sit there too long and spoil.  But none of that careful planning will do you any good if you don’t have tables and chairs available for your customers to sit and eat at.

Save Your Waiter’s Legs

Even when your customers are able to find an empty seat, they’ll only wait so long to get their meal.  That’s why you need to make sure you set your tables up in a way that makes it easy for your waiter or waitress to get around.  The quicker they can get back and forth from the serving counters to the tables, the easier it will be for you to make sure every customer who walks through your door gets their food in a timely manner.

Another thing you can do to help give your wait staff more time to serve your customers is to give your customers a long walk to their tables.  This means essentially putting in a lot of twists and turns so that your customers will have to take the long way around from the door to their seat.  Being generally rather agreeable, your customers really don’t mind this at all.  And the extra walking time for your customers means more time for your waiters and waitresses to stay caught up on their serving cycles.  If you keep these items in mind as you add more tables and chairs to your cafe, you’ll be well on your way to success in cafe world.