Facebook Cafe World Tips, Tricks, Guide & Database

How to Collect Your Tips

2009-10-18T07:04:00.001-07:00

Much like the real world, tips don't just magically appear in your Cafe World bank account. In real life, if you were to pick up a tip from a restaurant that you owned or worked at, you'd have to stop back by the table after your guests finished paying. In Cafe World, you do that stopping in again through the Facebook Notification system.

After your friends dine at your cafe and if they choose to leave you a tip, the head's up for your tip will come in through your Facebook Notifications. If you have your Facebook Home page open, you'll see a pop-up alert that lets you know you have a tip ready.

Below are the steps for checking your Notification history to pick up any tips you might have missed.

Go to your Facebook Home Page
On the bottom right of the screen, next to the Chat feature, look for the Notifications signpost
Click the Notificiations signpost. At the top of the submenu, underneath the blue border bar, there is a link for "See All."
Click "See All."
The notifications are sorted by date. The Cafe World notifications have a little hamburger for an icon. The tip notification will read something like, "Suzie Quezie and 4 others just ate at your restaurant and left you a tip! Click here to see how much you got! 8:00am"
When you click the link, you'll be taken the "clipboard" screen in game. On the clipboard, there is a section for Tips Earned. Next to the coin jar, look for these words: You earned X Coins as Tips from your friends!

In order to receive Tips, you must allow Cafe World as an application to send you notifications. You can change the status of Cafe World's access to your notifications by checking or unchecking the access authorized box on that same "See All" notification page.

Cafe World Cheats and Tips

2009-10-15T08:44:00.000-07:00

Cafe World takes the best elements from Restaurant City and combine them with the tried and true elements from FarmVille in the newest Facebook game from Zynga. The new game features means that you need to do

a lot more planning to be successful than in most other social games, this guide includes some useful tips for scheduling dishes and maximize your profits and cafe point. If you want to speed things up even more, make sure to try out the Cafe World cheats at the end of this article.

The biggest change in Cafe World is the way dishes are prepared. Rather than have your chef prepare individual servings, you will be making up to several hundred servings at a time. Naturally, the more servings you make, the longer it will take to make them. This means that you need to plan out your meals carefully. If you want to cook the dishes that take a day or more to complete, you have to make sure you have available stoves to keep your customers fed while waiting. This again means you have to manage the counter space so that you will have a spot to serve all your amazing dishes.

The Tips and Strategy for Cafe World

The actual schedule will vary based on how many stoves and tables you have in your cafe, but I find that as a general rule, you need around 400 - 500 servings to keep your guests happy for an hour. This number will very a lot based on how you set up your cafe, but as a rule of thumb ti should be a good starting point. This means that before you can start serving the more advanced dishes, you should build up a stock pile of faster dishes.

The hamburgers take only 5 minutes to make, but you only get 13 servings. Still, making about 100 burgers will give you time to make the fruit salad. The fruit salad is a great dish for new Cafe World players. It is fast to make, it takes just 15 minutes, and gives 100 servings. If you use all your stoves, you should be able to build up an hours stockpile of dishes in just 15 minutes. When playing, I always make as much fruit salad as I can, and right before I turn of the game for the night, I'll start a dish that will take over night to be done. The fruit salad will keep the guests happy for at least a while, and when you get back to your game, the complicated dish will earn you some serious cafe points.

Once you have established a rotation of dishes, the huge serving sizes of the more complicated dishes means you don't have to make fruit salads anymore if attending to the game every 15 minutes is too much. Money wise it will not make a big difference, but the cafe points will be a lot better for the dishes that take longer to make.

That is the basic playing strategy for Cafe World, there no need to worry about your chef or waiter getting tired or running out of ingredients, all you need to do is make sure you have dishes available for your guests.

With that out of the way, it's time to explore some of the cheats that can help you score big in Cafe world. Like most of the new social games, you can send free gifts to your neighbors and friends in Cafe World. The gifts are capped at one free gift a day, but if you are playing using Firefox, you can send as many free gifts as you want.

The Cheats

Gift Cheats

To use the cheat, before you have given any gifts, right click on the 'gifts' tab on top of the game and select 'open link in new browser'. This will open the gift giving screen in a new tab in your browser. Repeat this as many times as you'd like. I have tried the cheat with up to 20 different tabs without problems. Once you have all your tabs with the gift giving page open, go back to every single one and select the gift you want to give. Do this for every single tab without confirming the selection. Once you have done this for every single tab, go back again and confirm on each page, selecting who you want to send the gift to. Again, do not confirm the sending of the gift on this page. Do this in every tab again, and when you go back to your first tab, you should be able to confirm the gift and send it from each of your open tabs. This way you can send unlimited gifts to your friends, or if you'd like to receive unlimited gifts, create an alternate gifting account that can send you an abundance of any gift you would like.

Fast Waiter Cheats

Another very helpful cheat will let you serve and make food without your chef or waiter having to move to the different tables. To take advantage of this cheat, all you have to do is arrange the tables and counters so the waiter can't get to the front of the tables. You can do this by either trapping the waiter in the corner behind the counters, or by placing the tables so they can't be reached. Instead of giving up on serving, the waiter will get your guests a plate instantly when they sit down. Cleaning up works in the same magical way. This cuts down serving time to nothing and allows amazing amounts of guests to be served. In fact, this set up is so efficient that you will have a hard time keeping enough food in stock. If you keep on your toes and make fruit salad constantly, you will just be able to keep up with demand. The upside is that you will see the money rolling in and your buzz rating will be topped out in no time.

Follow these tips and cheats and you will soon be running the fanciest cafe in Cafe World.

2009-10-08T07:06:00.001-07:00

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Cafe World Guide, Tips and Tricks

2009-10-07T23:26:00.000-07:00

If you've never played Cafe World, or any other Zynga game for that matter, start. Right now. You don't know what you're missing. Cafe World is like owning your own restaurant. You make food, serve it, and have a waitress/waiter serve it to guests to eat. Simple, yet amazing game. Just give it a try.

The Basics

Cafe World has a few things that you should generally know, much like all Zynga games, to let you understand the game a little better. This is basically a rundown of the layout of the game. Veteran players will not need to read this:

Your Cook: This is you. You operate as the cook of your Cafe. Customize as you want, just be sure to notice that some items cost coins to buy.
Your Waiter/Waitress: This is one of your friends. They will pick up food and serve your customers, as well as clean up after them.
Your Cafe: This is where your customers will come in, and this is the entire area of the game to customize and play in.
Coins: The currency of the game. COINS ARE NOT CASH.
Cash: The "pay to use" currency of the game. If you haven't started playing or are new to Zynga games, don't worry about this until later in the FAQ. It's useless right now.
Buzz Rating: The score of your cafe. If guests enjoy your cafe, you get more. If they don't, you get less. Lowest is 5 and highest is 105.
Experience/Level: The more experience, the more you'll level. Like any game.

There are also key items in the game:
Stoves: The more stoves, the more food you can cook, and the farther you can go in the game. It is advised that you ALWAYS have AS MANY stoves as you can at ALL TIMES. There is no reason you shouldn't. You start off with three (basically four) and you gain more as you level up.
Counters: These will hold the food you have cooked. You start off with three, and gain more as you level up. Each counter can hold one dish. However, it can hold multiples of the same dish. So, three bacon cheeseburgers can all fit on one counter.
Chairs: People sit in them.
Tables: Each table can hold one dish. Meaning, only one person can use a table. So, one table, one chair.

Now we're going to go to the customize menus:

Customize: This is where you can buy tables, chairs, and aesthetic changes to your cafe, like wallpaper and floor tiles as well as plants and etc.
Functional: This is where you buy tables and counters. That's it.
Expand: You can pay coins to buy upgrades to your cafe.
Manage Friends: This is where you change your employees. Don't worry about it now, different employees don't change anything in the game. It might change some popularity amongst your friends in real life, though. You can also access this menu by clicking on your employees (not your cook).
Change Clothes: This lets you change your cook's clothes. You can also reach this menu by clicking on your cook.
Gifts: Your friends can send you these. They help you get coins based on how many customers are in your cafe.
Achievements: These aren't released yet. I'll update when they are released.

Starting Off

So, you've got a couple tables, a couple chairs, three stoves and three counters. You've also got a waitress and a cook. I can't remember what is on your stoves, but I'm sure there were things on them. Anyways onto what to do.

This is how the general flow of things work:
Cook Things - Serve Things - Customers Come In - Waitress serves them - They eat and finish - They leave giving +Buzz and +Coins - Your waitress cleans up after them

That's it. That's the entire game. But it's more addicting than anything you could imagine. Maybe not anything. So, in order to make this guide not jumble up quickly if it hasn't already, I'm going to explain things in the order of that flow.

Cooking

The joy of the game. Well for me anyways. Cooking is the essence of the game. To cook, you need a stove, and of course a mouse to click with on your computer.

Clicking on a clean stove will bring up the cookbook. The cookbook contains everything that you can cook. Because I know I got confused the first time around I'm going to give you an example and explain. Here's the Bacon Cheeseburger:

Bacon Cheeseburger
Cost to Buy: 15
Sell For: 52
Servings: 13
Ready In: 5 minutes

To further explain;

Name of the Dish
Cost to Buy: The price to put on your stove and cook
Sell For: The entire dish (all of it's servings) will sell for this amount.
Servings: The amount of customers that one of these dishes can hold.
Ready In: The time it takes to cook.

So, a Bacon Cheeseburger costs 15 coins to cook, and will take 5 minutes to cook. It will sell in total for 52 coins and will serve 13 people. That means 4 coins per serving (Sell For (52) / Servings (13)).

There is another hidden stat that you won't be aware of, and that is spoil time. After a dish is done being cooked, you only have a certain amount of time to serve it before the food spoils. When a food spoils you lose it completely. The time it takes a food to spoil is 120% of the cook time. So, a bacon cheeseburger takes 5 minutes to cook, and 6 additional minutes to spoil. That's 11 minutes total from the time it starts cooking to the time it spoils.

Each item has a different cost, cook time, amount of servings and sell value. You can find an invaluable spreadsheet of all items and information here:
Items and Informations Spreadsheet
I will explain later what to cook, when, later.

You will also need to prep before the cooktime starts. You will have to click on the stove to add and prep ingredients. Most cooked items will take three additional prep-clicks before the item starts cooking.

Servings and Customers

When something is done cooking, you can click on it and your cook will serve it. Once something has been served, it will take one more click on your stove to clean it so it can be ready to cook again. It costs 15 coins to clean your stove and you gain 1xp.

When served, the cooked food will be added to your counters. There are rules to the counters:
-Each counter can only hold one type of food.
-Multiple servings of the same meal can be stacked on one counter
-There is no limit to how many servings one counter can hold (that I know of)
So, if you've got five stoves with all Bacon Cheeseburgers, you can put all of them on one counter. But, if you've got Bacon Cheeseburgers and another meal on two stoves, you will need two counters.

As customers walk in, they will sit at a chair that is next to a table. One table can only support one customer. So, one table per chair. When a customer sits down your waitress will bring a dish of food (at random if more than one thing served) to the table. The waitress WILL NOT serve food if they cannot get to the table. There is an exploit to this trick which I will mention later.

It takes about half a minute for a guest to eat their food. Once eaten, the guest will leave and will most likely give you +.1 Buzz rating and the payment for the food they ate. The waitress will then clean up the leftover food/plate.

Angry customers will lower your buzz rating. There are two ways to make a customer angry:
-Don't have enough seats/tables for the customer to get their meal.
-Don't serve them food after a certain amount of time.
Angry customers are bad. Make sure you always have enough tables and make sure your waitress can reach every table quickly.

Buzz Rating

Your Buzz is a point system that tells how popular your cafe is. The lowest is 5, which you will start out at. The higher the buzz, the more customers. Things to note about Buzz:

-Buzz only grows/decays while playing the game. While not playing, your buzz will stay at the rating it was when you left.
-Each happy customer will leave +.1 Buzz.
-Angry customers will leave anywhere from -.1 to -.7 Buzz.
-If the waitress cannot reach a table, they cannot serve the customer, which will give you negative Buzz.
-The look (aesthetics) of your cafe will not affect your Buzz rating. You can have all of the cheapest items and still have 105 Buzz.

High buzz is not always a good thing. At a very high buzz, above 70, you will start getting customers at a rapid pace. At 105 I average about one customer every 10 seconds. That means that at 105 buzz, you will average about 360 servings eaten per hour. That means that Spitfire Roasted Chicken you waited a day to cook only lasted around two hours on your counter.

There is one general rule to maintaining a high buzz: Always have more than enough tables. At 105 buzz you should have at least 10 tables. I have 21, and it's overkill, but hey, you can never have enough.

Experience

You get experience four different ways. Three of the ways are just through cooking:
-You get experience for prepping a dish. Most dishes take two-three clicks to prep, which means you get experience for each click.
-You get experience for serving a dish. Each dish has a different hidden amount. Bacon Cheeseburgers for example give 3 exp when you serve them, while Super Chunk Fruit Salad gives 10 exp when served. The general rule is the longer it takes to cook, the more experience you will get when served.
-You get 1 exp when cleaning your stove after serving something. No matter what you cooked, it's 1 exp.
-You get 5 exp when visiting neighbor's cafe's and eating their specialty dish. After visiting 20 neighbors in one day, the number is lowered to 1 exp per neighbor.

As you level up, you will gain stoves, counters staff and dishes to cook. Stoves and dishes are probably your main concern when leveling up. You can never have too many stoves.

Neighbors

Neighbors are your friends who play the application and have accepted your neighbor request. You want as many neighbors as you can. I see no need for more than 20 neighbors, but the more the better. You can help out your neighbors and get exp/coins and even send and receive gifts. Another thing is that you can measure how far you are in the game to them. For example, I'm in 5th place out of my 26 neighbors.

What to Cook and When

This is probably the most important part of the game. Running your restaurant at top notch is done through cooking the right meals at the right times. You should aim to always having food served, as well as keeping in a high return rate on coins. You also need to factor in the amount of experience you want to gain in a day, as well as how you plan on playing the game, and even when your off-game times will be.

Plan.
You will need to plan out things in order to get the best out of your playtime. If you know you're going to be gone for an hour, don't make Bacon Cheeseburgers. They'll spoil. Likewise, if you're going to be sitting at the computer for at least an hour, don't start making something that takes two hours to cook.

If you are going away for an hour, throw something on that will take an hour to cook.
If you're going away for more than two hours, throw something on for four hours.
If you're going away for more than eight hours, throw something on for eight hours.

As you can see, the goal is to have food ready when you get on the game. There is a sweetspot that you have to aim for. You want to make something that will take the longest to make, but still be ready when you get back. A good thing to do is to double the cook time to make sure it won't spoil before you get back. For example;

If you're going to be gone for three hours, making something that takes two hours (if available). Doubling two hours is four hours, so if you might be gone for more than four hours, your food will more than likely spoil.

Hopefully you get the idea. It would take PAGES for me to list examples. Here's a nice chart I've made from the Profit List I linked to earlier. Note that I included all of the food you can unlock up to level 7. You'll get the idea after level 7 and won't need these charts for anything afterwards;

If you're going to be gone for ##:## make (Food):
Not Leaving - Bacon Cheeseburger/Super Chunk Fruit Salad
30m-1h - Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail
1h-2h - Tikka Masala Kabobs
2h-4h - Nothing. Keep your stoves open for when you return.
4h-8h - French Onion Soup.
5h-8h - Tony's Classic Pizza (level 15 unlock)
8h-12h - Spagetti and Meatballs (level 11 unlock)
12h-24h - Triple Berry Cheesecake (At level 19, switch to Voodoo Chicken Salad)
1d-2d - Spitfire Roasted Chicken
2d-4d - Homestyle Pot Roast
4d+ - Nothing

If you've got a while of just sitting at your computer, you're going to make only Super Chunk Fruit Salad and Bacon Cheeseburgers until you leave. When you leave, make sure you switch to whatever is on the chart.
Why these?
Bacon Cheeseburgers have the biggest profit and experience return based on time. In five minutes you can make 7 exp on one burger and 52 coins when it's all eaten. On five stoves, that's 35 exp and 260 coins in five minutes (well, it'll take longer to get the coins). The problem with only doing Bacon Cheeseburgers though is that at a high buzz rating, you'll sell out before you can finish the next batch, which is why you should also concentrate on...
Super Chunk Fruit Salad on the other hand has the biggest serving of 100. So, for 15 minutes of cook time, you can serve 100 people. Five stoves with these makes 500 servings in only fifteen minutes. As you recall, at 105 buzz rating you serve about 350 an hour.

What I like to do is spend an hour on Fruit Salad, and then an hour on Cheeseburgers. I also have six stoves. So, in two hours, I have made 2400 servings of fruit salad, and 156 servings of cheeseburgers (which are eaten by the time the next batch comes up).

Other Things to Know

Waitress Exploit
When a waitress is surrounded by counters and a wall, they will automatically serve customers and clean up after them without moving. In order for this to work you must:
-Have each table servable if the cook was not trapped
-Have your waitress still able to reach all counters
-Have no more than one waitress
If you have more than one waitress, the trick doesn't work. However, even at 105 buzz, using this exploit you still wouldn't need the other waitress since serving is extremely quick this way.

Cook Exploit
When a cook is surrounded by all of his stoves and cannot reach the counters, he will automatically place food on the counters when you click to serve. It's not as usefull as the waitress exploit, but it's still quicker than waiting for the cook to move from the stove to the counter.

Buying expensive stoves, doors, wallpaper, floors, counters, clothes, windows, tables, and chairs do not change your guest's happiness or buzz rating. You should only start upgrading all of your equipment if you are SURE you have the money to.

With 105 buzz, it seems the maximum amount of tables needed is 15. I've never seen more than 15 tables being used at once. Most of the time I average at 8 tables at one time.

Entering the customize menu, the expand menu, or leaving the game to come back will refresh your cafe, meaning you will have to reserve everyone who is in your cafe. This wastes servings and coins. Only access those menus when you start up your cafe, or are planning to leave.

There really isn't a need for more than two doors in a cafe.

The Ending

Cafe World Icon Guide

2009-10-06T10:25:00.000-07:00

When you enter your Cafe World application on your facebook, you will see this picture with a lot of icon / button. There’s already explanation for each icon if you hover your mouse on them.

On the top left you will find 2 icons

The coin = total of your Cafe Coins
paper money = i think this will be the amount of your cash money (coming soon)

On the middle top we have this icon

The number means the experience / Cafe Points that you have (792) , if you hover the mouse on it will tell you how much Cafe Points you’ll need for the next level (1070)
And the right number tells your level (6)

Earn Cafe Points by visiting neighbors and cooking dishes. Earn enough and you’ll Level Up!
New levels let you purchase extra stoves, hire additional waiters and cook more dishes!

On top right you’ll find this icon :

This is your Cafe Name, Click to change your Cafe name.

This is Buzz Rating
Your Buzz Rating determines how many customers walk into your cafe.
Happy customers will increase your Buzz, while sad customers make it go down.

On bottom left you’ll find this icons :

Manage Friends

You can manage your Employees in here.
If there’s any position available you will have a “Position Available! Hire” click, and choose your friends to be your employee
Note : you can’t change your employee outfit, you will find them with different outfit when your friends changed their outfit

Customize
In this icon you will find :

Decor :

- tables
- chairs
- doors
- windows
- floors
- walls
- decor

Functional :

- stoves
- counters

Expand Cafe :
how many tile that you can buy, to unlock you must per level

to sell / gift items you can drag any item you want to this icon

Change Clothes
You can style your character in here, change clothes face, skin color, etc.

Cookbook
You can pick any dishes you want in here if you have any stoves available.
On bottom right you’ll find this icon

Use gifts - sending any gift to your friends
Ribbons - i think this will be award that you’ll achive later (coming soon)

Source: lightchan.com

Cafe World - Buzz Rating Hack

2009-10-06T09:44:00.000-07:00

Tools you need :
1) Cheat Engine 5.5 or Here
2) Firefox
3) Flash Player 9 and 10

1) Open the game Cafe World
2) Open Cheat Engine, choose your browser in the process list. Tick HEX, 8 bytes, also scan read-only memory
3) Put 3B840FC98574498B in the hex box
4) You will find 1 address right-click then disassemble
5) Look for "test ecx,ecx"
6) Change it to "test ecx,edx"
7) Then change it back to "test ecx,ecx" after 30 sec

This hack also been you as a money/coin cheat. As long you use the speedhack to fasten the cooking. Apply this cheat and you see the customer flow coming in fast and your money rolling.. Enjoy!

Cafe World - Speed Hack

2009-10-06T09:40:00.000-07:00

Tools you need :
1) Cheat Engine 5.5 or Here
2) Firefox
3) Flash Player 9 and 10

1) On your Cafe World application.
2) Open your cheat engine for process list and choose Firefox.
3) On the right hand side of the Cheat engine simply check on Speed hack
4) Enter your desired speed. Do not increase your speed above 30 as it will encounter timeout. Preferably set to 15
5) Watch your buzz rating go up, your coin increases and the best food to go along would be salad and burgers if you just started playing Zynga Cafe World.

I get a 'Fatal Error' message on when I do ______, how to fix that?

2009-10-05T23:31:00.002-07:00

The message you are getting starts with "Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Session key invalid or no longer valid'"
Since you can see the problem is Facebook simply relog your facebook account.

How do I turn my furniture around?

2009-10-05T23:31:00.000-07:00

Click customize(chair) and then you can move anything you want.
Same way in customize but when you click the item you want to turn there are two arrows above it, simply click one of the arrows untill you reach the position you wanted.

How long does it take to dishes to spoil?

2009-10-05T23:30:00.000-07:00

http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.p...=1#post2429358
Proved it with 3 different types of dishes.
Also here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...7w&output=html

How can I start over?

2009-10-05T23:29:00.000-07:00

You can't, unless you delete the app and then want to wait 60 days. If you do, after the 60 days you will need to install the app again and you have your new account.

How do I make money?

2009-10-05T23:28:00.001-07:00

You make money by selling your dishes to customers that will come to your cafe.
You make money by getting tips when your neightbors come and visit your cafe(not when you see them enter your cafe but when they click 'Visit'
You make money when you visit your neightbors by trying out their dish.

How do I take a screen shot?/How do I post a screen shot on the forum?

2009-10-05T23:27:00.003-07:00

Special thanks to aftershockmedia.
http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?t=206935

How do I close my cafe?

2009-10-05T23:27:00.001-07:00

You can remove the door, that way you will have no people in your cafe and none will come in either. Exept that everything stays the same.

How does my friend have so many Stoves/Counters?

2009-10-05T23:24:00.002-07:00

If anyone has direct knowledge that there is an exploit in the game that allows for multiple stoves and counters before the appropriate level and knows the steps to replicate it, then please send me a private message.

Please be aware that there is a legitimate glitch that might cause users to have stoves/ovens outside of their level through no fault or action of the player.

Why customers are not going into my cafe and lower my Buzz?

2009-10-05T23:24:00.000-07:00

Those customers are unhappy because you have no room to sit in your cafe and unlike the happy customers that raise your Buzz the unhappy lower it.

When do I get Counter/Stove/Employee?

2009-10-05T23:23:00.003-07:00

Special thanks to sharkyman.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...7w&output=html

Why my game is not getting saved?

2009-10-05T23:23:00.001-07:00

You need to remember this is a Beta. Simply go to customize for abit and then refresh your window to see if it was saved.

What is the max Buzz?/What is the Buzz for?

2009-10-05T23:22:00.004-07:00

The max Buzz is 105. The Buzz is same as Fame, they higher it is the more customers will come to you meaning more money and CP since you will need to make more dishes.

Why my waiters do not serve the customers?

2009-10-05T23:22:00.002-07:00

Leave a clear path to the table for the waiter to reach, he can not serve from behind a chair.
If that doesn't help trying to fire the waiter and hire a different one.

Why am I not earning the money that is written when I buy the dish?

2009-10-05T23:22:00.000-07:00

The money that is written there is the total amount you will gain for the dish, not for the serves. That amount is divided to the people you can serve it to.
Example: Super Chunk Fruit Salad - "Sell for -100 coins" "Serves - 100"
100/100 = 1 coin per each person.