Wednesday, February 17, 2010

High Speed Levelling that Works

One of biggest desires of every Cafe World player out there is to be able to level up as fast as possible. They get tired of being stuck at Level 10, watching their neighbors skyrocket upwards, and no wonder when there are so many more cool things you can do when you get up into the 20s and 30s.

So, here are some tips to help you get the most possible XP to reach the highest levels in the game in no time.


1.Creating a Schedule that Works

2.Start by Knowing What to Cook

3.The Right Balance

4.The Right Layout and Schedule

The Right Layout and Schedule

Now that you know what to cook, you should know how to setup your cafe and develop a schedule for cooking those dishes. This is important in more ways than just leveling. It will directly affect your Buzz Rating as well as how many coins you can make per hour – two stats you want to keep a close eye on as you get higher in levels. Eventually, those two stats will be all that matters to you.

For now, you should try to setup your cafe so that servers don’t need to travel far between customers and serving tables. This will speed up service and if you are rotating a new dish out every 5 minutes, it will boost your buzz rating and get you more customers, which means more cafe points and higher levels.

Scheduling is equally important in that you may not be able to log on to the game for hours at a time to cook burgers every 5 minutes. That’s why Zynga includes a variety of dishes that can be cooked over the course of many different intervals – from 2 hours to 48 hours. Choose dishes with high Cafe point rewards over a time frame that works for you.

In the end, you want to be as well versed in the dynamics and strategies of Cafe World as possible. This means balancing the different aspects of leveling up in regards to your cafe point gain alongside your coin increase and your buzz rating. Pull that off and you’ll be well on your way to the upper ratings.

The Right Balance

Just because a dish fits you time frame doesn’t mean it’s a valuable dish though. You also need to be sure that it has a good coin per hour rate. To determine the coin per hour rate, divide the number of coins you will make by the hours it takes you to cook and serve that dish. For example, if you will make 100 coins with a dish that takes 4 hours to cook, the coin per hour rate is 25 coins.

In addition to finding dishes with high coin per hour rates that match your schedule, you can visit your fellow players and help them out around their cafes. This might seem like a little extra work, but you can make 20 coins per visit you make to each friend on your neighbors list each day. There is a cap of 20 visits per day, but that’s still 400 coins a day just for doing a little travelling.

What you do with your coins is entirely up to you, but you may as well have a lot of them to make that decision with. Cook the right dishes, do some visiting and have fun decorating your cafe as much as possible.

Start by Knowing What to Cook

If you cook the wrong dishes, you’re never going to level up. Each dish has a different cooking time, serving volume, and number of Cafe Points awarded for each customer you serve it to. As a result, the dishes you choose to cook will have a big impact on how fast you can reach the upper levels.

For the most part, the best dishes to cook when trying to level up are the ones that cook the fastest. You can serve far more customers that way and, if you are online frequently, you can rotate new dishes in every 5 minutes or so.

Two good examples of this are Bacon Cheeseburgers and Chips and Guacamole. Both dishes take only 5 minutes to cook and they give 7 and 5 cafe points for finishing them up. If you can stay logged on and cook these dishes over and over again, you will get far more points than you would by cooking a 24 hour dish that only awards slightly more cafe points.

Creating a Schedule that Works

Cafe World is built around the idea of you being logged into the game and playing as much as possible. If you cannot do that, you need to adjust your game play strategy so that you can still make a decent chunk of coin without being online all the time.

How do you do that? To start with, you immediately cut out all the items that are cooked right away. If you’re not logged on to the game more than once every 24 hours, you should not be cooking bacon or cheeseburgers that can be done in just 5 minutes. You should be cooking stews and pot roast – dishes that will take a full 24 hours to complete.

If you don’t cook dishes that take that entire timeframe to cook, you’re going to be stuck with a whole array of spoiled food, which is ultimately wasted coins that could have gone toward other dishes or upgrades to your cafe.

So, you should create a schedule, even if you just do it in your head real quick. When can you login each day and for how long? If you know you’re going to be online all day, such as on a Saturday, feel free to cook up those short dishes.

Best Dish on Cafe World

Cooking is the main activity on Cafe World game, an online cooking game from Zynga on facebook. Cook a dish and serve to your customer. There are 2 points when you decide to cook one dish, such as pick for more coins OR more cafe points (CP). Some people focused to get more coins and others want to level up by increase CP rapidly. It depends on you, which the way is the best for you.
All dishes on Cafe World have a certain CP number and profit. This profit means the deviation between buy and sell price, not including cleaned stove cost (15 coins). Also, when I talked about CP, this is not include cleaned stove CP (1 point). Below is the details about best dishes in 24 hours,based on CP and Profit.

Every dishes has three step to starting to cook. And every dishes has 2 kinds of CP, CP cook and CP serve. So, here’s the parameter to guide you for the next reading :
CP total = CP cook + CP serve
Profit = sell price - buy price


Bacon Cheeseburger (13 servings)
Cook time : 5 minutes, CP total : 3+3= 6 CP, Profit = 37 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1728 CP / 10,656 coins profit.

Super Chunk Fruit Salad (100 servings)
Cook time : 15 minutes, CP total : 3+10= 13 CP, Profit = 65 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1248 CP / 6,240 coins profit.


French Onion Soup (205 servings)
Cook time : 4 hours, CP total : 12+48= 60 CP, Profit = 440 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 360 CP / 2,640 coins profit.

Triple Berry Cheesecake (550 servings)
Cook time : 12 hours, CP total : 15+124= 139 CP, Profit = 1250 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 278 CP / 2,500 coins profit.

Spitfire Roasted Chicken (800 servings)
Cook time : 1 day, CP total : 15+194= 209 CP, Profit = 2600 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 209 CP / 2,600 coins profit.

Homestyle Pot Roast (1150 servings)
Unlocked at level 3.
Cook time : 2 days, CP total : 60+218= 278 CP, Profit = 3950 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 139 CP / 1975 coins profit.


Chips & Guacamole (12 servings)
Unlocked at level 3.
Cook time : 3 minutes, CP total : 3+0= 3 CP, Profit = 26 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1440 CP / 12,480 coins profit.


Caramel Apples (75 servings)
Unlocked at level 3.
Cook time : 2 hours, CP total : 12+22= 34 CP, Profit = 210 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 408 CP / 2,520 coins profit.

Pumpkin Pie (265 servings)
Unlocked at level 3.
Cook time : 12 hours, CP total : 15+60 = 75 CP, Profit = 860 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 150 CP / 1,720 coins profit.

Vampire Staked Steak (335 servings)
Unlocked at level 3.
Cook time : 1 day, CP total : 15+97 = 112 CP, Profit = 1710 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 112 CP / 1,710 coins profit.

Tikka Masala Kabobs (90 servings)
Unlocked at level 5.
Cook time : 1 hour, CP total : 6+15= 21 CP, Profit = 145 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 504 CP / 3,480 coins profit.

Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail (37 servings)
Unlocked at level 7.
Cook time : 30 minutes, CP total : 3+17= 20 CP, Profit = 83 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 960 CP / 3,984 coins profit.

Spaghetti and Meatballs (275 servings)
Unlocked at level 11.
Cook time : 8 hours, CP total : 24+75= 99 CP, Profit = 925 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 297 CP / 2,775 coins profit.

Stardust Stew (425 servings)
Unlocked at level 14.
Cook time : 9 hours, CP total : 18+120= 138 CP, Profit = 1,550 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 368 CP / 4,133 coins profit.

Tony’s Classic Pizza (260 servings)
Unlocked at level 15.
Cook time : 5 hours, CP total : 21+46= 67 CP, Profit = 900 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 322 CP / 4,320 coins profit.

Voodoo Chicken Salad (535 servings)
Unlocked at level 19.
Cook time : 12 hours, CP total : 36+131= 167 CP, Profit = 1975 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 334 CP / 3,950 coins profit.

Chicken Gyro & Fries (22 servings)
Unlocked at level 23.
Cook time : 10 minutes, CP total : 3+10= 13 CP, Profit = 43 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1872 CP / 6,192 coins profit.

King Crab Bisque (955 servings)
Unlocked at level 27.
Cook time : 1 day, CP total : 54+197= 251 CP, Profit = 5385 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 251 CP / 5,385 coins profit.

Overstuffed Peppers (860 servings)
Unlocked at level 35.
Cook time : 12 hours, CP total : 45+160= 205 CP, Profit = 3000 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 410 CP / 6,000 coins profit.


Kungpao Stir Fry (320 servings)
Unlocked at level 31.
Cook time : 4 hours, CP total : 21+53= 74 CP, Profit = 1000 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 444 CP / 6,000 coins profit.


Fiery Fish Tacos (205 servings)
Unlocked at level 39.
Cook time : 2 hours, CP total : 15+33= 48 CP, Profit = 505 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 576 CP / 6,060 coins profit.


Powdered French Toast (37 servings)
Unlocked at level 43.
Cook time : 20 minutes, CP total : 3+17= 20 CP, Profit = 82 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1440 CP / 5,904 coins profit.


Impossible Quiche (1900 servings)
Unlocked at level 47.
Cook time : 2 days, CP total : 350 CP, Profit = 10,200 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 175 CP / 5,100 coins profit.


Crackling Peking Duck (1200 servings)
Unlocked at level 13.
Cook time : 18 hours, CP total : 15+150= 165 CP, Profit = 2,700 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 220 CP / 3,600 coins profit.


Herbed Halibut (900 servings)Unlocked at level 17.
Cook time : 1 day, CP total : 21+203= 224 CP, Profit = 3,800 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 224 CP / 3,800 coins profit.

Grand Tandoori Chicken (1000 servings)
Unlocked at level 50.
Cook time : 1 day, CP total : 63+339= 402 CP, Profit = 4,000 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 402 CP / 4,000 coins profit.


Savory Stuffed Turkey (1200 servings)
Unlocked at level 9.
Cook time : 22 hours, CP total : 15+200= 215 CP cook, Profit = 2,900 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 234 CP / 3,164 coins profit.


Atomic Buffalo Wings (320 servings)
Unlocked at level 21.
Cook time : 3 hours, CP total : 21+46= 67 CP, Profit = 610 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 536 CP / 4,880 coins profit.


Buttermilk Pancakes (80 servings)
Unlocked at level 25.
Cook time : 45 minutes, CP total : 9+21= 30 CP, Profit = 150 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 960 CP / 4,800 coins profit.

Tostadas de Carne Asada (1200 servings)
Unlocked at level 29.
Cook time : 8 hours, CP total : 42+80= 122 CP, Profit = 1,500 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 366 CP / 4,500 coins profit.

Chicken Pot Pie (1850 servings)
Unlocked at level 33.
Cook time : 2 days, CP total : 66+240= 306 CP cook, Profit = 7,600 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 153 CP / 3,800 coins profit.

Delicious Chocolate Cake (950 servings)
Unlocked at level 52.
Cook time : 14 hours, CP total : 72+200= 272 CP cook, Profit = 3,450 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 466 CP / 5,914 coins profit.

Lavish Lamb Curry (825 servings)
Unlocked at level 56.
Cook time : 8 hours, CP total : 54+145= 199 CP cook, Profit = 1,800 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 597 CP / 5,400 coins profit.

Shu Mai Dumplings (580 servings)
Unlocked at level 54.
Cook time : 6 hours, CP total : 60+95= 155 CP, Profit = 1,370 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 620 CP / 5,480 coins profit.

Macaroni and Cheese (170 servings)
Unlocked at level 12.
Cook time : 2 hours, CP total : 15+25= 40 CP, Profit = 260 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 480 CP / 3,120 coins profit.

Jammin’ Jelly Donuts (120 servings)
Unlocked at level 20.
Cook time : 20 minutes, CP total : 6+8= 14 CP, Profit = 80 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1008 CP / 5,760 coins profit.

Smoked Salmon Latkes (300 servings)
Unlocked at level 59.
Cook time : 2 hours, CP total : 27+35= 62 CP, Profit = 400 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 744 CP / 4,800 coins profit.

Creme Fraiche Caviar (84 servings)
Unlocked at level 32.
Cook time : 30 minutes, CP total : 6+15= 21 CP, Profit = 72 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 1,008 CP / 3,456 coins profit.

Lemon Butter Lobster (300 servings)
Unlocked at level 64.
Cook time : 2 hours, CP total : 27+40= 67 CP, Profit = 500 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 804 CP / 6,000 coins profit.


Martian Brain Bake (1560 servings)
Unlocked at level 37.
Cook time : 1 day, CP total : 33+280= 313 CP, Profit = 5,600 coins.
In 24 hours, you’ll get : 313 CP / 5,600 coins profit.
In Café World, you're in charge of your very own restaurant. Choose from dozens of dishes to cook, then slice, chop, saute and bake your way to the top of the culinary world!

It's up to you to decorate your café any way you want with hundreds of items and styles to choose from. And if you need a break, you can always visit your friends’ restaurants and try their daily specials... you might even find someone you can hire!

About Cafe World Cash

Sooner or later, as your cafe grows, you’ll start thinking about getting some Cafe Cash. This is a different kind of Cafe World money than regular coins. You don’t earn Cafe Cash from cooking items and serving them in your cafe, like you do with coins. You must buy Cafe Cash with real money if you want to be able to use it in the game. However, everyone starts Cafe World with 5 free Cafe Cash.


There’s a lot of reasons to get additional Cafe Cash in the game. Mostly it boils down to convenience and speed. Cafe Cash comes in really handy when you’re thinking about expanding your cafe, for instance. Many of the bigger expansions require a lot of coins, and more imporantly, neighbors. If you want to be able to expand your cafe without having to become neighbors with a lot of your friends and possibly strangers, you can use Cafe Cash to instantly buy the expansion! Another benefit is that certain decorations are only available with Cafe Cash. This is especially true with the seasonal or event decorations, like the Sports theme or the Alien space theme.

If you want to purchase Cafe Cash it’s really easy to do. Just click on the Add Coins and Cash button that you see on your screen. You will be taken to a different page where you can buy your Cafe Cash. You can purchase your cash with a credit card, Paypal, or one of many different options. The exchange rate of Cafe Cash for real money is about twenty cents in US Dollars for one Cafe Cash. If you purchase in bulk, you can get Cafe Cash for as low as sixteen cents.

A lot of people want to get free Cafe Cash, but sadly there’s no way you can get it for free. There are a few ways to earn Cafe Cash without buying it directly. If you scroll down on the purchase page, you’ll see special offers that give you free Cafe Cash as a reward. However, most of these offers still require you to purchase something, like a subscription to Blockbuster or a credit card offer. Still, if it’s something you were going to buy anyway, this is a great way to get Cafe Cash for “free” on top of the offer you’re buying. In some cases, the cost of the offer is lower than buying the same amount of Cafe Cash directly. You just have to consider the trade off of the inconvenience of having to sign up for something and possibly canceling it later.

Cafe World Medals

Medals have come to Cafe World and they open up some new possibilities for advancement and achievement in the game. Unlike Cafe Points and Coins, which you accumulate through preparing dishes, Medals reward some of the more off-beat things you can do in the game. Currently, there are about 10 medal categories, and you can earn up to four levels of medal in each one. The medals come in four basic levels:

Bronze
Silver
Gold
Royal
Each level gets progressively more difficult to earn in each category and gives out better rewards. You earn coins and cafe points with each medal. Bronze medals reward 100 coins and cafe points. Silver gives you 300 coins and cafe points. Gold rewards you with 500 coins and cafe points. The final medal in each category, royal, has a reward of 1000 coins and cafe points! Going for medals early in the game can be a profitable undertaking. In theory, you can currently earn 19,000 CP and 19,000 coins from all the medals. While the coin rewards aren’t that impressive, the CP can be highly beneficial at the earlier levels.

The ten medals available right now are in these categories:

Adding Neighbors
Earning Coins
Helping Friends
Spending Coins
Serving Food
Getting Gifts
Spoiling your Dishes
Decorations Owned
Owning Items for Your Avatar
Serving Food on Consecutive Days
The last one is probably the most difficult because if you miss a day of serving food, the counter resets. This should not be a problem if you have a large cafe with dishes constantly in production, but beginning cooks may have trouble unless they actually log in to play every day.

Customers on Cafe World

Getting more customers on the facebook game Cafe World is easy with some knowledge you will get from tips and hints here.


It is far better to serve items like the triple berry cheesecake or roasted chicken, which feed many people, but both of those items take forever to cook. Toss on one of those fruit salads to cook and serve while the dishes, which serve more, are cooking. This way you can be serving at least a hundred people while you are waiting.


If you want, more customers open the floodgates and add a few more doors. Space the doors out, do not group them side by side or all on one wall. More entrances and exits will make your little restaurant more people friendly.


However, please note if you have ten or more tables and are serving the chicken or something else folks like the customers will flock non-stop. In that case it is better to stagger the high serving dishes so that you have them getting done at random times.


You get cash and experience for helping at your neighbors restaurants. So visit your friends often. Not only are you helping them out, but also you get ideas on how to best utilize your own restaurant.


Take notice of how others restaurants are run. How are they laid out, do they seen to have much traffic? Emulate them as you see fit, but try to decorate something in your restaurant to your liking.

Serve a variety of foods in the game Café World, having a variety will help to ensure that you have a steady stream of customers.

Table Placement in Cafe World Facebook

In the early levels, players only have three stoves to cook upon and three counters to set food upon. It is better to cook something, which takes a long time and serves many people along with something such as the Super Chunk Fruit Salad while only takes 15 minutes but will serve a hundred people. Players will have a third stove so they can cook anything that pleases them on it.


When you begin the game Café World, you get 10,000 café dollars to do renovate your café and make it the best that it can be. I suggest purchasing tables and chairs as quickly as possible.


You only receive two of each and once you begin cooking you will quickly realize that you have customers waiting.


Purchasing more tables and chairs will eliminate customers leaving with empty bellies.


If you put your tables in a u-shape with the food serving counters to close in the area (making it like a square), your server does not need to walk around and serve everything.


Food is automatically served to the customers also in this configuration tables are also automatically cleared.


Players will not necessarily have to hire another worker if the tables are set in this u-shaped table formation, which will save money.

How To Get the Best Cafe World Buzz Rating

Buzz rating is very important to your success in Cafe World. Your Cafe World buzz rating is what determines how many customers enter your cafe, and the more customers that visit, the more coins you can make to advance in the game. The buzz rating is posted in the top right corner of the game with a green thumb next to it. The highest buzz rating you can get is 105.

Your buzz rating is affected by your customers’ experience in your cafe. There are two main factors that make up this experience:

* How long it takes a customer to find a seat
* How long it takes a customer to get served with food

If a customer cannot sit down at all, or it takes too long for a waiter to bring over food, that customer will leave and give you a negative buzz rating. A negative buzz rating will remove 1 point, while a positive one will only add .1 to your score. So it’s extremely important that you keep your customers happy by providing seats and meals all the time, as it will take you much longer to build back your buzz rating than it will to bring it down.

Keeping a high buzz rating can be very easy if you keep the following in mind.

First, make sure you have enough tables and chairs for everyone to sit. Only one person can sit at a table, so there’s no point in putting more than one chair at a table, unless you’re interested in that for aesthetic reasons. Also, you’ll want to leave a clear pathway to all the chairs and tables. If something is blocking the path, your customers won’t be able to sit on the chair, and your waiters won’t be able to serve the table. Be careful though about adding too many seats before you have enough servers. You can test this out by watching your rating closely. If you’ve done everything correctly and it’s still going down, try removing some chairs to see if that helps.

Second, always make sure you have food to serve. If there is no food in your cafe, your buzz rating will definitely go down. There are a couple of things you can do to prevent this. By planning out a cooking schedule, you can make sure there are always items to be served on your counter and dishes cooking on your stove. Look at the cooking time for each dish and plan accordingly. Keep in mind that you can prepare several of the same dish and it will only take up one counter. You’ll also want to account for your overnight and away hours and plan to have longer dishes cooking; you won’t want to start a shorter dish and be away from your computer for long periods of time, which will then spoil and not be served. Dirty stoves also bring your buzz rating down, so make sure to clean your stoves right away!

Third, hire more waiters. As you level up in the game, it’s possible to add more waiters to your cafe. You’ll want to do so as it costs no money and allows you to serve more customers in a timely fashion. Even if you have lots of seating and food to serve, not having enough waiters to serve the meals will negatively affect your buzz rating when customers have to wait too long for their orders.

Here are a few tricks that can help you maximize your buzz rating:

* Block your waiters behind counters. You can do this by leaving an open space behind a counter and blocking it on either side with a wall, stove, table or other furniture. Make sure, though, that there is at least one empty space behind each counter. If you block a counter in completely, your waiters won’t be able to get to it and your food on that counter will go unserved. Once you block your waiters in, they will immediately serve your customers and clean up without having to walk all the way to the table. This reduces serving time by a lot!

* Customize your cafe with lots of doors. The basic door is free in Cafe World, so you can add as many as you want to your cafe. By providing lots of places for your customers to get in and out of your cafe, it’s easier for them to move to different parts of your cafe to find a seat quickly, and more visitors can make their way through your cafe so you can achieve a good buzz rating faster.

* Remove your doors when you’re out of food. If you’re going to be away from your computer for awhile, or you’re waiting for meals to finish and don’t have anything to serve in the meantime, you can remove all of the doors from your cafe by dragging them back down to your customize toolbox. When you have no doors in your cafe, no customers can visit and thus not negatively affect your buzz rating. When you’re back at your computer, or ready to serve more dishes, just add the doors back on and allow the customers to come in. Update: If you’re logged out of the game, your buzz rating shouldn’t be affected negatively if there’s no food to serve.

If you keep a close eye on your cafe and follow all of these instructions, you can be well on your way to maintaining a 105 buzz rating all the time. Happy cooking, chefs!
 

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