Cafe World is a relatively new game and that`s why I want to dedicate this post to explaining some basics. It will be sort of beginner`s walkthrough or beginner`s guide.

If you have signed in to your cafe in Cafe World, you should be familiar with the following picture. If you haven`t signed in to your cafe in Cafe World, you can have an advantage now, because when you`ll sign, you`ll know exactly where are things placed and what is their purpose. Let`s have a look on the following picture:

Cafe World: Beginner`s walkthrough

Cafe World: Beginner`s walkthrough

I made a screenshot almost at the beginning, so this should be the same picture you`ve seen or you`re going to see. Well, except the numbers, I`ve added them there to make the description easier to follow.

Cafe World: The Beginner`s Walkthrough

Now I`m gonna link my description with the numbers in the picture.

  1. Cafe Coins - those coins represent a currency. You use Cafe Coins for buying new equipment to your cafe, hiring new employees, buying dishes to cook or expanding your cafe. Everytime a customer leaves your cafe after having a meal, he/she pays you a particular amount of Cafe Coins for the meal. If you feel you don`t have enough, you can buy more Cafe Coins for your real money.
  2. Cafe Cash - not easy to earn, so be careful in using them. Mostly Cafe Cash is used for advanced equipment or as an alternative for your Cafe Coins. Zynga has made those points hard to earn in one obvious reason: if you want to increase your Cafe Cash, you can do it very easily, but prepare to use your real money. I wouldn`t recommend that, even if the price isn`t that big (by the time writing this article you could have 120 Cafe Cash for $19.99), I believe it`s still a waste of your money.
  3. Cafe Points - sort of your experience. The more experienced you get, the higher level you achieve, the more dishes you can cook and the more things you can buy to decorate/rebuild your cafe. You gain Cafe Points for making a dish (every time you slice, peel etc), when the dish is finished you get Cafe Points and you can also gain more Cafe Points by visiting your neighbors. For every level you need to gain a particular amount of Cafe Points. When you reach the particular amount of Cafe Points, you receive a level up and some things (dishes, drinks, equpiment) can be unlocked – that depends on the level you are currently having.
  4. Cafe Name - by default, name of your cafe is created by formula [first name]`s cafe, which you can easily change by clicking on the name and rewrite it to whatever you want.
  5. Buzz Rating - buzz rating reflects your service and how many customers are going to coming in to your cafe. Deeper information about Buzz rating you can read in my article Keeping Buzz rating in Cafe World.
  6. Manage Friends - I know, it sounds horrible, like your friends in Cafe World are some kind of figurines, but in this meaning it`s a list of your friends you`ve hired. In this menu you can hire another friend as your employee (if your current level allows it) or you can fire your friend if you think he/she is not doing his/her job.
  7. Customize - this feature allows you to buy new equipment to your cafe (chairs, tables, plants, walls etc) and you`ll use it very often. Of course, you`re gonna need Cafe Coins to buy new stuff.
  8. Change Clothes - the default look of ourselves doesn`t look so good, so why don`t dress a little bit differently, right? You can change boots, pants, t-shirt, hair, glasses, color, etc. But don`t be too much creative from the beginning, because the way you are dressed doesn`t have anything to do with your customers or cafe. It`s just a look, so don`t spend valuable money until you have enough.
  9. Cookbook - your treasury chest. In the Cookbook you have all your dishes you can cook or you`ll cook on a higher level. You can find in the Cookbook how long a particular dish is going to cook, how much does it cost, how much customers will pay for one serving and how many servings you`ll have from one cooking.
  10. Functional - when you achieve a new level and the new level allows you to buy another stove or a counter, you should go here. As many things in Cafe World, your service level (buzz rating) isn`t influenced with the way your cafe looks. It`s just for you, so in the beginning I recommend buying the default ugly stuff, which will do the work as well as more expensive things.
  11. Expand Cafe - when you feel you have extra money and want to expand your cafe, so more customers can fit in.
  12. Become a fan - makes you a fan of Cafe World on Facebook.
  13. Use Gifts - because Cafe World is a social game, it pushes you to socialize with your friends (and to increase the amount of people playing Cafe World) and it`s done in many ways, but in this case you have a chance to send gifts to your neighbors (for free), so they`ll receive from you for free 100 Bacon cheesburgers, for example. It`s a terrific way to make some extra money without an effort. When someone gives you a gift, you should find it here.
  14. Coming soon - unknown so far :)
  15. From top and left: saving your game before leaving (the game saves anyway, but by this you make sure it`s really saved and a connection between you and the server isn`t lost); changing a quality of the graphics (useful if your pc is slower); zooming in; zooming out; turning on/off music; turning on/off sounds

In case you experience some problems with Cafe World, check out my article Cafe World Problems.

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