Cooking for Fun and Profit: Cafe World

Cookin' up a storm!

True story about me and Cafe World: I used to play this game SO much that my friends collectively begged me to take a break. I had a streak of almost 200 days where I cooked something each day.

It’s safe to say that I love this game.

It has all my favorite Facebook game features. I am a huge fan of the multi-step complex quest lines. There’s always at least five separate quests ongoing at any time, which you can choose to complete or not, of course. You can decorate the cafe to suit your tastes and change the decor at any time. The food itself requires a little bit of thought. You start items cooking on your stove and when the items finish cooking, there is only a set amount of time to serve the dishes before they spoil.

There are spices you can get that can speed the cooking time of dishes, or unspoil dishes once they have spoiled. Another option is to have neighbors come and unspoil your dishes. But generally, it’s important to remember to check on your food frequently and not start a dish that will finish at a time you will be able to return to the game.

Each dish has mastery levels. You have to cook it a certain number of times to reach the first mastery level, after which it cooks more quickly and produces more servings. Each mastery level you reach after that also increases the the speed and amount of food produced. Each dish has three mastery levels.

You also have a cookbook that lists the dishes you have available to cook, which is sorted by the type of cuisine. You need to reach certain levels to unlock more dishes, and you can try to (Read more...)

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