Always wanted to own your own restaurant? Wanted to own one without the financial responsibility? Well, Now you can! Brought to you by Zynga Inc. (Also known for Mafia Wars and, infamously, FarmVille) you can own one and be your own boss!
Cafe World is a Flash-based game on Facebook. This game is like FarmVille, but more "condensed." The dishes don't take as long to make as seeds do, but don't last as long either. Also, the number of stoves (land plots) is reduced for obvious reasons. The primary currency is coins, but there is a super currency known as Cafe Cash.
This game promotes social relationships between friends/players, despite the number of your friends who actually play. There are three paths a player can take in Cafe World. First is the rich guy by making some serious coin. Second is the experienced super-chef and make dishes based on leveling up. The third is the collector, by buying...stuff. Although, many buildable items are only obtainable in a timely manner via asking for parts to something, same goes for catering.
Needless to say there are many decoration themes which allow you to individualize your cafe. These include a fancy restaurant, to atlantis, to space, to haunted castle.
Not to be confused with Restaurant City.
This show provides examples of:
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Inverted. You get a medal for owning a certain amount of clothes in the game.
- An Economy Is You: The economy revolves around your little cafe, no matter how big it gets. Apparently, there is no other place to eat in the entire world. Also invokes some mistakes and artistic licence too.
- An Entrepreneur Is You: You own a cafe, duh.
- An Interior Designer Is You: It's your cafe, pimp it out how you please.
- Ascended Extra: Grandma started as just a short quest for some recipes. Now she has more a recipie quest saga and secondary pair short quest. Oh she has her own special "slow cooker" stove
- Awesome, but Impractical: Stoves. The more expensive ones cook no faster than any other (excluding lightning stoves) some even cost cafe cash and no more than aesthetic value. They're for the after party, graduating isn't that difficult. But still.
- Benevolent Genie: There used to be an item called "No Spoiled Genie" which prevented your food from spoiling.
- Big Eater: You and all of your customers. The animation for eating a turkey-sized chicken is leg, some slices and then the rest of the bird. And with the "In-Flight Meal" you have a roll, cider, boat of mixed veggies, something in a container, and a steak; you reduce/eat them all at the same time
- On Eat Missions you "Nom...Nom...Nom...Nom" meals.
- Interestingly, on Eat Missions the animation has for "Noms" or bites, but is ate in 3. So, you eat meals in huge gulps and take fourth to chew?
- Boring, but Practical:
- Stoves and Counters. The cheapest stoves work just as well as the most expensive ones.
- Especially so for the Cafe World Bloggers who give info on how to have the most efficient cafe possible and how efficient the dishes are.
- The Bacon Cheeseburger, the first recipe you get is at a tie for the highest cafe points per hour
- The Super Chunk Fruit Salad, yield the highest servings per hour than any other dish. You get it at level one.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory:
- Cafe Cash cost real world money and is a Gamebreaker
- Also Cafe Cash is the only way to charge your Captain Super Stove and Grand Master Chef recharge.
- Cartoon Cheese: Anytime you deal with cheese in cooking, the picture is literally out of Tom and Jerry.
- Christmas Episode: Every year they have Christmas themed decorations. This past year, after adding goals]]/quests, there are now recipes added as well.
- Class and Level System: Although everyone is a chef, drinks, coffee and entrees have their own levels. Such as a level 3 Cappucino, level 2 Belgian Waffles, level 1 Orange Juice. Averted with the Salad Bar.
- Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For: With the amount of decor only buyable with Cafe Cash, and quests/tasks with alloted
time. Because you can just "skip" parts of the quest, it leads to angry players. - Cool Old Guy: Cleverly named "Grandpa," has his own catering event for a BBQ. Judging from a pic of his backyard, he seems like a pretty cool guy.
- Crazy Enough to Work: On May 11, 2011, CafeWorld announced they'd have a crossover
with Lady Gaga. Complete with sheep on motorcycles! - Crazy-Prepared: You. Where do you store all those ingredients? In your pocket of course.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Barry White's in-game song, "I don't know why...can't get enough of your FOOD babe!"
- Deep-Fried Whatever: The game actually says this during the 2010 Thanksgiving event when it's gives you a Turkey Deep Frier.
- Distaff Counterpart: Lisa Latte (to Espresso Joe) and Emmy to Peter O'Brian.
- Easter Bunny: You help him out. At the same time Easter decorations are released, such as an egg chair.
- Eldritch Location: minor version of this, theres a wallpaper called Eldritch Wall.
- Elemental Powers: You apparently have them. Telekinesis for doing everything and mind reading for knowing EXACLTY if customers want coffee, drinkage, or ice cream. More egregiouly in prepping the Sirius Sorbet, you must dust stars, gather plasma, and refine light. Then in cooking Sirius Sorbet you gather nebulae, puree stardust, and freeze plasma.
- Abiet in the Sirius Sorbet it's really rice/salt butter, and caramel.
- Endless Game: YOU NEVER STOP COOKING.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Played straight and averted at the same time. Straight with Chef Raquel. And averted in your Sous chef team. The four main chefs: fry, grill, fish and roast chefs are refered to by their English equivalents. In French they Bilingual Bonus are friturier (frit-tu-ee-ay), grillardin (grill-ar-deen), poissonnier (poyzon-eee-ay), and rôtisseur (row-tea-sir).
- Experience Points: You own a cafe, so they're Cafe points.
- Exotic Entree: From the Fantasy cuisine theme, Dino Drumstick, Giant Dino Egg, Rackasaurus Ribs.
- Fairy Companion: The "No Clean Fairy" She cleans your stoves so you don't have to.
- Fancy Dinner: There's even a catering event called the "Fancy Dinner Party"
- Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: Not exactly, but there are Spices with various effects. Including Instant Thyme instantly making food ready.
- Fetch Quest:
- Any freaking time there's a new buildable item. You need to go ask all your friends to go send you a gift part, for one buildable per day.
- Catering Missions. They do at least yield some extra entrees, coins, and cafe points.
- Food Chains:
- A cuisine and decoration theme is based on fast food.
- Subverted: Considering all the people who play Cafe World, that can be a food chain in itself.
- For Science!: A goal for the 4x Mega Stove "Make room for science" You must make room for it!
- From My Own Personal Garden:
- Implied with the Salad Bar. Although you have to do tasks to unlock more vegetables.
- Averted in some of the quests require you to specifically ask neighbors for said vegetable.
- Frothy Mugs of Water: Subverted in a way. The drink bar, while explicitly serving cocktails, calls them "Mocktails." Moreover, there is a Virgin Pina Colada.
- Averted with the Champagne Tower. You build a literal pyramid made of champagne glasses. And in upgrading the drink bar you collect bar stools. That no one actually sits at.
- Fruit Cart: Not exactly, there is a Salad Bar where people can get vegetables from before sitting down.
- Odd that the salad bar has induvidual vegetables, and the game implies that one person can only take one vegetable. No word on the quanity of vegetable taken.
- Granny Classic: Aptly named "Grandma," she just looks like she is dying to bake you cookies. Apparently she has a bad memory too.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Burt the man who owns the company supplying your spices.
- Hammerspace:
- Subverted and Averted at the same time. Wholesale Dale can fit any amount of food you sell him, but can never fit it all in his truck.
- It's Facebook he wants you to announce to all your friends so they can get some too.
- Holiday Mode: There's quests and decor for pretty much every holiday.
- Hollywood Cuisine: All of the food themes are this to some extent.
- Overlaps with Cuisines in America.
- Double overlaps with Regional Speciality. Complete with a Philly Cheesesteak dish.
- Overlaps with Cuisines in America
- Hyperactive Sprite: YOU NEVER STOP TENDING STOVES. Even when there's nothing to cook.
- Ice Queen: A rare benevolent example. She extends your food's life by 24 hours via freezing.
- Improbable Food Budget: Considering your entire budget can be spent on food and nothing like a real restaurant spends on, like wages. There's even a medal for spending up to 25,000,000, that's millions people, on food alone.
- ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: Subverted in the one-click cooking that uses these for representation of what you are doing; accuracy is secondary. Example, a bucket of flour for mixing starches.
- I Work Alone: Probably you in Catering Missions because you are the last of your friends who play.
- In-Universe Game Clock: More or less same as real time. Although Word of God says it's 23 hours not 24.
- Jerkass: You, because there's a series of medals for firing different employees. Not one over and over again you gotta lay off AT LEAST 50 people for no reason. Your employees work all the time (unless there's no food to serve), never slack off, never talk back, and receive generous tips.
- Karma Meter: Not karma, per se, but you do have a buzz rating. This goes up when you feed customers and give them coffee/drinks. It goes down if you forget to feed them or make them wait for a seat.
- The Lancer: You get a Sous Chef named Remmy. Then you ask your friends to form a Four Plus Two band to work in your cafe for 7 days.
- Locked Door: Subverted. Don't want people in your cafe, just remove the door!
- Level Ate: A decoration theme based on sweets. Such as a cookie table
- Level-Up Fill-Up: Only for your Energy Bar, when you level up a Mocktail or Coffee. Odd also when you collect mixers, bars stools, and garnishes you also level up and refill.
- Mini-Game: They added a Crane Game costing Cafe Cash to win prizes. Some assembly required
- Mana Meter: Not exactly mana, you have energy for your Coffee machine and drink bar.
- Matchmaker Quest: You bring together Espresso Joe and Lisa Latte in an eight-part quest series. Interestingly, this only for their first date.
- More Dakka: A goal name. You need "More Controls" for your stove. And "Needs More Metal".
- Must Have Caffeine: People who want coffee will have a thought bubble above their head with a picture of a coffee cup on it. Two characters are even named after their love of coffee: Espresso Joe and Lisa Latte.
- National Stereotypes: Done lightly, but evermore present.
- French: Chef Raquel complete with accent, making food, and oui! with love. Missing something...sounds like puree.
- American: Chef Julie. She looks familiar... Feminine Women Can Cook obviously. Likes to use LOTS of flavor. Probably a Housewife, as she is a classic American wife.
- Chef Huang: Old Master type, The Chinese martial arts master meets culinary. Training from Hell follows as he uses secret techniques and high standards.
- With the introduced St. Patrick's Day goals/theme/recipes they replace the Halloween drinks with Irish ones. They could have gone with an Irish cream thing but no, because all Irish are drunks. He's even named Peter O'Brian.
- Chef Piero, the Italian Chef, chubby and makes pizza. Hasn't said "It's a me, Piero!"
- Neat Freak: Aside from the "No Clean Fairy", you would make the Health Department proud. Every time you cook, you clean the stove. Whenever you use the salad bar, you tidy up, wipe the counter, and clean the glass before restocking.
- Notice This: When your food is done, it sparkles.
- Old Master: Subverted, there's a buildable called "Grand Master Chef," he helps you master dishes three times faster.
- Product Placement: Certain events have real world products in-game.
- Coca-Cola
- Maxwell's Coffee and Tassimo for Coffee
- Twilight
- Alice in Wonderland
- Poptarts with the new toaster oven.
- Subway
- Pun: All of the spices are these. With names like Instant Thyme, Onehour Thyme, Sixhour Thyme, Twelvehour Thyme, Salvage Sage, Super Salt, Power Pepper, Master Mint.
- Random Drops: Stuff for your Collections Cabinet is found by cooking food, although, you need to cook certain recipes to get the items. They later put the recipes you needed to get certain items.
- Special Guest: After you complete Mr. Snowball and the jack-o-Lantern special characters visit your cafe.
- Jack-o-Lantern: Drac Dude, Vamperela, Wolfie, Zombie(he doesn't eat brains), Witch, Frank, AlienVisitor, Goth Kid, Creature, Imp, Skull Ghoul, Skelli, and Mummy.
- Mr.Snowman: Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, Elder Elf, Red Stripe Boy Elf, Red Stripe Girl Elf, Green Stripe Boy Elf, and Green Stripe Girl Elf, and Cool Kid.
- And now a wee bit of de Leprechaun Boy
- Now Surfer Dude.
- Versus Character Splash: In the battle between Italian and French Cuisine. Which one is Harmony Versus Discipline or Technician Versus Performer
- Spoiled Brat: Played through and inverted. There are two medal series of "gifting." On the giving (inverted) end, you must give 200 gifts for the "Bistro BFF" medal. On the receiving end, you must collect 2000 gifts for the "Begifted Behemoth."
- Stock British Phrases: A goal name for the 4x Mega Stove, "Grate Scott!"
- Stock "Yuck!": Averted, in everyone will eat a Stock "Yuck!" food, and reiterates your gift to make Impossibly Delicious Food.
- Telekinesis: Subverted. Your chef can assemble ingredients from a distance. Also, a glitch in the game lets the waiters serve if you block them off with stoves and counters.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: You If you let one of your dishes go bad.
- Three-Quarters View: They really should fix that giant hole in the ceiling, taking out two of the walls.
- Token Minority: Berry White, the Jazz singer at the end of the Valentine's Day quest line. Is the black guy of the game. Also, Chef Huang can be this too.
- Also, Berry White in Japanese could be very white.
- Utility Belt: Your Collection Cabinent holds all the equiptment a chef needs like knives, pans, bowls, dishware, etc. You find it by serving a dish AFTER it's done cooking.
- Versus Character Splash: The battle of Hearty Italian with Chef Piero and Classic French with Chef Raquel
- Video Game Caring Potential: This game has a HIGH caring potential. You cater to everyone's need. From children, to holiday parties, random get-togethers. Plus all the typical catering a normal catering business would do. Also, you serve coffee, drinks, and salads.
- We Buy Anything: Wholesale Dale. He buys any food you give him at 3/4ths price.
