Cafe World
Always wanted to own your own restaurant? Wanted to own one without the financial responsibity? 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 induvidualize your cafe. These include a fancy restaurant, to atlantis, to space, to haunted castle.
Also, don't ever confuse this with Restaurant City, it won't be pretty.
Tropes used in Cafe World include:
- Alien Lunch: A whole Cuisine theme based on this. Includes Sirius Sorbet, Martian Brain Cake, and Stardust Soup
- Nightmare Fuel: The Martian Brain Cake requires you to Slice Martian Meat, Chop Growths, and Melt Brain. Also the Stardust Stew is like the French Onion Soup but green.
- Aloha Hawaii: A Subversion of a Vacation Episode. All you do is cater their Luau.
- American Holidays: A decoration theme is associated with almost all of these.
- 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 recipies. 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.
- Awesome Yet Practical: Lightning Stoves. Not is the name badass, but these stoves are one-click cooking. Normal stoves take three.
- 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 one.
- 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 Game Breaker
- Also Cafe Cash is the only way to charge your Captain Super Stove and Grand Master Chef recharge.
- Cake Toppings: The Cake station encompases a peace sign; a disco ball; fruit; a heart, bride, and groom; and The Zynga dog
- 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 addinggoals/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, Cafe World announced they'd have a crossover [dead link] 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?: Berry 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.
- Drink Order: You have a drink bar give people drinks! Includes Umbrella Drinks
- Distaff Counterpart: Lisa Latte (to Espresso Joe) and Emmy to Peter O'Brian.
- Digital Avatar: The player.
- 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. Possbily a nod to this site.
- Elemental Powers: You Subverted Trope apparently]] have them. Telekinesis as a Good Bad Bug for doing everything and mind reading for knowing EXACLTY if customers want coffee, drinkage, or ice cream. More egregiouly in preping 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: Plasyed 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). Because There is No Pronunciation Guide and they are all prounounced Tro-PAY.
- 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.
- Nightmare Fuel: Considering Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, where are they getting this food from? Not to mention that Dino was the name of a pet from a certian TV Show.
- 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
- Also in Catering Missions which doubles with That One Sidequest
- They do yield some extra entress, coins, and cafe points.
- Also in Catering Missions which doubles with That One Sidequest
- 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.
- A food chain of serving whatever the hell I want.
- 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!
- Fridge Logic: Lisa Latte mentions the coffee shop she used to go to is up for sale, this happens suspiciously after your cafe start serving coffee...So is your cafe putting all the other cafes/restaurants out of business?
- She did get a referall from Espresso Joe
- 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.
- Frosty the Snowman: Called Mr. Snowball, but we all know who he really is.
- 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.
- Game Breaker: Cafe Cash. Lets you by any spice in huge quantites, mystery crates containing rare and limited edition items, and you gain cafe points for doing so.
- Also they could by Lightning Stoves before they became an assembly item.
- The cranked this up to 4, now there's a megastove that has 4 burners instead of 1.
- Also they could by Lightning Stoves before they became an assembly item.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: In addition to a chair in the shape of lips, there's a goal series called Fridge It! about using your refrigerator. There's also a wallpaper named "Hellfire". For a game with family-friendly audience, it's not all that difficult to think of name for a wallpaper with flames on it.
- Gingerbread House: A decoration in the game.
- Going Through the Motions: You cook, waiters serve and clean, customers walk.
- Graphics Induced Super Deformed: Everyone.
- Granny Classic: Aptly named "Grandma," she just looks like she is dying to bake you cookies.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Burt the man who owns the company supplying your spices.
- Halloween Episode: Same as the Christmas Episode
- 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.
- Hot Bar:
- Hyperactive Sprite: YOU NEVER STOP TENDING STOVES. even when there's nothing to cook.
- Must prevent that ever present stove flame from burning down the cafe!
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Spice Rack and Collection Cabinent.
- Ice Queen: A rare benevolent example. She extends your food's life by 24 hours via freezing.
- Incredibly Lame 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.
- Impossibly Delicious Food: Why people keep coming back.
- You even make airplane food taste good
- 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
- They are your friends, so maybe they're volunteers? (You press-ganged your friends into kitchen service, You Bastard?)
- ISO Standard Urban Groceries: Subverted in the one-click cooking 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.
- 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.
- Least-Common Pizza Topping: The "Mystical Pizza." It's not the actual ingredients, it's how it's assembled. You conjure dough, summon cheese, and trasmute sauce. The pizza dough is purple and the ingredients look like cupcake star sprinkles.
- Averted in Tony's Classic Pizza
- Mascot: Amelia.
- Mini Game: They added a Crane Game costing Cafe Cash to win prizes. Some assembly required
- Loading Screen: To start the game.
- Mana Meter: Not exactly mana, you have energy for your Coffee machine and drink bar.
- Hachimaki: Your sushi chef, Takeshi, wears one.
- Match Maker Quest: You bring togther Espresso Joe and Lisa Latte in an eight-part quest series. Interestingly, this only for their first date.
- Previously, on Cafe Days, we parody Soap Operas with class and food.
- 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.
- Implied with Joe Brewer
- I'm thinking coffee?
- 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
- Bilingual Bonus Huang means yellow in Chinese, Stealth Pun or racism ensues
- 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. Everytime you cook, you clean the stove. Whenever you use the salad bar, you tidy up, wipe the counter, and clean the glass before restocking.
- Odd that there is no dishwasher
- Even more egregiously, for the Sirius Sorbet, you dust off stars But is actually rice?
- 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.
- Onion Tears: Averted
- Overcrippling Specialization: Downplayed and Justified. There's a Sushi bar a
- Player Versus Player: Subverted. At the bottom of the screen you see all of your fellow players and their levels.
- 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
- Randomly Drops: Stuff for your Collections Cabinent 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
- Save Point: In the corner of the screen, it's not really needed though.
- Service Sector Stereotypes: Averted, hard THANK GOD.
- Spear Counterpart: Espresso Joe (to Lisa Latte) and Peter O'Brian to Emmy
- 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, AlienVistor, 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.
- Simulation Game: Run a monopolized Cafe!
- Not entirely Lisa Latte mentions that the coffee shop she used to go to is up for sale.
- 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.
- Stuffed Into the Fridge: Literally, and It Came From the Fridge with the new refridgerator.
- Supreme Chef: You.
- Take Over the World: Implied at the end of Graduation where Amelia says "The world is your kitchen!"
- 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.
- The Cake Is a Lie: Averted.
- Unless you forgot and let it spoil.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Becky and Beverly have a serving drinks the fastest competition
- 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.
- The Same but More: Played literally, with a quest series for an additional Deep Fryer, Pizza Oven, and 4x Mega Stove
- They Wasted A Perfectly Good Dish: 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.
- Utility Belt: Your Collection Cabinent holds all the equiptment a chef needs like knives, pans, bowls, dishware, etc.
- 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.
- You Gotta Have Pink Hair: Amelia.
- The Cool Kid actually has blue hair.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: Some of the stoves and counters. In the Japanese theme, you can cook on top of a samurai helmet!
- Halloween theme includes a pumpkin lightning stove, but...
- A counter is a cloud!
- The Jack-o-Lantern Assembly item brought halloween themed customers into your cafe.