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Why Keeping Your Cafe World Customers Happy Is So Important

There are a lot of things to keep track of when you’re trying to keep your cafe up and running in Cafe World.  You need to make sure your dishes are coming along nicely, that you have enough servings left on your counters, and that the food you’re making isn’t going to spoil before you can get back to attend to it.  If you’re like most people, you also want to spend some time decorating your cafe and putting your own personal touch on things. 

All of this is fine – that’s what’s so great about this game.  There are so many options for game play and you can make so many decisions on your own that the possibilities for what you can accomplish in Cafe World really are just about endless.  But with all of these decisions to make and avenues to explore, you do have to remember to take care of one other thing as well – your customers.

Business Is Business

If you want to be successful in Cafe World, you have to remember why your cafe exists in the first place.  And that’s to serve your customers.  You can decorate your cafe, rearrange your tables, and explore all kinds of menu options, but at the end of the day, none of it will do you any good if you aren’t able to keep customers coming through your door.  Just as with any business, you have to give your customers what they want if you want to stay in business.

Cashing In

It’s easy to focus on making coins as quickly as possible when you’re working to build up your business in Cafe World, and there’s nothing wrong with that.  You’ve got to make money if you want to keep your doors open.  And keeping your customers happy is the best way to maximize you profit potential.  The more satisfied customers you send out the door, the more people will venture into your cafe. 

Your Buzz Rating, the “thumbs up” number in the upper right hand corner of your screen, is a direct reflection of how happy you’re making your customers.  It’s also directly related to the number of customers that walk through your door.  The higher your Buzz Rating, the more quickly your customers will start to stream in, and so the faster they’ll spend money. 

Dishes vs Service

You can take all of the time you want planning out the perfect cooking and serving rotation so that you’re maximizing your earning potential per sale.  But that’s not how you’re going to bring in the most coins quickly.  No matter how much your entree costs per serving, you only make money as quickly as you can serve it.  Essentially, the quicker your sales, the more money you’ll make. 

Keep you customers happy and coming back regularly, and you’ll see the coins piling up fast.  This may not sound like what you want to hear.  After all, there are much more interesting things to do in Cafe World than pay attention to all those people walking in and out of your door all day long.  It’s not nearly as complicated as it sounds.  When you make the right decisions for your cafe, you’ll be making the right decisions for your customers too.  After all, it’s just good business sense.

Why the Layout of Your Cafe is So Important in Cafe World

A lot of the fun of playing Cafe World is the fact that you can customize your cafe in all sorts of ways.  You can choose to add many different kinds of tables and chairs, doors and windows to create just the atmosphere you’re looking for.  You can also select from any of a number of other tasteful and interesting decorations.  There are even several stylish options for the clothing that your own character wears. 

But no matter what you decide to do when it comes to decorating your cafe, you need to remember that the way you set up your tables, chairs, counters and stoves will not only impact the ambiance of the place.  It will also have a lot to do with your ability to succeed in the game and grow you business overall. 

Easy Access Means Easy Money

First and foremost, you need to arrange your furniture so that your customers will actually be able to get to all of the available tables and chairs.  If you have, for instance, three chairs in a row up against a wall, the middle chair is simply wasted space.  Your customers can’t walk past the outer chairs to get to the middle one, so you’ll actually likely lose customers needlessly when they walk in and can’t find a place to sit. 

Since you know you never want to let customers walk away unsatisfied, you want to make sure that you have enough seating.  It’s easy to lose site of this aspect of your cafe.  After all, you’re the most actively involved in preparing and serving food – trying to make sure you always have food available and that the food on your stoves doesn’t sit there too long and spoil.  But none of that careful planning will do you any good if you don’t have tables and chairs available for your customers to sit and eat at.

Save Your Waiter’s Legs

Even when your customers are able to find an empty seat, they’ll only wait so long to get their meal.  That’s why you need to make sure you set your tables up in a way that makes it easy for your waiter or waitress to get around.  The quicker they can get back and forth from the serving counters to the tables, the easier it will be for you to make sure every customer who walks through your door gets their food in a timely manner.

Another thing you can do to help give your wait staff more time to serve your customers is to give your customers a long walk to their tables.  This means essentially putting in a lot of twists and turns so that your customers will have to take the long way around from the door to their seat.  Being generally rather agreeable, your customers really don’t mind this at all.  And the extra walking time for your customers means more time for your waiters and waitresses to stay caught up on their serving cycles.  If you keep these items in mind as you add more tables and chairs to your cafe, you’ll be well on your way to success in Cafe World.

How Many of these Guides Do We Really Need?

There is another guide out for those social networking games. I just saw it on the forums for Café World last week and while at first I scoffed with everyone else (it’s a favorite pastime on the Zynga forums to scoff at the guides), I quickly found that the guide was actually a lot more useful than we were giving it credit for.

When I Checked it Out

I wasn’t going to check the guide out. But, then I started to ask around and heard a few good things about how it had been helping players start to build their cafes up from nothing into relatively high efficiency restaurants – something that I had repeatedly failed to do with my own café.

After a day or two of waffling, I gave in and checked the guide out and boy am I ever glad I did. To be frank, the guide really does everything it claims to do – something I’ve never seen a guide do before. From start to finish, the Café World guide (which is the first of its kind that I’m aware of) shows players how to dig down and learn how to be one of the best players in the game.

It shows you how to pick your foods, how to develop a strategy for leveling that doesn’t waste any time, how to get new neighbors and how to get things done without ever needing to spend real world cash on the in-game money or having to fill out countless surveys to get it done.

In short, the Café World guide is a big giant blueprint that shows players how to go from level 1 to the top of the game in a streamlined path. It doesn’t give you step by step directions like other game guides because that’s not how these games work. Rather, it shows you how to cater your play style to your own schedule and do well with the time you have to invest.

When you can do that, even a part time player can be a top ranked Chef. Check it out now: http://bit.ly/5rARlZ

Do You Really Need Help to Master Café World?

So, I saw something the other day that caught my eye, and at first I couldn’t tell if it was in a good way or not. The thing in question was a guide for Café World – one of those PDF guides that tells you how to get through a game without having to stop and think about anything. At first, I thought it was silly – this is just a social game after all.

But, when I thought about it some more and how hard it is to get anything done in this game without a good chunk of real world cash or willingness to spend immense amounts of time in it, I wasn’t shocked to see that the game had a guide out already and I decided to check it out and see how it worked.

My Verdict

The Café World guide has been written to help guide you through every aspect of the game from start to finish. Basically, you are going to get an outline that shows you how to set up an account then effectively choose which dishes you cook, how you cook them, and who you will feed them to. The guide will then go on to showcase some hot tips on how to keep your café growing as you are offline, loading up on cash and making sure nothing ever spoils.

You’ll learn how to snag new neighbors, load up on cash and expand your restaurant without needing to ever spend real world cash on a game that doesn’t require it. This is basically one of the most streamlined and effective outlines of how to play this game I’ve ever seen.

Honestly, I’m not sure how the writer did it. These social games are so disjointed, that most of the time guides like this are just giant lists of features in the game, without any real insight. This guide however delves right to the root of what you need to be doing to succeed and never lets up.

If you need a helping hand or are just getting started in Café World, you ought to check out this guide. I’m telling you – it really helps.  http://bit.ly/5rARlZ

The Inside Scoop on the World’s First Real Café World Guide

There are a lot of different social games on sites like Facebook and MySpace. I’ve seen a dozen of them in the last few months blow up and frankly I didn’t get it at first. I saw people playing very simple, albeit free, games and while they looked interesting enough, they really weren’t all that engaging considering what they were.

But, then I started playing Café World. Don’t ask me why it was Café World. It could have been any of them probably. They’re all the same generally, and in that they are extremely addictive. But, it was Café World and now two months later I’m a bit of an addict – I love this game.

So, when I heard there was a guide coming out for it that would help to speed things along, I was first in line to read it. I wanted to know exactly what it was that this Café World guide could offer that I couldn’t figure out on my own.

Turns out, it was quite a bit. As of the two month mark, I was roughly 25 levels into the game. I would play about 3-4 days a week, and the last day would rarely count because I would usually let all my food spoil in the interim when I took the weekend off.

The Café World guide, however, showed me exactly how to outline and master the process of what to cook, when to cook it and how to set up the café before I logged off each night. Turns out you can actually make quite a tidy profit while not even logged in – for days on end if you want.

I couldn’t possibly touch on all the cool things that this guide does right, but here’s the bottom line – Café World is a tough game without some guidance. There are dozens of dishes, possible combinations and ways for you to mess up with. This Café World guide, I was able to create the perfect combination of tactics. I’m now at level 45 and have way more cash than I’ll ever need – and I’m having more fun than ever. That’s what a good guide should do. Check it out: http://bit.ly/5rARlZ

Do You Really Need A Guide For Farmville?

I consider myself to be relatively well educated in the latest generation of social networking site games like Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, and such. That’s why when I started to see these FarmVille guides popping up all over the place I was kind of surprised. I mean, I can see why people might need some tips to get going in games like Mafia Wars, but FarmVille?

At this point though I hadn’t actually played the game, but I didn’t really think it could be all that complicated. I figured I should give it a shot though, just so that I could say I knew what I was talking about. And I was in for a rather big surprise. In no time, I was out of money and had no crops to plant. I have to admit, there way more to this game than I had anticipated.

I eventually managed to dig myself out of my original hole and out of the red, but I still wasn’t making all that much progress. I started to think that maybe I needed to see what these guides were all about. I wasn’t really expecting much, but since I hadn’t done so well on my own either, I figured it was worth a shot.

So I picked up a guide called FarmVille secrets, and was pleasantly surprised by the tips I found in it. You wouldn’t think there were so many ways you could screw up a virtual farm, but believe me, you can. I was still stumbling along at level 6 when I got the guide after 2 weeks of playing regularly. Now I’m the proud owner of a plantation and a level 26 Sultan of Soil. And I still look back at my guide from time to time. If you’re having trouble getting into the swing of things in FarmVille, this guide is not a bad investment.

Planning the Optimal Cafe World Menu

There are lots of tempting options when it comes to the items you can choose to put on your menu in Cafe World.  As you advance to higher and higher levels of game play too, you only wind up unlocking more and more options in this regard.  It can be very tempting to cook one item or another because of your own personal tastes, and really there’s nothing wrong with indulging yourself from time to time.  If you want to be successful in this business though, you’ll have to make some more objective and analytical decisions when it comes to dish selection for your cafe.

Planning Around Your Schedule

The first thing you have to take into account when you’re trying to decide what to cook is how soon you’re going to be able to get back to check on your cafe and transfer prepared entrees from the stove to the serving counters.  No matter how well planned your menu is, it won’t do you much good if you don’t get back to serve it in time. 

Food that sits on the stove for too long will spoil rather quickly, and this is something you want to avoid at all costs.  Not only will you lose the opportunity to serve this food, and so have to wait longer to replenish your serving counters, you’ll lose the money you spent on the ingredients that went into making is.  You’ll also have to pay to clean up the mess which, while not a hefty sum, starts to loom larger and larger when you’re not making money off of the food you’re preparing.

Maximizing Your Earnings

Another factor to consider when you’re making your decision about what to cook in any given situation is how many servings each preparation of that dish will create.  This is important for a couple of reasons.  One is that you want to be able to make enough food to last until you can get back to your cafe and refill your serving counters.  That way you can continue making money all day and night, which is obviously the ideal situation. 

The other reason this is important is because you need to have an empty serving counter when you’re taking a new dish off the stove.  If you’re simply bringing out more of one of the dishes you’re already serving, you can simply add those new servings to what was left of the old.  However, if you have an entirely new entree coming off the stove, you’ll need to have an empty serving spot available on the counter.  This is a part of the menu planning process that is easily overlooked, but it can lead to a lot of spoiled food if you have entrees ready to come off of the stove but nowhere to put them.

Cost Per Serving

And of course, you want to pay attention to how much you’ll make each time a customer purchases an entree.  Maximizing this number will help you get the highest return per hour because it will mean you’re getting the most out of each customer who walks through the door.  And that, after all, is the goal of any good business owner.

What Does it Take to Max Out Your Mafia Wars Position?

I’ll admit it, I have a guilty pleasure and its name is Mafia Wars. I sincerely doubt I’m alone in this regard, but that doesn’t make it any less silly. There are millions of other players out there right now who take this thing way more seriously than I ever will and that’s at least mildly comforting.

So, when I stumbled upon a guide the other day that claimed to help you reach the top of the pile where all the elite mafias are sitting I was a little dubious. These guys pour hours of their life into the game. How can I be one of them without doing the same? It’s expensive, right?

How it Works

So, rather than wonder if I’d be forever at the bottom of the pile (I’m just a bit competitive after all), I decided to check out the guide and see exactly what it was that the gurus were expecting me to do to become one of the top players.

Turns out, it’s not that hard.

That’s not entirely accurate. These tips are genius, and well researched. But, when you read them, you’re going to hit your head on the keyboard and wonder why you never considered what you could have done to become one of those very gurus we all ogle.

Here’s the deal. The guide is relatively simple. It tells you exactly what you need to figure out and master the game from the ground up. But, if you’re already level 34, you can use the same tips to revamp your strategies.

My favourite part was when it told me how to get 500 in my family in a couple days. Granted, it took me a full week, but still…I had 500 in my family in a week. That’s insane.

I’m not quite up to level 150+ yet, but I’m well on my way to the top of the charts and you’d better believe I’m going to brag about it. If you’re serious about being really, really good at this game you really ought to give this guide a shot. http://bit.ly/5WS297

How To Level Up Quickly in FarmVille

There are more and more people joining the ranks of FarmVille every day. No one can get enough of this game and there are plenty of reasons why. In FarmVille, you can get away from the noise and stress of everyday life. Just relax, plant some seeds, harvest some crops – not a bad way to spend an evening. And as you do this, you’ll naturally advance in levels over time.

There may come a time, though, when you want to get a little more out of the game. Every time you move up a level, you unlock new seeds, decorations, and other discretionary items. This means that in order to get the most out of your FarmVille experience, you’ll have to level up quickly to unlock as many items and bonuses as you can.

The Basics

But how do you do this? There are several things to keep in mind if you want to level up quickly in FarmVille. You probably already know that in order to level up, you need to accumulate experience points. For example, each plot of land you plow gets you one experience point. In the early stages of game play, the number of experience points you get by plowing land and planting crops is plenty to allow you to advance at a reasonable pace. Once you get through the initial stages though, you start to need more and more experience points to level up.

Focus on Experience

When you want to build up experience points quickly in FarmVille, you have to supplement what you gain from your normal harvests with other activities. Making improvements to your farm is a good way to gain some quick chunks of experience points. Buildings yield the most, but you can get experience from putting up just about any decoration or structure. You just have to pay close attention to the amounts of experience points each item will deliver.

You should also take experience points into consideration when deciding which crops to plant. Crops that take less than a day to grow only yield 1 experience point, while crops that take longer yield 2. That doesn’t mean you only want to plant crops that offer 2 experience points however. If you can get back and harvest them as soon as they’re ready, crops like strawberries will get you more than 2 experience points a day because you can harvest them every 4 hours.

You have to be on top of your harvesting and planting cycles in order to make progress this way though. Putting up buildings on your farm remains the best way to get big boosts in your experience quickly. Save up your cash for those, and you’ll be well on your way to unlocking all of the available items in FarmVille.

The Best Cash Fish in FishVille

Fish in FishVille

There are so many options when you’re trying to decide which fish to raise in your tanks in FishVille that it can be hard to even begin to figure out what the differences are and how they might be important. Of course, the level you’re at will have a significant impact on the types of fish in FishVille that you’ll be able to choose from, but there are a few factors you’ll have to take into account when you’re making your decision no matter what your options actually are. When the process is initially outlined, it can seem rather complicated. But once you understand why you’re looking for what you’re looking for, you’ll begin to see that most of the time, your decisions will actually be pretty straight forward.

Investment Return

One of the easiest things to see about a fish in FishVille when you’re trying to decide whether or not to buy it is what kind of a return on your investment it will give you. This can vary significantly from one type of fish to another in the game, but mostly it increases with the fish you unlock as you reach higher and higher levels of game play. There are exceptions to this rule, though, so don’t get sucked into thinking that a new fish you’ve unlocked is automatically better than any of the other options you had in front of you before. Be sure to check each time so that you can be sure you’re getting the biggest possible benefit out of your fish in FishVille.

Earnings Per Hour

While a straight analysis of the return you’re getting on your investment is helpful, it’s not the only way to evaluate the benefits of your options when you’re trying to determine which one or another of the types of fish in FishVille you should be raising at any given point in time. It’s also very helpful to look at the differences in the fish’s rates of earnings per hour to see how quickly you’ll be able to increase your coins and experience point totals.

Of course, going hand in hand with this type of analysis is the fact that you’re going to have to get back to feed your fish before they die. That means that you can’t pick a fish with a growth cycle that doesn’t fit your schedule. All of these factors need to be taken into account, and it can get frustrating. But once you get the hang of it, you’ll be making great fish decisions in no time.