Cafe World Cooking & Serving

Cooking
If a stove is empty you can begin a new dish by clicking on it. This opens up the Dish Menu where you can choose which dish you wish to cook. The cost of a dish is different depending on how long they take to fully cook and how many café coins you make from serving them. Dishes award experience, or café points, every time you complete an ingredient step. Be sure to complete all three ingredient steps for your dish to start cooking!

Plan ahead by cooking dishes that will become ready to serve the next time you check back in on your Café. Moving your mouse over a fully prepped dish will display its current cook progress. This is shown as a green progress bar, with a percentage to completion on the left side of the bar.

Chef
The head chef is an employee of your restaurant in Café World. He is in charge of cooking dishes on the stoves and then transferring the cooked dishes on free counters so they can be served by waiters.

You are the head chef of your Restaurant and your character should reflect that! If you are unhappy with your appearance at any time, you can easily change it by clicking on the shirt icon from the lower left hand menu (in between your cookbook and the decoration buttons). This brings up the customization screen where you can easily modify skin color, facial features, hair and eyes as well as purchase new clothes and accessories with your hard earned Cafe Coins! You can also edit your character by clicking it in game.

Only you can be the head chef of your restaurant, and unlike waiters, you can not choose any of your Facebook friends to take that position.

Serving
Serving dishes is done automatically by your waiters, who are employees, after having been placed by your head chef on the counter. Each dish has a number of servings, which are given out to clients until you run out. It’s therefore important to always cook new dishes to keep your clients happy.

Dishes take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 days to become fully cooked and ready to serve. A fully cooked dish is easy to spot as it sparkles on the stove to signify it’s ready. Click on the finished dish to have your Chef place it on a free counter and then your waiters will serve it. Be sure to have a free counter, or if a dish that is ready stays too long on the stove it will become rotten.

Cooking additional servings of dishes that you are already serving will add them to the same counter space; however, cooking a new dish requires an empty counter to serve it on. Your variety in dishes is limited by the number of counters you have in your restaurant, the more counters you have, the wider variety of dishes you can serve!