With three hours remaining in the Cafe World's Super Slider event, fans were already wondering about the Thanksgiving menu items that Games.com confirmed were coming soon after the event. Last night, the team behind the Facebook social networking game gave fans a glimpse of two items: a turkey and a cornucopia.
No other details were given about when the two items (or additional menu items) may show up. Historically, new Cafe World items do tend to show up on Thursday so players may see them later on today today.
Once the Super Sliders event in Cafe World finishes by tomorrow, cafe owners will get four new decoration options for their joints. While the four new options seem to lack an all-enveloping theme, covering nature-themes with a volcano or a waterfall; classic restaurant ambiance with rustic fireplace and ending with Chinese-themed dragon column, there something for nearly everyone.
In the world of burgers, there's only one measure of success. One billion. Today Cafe World chefs have cooked over one billion Super Sliders. The new menu option is part of a special event where players get to serve burgers that take 5 minutes to cook and never spoil. But Super Sliders, a reward for the one millionth fan of the Cafe World page on Facebook, is only available for 48 hours.
Unlike the first billion burger maker, McDonald's, Cafe World got to that sacred number in about 16 hours. With just under 30 hours remaining in the Super Sliders event, it's time to serve a few billion more.
ReTired of cooking stacks of Bacon Cheeseburgers in Cafe World? Well at noon PST today, Facebook players will gain the new Super Sliders menu item. So what's so good about them? Like the Bacon Cheeseburgers, Super Sliders still cost only 14 Coins to purchase and take only five minutes to prepare. Yet the big difference is that each order creates 25 servings, 12 more than Bacon Cheeseburgers. So while patrons will still pay four Coins per serving, chefs will earn 100 Coins total for all those servings (versus 52 for Bacon Cheeseburgers).
We too are curious about why the new burgers have golden dollar signs on them. Regardless, Happy Super Slider Day!
Living a vegetarian lifestyle takes a firm commitment in not only changing the food that one consumes but also the choices one makes in their daily life. Making such choices in real-life is one thing but what about living up to the vegetarian ideal in a Facebook foodie game like Cafe World?
Early on in the game, there are some good clear choices for vegetarians with Super Chunk Fruit Salad, Triple Berry Cheesecake and French Onion Soup (we'll assume the soup is vegan since beef broth is not an ingredient in the in-game recipe) and level 3 offers up Caramel Apples, Chips and Guacamole and Pumpkin Pie. The next vegetarian plate doesn't arrive until level 15 with Tony's Classic Pizza. Level 45 adds Overstuffed Peppers (which appear to be rice and not beef-filled) and the final dish, Powdered French Toast, arrives at level 43.
Yet there's a problem. All the vegetarian items take up to 12 hours to complete with the non-vegetarian dish Homestyle Pot Roast take two days to cook and offers up the most XP and coins in the game. So living up to the vegan ideal is also hard in Cafe World as players would have to return every 12 hours to serve Pumpkin Pie or Triple Berry Cheesecake. Can it be done? Yes but leveling up and maintaining your view will prove to be yet another test of wills.
Cafe's World Vegetarian Friendly Items (food/cooking time)
Super Chunk Fruit Salad -- 15 minutes
French Onion Soup -- 4 hours
Triple Berry Cheesecake -- 12 hours
Chips and Guacamole -- 3 minutes
Caramel Apples -- 2 hours
Pumpkin Pie -- 12 hours
Tony's Classic Pizza -- 5 hours
Overstuffed Peppers -- 12 hours
Powered French Toast -- 20 minutes
[Update: Zynga confirmed with Games.com that Thanksgiving menu items will be coming to Cafe World]
For Americans, Thanksgiving Day (November 26) is a time to meet with friends and family to catch up on old times over food, drink and football. With Cafe World's makers being based in the U.S., players can expect new menu offerings to reflect some of the tastes of the season. What food would you like to see?
Whether you bike, run, read or simply stay in bed late, weekends are "me" time for many. And while we love Cafe World, making sure that you're getting your dishes done and served takes away from that "me." So we've created a brief hint guide on how to plan out your weekend for the perfect balance of your virtual life and your real one.
1) Thursday at Dawn
After work (or right before you leave), start cooking as many 24 hour / 1 day items as you can (depending on your level: Spitfire Roasted Chicken, Pumpkin Pie, Voodoo Chicken Salad and Vampire Staked Steak).We almost always choose Roasted Chicken since it serves 800 and makes 3200 coins each but if money is no object and you've cleared level 17, then the 900 coin expense of Herbed Halibut is an even better option that makes 4500 coins.
2) Friday at Dawn
Following the same pattern as yesterday, you should be able to serve your 1 day items. As we've found, your cafe numbers may go down if there's only one food available but you want the food to last. Our suggestion is to start cooking many Homestyle Pot Roasts (available at level 3) since each they take 48 hours to complete and with 1150 servings per roast, you're going to eventually get a lot of food and experience points.
3) Take a Day Off from Cafe World
Since your food won't be done until Sunday, there's no need to care for your cafe. Play other games like FarmVille, Mafia Wars or even do the unthinkable, reconnect with friends, loved ones, neighbors in real-life.
4) Serve Roast
You can even be lazy about serving your roast since it takes more than a day to spoil. Optimally, you'd serve the roast around dinnertime on Sunday. If you have the time, serve up a some burgers (5 minutes) and other short items just to add some variety... at least until tomorrow.
Have you been one of the lucky few to spot a test dish in Cafe World? Several players have reported that they've been seeing something called a "Test Dish" appear on their stoves. After prepping the dish, there's no cooking involved -- it's ready to serve to customers right away. Here's what some on the Zynga forums have been seeing:
Example #1: What are [Test Dishes]? I was making some cheesecake, but instead of dealing with strawberries I was asked to sear some tuna and squeeze some lime juice?? The cooking time on the dish was 1 minute and it was called Test Dish. When it was done, I clicked on it, but it did not show up on my counters. - Mishi
Example #2: I made my chicken and chips and then I get an empty stove with sparkles over it, I clicked it and a "testdish" served (see pic). - MignonChampignon
Example #3: About a few minutes ago, I was prepping a bunch of fruit salads and all of a sudden, one of them didn't have the usual ingredients as a fruit salad would. I can't quite remember the first ingredient, but the second was tuna and the third was a lemon. Once it was prepared it was called 'TestDish' with 15 servings. - ReiRe
There's a lot of speculation that the game developers are testing something and it's leaking into players live games. Have you seen this mysterious test dish yet?
One of the biggest questions in Cafe World on Facebook is -- do pricier stoves help you cook faster?
Players looking for a way to cook faster in Cafe World have been scouring search engines for information. One major question on that front is -- will fancier stoves cook food faster? The answer is, no.
Instead if relying on stoves, we've found the best way to peel through levels is to set up your Cafe so that you can serve items faster. See our Six Ways to Level Up Fast in Cafe World guide for more tips.
Our take: Save your money and just buy the basic stoves, the basic counters and expand your restaurant vigorously. Cafe World rewards speed and size, not decorations (for now, anyway).
And the winner for most popular game on Facebook in October is ... (drumroll, please!) ... FarmVille. The farm-simulation is still attracting players in droves, bringing in 11 million people in the past month for a whopping total of 63 million users. Zynga's restaurant simulation game, Cafe World, went from zero users to 27 million in a single month and Happy Aquarium went from zero to 22.5 million users in a month.
The other games that made the top five include Mafia Wars, and Pet Society. Even though these games have the most users, it's also important to mention that Zynga's Roller Coaster Kingdom gained 14 million users last month, Pet Society gained 3 million users, Restaurant City gained 2.3 million users and the newly redesigned Bejeweled Blitz gained 2.6 million users.
Needless to say, Facebook game are continuing to attract players in droves; we're already placing bets as to how soon Cafe World will overtake FarmVille as the top dog on the charts. Care to wager?
On Monday, the Cafe World team announced its Super Sliders event on Facebook. The premise of the event is a simple one, once the Cafe World Facebook page gets to 1,000,000 fans, players will get a new Super Sliders menu option in the game.
This morning, the Facebook announced that it had reached the halfway point with 514,308 fans and climbing. While the event has only been promoted on a page where many are already fans, it appears that Zynga is relying on viral messaging to build its fan base. With over 26 million active players, we expected that we'd all be eating super sliders by now. Our suggestion to Zynga: Add copy over the game's "Become a Fan" button that says "Become a Fan, Get Super Sliders."
Cameo appearances of one TV show's characters in another show has been done for eons. Now Zynga is taking a page out of the TV executive playbook for Mafia Wars' Halloween Loot Event. Starting this Friday, October 30 at midnight (PT), players will be on the hunt for eight Halloween themed items that are based on FarmVille, Roller Coaster Kingdom, Zynga Poker and Cafe World.
The Official Mafia Wars Facebook page whet the appetites of players by unveiling four of the eight items they'll try to earn as they fight and complete jobs in the game.
A brand new post on the Mafia Wars Facebook page says that starting on Friday, October 30 at midnight (PST), some seriously haunting loot items will be coming to the game. The official post says the following:
Halloween Loot Event! starting Friday at midnight (PT), all jobs and fights have a chance to give you special Halloween-themed items. Sneak peek into some of the items!
The "items" they're referring to are the collection of creepy pics in the image above, which don't all look like they all belong to Mafia Wars. In fact, that undead cow looks like it belongs in FarmVille and the green bowl of cheesy eyeball soup looks like a terrifying remake of the French onion soup from Cafe World. Keep your eye peeled for these creepy items starting this Friday night ... if you dare!
Just a few mere weeks ago, Cafe World took to the gaming appetites of Facebook players. Quickly topping the 20 million monthly user mark, the game has been quickly been gaining on big sister game, FarmVille. Yesterday, Cafe World added another success to its growing list by adding more cafe owners (3,755,339) in a week than farmers in FarmVille (1,337,570) as reported by Inside Social Games.
While FarmVille still leads the list with nearly 62 million MAUs (monthly average users), more than double Cafe World's nearly 23.8 million MAUs, it appears that Zynga's newer game could topple FarmVille's dominance by the end of November or first week of December 2009.
The little food game that could, Cafe World's latest update introduce the pay for play Cafe Cash, the return of expansions and a new button that lets you purchase coins or Cafe Cash for real-world money. Players of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Roller Coaster Kingdom won't be surprised by the introduction of the real cash for virtual cash option. But what is new is that the expansions in the game can now be acquired in to ways: either with coins plus a specific amount of neighbors or a newly unveiled Cafe Cash amount.
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One of the biggest questions in Cafe World on Facebook is -- do pricier stoves help you cook faster? 
On Monday, the Cafe World team announced its Super Sliders event on Facebook. The premise of the event is a simple one, once the Cafe World Facebook page gets to 1,000,000 fans, players will get a new Super Sliders menu option in the game. 
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