Cafe World is one of the most popular facebook games out today, with around 30 million users. It was released in early October 2009. Since then, it has really taken off. Zynga is the developer of Cafe World, and have recently been under some negative press because of the way they monetize their games with shady offers – but that is another story entirely. With that said, though, it’s obvious that they know what they are doing, and they design their games so that they grow on their own. Some of their other games (like Farmville and Petville) are also enormously popular. This is because all their games have built in viral elements. You can invite your friends over to check out how you are going in the game. You can also visit neighboring cafes. To go along with this, the game urges you to post updates and progress reports on your facebook page – that way your friends will find out about the game too.
Cafe World is in fact very similar to another game called Restaurant City (made by a different developer), and both games are doing very well. Many of Zynga’s games have been similar to already existing games that were doing well – Zynga just makes them better, does a lot more marketing, and soon gets to be the dominant market player. Right now, Cafe World is (by far) the most popular restaurant management game that facebook has. You still do the usual stuff such as build and maintain a restaurant, get employees, serve customers, make food and more. And even if another game comes out with more features it would be extremely difficult to ever catch up to the user-base of Cafe World. The other thing is that it is very unlikely (almost impossible) for games with huge followings like Farmville, Petville and Cafe World to ever drop a lot of players, because new people are playing all the time.
By now you are most likely looking for a tutorial that teaches people how to play Cafe World properly. In order to learn the game well you will need to pick up a Cafe World guide. Right now, the most popular guide out there is ‘Cafe World Domination’ and I would strongly recommend getting that if you want to become better. Other than Cafe World Domination, there are a few other guides that teach you some good tips, so you may want to investigate them.
If picking up a Cafe World walkthrough does not appeal to you, then you can just play the game without any assistance and learn on your own. But be warned: this is probably going to result in a lot of frustration. If you wish, you can also get hacks and cheats that are designed to manipulate the game, but this is not advised because it can very easily get you banned. So overall the best option is just to pick up a paid guide and be done with it.