Cafe World St. Patrick's Day Goals: Everything you need to know

In honor of the upcoming St. Patrick's Day holiday, Zynga has launched a massive, nine-part mission series in Cafe World set around new St. Patrick's Day decorations, general party "happenings," and a series of new St. Patrick's Day recipes, which can only be unlocked by completing these goals. This series of goals deals with a new character in the game - Peter O'Brien - who is homesick for Ireland. It's up to you to help bring the spirit of St. Patrick's Day to your cafe and cheer this poor fella up.

Let's jump right in, shall we? Part I is called Peter's Irish Wish, and it asks you to complete some fairly simple tasks, as a sort of preparation for what's ahead. These tasks are so simple, in fact, that most players will likely have two of the three completed even before they begin.

Unlock Coffee Machine Crate
Place the Drink Bar
Place the Leprechaun Fountain

The Leprechaun Fountain is a new mission-based item just like the Love Meter from the Valentine's Day event. As you complete the St. Patrick's Day missions, the fountain will be built automatically in stages, and you'll only see the final product upon completing the entire goal series. Your reward for finishing this first mission is a new recipe - Irish Stew. Irish Stew costs 1500 coins and takes 8 hours to cook. You'll receive 850 coins that can be sold for 5 coins each, giving you a return of 4,250 coins.
After completing Part I, you'll actually jump into a normal quest, requiring some effort on your part. Part II is called Patty's Parade, and it will ask you to put your new recipe to good use, but there's a catch here that works in your favor.

Cook 10 Irish Stews
Ask for 1 Flier
Have 1 Shamrock


Notice the wording above - "cook" means just that. All you have to do is set 10 Irish Stews to cook to pass this step - you don't actually have to wait and serve them eight hours later. As for the Flier and Shamrock, you'll be able to earn these via simple gift requests to friends, as you might expect. Finish this quest and you'll receive 1,000 coins and 500 Cafe Points.

Part III is called Post-Parade Punch, and it has you heading into the Drink Bar to serve one of a new series of St. Patrick's Day beverages that are available in the game for a limited time.

Serve Shamrock Punch 10 Times
Ask for 1 Corned Beef
Ask for 2 Cabbages

Shamrock Punch requires 30 energy to prepare, and you'll receive 6 servings to serve to your guests. Each serving is worth 10 Cafe Points and a 10 point Buzz Boost, so this is definitely one of the better drinks you can serve, even if it wasn't required for a mission. As for the Corned Beef and Cabbage, you likely know where this is going, as those ingredients work to unlock your mission goal - the Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe. Corned Beef and Cabbage costs 1500 coins to cook, and is ready after 12 hours. You'll receive 300 servings to serve for 15 coins each, giving you 4500 coins in return.

Part IV of IX is called Cook of the Irish, and it, as you might expect, asks you to cook your new recipe, but in this case you will actually have to serve it.

Serve 15 Corned Beef and Cabbage
Own 2 Four Leaf Clovers
Own 2 Green Balloons

While you're waiting the 12 hours for your food to cook, you can go about purchasing these four new decorative items. The Four Leaf Clovers cost 50,000 coins each, while the Green Balloons cost 30,000 coins each. It's a pricey set of items, to be sure, but at least they don't require you to beg to your friends for more items. Finishing this quest will reward you with 2,500 coins and 750 Cafe Points.

Part V sees you heading back to the Drink Bar once again.

Serve Virgin Shillelagh 10 Times
Serve Chocolate Mint Shake 15 Times
Have 6 Shamrocks

Both of these drinks are part of the limited edition St. Patrick's Day menu. Virgin Shillelagh takes 45 energy to prepare and serves eight at a time, while the Chocolate Mint Shake is the most expensive of these new recipes in terms of energy, taking 55 energy to prepare. You'll be able to serve nine guests per preparation, so you'll need to do this at least twice. As for the Shamrocks, you can earn them by asking you friends in individual gift requests. Finishing this quest unlocks the Irish Pub Piano.

Part VI has you placing that prize into your cafe, along with collecting a few other items.

Place Irish Pub Piano
Have 3 Different Irish Stew Collection Pieces
Ask for 8 Sheet Musics

The Irish Stew is an interesting dish in this theme, as when you cook it, you have the potential to randomly receive one of five new collection items for your Collection Cabinet. In a perfect world, you would only have to cook Irish Stew three times to receive three different collection pieces, but it's unlikely that you'll be that lucky. Once you finish this quest, though, you'll receive 1,000 Cafe Points and 500 coins.

Part VII may be encroaching on the end of this mission series, but this might just be the most difficult quest we've hit yet (in this theme, that is).

Serve Green Mocktails 40 Times
Ask for 7 Pieces of Wood
Ask for 8 Darts

Green Mocktail is the fourth and final new drink recipe available for this holiday. It can be prepared with just 20 energy, and you'll receive 5 servings to share with guests. That means you'll need to prepare the drink eight times to hit the full 40, so keep the energy requirement in mind. If the Darts haven't given it away, your reward for this quest will be the Dartboard, which can be accessed in the Windows section of the store.

Moving onto Part VIII, you'll be heading back to the Drink Bar to serve a drink that we became familiar with earlier in this quest set.

Serve Shamrock Punch 50 Times
Place Your New Dartboard
Ask for 6 Darts

You can't play Darts without the darts themselves, so you'll need to ask your friends to help you outfit your game through gift requests. While you're waiting for the darts to arrive, you can serve the Shamrock Punch - remember, they take 30 energy to prepare, and you'll receive 6 servings each time you do so. Your final rewards before the finale of this mission series are 2500 Cafe Points and 10,000 coins.

Finally, Part IX will see you ending this mission series by cooking even more Irish Stew, if you haven't completed the Patty's Day collection before now.

Have 1 Pot O'Gold
Ask for 9 Jars of Mincemeat
Ask for 8 Large Eggs

The Pot O'Gold is the price you'll receive for turning in the Patty's Day collection, which, as a reminder, can only be completed by receiving items through cooking the Irish Stew. Collecting all of these ingredients will reward you with one final recipe in the St. Patrick's Day theme - the Mince Tartlets, which can be cooked for just 50 coins.

And there you have it - a lengthy, but seemingly worthwhile quest set that will likely only be available in the game for a limited time. Start now for your best chance at completing this mission set in time - and good luck!

Check out our St. Patrick's Day coverage right here.

Cafe World: The Goal Manager has arrived at last

Honestly chefs, this is a post I never thought I would be writing. After complaining - err, uh... heavily suggesting that Zynga add a Goal Manager to Cafe World, so that users could see more than four active goal sets at once, our calls for help have finally been answered! Over the next 24 hours, Zynga will be rolling out the Goal Manager to all users in the game.

This Goal Manager doesn't take up much space, and is actually a fully integrated menu, rather than a pop-up, that rests along the right side of the screen. This Goal Manager has a set of up and down arrows, that will allow you to scroll through all available goals, presenting you with three at a time, until you have found the goal you'd like to complete. No more slogging through the same four goal sets while you know you could easily finish others if you could only get to them - no more frustration when that goal that you've almost finished is suddenly covered up by a new release.

This is, without doubt, the best thing to happen to Cafe World in a very, very long time - I might even go so far to say as it might be the single best thing, but that could be pushing it just a bit. Either way, this will change the way we play the game forever, and definitely in a good way. Now, won't you join me in the celebration?

[Image Credit: Forums user okekeca]

Have you received the Goal Manager in Cafe World yet? What do you think of its streamlined appearance?

Cafe World Ice Cream Cart Goals: Everything you need to know

A new appliance of sorts has been added to the Cafe World catalog in the form of the Ice Cream Cart. Just in time for summer, you'll be able to prepare some cool treats to combat the summer heat. However, before you get too excited, know that the setup of the Ice Cream Cart is like that of the recently released Sous Chef Station, in that before you can actually accomplish any real tasks here, you'll first need to ask your friends to man the Ice Cream Cart as a sort of temporary staff.

To go along with this Ice Cream Cart are six new goals that will see you completing all manner of goals on your way to cold and creamy success. Meet us behind the break for a complete look at those goals.

Goal 1 of 6:

Place the Cart!

Goal 2 of 6:

Collect 3 Bags of Ice (ask friends)
Collect 2 Stone Mixing Boards
Serve Angel Fruit Cake 15 Times

Goal 3 of 6:

Collect 7 Packs of Rainbow Sprinkles (ask friends)
Collect 7 Butterscotch Syrups
Serve Caramel Apples 18 Times

Goal 4 of 6:

Hire Ice Cream Crew (ask your friends to join you)
Serve Chocolate Cream Pie 10 Times
Serve Belgian Waffles 10 Times

Goal 5 of 6:

Serve Loco Moco 10 Times
Serve Fish 'n' Chips 10 Times
Spice 5 Neighbors' Stoves

Goal 6 of 6:

Collect 10 Ice Cream Tasting Spoons
Serve White Raddish Cake 20 Times
Collect 10 Ice Cream Cones

To staff your Ice Cream Cart, you'll need to have six friends answer your call for help to fill out the staff. However, you can't really do anything with the Ice Cream Cart right now, as it has yet to be stocked up with new recipes. Apparently, the new ice cream recipes will be coming in just a few days, so keep checking back with us for more on this summer-themed feature.

Cafe World Plots and Pans Goals: Everything you need to know

If you're looking to unlock even more Pizza recipes in your recipe book in Cafe World, look no further than the new Plots and Pans goal series. This five-part goal series will also reward you with a few decorations, but you'll need to work extra hard each step of the way to actually reach the end.

Goal 1 of 5:

Serve Gourmet Blend 10 Times
Cook Belgian Waffles 5 Times (do not have to be served)
Cook eggs Benedict 5 Times (do not have to be served)
Reward: Book Shelf wall decoration

Meet us behind the break for a look at the other four goals.

Goal 2 of 5:

Have 3 Bookshelves (buy the other two from the store to match the one you were just given as a quest reward
Serve Chips and Guacamole 30 Times
Ask for 5 Pens (ask your friends to send them to you)

Goal 3 of 5:

Serve Double Espresso coffee 20 Times
Serve Pita and Dolmas 60 Times
Ask for 10 Thermoses (ask your friends to send them)
Reward: Novelist decoration 3

Goal 4 of 5:

Serve Spicy Devil Eggs 70 Times
Ask for 15 Manuscript pages
Ask for 5 Book Covers
Reward: Framed Book wall decoration

Goal 5 of 5:

Serve Gem Cake 90 Times
Ask for 7 Flatbreads
Ask for 14 Goat Cheese
Reward: Fancy Schmancy

Remember, if you ever need help on a dish's serving tasks, always check your Gift Box for any extra servings of something you can serve instantly to earn the points.

What do you think of the Plots and Pans goals in Cafe World? Will you complete all of these goals just for a small recipe in exchange?

Cafe World Pee Wee Chefs Goals: Everything you need to know

Here's a new Cafe World storyline for you: Your cafe has sponsored a Little League team, and it's now your responsibility to feed all of your little players before (and apparently after) the big game. This is, of course, done through a new goal series, an eight-part goal series, to be exact, called the Pee Wee Chefs.

Unfortunately, this is another one of those goal sets that will require you to cook dishes that may be different from those listed in our guide, and there's no way for us to personally guarantee which dish each chef will end up having to cook (sorry). The Cafe World team has stated before that when it comes to goals like these, the overall cooking time for each player will be the same, but you may have to cook varying cooking-time dishes to get there in the end. Either way, here's a complete rundown of the sorts of dishes you can expect to cook.

The Pee Wee Chefs 1

    * Serve 10 Buttermilk Pancakes
    * Serve 10 Belgian Waffles
    * Ask for 5 Baseballs


Right off the bat (no pun intended), we're given the basic Cafe World goal requirements of cooking dishes and asking your friends to send you items. You'll receive a free Team Photo wall decoration for completing this first goal.

The Pee Wee Chefs 2

    * Serve Pizza Margherita 30 Times
    * Serve Pepperoni Pizza 20 Times
    * Ask for 10 Catcher's Masks


For completing this goal, you'll receive the first of three new recipes for this goal series: the Banana Split.

The Pee Wee Chefs 3

    * Serve Deep Fried Ice Cream 5 Times
    * Serve 45 Caramel Apples
    * Ask for 8 Aluminum Bats


Remember, as you're tasked with cooking all of these dishes (regardless of the appliance you're forced to use), make sure you check your Gift Box for any left-over servings that could speed up your progress considerably, or to use any spices that you might have lying around to really give things a boost.

The Pee Wee Chefs 4

    * Serve 40 Cocktail Weenies
    * Serve 30 In Flight Meals
    * Ask for 12 Baseballs


For this task, we're not sure if the Baseballs will be cumulative (that is, making you only ask for seven more, since you already gathered five at the beginning of this series), or if you'll have to start from scratch. Keep that second possibility in mind either way.

The Pee Wee Chefs 5

    * Serve 40 Fruit and Jelly Molds
    * Serve 30 Kabayaki
    * Ask for 6 Catcher's Masks


While these past two goals may not have been very creative (alright, the entire goal series is fairly lacking in that area), you will earn another new recipe for making it to this point: Blue Cotton Candy.

The Pee Wee Chefs 6

    * Serve 20 Chickens and Forty Cloves
    * Serve 30 Belgian Waffles
    * Ask for 5 Aluminum Bats


The Pee Wee Chefs 7

    * Serve Pulled Pork 4 Times
    * Serve Tangy BBQ Chicken 8 Times
    * Ask for 12 Logo Hats


As usual, just keep asking your friends for these Logo Hats (and the Aluminum Bats above), and you'll eventually slog your way through these goals to the end.

The Pee Wee Chefs 8

    * Serve 8 Meat Craver's Pizzas
    * Serve 40 Funnel Cakes
    * Ask for 12 Team Jerseys


Your reward for completing this entire goal series is a final new recipe: The Giant Chili Dog.

As of this writing, there doesn't seem to be a time limit for completing these goals, so feel free to finish whatever you're working on, and then move onto these when you have the time.

What do you think of the Pee Wee Chefs goals in Cafe World? Sound off in the comments.