Cafe World Spring Fling Catering Order: Finish in time to receive Crab Spring Roll recipe

Do you live in a climate that's still receiving snow and other winter weather? Wish that you could throw on some shorts and flip-flops and hit the beach? Well, you can, at least virtually via Cafe World's Spring Fling Catering Order. Don't get confused - this order has nothing to do with the two Easter-themed events that have also recently launched in the game (the Egg Hunt Catering Order, and the Egg Hunt Goals - both of which have guides here on Games.com - The Blog!) - this is a completely separate order that will see you unlocking a new recipe for your cookbook, if you can complete it in time.

This order is a fairly complex one, and fairly difficult as well, requiring you to cook three dishes, along with collecting three items from your friends. You'll have five days as your starter time limit, which does give you more time to accomplish these six tasks, but don't say I didn't warn you - this one's a toughie.


To start, you'll be spending most of your time cooking three dishes. You'll need to serve Lemon Butter Lobster (a two-hour dish) a whopping 550 times, Seafood Paella (a 14-hour dish) 250 times, and Sirius Sorbet (a 30-minute dish) 150 times. Sure, the Sirius Sorbet and Seafood Paella may not take high-level chefs long to complete, but 550 Lemon Butter Lobsters? Good luck to all of us with that one.

You'll be able to bring 13 of your friends in on this mission with you (for a total Catering Crew of 14 people), but you'll be on your own with collecting the three collectible items: 19 Plastic Cups, 10 Beach Towels, and 9 Suntan Lotions. Is it just me, or does this catering order seem more like a Summer-themed one than Spring? Anyway, you'll be able to gather these items by simply sending out individual gift requests to your friends asking for them.

If you can manage to complete everything within five days, you'll receive the three-star rating, 12 Catering Points, 6,300 Cafe Points, 175,000 coins and the Crab Spring Roll recipe. If you can't manage it within five days, but still finish within a week after starting, you'll receive two stars, eight Catering Points, 4,500 Cafe Points and 125,000 coins. Finally, if you finish the mission at any time after the first week, you'll receive a single star, four Catering Points, 2,700 Cafe Points, and 75,000 coins.

Luckily, this catering order doesn't seem to be time-specific, in terms of how long it will be available to complete, so if you'd rather wait until a later time to attempt it (say, when you can outfit your cafe with more Lightning Stoves), go right ahead. Just keep in mind that your best chance of finishing is right at the start, since most of your friends will be working on it / close to finishing it already as well.

What do you think of the requirements for this Catering Order? Is the Lemon Butter Lobster requirement too high?

CityVille: New summertime items are all available for coins

I'm almost speechless here, folks (almost). A new set of summer-themed items has been released in CityVille and, believe it or not, none of them are premium; they can all be purchased for coins! There's a single new business here: the Jet Ski Shop, which is such a cute building that I'm thrilled I don't have to spend any City Cash to add it to my town. It costs 9,000 coins, and requires 140 Goods to operate. By default, the payout is 700 coins, but remember, you can earn more if you boost that payout percentage with decorations.

Speaking of, there are three new decorations here as well. One, the Kids' Ball Pit, costs 10,000 coins, but also provides a 4% payout bonus, which isn't bad. Likewise, a Drummers item costs the same amount, and also offers the 4% bonus. Finally, a small Metal Detector decorative citizen is available for 1,000 coins. As you might expect, this low price equals a low bonus of just 1%.

Rounding out this release is the Beach Hut, a new home that's available for 10,000 coins. The home starts with a population of 120 citizens, but that can be increased to 250 via random upgrades in the future. In terms of rent, this one is a fast-payout, although the profits are small: 15 coins every five minutes.

Luckily, none of these items comes with time limits, so if you've yet to start setting aside an area of your town for these summer-themed items, you'll at least have plenty of time to do so in the future. Since all of these items were available for coins, does it mean that Zynga is finally listening to users who were complaining about too many City Cash items / features, or is this a coincidence? We can only hope this is a new positive trend, but we'll make sure to let you know either way.

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What do you think of today's summertime item release? Are you happy to see nothing but coin items here, or are you fine spending City Cash for new decorations and items?