Cafe World Waiter Not Serving Food To Customer Solution
Category: cafe world, game | 32,878 viewsIn cafe world did your waiter not serving food to some customers, even there’s a lot of dishes on the counters ?
Customers sitting at table and being ignored by the waiters? The waiter just stand there and do nothing !
And you’re wondering if the waiter lazy or stupid 
If you let a customer down, your buzz rating is going down (you can see Cafe World Buzz Rating Drop) and you’ll lose money 
So you must remember to allow the waiter to walk or reach a free side or corner of a customer table
Here’s some picture :
The customers can’t even sit for those 2 chairs, because there’s no way in to that chair. so the only one the waiters serves is the table with customers on the right. Try not to put chair’s with wall, with no spaces.
one table for 2 chairs won’t work, because waiters only give 1 food for 1 customer with that table.
Try not to put some tables in front of a counter, because in some cases the waiter won’t served the customers on that table.
When set some table facing each other you should make a space for the table, so the waiters can ‘reach’ the table. This also a must even if you trapped your waiter / fast serving 
If you use the fast serving layout, sometimes the waiter won’t serving the food because the waiter so picky for some counters even though there’re many food in some counters.
To solve this you can do this :
- rearrange your counters
- use all available waiters
- make sure all counters full with dishes
i hope this will help you all 
if you still have some problem you can post a picture, so i can see your layout
October 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
[...] Why my waiters do not serve the customers ? Leave a clear path to the table for the waiter to reach, he can not serve from behind a chair. If that doesn’t help trying to fire the waiter and hire a different one. Or you can try to rearranging and refreshing data on objects by dropping them into your inventory and bringing them out again almost always fixes problems with frozen waiters. You can see the waiters solution guide. [...]
November 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
my 2 waiters doesn’t serve some of my customers. my buzz rating turns from 80.0 to 5.0 i dunno what happened. im so embarrassed. i just want my buzz rating to be back on normal. please help meee!! :’(
November 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
have you follow all the solutions ? and can you show me your layout ?
November 9th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
same thing happened to me! i have followed all the solutions, but i’m still only at 12, when i used to have an 80! very frustrating! can i email you my layout?
November 10th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
you can upload it to image hosting and show the url here
November 11th, 2009 at 7:32 am
is that the only reason the waiters wouldnt serve food!?
November 11th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3655/captureo.gif
my waiters doesn’t serve some of my customers. idk y. pls help
November 11th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
can i know which table that waiters don’t served ?
November 14th, 2009 at 6:59 am
none of my waiters (3) serves at times. One day I’ll check and they’ll be serving as normal. 10 minutes later, they’ll all be like picture, all the while people are leaving and my points and money are doing same. when i am away from the cafe, and return to the app, it shows i have gained X amount of coins. so they serve when I’m not in the app, but won’t while I’m in the app. help lol
November 14th, 2009 at 7:00 am
link:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30549357&l=9c0b692c61&id=75101654
November 16th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I saw the link for i can hire 1 more waiter when i was hit lever 8. but i can not find out how to do????
Please help
November 16th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
@ kelz : you can try to fill in your counter with dishes, and i mean all your counters. i’m still looking for more solution, so i hope i can more help you okay
@ lananh : you can click the blue waiter icon
and hire 1 more waiter, you can see cafe world icon guide for more info 
November 18th, 2009 at 8:13 am
How do you fill in counters with dishes? Wow, I learn something new about this game every day!
November 18th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
well after the dishes is ready on stove you can move it to the counter, so make sure all you counter full with dishes
if you still have the problem please tell me okay ^_^
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
damn, i hate this new expansion, i had my waiters serving all perfectly, buzz 105.0, about 100k of profit per day, now i evolved and it crashed all over me, they don’t serve a single dish, with it all right(otherwise i wouldn’t have 350k even after the 400k expansion) and now nothing works!!
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:33 am
done, it is working mate
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
hi admin, I’ve updated my cafe… Can you tell me what to change. Some customers are still not eating…
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=811577&id=1395618733
November 24th, 2009 at 6:39 am
hmm.. everything is okay now bee, try moving your counters, swaped them around usually it will works again
November 25th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Please help me, something is wrong with my cafeworld, when it loads there are no doors and I don’t make any money. Every each time I rearranged the layout, the waiters and my cook and the customers floats and it’s like they levitate, then the whole thing gets jammed. The problem happened 2 days ago when I expanded my cafe and customised the layout. Now I am very fed up cos the food spoils and I am wasting a lot of coins and can’t level up. Please please please help! What is wrong with the game???
November 26th, 2009 at 12:26 am
it all started when i got the latest expansion, the waiter trick stopped working, well at least efficiently, they started missing customers
help?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=768240&l=ac7e1f2d5b&id=1393017548
November 26th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Hi!
I have borrowed some parts of this guide to my Facebook page “Café World Support” - hope that was okey!? Otherwise, write to me. We must help each other with this game. Many people are committing the exact same mistake - over and over again…
November 26th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@ Chiayi : hi chiayi, yeah i think there’s a big problem since the last expansion
please read.
but i hope that you can credit me or link back to this site…
i don’t have a good solution for this, so i think you must contact the zynga support.
@ Emz : i’ve added the solution for you
@ Karin : hi karin, yeah you can use it to help other players
November 26th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
@admin, it is definitely working, my buzz is now 9.7 and is going up from 5.0 in just 42 mins. Thanks for the advice, can I share this blog?
November 26th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
@Emz : When set some table facing each other you should make a space for the table, so the waiters can ‘reach’ the table. This also a must even if you trapped your waiter / fast serving - admin
November 26th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
sure you can share this blog bee
i thanked a lot for that ^_^
November 26th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Thanks a lot, I will email Zynga! Thank you, I really appreciate your reply!
November 28th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
http://i360.photobucket.com/albums/oo47/SassiBoB/cafeworld.png
For some reason, my BUZZ points went from 105 to 5. My waiters serve all the customers that enter and sit down…but for some reason when the customers come in with a clock over their heads, then NEVER COME IN. So my BUZZ will go up slightly, and then right back down. I’ve tried rearranging, deleting my cache, and moving the counters around.
Is there something wrong with this layout?
November 28th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
well you have a nice layout
i guess that you should move the door that have the flower around it, try to remove the flowers because i think it’s blocking the customers way so they can’t move in and sit because there only 1 available chair and it’s full… so they buzzing you down 
So try this : remove the door , and 2 flowers on the right side and add more doors on the left 
December 1st, 2009 at 9:02 am
Hi admin, I followed your guides, I have updated my layout however I just noticed that from 50.2 my buzz rating is now 19.4 in just 23 hours. In the screenshot you’ll see that the 2 customers are not eating, what shall I do? Thanks!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=830251&id=1395618733
December 1st, 2009 at 9:24 am
I changed it again… Do you think its better now? Can you tell me what do i need to improve?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=830281&id=1395618733
December 1st, 2009 at 10:33 am
hi bee
hmm.. i don’t see anything wrong with the layout. First try to make all counters have dishes, and i think i still suggested to rearrange your counters, swap them 
And i see that you only have 3 counters ? you should use them all and make sure put a lot of dishes on the counters
hope this will help you again bee, cheers ^__^
December 1st, 2009 at 1:27 pm
hey i dont know what went wrong ive tried pretty much everything but my waiters arent serving anything… i had like a 90 buzz rating.. and now it wont go up pass 10.. what can i do… :S
December 1st, 2009 at 2:35 pm
please give some screenshots of your cafe
December 2nd, 2009 at 7:47 am
Thanks admin, I’ll do that later!
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
how do i lock my waiters in? they walk too slow and the customers are leaving!
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 am
I rearranged my tables and counters and my buzz was up to 22. Then suddenly, in a few minutes, it was down to 7 =(. My waiters don’t serve a lot of my costumers =(
Please help!!!
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9049/novaimagemah.png
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
hi joana, you should rotate the counter facing your waiters, and also make sure they can reach the counter too.. your dish (caramel apples) can’t be reached by your waiters. If you fix those 2 problems i’m sure your buzz will go up again
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
thanks =)
i’ve rearranjed my cafe and i’m waiting for the results
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:24 pm
what’s wrong now? =(
my apples are not being served =(
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/56/novaimagem1d.png
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
hmm… nothing wrong now, are you sure you put the right postition for the apples (facing waiters) ? if it’s already correct, please try to rearrange your counters, swap them
usually it works
December 4th, 2009 at 5:10 am
it’s not working… my buzz still on 5. i think i’m gonna change it all again… thanks
December 6th, 2009 at 8:26 am
My rating WAS at 105.1 or whatever the highest is, and now it’s at 23 something. My waiters do not always give food to people. They’re trapped!! I don’t get it!!! n when everything is full of food, they still do not feed everyone! HELP!
December 6th, 2009 at 8:29 am
http://i910.photobucket.com/albums/ac308/beckley816/cafeworld.jpg
sorry it didn’t post my link.
December 6th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
hi samantha
i noticed that the white counters is not facing the waiters, you should rotate them so it will face the waiters like the black one 
if it still not work, try to swap the counters. Tell me if it works okay 
December 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know I appreciate all the tips you posted. I found that hitting the save game button located above the music button works. Before I log out, I hit that floppy disc button. The save complete window comes up, and I no longer lose the food on my stove. For example, if I miss the completed food deadline by an hour, when I reopen, it’s there ready on the stove to be served. Also the food I have on the counters get served and I do not lose my buzz points if I run out of food before returning to the web site. Hope this is helpful to anyone who might be interested.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:16 am
@Admin, and anyone needing a solution, I’ve got a greatly working solution I found today while trying to fix my cafe.
I was thinking maybe the problem was with the table, but then I realized the problem might not just be the table, but the space under the table. I watched for customers to come through the door, and when one sat down and was not served, I went into the catalog and removed that table & chair. I repeated this until every customer was getting served, and it WORKED. Now everyone is getting served. I know, it makes your cafe look a little tacky with empty spaces, but it’s better than that horrid 5 buzz rating. Just fill your spaces with decor. Worked great for me and now my servers are working full time!
Hope this helps!
Dann
December 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Yesterday I moved up a level and was able to hire a new employee. I’ve done it before, but this was the first time that it wouldn’t let me . It doesn’t load my friend’s names to choose from. I’m on a brand new MAC and have already cleared my cache, reinstall the application, and even tried it on firefox in lieu of safari. I tried firing a waiter and now the application is only giving me one waiter when I should have 4! It’s very annoying. Any suggestions.
December 12th, 2009 at 6:28 am
@maria .. im having the same problem. also on a mac and firefox and safari does nothing different.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
@ Maria and Chaz…. That’s exactly the problem that brought me to this site. ??? I really need that second server. I am hoping this is a temporary gliche. I did notice that all of my cafe neighbors, except for the one who is already a server, have no profile pic.. they all have generic chef image. ??
December 12th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Same problem here. Fired a waiter (at level 4 or something, this was yesterday), wanted to hire a new one, but it does not load my friends; I can only choose one “zynga” waiter? Very annoying indeed.. I hope this will be fixed soon so I can hire a friend to work for me. This one waiter doesn’t even do a good job
December 14th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Hi! How can I take a picture of my cafe, i wanna show you my lay out so that you can tell me whats wrong with it, because I have tried a lot of tips already, please help, thanks
December 14th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Please help me with my problem similar to most of here…105 Buzz Rating went down to 70 in 10 minutes after redecorating my cafe… http://tinypic.com/r/24yo39v/6
December 15th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Got the same problem like @Maria @Chaz @Sharan and @Melina can someone pleeease help us?
December 15th, 2009 at 4:35 am
Same problem here…only allows zynga waiter…none else. Says “Friends List Loading…” but never loads. Only allows for “zynga” waiter.
December 16th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
The answer to getting all your tables is served is to make sure they are not blocked on at least 1 of the 3 squares in front of them - i.e. the one straight opposite the chair, and the 2 either side of it.
This is the same even if your waiters are blocked in.
December 21st, 2009 at 8:52 pm
My problem is that the waiters are simply standing, ignoring a customer in a table, despite the fact that moments ago they served a customer at the same table, I really don’t know what to do. Help will be appreciated, please & thank you.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Fantastic!
Thanks heaps. Not a massive player, but was frustrating me!
Thanks again
December 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Thanks for the tips. I followed everything and because of that in just 48 mins my buzz rating went up to 105.0 until now. Here’s a screenshot:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=882970&l=96fe8e00a8&id=1395618733
December 25th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
To all the reader of this site, should you have questions don’t hesitate to send me an email at djbee@radio.fm or add me up on Facebook, http://facebook.com/birdiegn, make the subject line as Cafeworld help so I can prioritize you.
December 25th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
@nomnomnom : try to put atleast 2 blocks spaces in front of each table. Let me know if its still not working. :))
December 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
@A.S. : can you post a screenshot?
January 8th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Hi, i think there is some other problems if i am not wrong. I had 2400 servings of Turkey plus 100 crab soup 100 ginger bread house to serve. but due to internet connection problem , i had to reload when i go in again all my food are gone. i did not mind as i can re cook and serve again. I rearrange the lay out of my cafe and use the fast serve method and find out that all the tables received the food for the once round however the subsequent round some customers are not being serve thus the drop in rating, i continue to observe that same table for a next few round, it got serve again . this is when i came to the conclusion that it might be the missing turkey the customer are waiting for that why not serving, i allow only 1 table and same thing happen something serve sometime not serve. So that might be another problem. Missing food after bad connection. my rating drop from 105 till 50
January 8th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
yah i forget to mention just wait for the time the turkey to be serve finish for e.g 2400 customers for my turkey. the next food being cook will be alright.
January 13th, 2010 at 5:01 am
I have tried everything ive seen here to get my waiters to work. fired and hired new, rearrange serving tables/dining tables. fill all serving tables with food, put it all in inventory and bring it back…
Heres what I have now
Any help would be great!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=105022&l=a73e27807f&id=100000481569305
January 13th, 2010 at 5:49 am
I should mention, I have just upgraded my cafe, and rearranged it.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Same issue as Manda, A.S
Same table gets served once and doesn’t next time.
Here are the layouts:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=110483&id=100000483275897&fbid=103905536302222
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=110484&id=100000483275897
Have tried Firing & Hiring new Waiter/Waitresses
Have rearranged the counters multiple times to have only the counters with the food are accessible to the Servers
Still some customers don’t get served and Buzz keeps dropping
January 14th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
please help me! I want 1 more waiter, i’m on the 8 level. The position is available, but the friend (name) list don’t loading. I have more than 10 neighbour in here, and more than 100 friend on facebook. What can i do??:-(
January 16th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
pls help help help!!! my chef dunno do what on there.. only standing there no walk no working??? Y? Y?
January 16th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
y my chef only standing there n no working?? what can i do?? help help pls
January 18th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Hi all I have the same problem.
Please can some one tell me what is wrong with cafe world?
I have had the same lay out from the start so I know its not that, now I am near the end of the game My buzz is now down to 45 and it all ways stays at 105.
My problem is that the waiters are simply standing, ignoring some of the customers in a table, despite the fact that moments ago they served a customer at the same table
I have tried everything and still my buzz will not go back up.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dma9aq&s=6
January 23rd, 2010 at 5:02 am
i used to have a 105 buzz ratig as well, til i got a bigger cafe. i noticed that my waiter’s don’t serve the black customers. i did all the things you said and still not working. when i edit the cafe and return, if there was a black customer, it may change to white, and then they are served. weird…ad racist
January 24th, 2010 at 7:55 am
Hi,
I really appreciate your help, but I tried everything and the waiter will still not serve every customer. Heres a picture of my layout: http://i48.tinypic.com/i6l63q.jpg
It would be great if someone could help me and tell me what’s wrong with my layout!
Thanks!
February 1st, 2010 at 1:30 am
I have the same problem.
I made a new layout, fired the waiters, put stuff back into my inventory.
I only have 5.0 buzz left.
This is the layout:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jscoolen/untitled.JPG
February 5th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Ok I fiqurged out what servers need to serve! Yes they need room to walk, but the key is acess to the tables. They can only serve from the front or directly from the side of one table only. for example it the x’s below were tables the first set isa bad set up because waiters can not serve from behind the table. the second set will always work.
xxxxxxxx x x x x x x
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February 15th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
I fired a waitress and then closed the game. now I don’t have a waitress. How can I rehire or hire a new waitress?
February 20th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
my cafe world has been jammed for 3 days. I order food from the menu, $$$ gets spent, food cooks on sovetop, I come back a minute later and everything is gone! I have one stove with a step for cooking that won’t be updated. I already updated my Adobe player. What do I do? I’m ready to give up.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
i fired all of the waiters/waitresses to make a new layout, now i don’t have any waiter/waitress at all! please help me get back my waiters, pls. tried clicking the chef but all it gives me is the “change clothes, eyes,” etc. need to make money for my cafe, i’m losing my buzz rating… thanks!
March 8th, 2010 at 8:23 am
I’m at level 5, and I can’t even hire a single waiter? My neighbours are not showing their names and pictures too. Admin please help.