Spices

Spices are a very important part of you cafe as a majority of the money you make will come from the use of these spices. Spices are used to prepare special orders that customers will ask for in your cafe. Delivering the correct special order will grant you huge chunks of money.

In the game there are a total of 10 different spices that you can acquire in various ways which shall be discussed bellow. Theses spices are divided into 4 Groups or 4 Tiers. Each of these tiers is distinguished with a color code that helps identify the tier of spice.

Customer in your cafe from time to time will ask for special orders that are indicated with a star like logo in a speech bubble over their head. Click this to see what they want, alternatively click on the customer and talk to him by asking if they want something special. Each special order uses one or more spice in the recipe. These order must be prepared and delivered by the user himself, the servers/baristas will not be able to server these special orders. If you do not know the ingredients for the recipe, you can either clock the arrow button next to the name of the recipe when talking to the customer or you can look it up in the special tab in your menu.

The 4 Tiers and their respective spices are as follows in ascending order:

White: (Tier 1)

    

Pink: (Tier 2)

       










Blue: (Tier 3)




    











Yellow: (Tier 4)

How To Acquire Spices:
There are many ways that you can obtain spices in the game.

1. Daily Gift / Store Gifts: Gifts can be purchased directly from the store for real money or can be acquired from customers for completion of certain tasks/missions as part of the story. The color of the gift will determine what tier of spices you will get from it. Along with spices gifts also may give some other rewards such as money or diamonds. The amount of spices or money you get from the gift is not fixed and may vary.

The Daily Gift is acquired from Ann by leveling up the DailySimpleGift skill in the special skills tab for her. Based on the level of the skill you will get one or more daily gifts. The daily gift is of Tier 1 (white) so will contain one or more of rose, anise, money or diamonds in random ratios. This is very useful as it helps start your special orders. 


2. Telephone Orders: Telephone orders can be completed in order to gain lots of spices, but that can be done only after level 6 when you unlock the phone. Each day you will receive 3 new phone orders that you can complete to gain the spice that are listed as a reward for it. The reward spices can be from any tier and the quantity usually is somewhere around 1-3 spice per order.

Refreshing phone orders costs 10 Diamonds and will provide you with another 3 NEW phone orders. The number of times you can refresh per day depends on your VIP level and the cost for each refresh daily will increase as you go on refreshing. (Daily reset)
NOTE: If you refresh without completion of previous orders, they will be REPLACED. So it is advised to complete the 3 daily orders before refreshing.

Another way to get telephone orders is via the town. Once you have joined a town (at level 10), you will get 3 phone orders daily from it. For that you must visit your town and look for customer icons over the houses. Click them to accept the order. Once you go back to you cafe the orders should show up in the telephone orders tab.
NOTE: Orders received from town are independent of those acquired as a daily. Therefore you can refresh the phone orders even with town orders still pending. They will not be replaced.

3. Spice Store/VIP Spice Store: Spices can also be bought for diamonds from the store. All 10 spices are available for purchase with diamonds and the prices increase as you go up the tiers.

4. Daily Log In Rewards: Spices can also be gotten from the daily log in rewards which may vary weekly.

5. Staff special skills: Some staff members have special skills that grant you daily spices based on the level of their special skill. Click any staff member and see under his/her special skills to know more. Spices earned can be of different types ranging from tier 1 till tier 4. 
The Spice Box :
The spice box is used to store the spices that you acquire. At the beginning you will only have 3 slots open in the spice box. You may unlock more by using diamonds. The amount of spaces and the cost for each space unlocked will depend on your VIP level, the higher your VIP level the more spaces can be unlocked as well as the cost to unlock an additional space will reduce.

Considering that there are only 10 types of spices, an ideal situation would be to unlock 10 slots. This might be challenging to those who do not want to spend real money in the game to acquire VIP points.



BE CAREFUL: In case all your open spice slots are occupied and you get a new spice that is not already in your box, You will have to either purchase another slots or delete any 1 of the spices currently in the box or in your hand. Therefore it is always better to keep track of what spices you have stored and to use up some spices before getting new ones.

NOTE: Each open slot can hold only 1 type of spice at a time and a maximum of 11-13 quantity of that spice depending on the tier.