ChefVille

ChefVille was a multiplayer restaurant simulation social network game created by Zynga. The game was announced at Zynga's June 2012 Unleashed event, debuted August 2012 on Facebook, and was released October 3, 2012 on Zynga.com. Within the first month of its release, ChefVille had become the No. 1 Facebook game. As of early October 2012, ChefVille had more than 4.8 million daily active users (DAU) and more than 45 million monthly active users (MAU).

On March 31, 2015, Zynga announced ChefVille would be one of 11 games to be closed.

History

ChefVille is Zynga’s second game in the restaurant genre following Café World, a Facebook game with 456,000 DAU and 2.4 million MAU as of early October 2012. The main differences are that ChefVille players interact with the environment outside their virtual restaurant and earn real recipes as they progress in the game.ChefVille is available for free in 17 languages on Facebook.

Gameplay

ChefVille players act as chef, restaurant owner, designer and manager with the goal of creating a ‘dream restaurant.’ Players customize restaurants to specific themes, such as a 1950s diner or an Italian restaurant, and they mix and match food types while cooking and serving. Players also choose the restaurant décor, from sushi stations and cold stations to woks and grills, and cook menu items that correlate with their cooking equipment.