In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the café, known as The Roost, is a public works project. There, you can drink coffee, encounter villagers and special characters, and even get a part time job.

Building the Roost

The Roost is a public works project, but it isn't available in your list of public works projects right away. After you have built the museum gift shop and have donated at least 50 items to the museum, one day Blathers will ask that you build the café. After that, The Roost becomes available as an option in the public works list. Just sit in your mayor chair and choose it from the list of public works projects, then go outside with Isabelle to choose where to build it.

Drinking Coffee

You can drink coffee at The Roost. Just sit in the stool in front of Brewster and order your coffee. You can only drink coffee once per day. At first he will serve plain coffee, but the more times you order coffee, the more options Brewster will give you, such as adding milk and sugar or choosing the coffee beans.

Encountering Special Characters

At certain times of day, you will find a special character sitting on a stool at the bar. The following list shows the schedule.

Special Character Time of Day to Encounter Character Pelly or Pete 6:00AM - 6:55AM Tortimer or Dr. Shrunk 8:00AM - 9:30AM Mr. Resetti or Don Resetti 12:00PM - 1:30PM Kapp'n or Phineas 2:30PM - 4PM DJ KK 5:30PM - 7PM Phyllis or Digby 9PM - 9:55PM Gracie or Kicks or Tom Nook Midnight - 1:30AM

Part Time Job

After you have had seven cups of coffee from The Roost, you can get a part time job by talking to Brewster while standing at the right side of the bar. The part time job is a mini-game where you must serve coffee to villagers and special characters. Typically, three villagers (not always from your town) will ask for coffee, Each animal has a preferred combination of coffee beans, milk, and sugar. If you make the customers happy, Brewster will reward you with coffee beans to take home, as well as rare furniture items. If you do well over time, your rewards get better and better until you get a rare set of Brewster gyroids. Here is a list of the rewards that you can receive.

Coffee Beans

Plain coffee beans

Good coffee beans

Very good coffee beans

Superb coffee beans

Furniture

Coffee maker

Espresso machine

Siphon

Coffee cup

Sugar and milk

Coffee mill

Café uniform

Tall Brewsteroid

Brewsteroid

Mini Brewsteroid

Mega Brewsteroid

Special Character Coffee List

The following table shows you the ideal combinations for serving coffee to the special characters of the game.

Special Character 日本語 Coffee beans Milk Sugar Pelly ぺりこ Blend A little bit One spoonful Phyllis ぺりみ Kilimanjaro None at all None at all Tom Nook たぬきち Kilimanjaro Lots One spoonful Mr. Resetti リセットさん Blue Mountain None at all None at all Don Resetti ラケットさん Blend None at all Three spoonfuls Kapp'n カッペイ Blue Mountain The regular amount None at all Tortimer コトブキ Kilimanjaro The regular amount Two spoonfuls DJ KK DJ K.K Blend None at all None at all Dr. Shrunk ししょー Mocha A little bit Two spoonfuls Gracie グレース Blend None at all None at all Kicks シャンク Mocha None at all One spoonful Pete ぺりお Blend The regular amount Two spoonfuls Phineas パロンチーノ Kilimanjaro Lots Three spoonfuls Digby ケント Blue Mountain None at all None at all Isabelle しずえ Mocha Lots Three spoonfuls

Villager Coffee List

The following table lists the coffee preferences of all animal villagers. Note: For villagers (but not special characters), the amount of milk always matches the amount of sugar. In other words, if the milk is 'none', the sugar will also be 'none'. If the milk is 'the regular amount', the sugar will be 'Two spoonfuls'. And so on. However, the coffee beans don't necessarily match these amounts.