Does anyone know if the functionality of starting a cafe with the business aspect of Get To Work has been fixed? I also have Dine Out, and I want to have my sim start a cafe but I'm unsure if it'll work. I tried it with a retail business hoping I could just assign a sim to man the espresso machine but it doesn't seem to work like that.
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Customers won’t stick around to eat or drink, though. They’ll take everything to go, even if there are plenty of tables and chairs on the lot.
I don’t have Dine Out and don’t know how running a restaurant works, but I’d assume it’s probably more accurate than a retail business when it comes to running a cafe.
Otheriwse, your best bet would probably be to open up a restaurant that only sells food and drinks you'd find in a cafe. But of course, all your drinks would be coming from a chef's station and not an espresso bar, which may or may not ruin the experience for you.
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With D.O. you would need to sit the customers, give them a menu and wait for them to order... you could make a custom menu just with drinks.
The only way customers wait in line at a counter is with the food stalls from City Living... you could try putting a coffe food stall in your cafe... it might be fun experimenting with.
You could start a bakery and sell muffins and danishes at your store and place a coffee food stall in the cafe...
I think your best bet is to complete the food aspiration (so food never expires) and use that sim to make muffins, bagels, and coffee. Then place that stuff on the counters and just run it like a standard GTW shop...
If you do run a bakery, tho, you don't have to worry about the food spoiling that quick when you place it in a display case. Most baked goods last a couple weeks or over in there.
I run a gallery and bakery together, but I usually don't use the retail interactions to sell the baked goods. I only interact with the Sims who seem to be looking at the artwork. Enough Sims buy the food since it's way cheaper anyway and they tend to gravitate toward that. I have coffee made in a pot, in case they want to help themselves to that, but it's free, haha. I can make enough money from the artwork to make it worth my while. The family that owns it is a large one, and the young adult daughter painter and baker grandma run the business. The parents both have jobs, so the daughter is getting on her feet with the retail business. I will move her out, and she will buy it from the folks. Every time she makes enough in the business to buy a 15,000 violin, I put it in her inventory. She will have enough soon.
You could technically put a barista bar in a bakery, and then hire a barista. But you won't make any money from the drinks or baked goods sold from it. The barista baked goods would then be competing against the homemade ones, I guess, too.