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How's Dine Out?
iliekponiez
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Dine Out sounds like a lot of fun, but I've heard it's a bit buggy. Is it fun taking your sims to restaurants? How do you guys like the pack?
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I think there are other defaults, but making your own restaurant can be fun, too.
If you want to learn all the experimental dishes, one of the restaurant menu presets you can choose includes all of them.
It's what Chez Llama is set to from the start, but any restaurant can have that.
Running a restaurant is a whole different monster, though.
It can be fun to manage your employees and personalize your menu.
Heck, you can make your restaurant sell only the most expensive dishes, to maximize profits, if you wanted.
In my main rotational save I have 8 restaurants, each with their own menu and style. You can customise the outfits for the staff and also select the outfit category that the customers will use. Gallery is full on amazing restaurants to choose from. I haven't experienced notable bugs when visiting restaurants, not even with Chez Llama.
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> Dine Out sounds like a lot of fun, but I've heard it's a bit buggy. Is it fun taking your sims to restaurants? How do you guys like the pack?
Honestly, disappointing. It comes with nice options, for running a restaurant, using one, etc. but I found the lack of an ability to cook food for my guests really sucked. It'd be ten times the GP it is, if i could use all the cooking skill, and items I gained from the chef career to make food for my guests, and not have to hire a chef. I'm not saying its terrible, just realize it has some pretty annoying limitations.
Before use to have the problem with sims seating properly and not standing up. They don't do it any longer.
I love customizing restaurants and making specific menu's for them and even setting a dress code for said restaurant. Having places for your sims and their family to have a nice family dinner out or for a nice date. Sims do as they're suppose to along with staff and aren't unnecessarily distracted by dumb things.
Sims that are waiting to be seated will usually head to the bar to order a drink while they wait, chit chat or just sit down in whatever small waiting area you might have made or is there. Soon as uncontrollable sims are done with their meals they won't linger for long and will leave the lot soon after. A new gourmet skill for cooking and you can take pictures of the said fancy food with your sims sometimes they'll even do it autonomously.
Sims might invite you out on a friendly note to eat or a romantic one, which is awesome. I ran a restaurant for a bit, been awhile since I got my new laptop to rebuy a lot. Probably works a lot better than it did when it first came out, but when I was owning one it was pretty fun but you're mostly just managing the restaurant not really cooking or being a wait staff. Check on customers, give them a free dessert or drink, free meal, prioritize their meal first, praise or discpline your staff give them training to get them better, give them raises. Can advertise for your restaurant and get all sorts of perks to help improve it. All in all one of my favorite game packs and I feel is a must to have.
I don't think that at all. They are venue packs basically they are meant to take your sim off of their lot and provide new activities and interesting places to go. Still I have Bowlling Night, Dine Out and Spa Day and I find myself still not happy with the variety of venues. The coolest thing is that they also add new skills. Wellness is great if you want your sim teleporting.
This for me as well -- I've found that the food serving times have improved a bit so maybe that was one of those small bugs that got fixed without noting it in the patch notes. I like that you can customize menus without your Sims owning the restaurant -- I have a vegetarian restaurant that I added to Del Sol Valley because what's Hollywood without a vegetarian joint? Restaurants also make a good place to go on dates. Just be careful that your Sims don't get the Refined Palate quirk from Get Famous -- most restaurants have just normal quality food so your Sim will get a bad moodlet from eating there.
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I tend to combine restaurant with other activities, so my sims can go out to eat, and then upstairs is a dance club, or a karaoke event, or hot tubbing and swimming. Pretty much most all of the restaurants in my game are multi-functional entertainment venues and I use them constantly. I like them so much there is one restaurant in every single neighborhood in the game (2 in Oasis Springs).
Only real glitchy stuff from the side that I use them from (as a visitor) is that sims don't like to stay sitting and wait for their food. I installed a mod to change that. (Even without the mod, its not a huge deal...just means you need to send them back to their tables).
From the owner side of things, if that is what interests you...Get Famous appears to have brought issues that annoy restaurant owners when famous sims come to the restaurant. If that's the side of the pack you really are most interested in and you aren't willing to use mods to fix the stuff, you may want to hold off on buying it.
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I get invited for breakfast and by the times the meals finished its like 6pm
Get Famous has added even more distractions when a celebrity shows up... since I play my sims in smaller groups it's not affecting every outing very much. I've also played on the celebrity end and been served before the waitress freaked out. It also will be more crowded with paparazzi ... crowding around so if a restaurant is cramped your sims are going to get stuck. I'd suggest at least two tiles around most tables ect..
I no longer play the restaurant owner though, but that is fun too, for a while.
There is only one catch I can think of, that is with Get Famous, a celebrity arriving the restaurant might mess up what normally goes on in a restaurant. That's not much of a problem when you play the celebrity, but might be boring if they are non played and get all attention from the staff. Fame can be cheated off though, if this gets a big problem.
I haven't played as a restaurant owner yet, but aspects I really enjoy include choosing meals for the menu, what each Sim orders, choosing the outfits for the waiters/waitresses, hosts/hostesses, etc. I think it adds overall enjoyment to the game as well since Sims can go out and eat at a restaurant for a special occasion or to get out of the house for a few hours.