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My experience running a bakery so far
dnmartyn
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Count me in on the people that love the expansion. I have played a little of the scientist and detective careers which I enjoyed, and will get back to at some point.
The big thing for me, that I was looking he most forward to was the retail aspect, and I have been sucked right in. I was a bit frustrated at first, because I had a "story" planned out in my head. I made a brother/sister household, with her being my baker, and him my gardener. I bought the cheapest free lot on Oasis springs, and built nothing on it. I then bought their store lot, and made a tiny little bakery, with 2 of those display cases, and a kitchen/bare bones living area in the basement. I did also get the cupcake machine right away, which IMO is necessary. Many of teh new recipes are made only with it, and it is faster than the stoves recipes, so it takes less time to bake stock. You can restock sold items without havng to bake them again, and they will be the same quality as the original item. But especially right now, where I am still skilling up my baker, I want to restock this way as much as possible. The only cheat I used was debug to get the plants rather than going out to harvest them. But I only got the gatherable ones from debug, and used no money cheats. I planned on selling both the baked goods and my harvestables as stock in my bakery.
And that is where I got frustrated at first. Beacause my sim had no baking skill, her items sold for very little, and I lost money when I opened he store. So I changed the story a bit in my head, and sold the produce via my inventory, as if my Sims were supplying other restaurants and bakeries while they get their store off the ground.
Now that my baker is at level 6, I am just barely turning a profit, but I can see where when I get a bit higher skilled, the profits will come much more easily. My employees are getting better at their jobs, and are slacking off less. I did install the "no musical chairs/group chat" mod, which seems to make it easier for them to answer customers questions.
I can't wait to have enough extra funds to renovate a bit more, and create a living area on an upper floor that is much nicer than what my sims have now.
Even though my sims never go to their home lot, their friends still call and ask if they can handg out, and they can invite friends to their current lot. I don't get people showing up at my door though without calling (which I actually prefer anyway). And you can pay bills from your phone without returning to your home lot.
Overall, I am having a blast with my bakery. There are a few things I wish were different, like my customers siting down and eating their purchases, but it not enough to take away my fun. If you want to run a bakery, I would definitely recommend either skilling up before opeing one, or having another icome source (regular in gamejob, cheats, partner sims with job, whatever works for your story.)
The big thing for me, that I was looking he most forward to was the retail aspect, and I have been sucked right in. I was a bit frustrated at first, because I had a "story" planned out in my head. I made a brother/sister household, with her being my baker, and him my gardener. I bought the cheapest free lot on Oasis springs, and built nothing on it. I then bought their store lot, and made a tiny little bakery, with 2 of those display cases, and a kitchen/bare bones living area in the basement. I did also get the cupcake machine right away, which IMO is necessary. Many of teh new recipes are made only with it, and it is faster than the stoves recipes, so it takes less time to bake stock. You can restock sold items without havng to bake them again, and they will be the same quality as the original item. But especially right now, where I am still skilling up my baker, I want to restock this way as much as possible. The only cheat I used was debug to get the plants rather than going out to harvest them. But I only got the gatherable ones from debug, and used no money cheats. I planned on selling both the baked goods and my harvestables as stock in my bakery.
And that is where I got frustrated at first. Beacause my sim had no baking skill, her items sold for very little, and I lost money when I opened he store. So I changed the story a bit in my head, and sold the produce via my inventory, as if my Sims were supplying other restaurants and bakeries while they get their store off the ground.
Now that my baker is at level 6, I am just barely turning a profit, but I can see where when I get a bit higher skilled, the profits will come much more easily. My employees are getting better at their jobs, and are slacking off less. I did install the "no musical chairs/group chat" mod, which seems to make it easier for them to answer customers questions.
I can't wait to have enough extra funds to renovate a bit more, and create a living area on an upper floor that is much nicer than what my sims have now.
Even though my sims never go to their home lot, their friends still call and ask if they can handg out, and they can invite friends to their current lot. I don't get people showing up at my door though without calling (which I actually prefer anyway). And you can pay bills from your phone without returning to your home lot.
Overall, I am having a blast with my bakery. There are a few things I wish were different, like my customers siting down and eating their purchases, but it not enough to take away my fun. If you want to run a bakery, I would definitely recommend either skilling up before opeing one, or having another icome source (regular in gamejob, cheats, partner sims with job, whatever works for your story.)
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Great story, btw. I too have been dabbling in the other careers, and the new photography skill (much to the annoyance of my few Twitter followers :p hashtag annoying video game screenshot spam)
But I looooved retail in Open for Business, and I've been meaning to start a business, so starting a new family to live right on the lot sounds like a great way to go.
Edit: there we go. The heart emoticon was causing the rest of my post to vanish O.o
That is what I did for my first retail business. My painter had maxed out the skill and would create excellent and masterpieces all the time. They were a great way to earn some extra money with a business that otherwise might not have been profitable.
> Now that my baker is at level 6, I am just barely turning a profit, but I can see where when I get a bit higher skilled, the profits will come much more easily. My employees are getting better at their jobs, and are slacking off less. I did install the "no musical chairs/group chat" mod, which seems to make it easier for them to answer customers questions.
:O Where might I find said mod? :)
Gallery ID: Gaia Puma (Click pic above if you would to download that exact building)
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/789742/the-sims-4-create-a-world-petition-212-signatures-200-signature-celebration/p1
@Fragl120 I found it on modthesims.info
http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=541132
> I couldn't get the bakery to work, maybe the back of the counter needs to be available, I have it against the wall so they wouldn't go behind it. What are you supposed to do with the refrigerators? I don't know.
I don't know what to do either. I put in 2 refrigerated display cases, but I can't figure out how to stock them.
I know you can live in your business lot but can you sell your home lot and just crash in your business lot? I want to spend 100% of the time on my bakery but it's tough having to move back and forth. Also I made 4 sims to manage that turned out to be too much.
I had some customers eat in my bakery when I set up a table with chairs. Another thing I tried doing is like "samples" of the baked goods (I just made some muffins and don't put them for sale) and some of the Sims will start eating in the bakery. I like that.
level up a sim within the scientist career. when they have the cloning machine, build your bakery, make sure you have all the ingredients for ambrosia, and create ONE. put it on the cloning machine. and clone it as many times as you want.
stick them for sale with 100% price markup. they sell for approx 12k a time.
HUGE profit, and no restocking costs!
yesterdays bakery for me made 82k, with 800 costs!
I still need to do retail
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> the best way that i have found to run a bakery and i can bring in literately 100k a day or more!
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> level up a sim within the scientist career. when they have the cloning machine, build your bakery, make sure you have all the ingredients for ambrosia, and create ONE. put it on the cloning machine. and clone it as many times as you want.
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> stick them for sale with 100% price markup. they sell for approx 12k a time.
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> HUGE profit, and no restocking costs!
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> yesterdays bakery for me made 82k, with 800 costs!
wow, thats a pretty good strategy, vs mine when all i make is 9k :'(
firstly i have to keep firing workers, the ones i get are always on their phone and take forever to ring up customers therefore i have to ring up, talk,restock,clean all alone. and secondly my food is all excellent yet i barely make profit
Thanks Kaylade5154, it took a long time to get all the bits. but once its setup it really is a money maker :)
Wonder if you could sell from a cafe? Hmm guess you can't own a cafe. Just testing it out. Do they eat what they buy or walk around until it spoils in their backpack?