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warming rack?
Lussiole
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So this might be a stupid question but what is the use of the warming rack EXACTLY??
It only says keep food warm, and I can't put price on stuff inside. So does it act like the lice fridge and customers just walk up to it and buy stuff automatically?? Or is it just to store food??
Thanks!
It only says keep food warm, and I can't put price on stuff inside. So does it act like the lice fridge and customers just walk up to it and buy stuff automatically?? Or is it just to store food??
Thanks!
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Would love to know too I put a quiche inside it and my employee ate it ahahaha xD
The rack is under retail items, it's called Cat Loves Food Inc. Professional Grade Warming Rack
the warming rack is located under retail so you need to be on a lot that is classified as retail
I know customers can go on in it tho
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I figured this out. You need a retail space with a warming rack and a display case. Bake up a bunch of stuff, say three each of lemon meringue pies, cereal-topped donuts, and chocolate biscotti, and put them in the warming rack. Then take one each of the pie, donuts, and biscotti, put them in the display case, and mark them for sale.
As your customers buy each item from the display case (which will require a checkout), they will be replenished automatically from the warming rack. When there are no more of that item in the warming rack, an Out of Stock sign will appear in the display case.
That's how it worked for me, anyway. Customers would buy items from the Lice Cold Fridge without me needing to check them out (I put harvestables in there), but not from the warming rack.
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I'm going to go try this, too. And they told us items couldn't be restocked from inventory, why didn't they tell us about this??? It's just as good.
A heads up, though for anyone using this method: sims do occasionally eat from the warming rack. I haven't seen them charged for it, either.
Until now, I've been using the warming rack to store free samples. Customers grab the food from it when they're hungry & it lasts longer than just placing samples on a counter.
However, my customers have yet to help themselves to free items from the rack, as I always put out free baked goods on a counter to feed them
> Where is the warming rack located? I have been looking for it and cannot seem to find it.
Retail I believe. I don't think you can find it on a residential lot. Prob wrong :| Sorry if someone already answered this for you
> Update - Unfortunately, playing a dedicated bakery on another lot, the purchased pastries in the display cases do not seem to be automatically replenishing from the warming rack. Each time one is purchased, there is an out of stock sign, which I remove and manually replace with pastries from the warming rack (rather than deal with the time and cost of "restocking"). I must have been mistaken before, having multiples of the same pastry out and not keeping track of how many were left in the rack.
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> However, my customers have yet to help themselves to free items from the rack, as I always put out free baked goods on a counter to feed them
My customers (once or twice per day) do take from the warming rack and then proceed to eat what they took in my bakery. They aren't charged for it. I don't know what the purpose of this warming rack is at all. :(
Edited to add: The Gurus need to explain how this is supposed to work. The Lice fridge as well. Can we sell baked goods from there? I've tried but customers only seem to buy my vegetables, etc. from it.
The warming rack is still a mystery but I think customers can buy baked goods from the lice fridge though i'm not 100% on this. I created sort of a grocery store/bakery and I put a cake in there and none of the npcs seem to want anything other than fruits and veggies but when I switch to a different family and shop there I can buy everything in it. No such luck on the warming rack though
Wow, that post was life changing for me, I'll finally have the npcs run stores like i want them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, i never knew any of that.
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Yeah, it didn't work when I tried it, either.
As for the baked goods, I had two on the counter when I discovered them also taking food from the rack. It happens so fast, it's easy to miss.
Check the items inside every now & then, you might notice there's only 6 or 7 servings instead of 8.
NPCs treat the warming rack similar to a fridge. They can take food from it, but that's their only interaction. Anything you put inside will take longer to spoil.