I enjoyed running a bakery with GTW, and am excited to try a full restaurant in Dine Out. Think it will be possible to run both as one venue?
I know in order for it to be a functional store the lot had to be specified as retail, I'm assuming for a restaurant it would be the same and have to be a reatauarant so it wouldn't be possible to have a sit down eating restaurant with a to go/bakery store up front as one functioning lot/venue.
I generally love how TS4 works but have found some of the venue restrictions a little frustrating. For example, retail stores are kind of demanding and I'd love to be able to have my family live in an apartment above the store and have both home and functioning store in a lot (with home accessible to household only of course which a locked door would work I think) but despite my best efforts not possible.
Considering how small Magnolia Promenade is and some of the GTW limitations I really wish this was possible!
As unlikely as it is I'm hoping.
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You have to have the second lot as a theoretical home for the bills, and that is what is causing issues for people who have space issues in their games. Not enough lots to have lots of homes and lots of retail stores and lots of venues.
Regarding space on Magnolia Promenade however, if you truly wanted to try and "live" on the retail lot you could always have the retail somewhere else: in one of the other worlds on a bigger lot. Retails aren't restricted to Magnolia Promenade, you just have to go and change the lot type (anywhere) to retail using Manage world tool so it can be purchasable through your sims phone.
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I always loved Food Trucks.
Well, the trailer looked like it had a bar inside a restaurant, so maybe we'll be able to combine like establishments like bars, bakeries and cafes with restaurants. So someone can put a bakery at the front of a restaurant (kind of like Panera or La Madelaine) or a sidewalk café with a sit-down restaurant inside, etc.
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Another good one would be restaurant/museum, not as important but so many venues crossover in real life. Most of the museums I've been to also have a cafe.
Yes, this is something I've been wanting them to implement from the start. @SimGuruEugi talked about it a bit in the Simulation Tech Talk thread. I'm hoping they'll figure out a way for us to at least combine some similar lots together and, perhaps, make it so we can put residential together with retail and/or service lots.
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