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Did you know: things that DON'T work in Dine out.
CorkysPetals
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This isn't meant to be for complaints or bugs. Restaurants just aren't designed to run smoothly with every feature in the game. This is a place to give advice to simmers who might need advice on running a restaurant.
Swimming pools aren't a good idea. I just made a restaurant surrounded by a pool with diving platforms. It looks nice, poolside tables with umbrellas, outdoor kitchen, beautiful view of the coast off Windenburg. However, whenever my manager and family has a free moment they go swimming. Whenever customers have to wait for a table, they go swimming. Whenever customers have to wait for food THEY GO SWIMMING!!!
Arrgghh!!! There's a finished meal sitting at the chef's station, but guess where the waitstaff is. I think it's taken 4 hours to serve 3 tables. I guess I'll block off the edge of the pool and just pretend people can go swimming. Or, I'll just turn it into a restaurant that my sims eat at but don't own.
I imagine the same thing will happen combining a game arcade with a restaurant.
Swimming pools aren't a good idea. I just made a restaurant surrounded by a pool with diving platforms. It looks nice, poolside tables with umbrellas, outdoor kitchen, beautiful view of the coast off Windenburg. However, whenever my manager and family has a free moment they go swimming. Whenever customers have to wait for a table, they go swimming. Whenever customers have to wait for food THEY GO SWIMMING!!!
Arrgghh!!! There's a finished meal sitting at the chef's station, but guess where the waitstaff is. I think it's taken 4 hours to serve 3 tables. I guess I'll block off the edge of the pool and just pretend people can go swimming. Or, I'll just turn it into a restaurant that my sims eat at but don't own.
I imagine the same thing will happen combining a game arcade with a restaurant.
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About the restaurant and arcade...I recently downloaded a restaurant/arcade lot from the Gallery so that my teen club could have a place to hang out. I don't own it, but when I visited the restaurant, everything seemed to work fine. My club would play arcade games or do homework while waiting for their food (part of club activities), but once the food arrived they all went back to their seats. None of the other customers even touched the arcade games.
I have noticed that the gameplay works more smoothly when visiting a restaurant vs running one.
It's not just pools darling. If you put almost anything entertainment related in a restaurant, sims will use it. And that includes stereos, do not put stereos on the lot. They'll start dancing all the time. They didn't prioritise things well in restaurants.
@CorkysPetals Any form of entertainment is terrible in just about anything business or restaurants, Without any kind of that I have the problem of them always trying to talk to the owner. And the employees are constantly peeing. Anyways, I've tried to make several break rooms for my business before, each time my employee never did their job. So no more break rooms, or being a cool boss. I don't even hire employees anymore in business because they never do anything anyways just play on their phone. Sims are so ADD.
That is recurring issue for the series. In TS2, TS3 and TS4 sims are more attracted to the radio than EA is to money XD
I might try your idea but use a fountain to resemble a pool for the look of it, so that it appears as if you're eating at a poolside restaurant.
Right, EA and the Sims continue on with there day without fixing anything, as if it isn't even broken. 🐸🐸🐸🐸 Kaching.
I found out about the music the hard way too. All my sims would line up in the middle and dance. Difficult to manage lol.
i downloaded a fine restaurant where the maker has put boxes under the tables because it looks better,
unfortunately nobody got served anything with those tables