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Are restaurants still broken?
DoloresGrey
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Hey 
I wanted my sims to have a nice meal before they get married. They are at a restaurant and they have already ordered. The problem is there is nobody cooking. There are two chef's cookers. And one chef. Who is standing on a sidewalk in front of the restaurant.
I thought they fixed this! What is happening?
Is it still broken?
I wanted my sims to have a nice meal before they get married. They are at a restaurant and they have already ordered. The problem is there is nobody cooking. There are two chef's cookers. And one chef. Who is standing on a sidewalk in front of the restaurant.
I thought they fixed this! What is happening?
Is it still broken?
-probably just playing Phasmophobia 
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Yeah, it's not been playing well in my game lately and I'm currently not using mods.
I was playing without mods over Christmas because I had updated my game for the first time in over 2 years and had removed all mods for a bit (until I had the time to check for updates for all of them). I took my Sims to a restaurant in that umodded game, arriving just before noon....as of 9pm they still didn't have their food.
When the waitress finally did bring their food, she glitched and did this weird twitching thing and the food just vanished. Mind you, she didn't dump it on the floor which happens all too often...it just vanished.
Needless to say that experience was actually my incentive to get the newest versions of the restaurant-fixing mods I had been using. With all of the restaurant related mods by both Bienchen and LittleMsSams, the restaurants actually work splendidly again.
As for the chefs just standing at the street, you do not need mods to fix that. Just turn on testingcheats any time you load onto a restaurant lot and shift-click->Reset the chefs. That gets them in gear to go cook.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
I successfully had a whole family of five go out to dinner yesterday while playing my game, just needed to do a little resetting first.
Yes, very much so. If you use all of the various mods that fix the restaurant issues it's fine though.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
And this is a new restaurant I downloaded and tested, there are customers, but no cook, initially. They showed up after I ordered but for some reason my sim didn't eat at the table, took her food and ate standing up. Not sure if it's an issue with the restaurant itself, or the lag, I got terrible lag after the last patch.
I think it's a core game issue with the restaurants. There's a mod that gets customers to sit their butts down in restaurants and when I use it, people stay seated and eat seated, but without it the same thing happens in my game as what you experienced.
It could also be related to where they were seated. I see in your screenshots that a lot of the tables have that large condiment/menu centerpiece and it's footprint can block some of the slots where food is supposed to go on some tables.
I recently went through my game and checked every slot at every table in every restaurant and 80% of the restaurants which I had gotten from the gallery had at least some tables with unuseable slots where meals being eaten should go because of either too much or too large of decor in the centerpiece slots.
Sounds like a tedious job, but you can get meal plates in build buy by showing debug items, so I basically just went to every restaurant and checked that I could place them at all the seats at all tables.
I'm at a restaurant right now in my current game and there are 7 occupied tables with people being served and all are eating sitting down.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
The table decor is fine, doesn't interfere with plate placement though there are some routing issues with this restaurant I need to correct and test some more. I don't usually have issues with sims sitting down and eating in the restaurants, and the food and drink were placed on the table by the waiter first, that's where she got it. At first I thought she was going to move to another table, but no, she just ate from it standing up. But I also had terrible lag while playing, so there might be issues from there, plus the sim was tired and needed a bathroom break.
The last problem was when my Sim invited someone to the restaurant and the invited Sim didn't eat, they always left their food untouched. It seems to be fixed now because it doesn't happen anymore and it wasn't a game breaking bug anyway.
The only thing that was really bothering me with restaurants in my game used to be actually owning & running them. Nothing seemed to work, especially waiters were doing nothing. It was a long time ago (years ago) and I got tired of trying to make my Sims to run a restaurant. It must be fixed now, at least I assume it is. I have to try it again sometimes, but now my Sims are just enjoying restaurants as customers and they seem to work without any problems.
For me Dine Out was always my favourite pack and when people complained about problems I hardly had any, but these three issues are relatively new (a year or so). Dine Out has definitely gotten more buggy for me.
Edit: Wanted to add that I don't use any mods, never had.
Updated with Werewolf Diaries (1)
- Chefs only enter if you reset them.
- Finishing a drink cancels simultaneous eating in all situations in the game. For restaurants this means that NPC guests don't finish their meals. They will pay and go at some point and the untouched food vanishes from their plates. This bug exists since Island Living, 2019 I guess.
I understand restaurants can be glitchy or have routing issues due to the layout but currently it is absolutely broken, no matter what restaurant layout I use.