Re: [FIXED] [DO] NPC Sims Not Eating in Restaurant

@crinrict  After posting, I did retest at a different restaurant (one formal dining, one casual, both with custom menus.) Same thing happened. One place it was the Jangs not eating, the other it was the Fengs. With the Fengs, I switched to manage worlds to play them, I wanted to see if they weren't eating becuase they are too full. Victor's hunger bar was in yellow, no reason he shouldn't be eating. Lily's was still green, but getting close to 50% hunger.

I also had weird glitches when I went into manage worlds in the restaurant, after I switched from my sim to the Fengs - is that normal? Never did manage world in a restaurant before. Hope I'm being clear, need coffee! 🙂

I just paid attention in my restaurant and definitely all NPCs are eating (if they don't jog).

However, sometimes certain restaurants have specific problems (e.g. waiters who never manage to clear the tables). Have you tried a different venue?

If you guys experience customers didn't eat the food, the food on their tables probably not what they orders, it's probably previous customers unfinished food. I got this problem a few times, customers won't eat food, waiters standing at the front of Full Disclosure Chef Kitchen and won't pick up the tray. Once I removed the food on their tables in Build Mode, the waiter immediately pick up the tray and serve them their orders.

There are few ways to solve this:

1. Make the customers always finish their foods.
2. If for some reason the customers can't always finish their foods, make the waiter clean up unfinished food so the problem I mentioned earlier won't happen.
3. And if the waiters won't clean up the unfinished food (because of the script, coding, or whatever prevent them doing so), at least put a sign/label on each table and foods, so we know which tables and food belong to which customers when our mouse hover over it. If we see customers sitting on their tables with other customers foods, we can move that food away.

I have this issue too. After drinking the drink they stop eating.

I'm also having the issue where npc sims will drink their drinks and then be done and pay for their meal, and if an npc sim is eating out with the sim household I'm playing then they'll drink their drink and then just stop without eating their food.

So I recently encountered a similar issue after Anniversary patch (September 5, 2019).

My sims own a restaurant and the customer does drink their drink, but won't eat the foods. They sit there, didn't talk to anyone, literally doing nothing. Since they didn't eat the foods, the stars stuck at 3 stars (Picture 1). After around 1 hour in-game, the customer still won't eat their foods (Picture 2), as you can see, they just sitting and didn't do anything. The third picture show the Santa Claus and the woman beside him left the restaurant (with 3 stars rating) after sitting around 5-6 hours in-game. And it's clearly the foods still there.

Because of this, the restaurant earning reduced a lot and Dine Out become totally unplayable. Please fix @SimGuruNick

Sorry, there's no interface showing in the screenshot even I've marked "Capture Interface" option.

I know no one asks for the save file, but for the sake of quicker fix. Here is the save files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gRrKHaWBrgEfHp2Q1HuBZmBYHlbuGBAd along with 3 videos to show various issues I encountered when opening the restaurant.

Restaurant bug 1 video

• 0:01 Waiter deliver foods to the table, she does the usual animation, but foods didn't show up on the table. I also didn't receive money.
• 0:06 Waiter deliver foods to the table, and the foods do show up on the table. But nobody sits down and eat it. At 3:03, Octavia Moon finished her foods and left the restaurant, the foods that delivered at 0:06 also suddenly disappear even no one eats it.

Restaurant bug 2 video

• 01:26 Food instantly finished after customers sit down. No drinking and eating animation.
• 04:41 Two customers do drink animation only but the foods also finished. This is kinda not realistic, there should be at least few eating animations. This one isn't a big deal, but I still hope it gets fixed.

Restaurant bug 3 video

• This entire video show Thorne Bailey family didn't eat the foods but finished their drinks. He and his son literally doing nothing, no talking at the table, no eating, literally nothing. While his wife signs an autograph to someone, then standing at the same place forever while she is supposed to be back to her chair. As you can see, no matter how long they are at the restaurant, the rating stuck.
• 2:10 Customer left without finishing her foods. She didn't even do the eating animation.
• 2:35 The guy that sits with the previous customer also didn't do eating animation, foods not finished too. This will probably make the game assume that table is empty now even if there are still unfinished foods because the customers have left the table, and if new customers appear, Host may seat the new customers there. Since the foods aren't finished, waiters won't clean it up. Making the new customers sit on that table with the previous customer's foods. For more details, look at reply #8 in this thread.
• 07:21 When I closed the restaurant, all unfinished food on the restaurant suddenly disappear like it's finished.

Hope the save file will help TS4 Team to find the solution quickly.

I'm having this problem too.  Especially with dates.  My sim asks another sim out.  They have their drinks but NPC date only has drink and does not eat meat.  My playing sim drinks their drink but I have to click on their plate again to get them to eat because it drops out of queue.