It's morning now at my place and I have my PC on. I am recording more for my next video but I thought I'd get a few pics of what I was talking about in my previous post which was done on my tablet.
The first two pics are in the main part of the bakery. It was about midnight in the game so the register attendant was absent and there were no customers other than my two sims who I sent there just to get these pics.
As you can see in the first pic, there are two different types of bakery shelves. One is enclosed with a glass cover and the other is tall and on wheels. I see both are on recoloured savvy seller mats. The buying process seems to work the same as savvy seller. There are decor items on top of the shelves as well as food. The cakes you can see on top are food placed there by cupcake for example.
https://i.postimg.cc/qR5VsqP9/Bakery001.jpg
I sent them to buy a piece of banana cream pie and this time it didn't go into their inventories. They each had a plate of pie in their hand and they went to separate tables to eat it. I only show you one of them eating their pie. I have an idea the baked goods do vanish from the shelves but a single slice of pie didn't make any perceivable difference.
The cash register is visible in this pic.
https://i.postimg.cc/XqBMQ33X/Bakery002.jpg
One problem is customers go behind the counter and this irritates a lot of people.
I have the barrier to entry gate set up to keep customers/visitors to the lot away from behind the counter. The barrier to entry comes with the cinema venue. Le Cinema Plumbob.
https://i.postimg.cc/zBW6g7kR/Bakery009.jpg
The barrier to entry gate/door works well if my sims own the bakery as I can specify who can get behind the counter. But in this instance my sims are on vacation and I don't want them to own the bakery. I wanted a sim to tend the cash register and I was able to hire an attendant but when he turned up for work he couldn't get through the barrier to entry gate. I finally managed to get him there by choosing to allow anyone teen and above to get through. So then I had customers streaming behind the counter instead of buying from the baked goods in the shelves.
I got each of my couple to buy a slice of pie from the bakery shelves. Here is one of them eating her pie. They didn't sit together and I didn't worry about getting a pic of each of them.
https://i.postimg.cc/sgjzCk4H/Bakery008.jpg
The kitchen is accessible through the door behind the counter. Because the barrier to entry now lets anyone, teen or older, through my sim headed straight for the kitchen. I thought I'd show you a pic of the stove the sims can use to stock the shelves. This would work well if there was a tiny bakery with only one or two shelves. Problem is all food on the shelves is deleted during the night leaving the bakery in need of fresh food each morning. This makes for a lot of hard work. Your sim would need to work all day filling the shelves and you have to go into buy mode each time to add food to the shelves with the glass front. NRAAS fixed this by making Cupcake mod. It restocks the bakery after the food has been deleted. A genie can summon food quicker than a sim using the over to bake everything. Cupcake is instant. The stove is nice to have if you want to place it in the sim's home and they can bake a cake or whatever they like for the family.
https://i.postimg.cc/HnqqNKsz/Bakery003.jpg
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Now this is in my bakery build, but the Food Synthesiser came with Into the Future Expansion. The blackboards you see on the walls came with the bakery venue.
In the first pic you see my sims sitting at a table ordering their dinner. I clicked onto the table top for each of them. You can probably get the menu up other ways. I haven't used any of this for ages. But I find the Food Synthesiser the easiest to use. I didn't include the bistro oven in this but I do use it in other builds. I usually turn up at a venue with hungry sims and then remember to hire a chef who will show up next shift.
There is no need to hire a waiter or set up a menu for the food synthesiser. The waiter appears when you place the food synthesiser on a community lot. It is found in the fridge section of buy mode.
https://i.postimg.cc/j55YnPFH/Bakery004.jpg
In this pic the waiter has taken the order and has gone to the food synthesiser to get the food they ordered.
https://i.postimg.cc/5tpMtnn9/Bakery005.jpg
The waiter returns to the table - he stands back a bit - and bows and the food appears on the table in front of the sim.
https://i.postimg.cc/QdQ32X7T/Bakery006.jpg
Eating their dinner.
https://i.postimg.cc/W4svjQmf/Bakery007.jpg
While they were eating their dinner the waiter had a little adventure. He walked around the bakery and bowed an nothing apparent a few times, then made his way up to the residence I made above the bakery and bowed at a vase of sunflowers before returning to the area near his food synthesiser.
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The issues for me are them not being able to live above the bakery. And it's not easy to get customers to come to a residential lot to buy from the bakery.
Making it possible to run a business on a residential lot would hopefully fix that. I did use a mod once to attract customers to another bakery I built and I obviously didn't set it up properly as the entire town turned up and there was a massive traffic jam. It took hours to get all of the sims to go home as I had a huge population of sims in that world.
If the business is on a residential lot the food synthesiser wouldn't make a waiter as that only happens on a community lot.
It would be nice to be able to set a specific sim to get through the barrier to entry if your sim doesn't own the bakery. This way I could have allowed only the register attendant to get through instead of allowing all of the sims teen and above.
With the barrier to entry working the customers gather in the correct location and buy from the shelves. Without the barrier to entry the customers mostly move behind the counter and into the kitchen and then upstairs to the residence where they make themselves at home and generally are a nuisance and buy nothing much.
I don't know if you can do anything to solve any of these issues or if you would want to. I just thought I'd give you as much info as I can so you can have a few ideas.
So that's it from me. Now you know more about what I was talking about.
