If you think it's bad with a mundane sim, that's nothing on playing a spellcaster!
Order food.
Pay for food.
Transportalate to a seat as far away as possible.
Walk back.
Wonder why your food isn't on the vendor stall counter any more.
Repeat.
I even saw another member of my own household steal her food one time. But once they've got it, you can't make them give it back - if you stop them eating something at a public venue they'll just wave their hand and the food is gone.
Theft is theft. If they're not a klepto, they shouldn't be able to steal other people's food. I don't mind them sharing when they're at the park and someone cooks a big platter of something on the barbeque, but stealing a freshly-paid-for single serve of something off the vendor stall counter is not okay. And if they're at the spice festival, there's plenty of free food on offer anyway!
This is happening in my game now, too. My (spellcaster) sims are at the Humor & Hijinks Festival. As soon as they order food, they hop on their brooms and fly all the way across the street to the bar/art center building, an NPC takes their food, and then they slowly walk back to the festival to get food that is no longer there.
After trying to order food 6 times (consecutively) and having this happen EVERY time, I finally had to give up and cheat my sims' hunger needs so they didn't starve to death while squandering their life savings to feed the entire NPC population of San Myshuno. That ended up being the whole festival experience.
I guess I'm off to find a mod that unlocks those recipes, since learning them is only possible by eating food it's no longer possible for our sims to eat.
* Slow clap *
From the looks of this thread, it appears this has been an issue for THREE YEARS.
As much as your customers have paid for this game and all of the DLC, we deserve a product that actually works.
Fix it.
