I do find this annoying. As nice as it might be to see the animation of the vendor putting the food on the counter and a Sim pick it up, I’d really rather it just work the same as vending machines. Take my Sim’s money, and put the food in my Sim’s inventory. That way NPCs don’t have a chance to steal it, and I also have the ability to direct them to go sit down at a table or something before eating - or can even pass the food to a toddler who’s unable to order for themselves. As is, food stall food ends up extremely expensive because you need to order multiple times before you successfully grab the plate before a random NPC can, and then you just have to wait and not touch anything once your Sim actually does have the plate, because if you tell them to sit or talk to someone or just “go here” there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll disappear the plate without eating it and you have to start over…
