I've tried FIVE different parties and the caterer each time doesn't cook a thing! Clicking on the sim doesn't do anything. Clicking on the stove doesn't do anything. Clicking on the fridge doesn't do anything. Has anyone had a successful catering experience?

Hmmm. Nothing? Party starts, caterer comes, finds kitchen, starts cooking? I actually don't pay much attention to the service sims, because I'm too busy getting everyone to listen to the same music or some task like that...

I remade the gym in Willow Creek as a wedding/reception hall. Stove/fridge/counters with a bunch of dinner tables downstairs and a microphone. Upstairs is bar, piano and restrooms. In the back yard is the wedding arch.

I have only had one party so far and I made one of the people in my household be the caterer but she didnt cook anything. When I would click on her and make her cook something the activity would show for a second on her action bar then disappear. I made one of my sims friends to be the bartender and she didnt make drinks. I hired someone to be the entertainer and it was an old man who showed up and he died because one of my guests started yelling at him.

I had a wedding and hired an insane sim as my caterer. (She was from another family I had been playing, that's how I know her personality) She actually DID cook something, but then she proceeded to party with the rest of wedding guests. She didn't even bake a wedding cake. I clicked on her and there was no option to tell her to work. I thought it was just because she's insane but it sounds like you had the same problem. I really feel that this option to direct your cater needs to be patched in. "Make a cake" "Make a meal" or maybe "FIRE" Something like that. If you're hiring someone to be your caterer, they should really CATER.

I've found the best thing to do if you get a caterer that doesn't do their task, but at the same time is keeping you from cooking, is to run interference with another household member. Have any household member (other than your cook) engage a queue of conversation actions and have your cook make that cake for the wedding, birthday, what-have-you. Kind of ridiculous to have to resort to this, but the dignity of labor with EA's service sims has always been in question.

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41 Replies

Asante81
12 years ago
Well, mine always cook, bartend and entertain as they're supposed to. So it might be a bug...?
b49f38fd108e7923
New Spectator
12 years ago
What did you do to make him/her cook? I have a stove/fridge/counters ....no cooking
QuaPina
New Traveler
12 years ago
The first two parties i had the woman caterer she just sat around talking, never cooking anything. I finally hired this old man and he stayed in my kitchen cooking the whole time .... So im not sure if she was just lazy or what
Asante81
12 years ago
Hmmm. Nothing? Party starts, caterer comes, finds kitchen, starts cooking? I actually don't pay much attention to the service sims, because I'm too busy getting everyone to listen to the same music or some task like that...
TooTallTori
New Scout
12 years ago
Birthday party on town lot, caterer just hung around as there was no where for him to cook. (I have since added a kitchen to that particular lot, but have not had a party there to see if that worked) Hosted wedding party at my Sim's house and the caterer did cook a lot.
b49f38fd108e7923
New Spectator
12 years ago
I remade the gym in Willow Creek as a wedding/reception hall. Stove/fridge/counters with a bunch of dinner tables downstairs and a microphone. Upstairs is bar, piano and restrooms. In the back yard is the wedding arch.
Asante81
12 years ago
Hmmm... have you tried parties at home? Just to see if there's a difference? Maybe they just refuse to work public lots?
Never tried an out-of-house-party before, but what ToryKelley wrote might hint at that...
Its_Mizore
Rising Rookie
12 years ago
I have only had one party so far and I made one of the people in my household be the caterer but she didnt cook anything. When I would click on her and make her cook something the activity would show for a second on her action bar then disappear. I made one of my sims friends to be the bartender and she didnt make drinks. I hired someone to be the entertainer and it was an old man who showed up and he died because one of my guests started yelling at him.
Asante81
12 years ago
"WarpCode;12672949" wrote:
I have only had one party so far and I made one of the people in my household be the caterer but she didnt cook anything. When I would click on her and make her cook something the activity would show for a second on her action bar then disappear. I made one of my sims friends to be the bartender and she didnt make drinks. I hired someone to be the entertainer and it was an old man who showed up and he died because one of my guests started yelling at him.

That's weird as well... Haven't tried employing one of my sims though... but if they're guests thay CAN cook. Had to make a cake once during a party because the caterer was cooking whatever it was...

EDIT: That party must have been the hit with the entertainer "conjuring" up a creepy wraith... must have been a goth party...
b49f38fd108e7923
New Spectator
12 years ago
"Asante;12672936" wrote:
Hmmm... have you tried parties at home? Just to see if there's a difference? Maybe they just refuse to work public lots?
Never tried an out-of-house-party before, but what ToryKelley wrote might hint at that...

Im going to try...these public parties are a bust