I did think sims used to eat too slow, but that was for a single sim households, in those I am glad it is nerfed.
But, however, needing to do all the extra things when wanting the family to dine together, is annoying, indeed because I did not used to do it before :) And if i want to take a nice picture, I have very little time as those couple of bites are gone fast.
I have now started to use restaurants more (what in my game work just fine, I do have 3 mods for DO, though) , at least in there everyone get their food at the same time, and I even have the time to order starter, main dish and the dessert , now , when they eat faster.
I have always had huge number of restaurants in my saves, and now even more. I have a small burger/fastfood joint at 20x15 lot, gas station diner, Greek tavern and lots of others up to fancy dining places.
