Employee not working / customers not buying baked goods

"Easy Breazy;13501841" wrote:
1. The employees take A LOT of work to get them up to your standards. It takes patience & having to criticize them when they aren't doing what you want. Hang in there.
2. After you place baked goods in the display cases, you need to click on each plate of food & mark for sale.

1. Thank you I'll go try that.
2. I have done that but nobody buys anything...

"JoyceM8;13501843" wrote:

"Easy Breazy;13501841" wrote:
1. The employees take A LOT of work to get them up to your standards. It takes patience & having to criticize them when they aren't doing what you want. Hang in there.
2. After you place baked goods in the display cases, you need to click on each plate of food & mark for sale.

1. Thank you I'll go try that.
2. I have done that but nobody buys anything...

Are the prices too high?

"Easy Breazy;13501841" wrote:
1. The employees take A LOT of work to get them up to your standards. It takes patience & having to criticize them when they aren't doing what you want. Hang in there.
2. After you place baked goods in the display cases, you need to click on each plate of food & mark for sale.

I didn't know you had to criticise them, I got fed up with an employee after one day so she got fired. Boss and employee now despise each other :D

"joleaco;13501893" wrote:

"JoyceM8;13501843" wrote:

"Easy Breazy;13501841" wrote:
1. The employees take A LOT of work to get them up to your standards. It takes patience & having to criticize them when they aren't doing what you want. Hang in there.
2. After you place baked goods in the display cases, you need to click on each plate of food & mark for sale.

1. Thank you I'll go try that.
2. I have done that but nobody buys anything...

Are the prices too high?

I'm having the same trouble with my bakery (no one is buying the baked goods in the display case). I have the price markup set at normal, but I'll try reducing it one step to see if that makes a difference.

Make sure you are actually assigning your employees tasks. For your own piece of mind, don't assign them to ring customers up, though. They fixed a LOT of the employee AI in the last big patch but ringing customers up still has some issues. I usually tell them to restock and if I get a second one, I have them clean (you will be amazed sometimes at how dirty display cases can get). Sometimes their task falls off too. You can berate them for slacking but check their assigned task is still assigned to them because it does happen. Also you generally need to assign them daily (but not always, I always check as soon as they come in).

As for them not buying goods, mine sell like (pardon the pun) hotcakes, even on normal pricing. Make sure the quality is decent, though. I didn't open my bakery until my sim could make excellent or better baked goods and I don't sell anything below excellent quality.

My issue is getting worse. I have all excellent quality baked goods, the price is reduced to "sale", and I have customers all over the place. The blue bars above their heads fill up and you think they're ready to buy. But then they stand there and wave their arm with the bubble over their heads with the X and footprints making it seem like they can't get where they're trying to go.

It's not only happening by the display case of baked goods, but now by the display table with items from buy mode. No one can buy anything. I don't know what to do, but it's terrible. My Sim has to pay her staff, but no sales are coming in.

Ideas?

Since the May patches (not sure which one), I was having a similar issue. I discovered it had something to do with having food items stocked in the "Lice Cold Retail Freezer", but Sims no longer able to purchase directly from them. This was occurring even with baked goods available and marked for sale elsewhere.

Removed the culprit, problem solved. Hope your fix proves as simple!

"joleaco;13501897" wrote:

I didn't know you had to criticise them, I got fed up with an employee after one day so she got fired. Boss and employee now despise each other :D

lol :) I did that too! Going to try this tip.

I had a bakery for two days and after that I sold it. It irritated me to the point to where I couldn't even play the game for the rest of the day. It could've been because I downloaded a bakery from the gallery and it was too much for me to handle. If I ever try again I'll start off small until I get used to it then try to expand, instead of trying to dive in like a pro.

"Lex2221;13683751" wrote:
I had a bakery for two days and after that I sold it. It irritated me to the point to where I couldn't even play the game for the rest of the day. It could've been because I downloaded a bakery from the gallery and it was too much for me to handle. If I ever try again I'll start off small until I get used to it then try to expand, instead of trying to dive in like a pro.

I find small is better when it comes to retail, especially as the employees are hard to manage (I don't use them at the moment), and it's easier to keep an eye on all your customers when they are contained in a smaller area. You can still make a good living if you sell quality items.

My sims family that run a small photography studio do quite well, and I am sure the family that run the cute little bakery will do nicely when the baker increases his skill a bit more. Even the boutique I have is small, but has still quite a few customers that seem very happy.

Sometimes bigger is not necessarily better, lol.