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.

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

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?

"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.

I haven't hired a single employee yet. I just create a big family and send them all over to run and manage my business. I haven't had any issues with Sims not buying my products, and I have a bakery. Perhaps it's one of the most recent patches. I haven't played for about a month now.

I recommend creating a larger family and manage your business that way. Also--try to avoid restocking items. EXAMPLE: You can make a pie for $10 and then decorate it for $30. Total cost $40. If it's perfect quality, sometimes they sell for absurd amounts, like, $1000 at your bakery, depending on how high level the pie is. If you restock the pie directly at the store, it costs around $300 to restock. I just remove the restock sign, send them home and re-bake all my goods for the next day. Much more profitable... of course, need to figure out why none of your stuff is selling first... sorry.

I'm currently running an art gallery. I have one employee that i'm trying to train up but I mainly have her set to restock or clean, but it does require alot of patience as I often find her wandering off or playing on her phone.

I'd also recommend starting off small. I was doing a rags to riches so her gallery started off tiny and I built it from there and that helped me to manage everything.

Bakery sounds fun though.. that might be my next challenge.

"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?

"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.