Food Poisoning Compensation Inequality
My Cantrell family went out to dine for the holiday, 'Night On the Town'. Two of the teen boys got food poisoning. Mind you all seven members of the family had the same dish. Aaron managed to call his...
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"Elliandre;c-18066125" wrote:
How did you get the food brought to the table? I would take a bad food moodlet over no food at all. My restaurants are broken.
Couple of things help make restaurants work.
First, always do a "reset" on all the chefs when arriving when you first get to the lot. They get stuck and don't go to the kitchen right away, often.
Also, go to all of your restaurants from manage worlds in build/buy mode and make sure that the decor on the tables is not blocking the slots where food should be served. Even when it "looks" like the space is there, the decor could be blocking it. You want to make sure all tables have all meal and drink slots where there is a chair (or other seating) open, because even if the table your sims are at is fine, tables where randoms/townies are seated can still mess with the servers.
A TON of the centerpiece decor items in the game block either the meal slots or the drink slots, sometimes both, even if placed in the center slot of a table. Shrinking them by one size often makes them work fine though. Using the decor slots which are offset from the center, but not the meal slot, also has a higher chance of blocking food serving slots.
You can buy plates and drinks from "debug" in build/buy, and place them to be sure the slots are open. 80% of the restaurants I have downloaded from the gallery have this issue on at least some tables. You need to make sure bb.moveobjects is off when doing this test. If you can't place the plates and cups in build/buy, then neither can the servers in LIVE mode.
And then lastly, there are mods which fix the main issues with restaurants. I do not know if @GalacticGal uses any of those though. The only one I use is LittleMsSam's mod that makes the chefs cook faster and the ones by Bienchen which makes the meal quality better and her finisheating mod. Neither of which are required for "functional" restaurants, just better ones.
Carl also has a mod with a ton of restaurant fixes, but I do not use it. My restaurants work just fine with all of the above things covered.
