I'm sorry to post on this thread but it's not letting me make my own thread right now.
I just tried to run my restaurant for the first time and the chef has not made one single meal. My first day I was open for 11 hours and the chef did not make ONE SINGLE MEAL. She was standing at the station and doing all the animations as if she was cooking, but there were no meals being made for the waitress to take to the table.
What am I doing wrong? I have everything the venue requires to be a restaurant, I just don't understand why the meals aren't being made. All the customers left in a huff and I now have a one-star restaurant because I can't figure this thing out. I'm really hoping someone can help me here because I'm getting extremely frustrated, did anyone else have this problem?
I've just closed out of the game because it got too aggravating to continue and watch all my customers leave.
A few other things I've noticed so far... I really wanted my sim's nephew to be the chef, so I tried the trick of evicting him and moving him back into his house after I hired him. The next day after I moved him back in it said I needed to hire a new chef, and he wasn't on the list of options. It's really frustrating that I can't choose who to hire as my chef, since I was really looking forward to it being a family member. Why won't they let me pick who I want? He was on the list the first day but when I re-evicted him he wasn't there anymore. I had to hire some random townie who I don't care about instead.
The other issue I had was that my other household members can't go to work while I'm running my restaurant. So their job performance is going down while I'm watching my restaurant fail... I am a sad panda.
(I'm not normally this angry, I swear!)