ISSUES/BUGS with Dine Out

"Lutefisk;14898613" wrote:
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.

In my experience, they have kind of an idle cooking animation. So if they are not actually cooking, they just stand at the stove and do animations. If they start chopping stuff, that's when they actually cook a meal.

Did the waiters take orders and go over to the chefs to place the order ? Are you using any mods ?

"Lutefisk;14898613" wrote:


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.

If you switched to that family, he lost his chef job. You can't play with those Sims or they'll loose their job. I need to check out the evicted bin hiring myself so don't know why he didn't show up but you might need to delete all your unhoused Sims for that (the ones you don't want)

"Lutefisk;14898613" wrote:

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.

What happens ? Do they not go on their own or do you get an error ?