It looks like when I place a food stall on a public lot, it is not automatically populated by a NPC. Instead I am required to hire the person for $100. I was in the middle of building a nice shopping center when I got the suspicion that it would not work. I was right. It doesn't make sense for my sim to hire a person for $100 when it is a public lot.Food stalls seem to populate when they are placed in common areas in the neighborhood. Do I need to assign the lot as lounge or something? Right now it is generic lot. Bars seem to auto-populate when I place it in a lounge or restaurant.

I gave up trying to use food stalls on my Lots. Very sad. I hope someone can come in and tell us how to make them work without needing the hire.

Exactly. Having to hire venders seems weird and they should come automatically with the stall.

I think that littlemssam has mod that calls vendors to the food stands and you don't have to pay for them. https://littlemssam.tumblr.com/post/175407521658/free-staff-and-no-phone-call-animation-forI do hope that the devs are working on it -- it's not an actual bug just functionality they overlooked.

I'm also hoping for an update like that. Food stands and also bars should be tended on all public lots. I understand having different community lot types but these objects should function on all of them.

I think littlemssams has a mod to assign npc automatically for cafe, instrument and vendor etc, just downloaded mine few days ago but i have yet to play regularly these past few days so i cannot check if it really works

Stalls need vendors on public lots

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crocobaura
Legend
5 years ago
I read on the forum that they now work with the new community spaces lot type when it's set as a market. Haven't tried it my game yet.
bratt_sniper
5 years ago
"crocobaura;c-17535196" wrote:
I read on the forum that they now work with the new community spaces lot type when it's set as a market. Haven't tried it my game yet.

Hi! I couldn't find the option designated as market :(
JoRN1414
5 years ago
"bratt_sniper;c-17539533" wrote:
"crocobaura;c-17535196" wrote:
I read on the forum that they now work with the new community spaces lot type when it's set as a market. Haven't tried it my game yet.

Hi! I couldn't find the option designated as market :(

It's a Community Lot included with EcoLiving. It has to be voted on at the NAP board and receive the most votes.
WolfFox90
New Hotshot
5 years ago
In The Sims 2 we just used Community Lots for Cafés and Restaurants, Doesn't that work in TS4?.
imacoffeejunkie
5 years ago
I finally got a vendor on the seasonal stalls (from Little Miss Sam), but the NPCs are just ignoring the shops -- which is kind of weird and breaks immersion (LOL). Is there any way around that? Can you get the NPCs to buy from the seasonal vendors? Thanks in advance
mindybell87
Rising Traveler
4 years ago
Hi posting on this thread to make EA aware this is still an issue that needs addressing. Come on EA games this needs fixed. Why should I have to pay 100 to then have to pay for what I want to order. All public lots either curated by the game or by the player should have auto filled vendors on all stalls.
Lowenhart_32
3 years ago
Kinda agree here, I don't see how it makes sense you have to hire them if you get no cut in their earnings or anything. But I guess it's because food stalls are viewed as catering on lots where vendors aren't integrated part of the lot type.
crocobaura
Legend
3 years ago
"DKguruArtist;c-18126403" wrote:
Kinda agree here, I don't see how it makes sense you have to hire them if you get no cut in their earnings or anything. But I guess it's because food stalls are viewed as catering on lots where vendors aren't integrated part of the lot type.

It's possible to automatically summon vendors to food stalls on community space lots, so I don't see why they can't do the same with other lot types? How can they be considered catering if we place them in a park, or in a museum? Those are not owned lots.

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