@Simmerville Unfortunately having the Accolades on a restaurant lot doesn't work. The biggest problem is the host never showed up. I was puzzled, where were they? Then it dawned on me, the restaurant generates a host to seat guests and the game sees that there is already a sim tagged as a host and it never sends another one to conduct the event. I don't know if would work if the game generated a hostess instead but since the role seems to be randomly assigned every day and every shift change it would be a total mystery every time. The Accolades might work or it might not and if it didn't you'd have skip some or do a lot of rolling back to the previous save point until you got one that worked.
The test as a lounge worked great. More attendees sat on the floor than in chairs which was odd. They did do the musical chairs thing but I'm long past worrying about that. Some of the NPCs wandered in and out but only Holly Alto missed her award because she was late. She had just spawned on the lot when she was announced.
So I'm going to fix the lot by removing the restaurant part and just make a larger lounge area and then it should be ready to upload.