After I noticed the cafeteria worker issue with the most recent (console) update, my sim traveled to 3 different community lots and found two of them completely empty, with no staff and no visitors. ...
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I've been having this problem since the pre-AA patch. Community lots are empty, with a few exceptions. Bars/lounges/nightclubs have a barkeeper, but no patrons. Libraries have a librarian, but no patrons. Gyms are completely empty. Additional service npc that normally spawn on specific lots, like entertainers on lounges and DJs on nightclub lots, do not appear.
The only sims who do show up are clubs that have that lot/lot type as a club meeting point. I have several clubs filled with npcs that meet at certain venues, as a means to populate venues some more, and the clubs consistently show up and do their normal club activities. So right now, at the gym it's just my sims and the "pump for fun" club, no gym trainer, no yoga instructor, and the hired barista also doesn't show up to tend the espresso bar in the cafeteria area. Lounges are now my sims, a lonesome bartender, and the four members of a club regaling each other with comedy and piano sessions. Etc. Last I checked beaches and pools worked normally, but it's currently winter in my game, so nobody goes to the pool anyway.
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