I play on PS5 and encountered this last night at a restaurant with a bar area. No option to order drinks. Went into build mode, deleted the bar, replaced it with the exact same bar. In live mode, still couldn’t order drinks, but did receive an orange notification saying the ticket kiosk was inaccessible and to close the small business and move or place a kiosk. This was a GTW restaurant and not a small business that has worked just fine for over a year. I did add a kiosk just to see if that changed anything, and aside from not receiving the kiosk inaccessible notification, the bartender still stopped working at the first trick performed.
Checked other community lots with bars. Bar, Nightclub, Lounge, Wedding Venue all had the same problem, though none of them gave me a kiosk inaccessible notification like the restaurant. Once the bartender does a trick, the ability to order drinks or food disappears. Replacing the bar or moving the bar does not fix it, and for me, resetting the sim didn’t work either. Furthermore, ordering food or drink upon first arriving at a lot (when the option is still there) works intermittently. Sometimes get the drink, never get the food I did notice that unplayed npc sims at nightclubs were ordering and getting drinks even when I could not, but I didn’t see this happen at any other bar type venue.
What I didn’t test was how bars and bartenders behave in an actual small business, because I don’t have one set up that way. Is anyone having this problem on a small business lot or at a home business? Because of that notification I got at the restaurant, I’m wondering if the bar objects are somehow just expecting to be placed in a small business instead of also on bar type community lots.
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