The Sims 4 Dine Out Guide

[Francesca Cruiz]

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To even begin managing a restaurant in The Sims 4 Dine Out, you must first own one. This guide will teach you to build your own. First, know that unless you're cheating, building/placing one from manage worlds will not be a shortcut to ownership. You'd then need to pay the lot value to purchase the restaurant. So, if you've saved up some money from your Sim's careers or other money-making methods, you may want to start with what you have. I'd estimate you wanting a decent chunk of Simoleons (at minimum 12,000-15,000) before ever starting this process, because you will need to put funds into the restaurant to pay employees and cover expenses. If you just buy one that someone else has built, you'll need even more Simoleons because it's probably not built on a budget. So, I'll cover making one from scratch and the requirements to do so.

Making Your Own Restaurant

Consider your size needs and also that you might expand the building. You can own more than one restaurant, so you could start with a small diner and later sell it, only to build a bigger restaurant. Click in the bottom right corner of the screen and select, 'Buy a Restaurant'.

You need to first cover the cost of the lot and transfer money to it. When you first pick a lot, you'll be prompted to transfer funds to the business. Like with The Sims 4 Get to Work, the owner can remove or add funds to the business at any time. The game recommends $10,000, and it's a good starting point. I think you'll need more like $15,000 due to Chef's Stations being so expensive. You can always add more. If you start a restaurant and don't have enough money, you can even leave build mode, go home, make more cash, and return with more to finish construction. Click the little icon in the bottom left corner when you're in build mode on your restaurant lot to transfer funds.

Toilet/Sink - these two are obvious. Visiting Sims need a place to use the restroom, and you can provide that. You really only need one or two bathrooms at most. Ensure they are separated by a wall if you make more than one.

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Dining Spots & Booths - The game pack introduces booths. You can use any proper-height two square table. Tables that are three full squares long will not work, despite it being symmetrical with the booth. Booths are meant to serve four Sims maximum. A corner booth will allow two Sims to be served and takes a single-square table. Most other table/chair arrangements are obvious, therefore the focus on how booths work in Dine Out. If you have trouble making a true booth with two sides, try to place the table first THEN the booth seats. Know that 2/3 of your visits will be 1-2 Sims, while family gatherings are a bit more rare - this will help you decide the proportion of smaller to larger tables.

Chef Station - This is the most expensive item - they're $3300. Note that the Full Disclosure Chef Station must be placed along a wall within the restaurant. As though you were making a room for the kitchen. It will create a hole in the wall through which waiters can get the food, and management can even speak to the chef. I found it hard to place, and they'll probably fix this, but once it's placed you can fiddle with it, select it again, and hopefully get it to face the direction you want. The second type of chef station is much easier to handle. Place these so the areas the plates go are closer to the waiters, with the chefs in the back.

Dish Washer (Not Required) - While a Sink may be used to wash dishes, you really want a dish washer for efficiency's sake. Somewhere near to the tables so that waiters do not have to walk far to take care of them. This lets them spend less time in a public bathroom - either impeding Sims who need to use it or else just taking longer to do a job. A waiter could also be blocked if a Sim's in the restroom. You can get by with a sink early on, but you want your waiters serving Sims and clearing tables, and a real dish washer will get the job done. It also looks better and can be placed much closer to tables.

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The Sims 4 Dine Out game pack introduces restaurants and diners to the game. Your Sims will be able to dine in style at eateries you place in the world. Alternatively you can take the plunge and run your own establishment.

You can build or buy a restaurant and customize the dining experience for your customers. Choose the menu, the staff, the dress code and the decor. With so much to keep an eye on, the task of running a restaurant can feel overwhelming. Here we take a look at how restaurants work and offer a guide to reaching that elusive five star rating.

This section provides a quick overview of how to dine out properly. To begin, click on the host podium and select Be Seated or Be Seated at counterHow your seated depends on whether you are in a group, on a date or just by yourself.

Once your Sim has been seated the waiter will arrive and take your sims order. As stated above, he or she converse with your sim and increases relationship points with them. There are several self-explanatory options on him. Ordering chef's choice orders each Sim's favourite food. For restaurant purposes, every Sim is assigned a favourite food that is indicated in a thought bubble. The following is a list of restaurant food. It includes some exclusive foods as well:

While dining, you have access to several dining socials. These are not exclusive to restaurants. For full deatails see New SocialsPreviously, when sims dined on a meal, they would finish the meal no matter how full the other needs were. Now there is a chance that a sim could fall asleep in their food if the energy need is low enough. This is embarrasing and can lower a date score.

When you've finished dining click on the waiter, the host or the host podium to pay for the cost of the meal. However if you don't want to pay for the meal, you can attempt to scam the restaurant out of their food. Firstly click on the host podium while your sim is still eating and select Skip Out on Bill. For a head start, make sure the host is busy before pulling the scam. Next you have to stay away from your host for forty-five seconds. If the host gets close enough to your sim then he or she has been busted. They have to pay and lose relationship points with the host. To confuse the host click away from him and select Go Here, then cancel the interaction and tell your sim to go to another area. This will confuse the host as he reacts to where the sim is going, not where he or she is. Alternatively, if your sim is the opposite sex of the host, then they can hide in the bathroom. Hosts won't go into the opposite genders bathroom. Not even to catch a scammer

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