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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Running a Restaurant

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Purchasing a Restaurant

Your Restaurant experience begins by purchasing a Restaurant from the Retail Menu on the bottom right corner. Click on the ‘Select an Option’ > ‘Buy a Restaurant’.

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You’ll be taken to the World Menu where you get to pick which Restaurant you’d like to purchase. You can own more than one Restaurant, but for the sake of this article, I’m only going to focus on one Restaurant called L’Attente Bistro which is a pre-made Restaurant found in The Library under the Maxis content tag.

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After you purchase your desired Restaurant, you’ll immediately be taken to the Restaurant lot where you’ll have to transfer some of your Household Funds to Restaurant Funds. This means that whenever you earn money or lose money from your Restaurant Business, your Household Funds will remain untouched.

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You can transfer Funds back and forth whenever you want by pressing the button indicated below.

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If you want to build a Restaurant from scratch, here are the following items you’ll need in order for your Restaurant to function properly:

  • Sink
  • Toilet
  • Chef Station
  • At least 4 Dining Spots (Tables with at least 1 Chair)
  • Waiter Station
  • Host Station

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Jovan

Reticulating splines as a webmaster for Sims Community over the last 11 years. You can find me here writing articles and doing reports on your favorite life sim games, among other things!

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Lulu
Lulu
8 years ago

Any ideas if playable sims in a household that owns a restaurant can work at there as something other than a manager?

Lina
Lina
8 years ago
Reply to  Lulu

They said they can work as barmen if you have a bar.

Ebony
Ebony
8 years ago

Great article! Thanks for the tips

Emil
Emil
8 years ago

Quick question. When you hire your staff, is it pulling from all Sims living in that town? I have a few already made characters that I want to work there.

Tara
Tara
8 years ago

Can you have multiple sims run and own a restaurant because I have these two sims who are best friends and I really want them to own a restaurant together.

Jamie Hood
Jamie Hood
8 years ago

How do you train them? I can’t find it

Jamie Hood
Jamie Hood
8 years ago
Reply to  Jamie Hood

My employees are all crap, and I have no idea how to make them better

Andrea
Andrea
7 years ago

I can’t seem to find the option to ‘buy a restaurant’ only ‘buy a retail store’. Anyone know why this is so?

Ryanna
Ryanna
6 years ago

Hi

I have jusg bought dine out on sims4 ps4 and i built my restraunt. When i got to buy it, it says its already occupied! No other families own it. Someone please help! Its so fustrating

Jamie Hood
Jamie Hood
4 years ago

How do you train them? I can’t find it

Jamie Hood
Jamie Hood
4 years ago
Reply to  Jamie Hood

My employees are all crap, and I have no idea how to make them better

Ryanna
Ryanna
4 years ago

Hi

I have jusg bought dine out on sims4 ps4 and i built my restraunt. When i got to buy it, it says its already occupied! No other families own it. Someone please help! Its so fustrating

Andrea
Andrea
4 years ago

I can’t seem to find the option to ‘buy a restaurant’ only ‘buy a retail store’. Anyone know why this is so?