A guide detailing 14 tips and tricks to help make your restaurant successful and profitable in The Sims 4. You will need The Sims 4 Dine Out game pack installed to be able to run a restaurant. Please like and comment, and Subscribe here: bit.ly/2ZM0L4h
Guide to the basics of running a restaurant: • How To Run A Restauran...
The 14 Tips and Tricks:
1. Open your business before you go in. By opening it on your home lot before traveling if (even if you do it 5 game minutes after) you will arrive at a restaurant that has customers already seated and staff already working, as opposed to watching them take an hour to settle in.
2. The Patient Patrons perk is one of the best perks to pickup early. It's cheap and it'll mean your customers are more patient and more easily impressed when food comes faster. It's a game changer.
3. Decor. Decor. More Decor. Add lots of artwork and décor as it's a very easy way to score extra points with your customers.
4. Don't be afraid to adjust your chef's cooking speed to fast once their skill level is high enough. You don't have to be cooking excellent quality food, you can still get a 5 star restaurant with normal quality, but poor quality will seriously affect your business and make people unhappy about both the food and often the price they pay as well.
Once your chefs are about level 8 in the cooking skill they will for the most part able to make even the most difficult rated dishes at normal quality when cooking quickly. Your customers will also take note of the food coming out quicker which will make them happy and help boost their star rating. You can also offset the loss of quality from cooking speed by increasing the food quality once you purchase the Ingredient Quality Options perk.
5. When choosing what size tables to have, I found that a big portion of your customers will comes in groups of two and three, so keep that in mind when figuring out your layout and setup tables accordingly.
6. Aim to welcome and check on every table that arrives to really boost your perk points by 25 per interaction, which will help you save up for rewards that will help you earn more.
7. The curious customers perk enables you to suggest dishes to guests who have a question mark. This interaction will give perk points, so getting and actively using this will mean it pays itself back in the long run.
8. Don't be afraid to go for that 300% mark up, provided you have good service and at least normal quality food. The high markup won't stop you from impressing your customers if you're competent in other areas and it will seriously help bring in the money.
9. Pay special attention to critics, because their star rating will be weighted much more heavily than you average customer. It's a good idea to offer them free food to ensure they rate you highly.
10. Purchasing both Ingredient discount perks will help lower your running costs. Buying the fast eaters perk will increase your customer turnover, and well funded foodies will mean customers order more expensive menu items. All of these combined will help you earn significantly more money in your business.
11. Aim to keep your staff satisfied or at least at a neutral level so they don't randomly quit. Level 5 wages will make them always very satisfied, but you can generally have a maxed-skill employee at neutral satisfaction on a level 4 wage.
12. No matter what themed restaurant you have, try to have some expensive items on the menu. It's very difficult to financially support high-quality staff when only selling cheaper menu items. Alternatively consider letting staff go once they get too qualified to hire cheaper alternatives if their skills aren't needed.
13. When opening and running your business purely from home, the time of day does matter. Opening my successful business from home during the late night to early morning, I found I barely scraped by making money. Where as it was highly profitably when opened during the daytime.
14. The tidy tippers perk should be left until last. It works by increasing the sale price of items you sell by a percentage. While it can be purchased repeatedly, it costs 2000 perk points and only increases sale price by somewhere between 1 and 2 percent. A handy tip is that when you adjust your menu you'll have the base prices, but when you suggest a dish using the curious customers perk you will see the price including the mark up from the tidy tippers perk. While quite weak as a perk alone it becomes worth it after a few stacks.
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7 июн 2024
