The Sims 4 offers a lot of potential jobs and careers for the players and their families. As a result, going through every single career takes some time. But if the players want their Sims to be more independent and become their own boss, there are multiple options as well.
Other than being a freelancer or running the vet clinic, the Sims can also start their own restaurant. While this can be challenging at first, if done right, running a restaurant in The Sims 4 can both be profitable and great fun for both the Sims and the players, not to mention the restaurant's guests!
6 Be Smart With Money
Even though running a restaurant can be fun, it also pays out to be smart with your money. The players should decide right at the start how much money they're willing to invest in the restaurant as it will initially go from the household's funds. Another even more important thing to decide is the price markup for the restaurant.
That shouldn't be lower than 150 percent if the Sims actually want to make money. There's also the cost of advertising as the Sims have to choose from several packages. All of these costs are something the players have to take into consideration in advance and decide whether they have enough money for starting the restaurant or whether they need to turn to money cheats.
5 Start Small
Just like with every business, it helps to start small and gradually move toward more ambitious goals. When running a restaurant, the player should start by adding easy-to-cook meals to the menu. Each meal that you can add has a set difficulty. If the menu contains meals that are difficult to cook, the chef can initially struggle with cooking them, and they won't taste as good which will negatively impact the restaurant's ratings.
When starting with the restaurant, it's best to pick meals with difficulty level one (out of five) which will help the chefs to do a good job. As the staff works longer for the restaurant, their skills improve, but the player can speed things up by sending the staff (waitress, chefs, hosts) to training which will help them become more efficient in their work faster. Also, to keep the employees happy, it's not a bad idea to give them a raise every once in a while. If their status falls down to very unsatisfied, it's time to give them a promotion so that they don't quit their jobs.
4 Don't Forget To Use Perks
Both in the vet clinic and the restaurant, using perks is a good way how to get the business to a higher level. As the restaurant becomes more popular, it helps to hire additional waiters and a chef so that the customers don't have to wait as long to get served, which will keep them happy.
Another useful perk influences the quality of the ingredients which, in turn, has the power to raise the quality of the meals prepared by the chefs. The patient patrons perk also does wonders since it will make the customers more inclined to wait for their meals without lowering the restaurant's rating. It's possible to buy perks by earning perk points that come from serving the customers and interacting with them.
3 Open The Restaurant In Advance
The Sims 4 offers the option to open the restaurant and run it from home. While running it from home might lead to losing money, it helps to open the restaurant from home a few minutes before the owner actually goes to the restaurant. The reason for this is simple.
If the Sim opens the restaurant from home, by the time they get there, the employees, as well as the guests, will be already there and the owner won't have to wait for them to show up. That will allow running the restaurant more smoothly and will also cause no elapses between the guests arriving and the employees coming to work.
2 Don't Be Afraid To Decorate
The old saying claims that people eat with their eyes as well. And for the Sims, that's true too! One option how to raise the restaurant's rating is to decorate it nicely. The better the place looks, the more the customers are likely to like it and leave a good review.
Paintings on the walls, sculptures, small decorative objects, all of these help to make the restaurant more popular among the guests. If the Sim doesn't have enough money to invest into buying art for the restaurant, they can always take the art they have at home and temporarily bring it to the restaurant, or they can learn how to paint fast and put their own art into the restaurant.
1 It's The Little Details That Help
Running a restaurant is no easy task, but some seemingly little tricks can help a lot. If the owner has the time, they should use the category management to check in with the guests, interact with them, and make sure everything's alright. A lot of the guests come in larger groups, so it helps to put together several tables for the groups of three to six people.
Once in a while, a critic will show up in the restaurant whose rating will have a higher impact on the restaurant. As such, it's good to pay more attention to them and make sure they have everything they need, or even offer them the main dish or the dessert on the house.