#cafe mod

Introducing my "Cafe Mod".

This is similar to the idea of "Pay To Play", but instead, its "Pay to Eat". Sims will take a plate of food from a display, pay a certain amount of money either to the business owner or to the ether, bypassing the cash register, sit down and eat it.

That's it, that's the mod 😂 Well, plus a little bit more.

Food does not need to be set "for sale" - if you do that, sims will buy it as normal. Thus it also cannot be "restocked", you need to manually do that (sorry).

The cost of the food has been tuned by me to make a nice little profit over what it costs for the sim to make the food, especially if you make group servings, however this can all be tuned inside the 'Maxis Foods update' in the mod.

To mark a lot as a 'cafe' (or any other venue where you want sims to pay to eat a plate of food) you must place my Cafe Lot Marker:

Which will trigger the mod to activate. Without this, sims will eat free on a community lot as normal. This is found in Misc/Misc for $100.

The lot controller has a few extra functions which can be enabled with the pie menu -

"Toggle Object Model" will toggle through some different models for the object. I converted this item from The Sims 4 cos I liked it (and added deco slots!!), but I've also included a bunch of vanilla Sims 2 meshes -

Cos Teapot!!!

There's also the ability to ban pets from coming to the cafe, unless you want a pet friendly cafe of course -

and you can also toggle a feature called "Eat or Go Home", which will force sims to leave the lot if they're not hungry.

In addition to this, I'm uploading separately some Food Business Improvement mods, which will tie into another upcoming project.

Should you download this mod, it will do a few things: 1. More customers will appear on your lot at every business rank 2. More customers will appear on a non-owned food venue that has the cafe lot marker 3. You'll be able to get away with under-paying your employees a little bit easier 😏 lol

I also highly, HIGHLY recommend to use THIS MOD in tandem with my cafe mods, or barista machines are crazy.

To use this mod, you cannot use the default Sims 2 Decra Chill, as sims cannot interact with food inside of that unless it's "for sale". I have created a custom Decra Chill, Repo'd to the original:

This will keep the food fresh, stop it from spoiling, and sims can pick up the plates to eat. It will also automatically set food to the "served" state if you bulk-make meals with the "make food" option on the fridge, as usually this food still has to be "served" by a sim in order to interact with it (lame).

I added a bunch of slots; 8 on each shelf. The 3 at the front and back are designed for small plates, whereas 2 in the middle row are designed for larger plates to go side-by-side.

There are 3 decorative slots on top; be aware if you place food up there, it will not be kept fresh!

I also took @veranka-downloads's 3t2 Deliciously Indulgent Bakery displays and tweaked them:

I added more slots to the shelves, removed the glass on the front and added fake sliding glass doors to the back instead to simulate how an employee would place food inside, and it won't look weird when a sim walks up and grabs food to eat.

Similarly, I took @jinxxsims's 4t2 Get To Work Baker's Cousin Display and did the same thing -

With cleaner more modern look handles on the back.

I've re-used the GUIDs from the original conversions cos my mod makes them more functional anyway, but yeah you can only have one version sorry.

All displays are found in Surfaces / Shelves.

As I said I have updated nearly all Maxis Foods to have a cost, and included a spreadsheet detailing the cost to make versus cost to eat.

I have also included resources and instructions for how to update custom foods to work with the mod. If a food hasn't been updated, it will simply cost $0 to eat at a cafe.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you have default replacements for the Maxis foods, they MAY not work.

This is because in testing it came to our attention that some defaults have not been created as true default replacements which only override the Mesh and Textures, but rather are a custom food that simply overrides the GUID of the Maxis food.

This will break the Cafe Mod.

If you'd like to use your defaults, you must update them the same way you'd update a custom food.

For my own game, I have updated some of Jacky93's food defaults to actually be true defaults which only override the required resources and will therefore work by default with my mod, which you can download if you want them.

I think that's all I have to say for now, lol.

As always, please report any bugs / problems / conflicts and I will try to solve them!

Downloads:

Cafe Mod - Main files

Some of Jacky's Food Defaults as actual defaults

Better Food Businesses

Items in the mod REQUIRE:

@lordcrumps's Sims 4 Shadow File (will not link cos most of you will already have it, google it if you don't)

Money Globals by @picknmixsims

Enjoy!

The biggest update is that the Café Lot Marker will now scan customers regularly and check if they're drinking coffee or eating food and if so, build customer loyalty if your café is a sim-owned business. This should make it much easier and faster to build your business rank up

(HINT: make sure you have THIS MOD to stop customers being absolutely ridiculous over plates being left on a table for 5 seconds before they get cleaned up, my goodness!)

The lot marker also now comes with some beautiful recolours by the very talented @kashmiresims:

Which are honestly SO GOOD, she knocked those out of the park!

I also did recolours of the lot marker frame in Annas colours and iCad's woods (Lazy swatch pics):

Because we love recolours 😍

Another large update has been made to the café displays, which can now be used also as regular OFB style displays much more successfully. Thanks to Aysarth (MTS creator) for the inspiration to do that.

Contents can now be toggled all for sale / not for sale using the sale tool:

And should hopefully be sold from and restocked with no major issues.

I also fixed a routing issue for group meals that were placed on the top shelf in one of the two-tile, 3 tier displays (Veranka's or Jinxx's for example) which sims couldn't grab. A single plate sure, but a group serving? Forget about it. #SillySims.

This involved tweaking another semiglobal BHAV (0x201C Eat - Grab a Plate) and thanks to @joplayingthesims we found a conflict with SimWardrobe's "No Free Lunch" mod, which solves a bug that I had no idea existed wherein on a community lot, sims could keep taking food from an empty group serving plate! lol. So that fix has been bundled into my mod, if you have SW's "No Free Food" mod you can delete it and just use the Cafe Mod files.

BETA testing also found a conflict with Midge's Cake Stand, so there is a comp patch included for that too.

There is now a new fix for Lamare / MogH's "Auto Put Away Leftovers" mod which stops sims from putting away food in a display case. Thanks to @lordcrumps for that shout! There are two versions included as per Lamare's original edits, check her post for more details.

All other existing comp patches have been updated and are included.

With all comp patches, these are only required if you have the original mods, and need to be loaded LAST, after both the original mod and my Cafe mod files.

Inside the Zip you will see:

Make sure you have the required globals or the mod will not work. The "Displays_Replacement version" are Veranka's 3t2 Bakery Display and JinxxSims's 4t2 Display with the same GUID as their original conversion, so will overwrite their file. If you'd like to use both their original conversion and my tweaked and modded version, choose the files within "Displays_StandaloneRepoVersion".

I've also included an updated standalone Simple Counter Decra Chill, created by the wonderful @morepopcorn. For that counter to not flash blue, you must have Poppy's original Simple Counter and BB's Nooks and Niches main file. See her post for more details.

In "CustomFoods_AddThese" you will find the resources required to update any CC foods in your game to work with the Café mod, and I updated the instructions from a notepad document to a shiny PDF with pictures included. Remember that any CC foods will not automatically work in a Café setting without being updated.

Otherwise, code has generally been tweaked a tidied up, but is more or less the same as before!

Let me know of any other conflicts that need solving, bugs, issues or problems, otherwise send me pics of your cafes!

Love, Tea xo