New Features in Dine Out Reloaded v3.3
Early Access Patrons can download Dine Out Reloaded v3.3 HERE
It took a while, but I've been working hard on making Dine Out Reloaded better for players. More customization of restaurants and new features await in v3.3. I listened to a lot of feedback and came up with a few of my own ideas to hopefully help players make their journey from food trucks to franchises. Here's what's new.
Diners Can Now Place Own Orders
Get ready to roll up the canvas and grease the grills, food trucks are coming to town! Diners Place Own Orders is now an option in the settings menu. For standard dining groups, the lead diner will head up to the new Diner Order Beacon object to place their order. If you fail to place one of these, Sims might go behind the chef station so make sure to find one in the restaurant objects category or search for Carl in build/buy.
Walkup Orders
Single Sims might show up if this option is turned on. They'll head right to a Diner Order Beacon to place their order, and once this is done, take a seat to await their food. They will slip right into the normal restaurant flow. These Diners are bad at standing in line so I suggest you consider not using Max Waiting Groups to keep things chill.
Delivery Orders
When enabled, the Delivery Orders option will allow Sims to make online orders in a way that is proportional to the restaurant's star rating/advertising. Up to 5 can be placed at once, so this setting is sure to keep even 2-3 chef restaurants busy. I don't suggest you do this with a lone chef. You WILL fall behind.
Spawn Guests Closer & Faster
There is a new option, Guests Spawn Closer which will make diners appear in the area you would when traveling to the lot, instead of the edge of the neighborhood. This drove me nuts, and I'm sure some of you will appreciate this. Reloaded 3.3 will also try to spawn guests faster (those in a group together).
More Customization
Regular Diners can now be disabled, and both Walkup and Delivery diners are entirely optional. For example, you can do only walkups, only delivery, or a mixture of combos. Turning off standard diners is a good idea for food truck gameplay, focusing more on the walkups and deliveries.
Take Seat
New interaction ‘Take Your Seat’ on standing diners. This will have them go back to their assigned seating, should something go wrong. Just one more little quality of life improvement players have requested.
Waiter Efficiency
Players complained about how I had set up waiters, and rightly so. They will now react much faster and not rely on tables being dirty and used at the same time to bother to clean. They will always be on top of it. This is especially helpful if you use multiple waiters.
Important Stuff to Know!
Delete both the mod/package and your settings file. I've redone defaults to remove max waiting groups, and there are new settings to take advantage of in this update.
Delivery orders absolutely do benefit from the farm to table system, so you can still make use of this for both deliveries and walkups.
While we already have Mark as Main Chef Station to designate where a player chef would be cooking (to prevent NPCs taking over), we also now have a Mark as Delivery Station. This MUST be turned on for at least one station for your restaurant to be eligible for deliveries. The Delivery diners need a routable location so you need to make sure it's a station they can reach the front of.
Delivery orders do NOT work with the Sous Chef system. I figured players would prefer to be able to set an NPC to do the deliveries (marking their station as for deliveries) while also still benefiting from the sous chef system for regular orders.
I've included many improvements to make the order system more efficient.
Players can now turn cows into meat on their restaurant lot. Many players requested this, as they like to live on the restaurant lot. Feel free to use your cows to take advantage of the Farm to Table system.
Early Access Patrons can download Dine Out Reloaded v3.3 HERE
Comments (93)
Is this compatible with the lastest update? <3
I paid 5 dollars to download this, and the extra stuff isn't even on the game. I do not see the options to add a bar nor do I see the option to make customers pay at the door. I can't even see where I can click to add deserts and main courses. It looks like the old download with no new stuff.
Maybe try deleting your settings file. Sounds like something is wrong with the install. Should be named Carl_Dineout_Reloaded_Settings.ini - make sure you don't have any old copies of the mod installed as well.
I have removed all other mods and cc from my game except "McCmdCenter" and have the latest "Carl_DineOut_Reloaded_v3.35". Not only do no cooks, waiters, or hostesses appear on the restaurant lots, but no bartenders will appear at any of the bar venues, except Cottage Living. When clicking on a bar top to hire a bartender the response is that there is already a bartender on site (but really there isn't). I cleaned everything out of my game, including re-loading all my packs and had the same result. What else can be done?
I had this issue without Carl's mod installed, it's a bug happening when "Allow household to gain celebrity points" is ticked off! Try ticking that option to allow celebrity gain, reload the game and it should work! (at least it did for me- good luck!)
This mod started to break my game, got the 'game loading in process' bug until I removed it
Did you have the updated version? this was an issue when the last pack came out.
It's not working at all. What can I do?
mod not working for me, do you have any advice for troubleshooting?
Can I set specific commands for each restaurant? It seems like the settings I applied for my food truck also applies for my dine in restaurant. But I want them to be different.
This is coming in V4.0!
Mod no longer works on new EA patch.
I’m having an issue where food disappears when waiters serve tables. It works fine when I have customers pick up their own orders which is weird. Has anyone else had this problem?
I had the same problem. When I removed the mod it worked again. Now I'm not sure if I should wait for an updated version or reinstalled the old one.
This mod has made owning a restaurant my favorite thing to do in the game. Thank you so much :')
Hi, love this mod. Will you be updating soon?
I don't know if you want more ideas for this mod but I think I cool feature you could add would be like to hire a manger for your restaurant. for when you away and you have to restaurant open but also to just have a manger there to help especially if you play as the chef it would be like another person to help run the restaurant
Also now that I downloaded this version It seems more broken my sim won't cook as chef just keeps doing the "pots test"
Hi Carl! Im having an issue when I hire a chef random NPC chefs are showing up that I didnt hire its always someone different so skills are messes up etc.
Is the mod cleared to be used with last 18 July Horse Ranch patch? Because i didn't see any "clear" reports of it and i didn't install it yet since the last patch came out.
Hi Carl! Love this mod so much, but how do I hire a NPC to do the delivery orders?
No working :( i cant see the menu
Hi Carl, I'm getting LE"s from Dine Out Reloaded. Will there be a update soon? Thank you for your mod.
how to have 2 chefs working? they always don't work, shows up but exits immediately
You need enough stations for them that are not marked as player chef stations. This is usually the cause If they do not find a station they can route to and use, they will just leave
I'm having an issue where the waiters aren't taking orders. edit: it seems if you start cooking orders as chef before the waiters take the orders it loops you into the prep animation and doesn't produce meals.
Interesting find Someone is saying their chef is stuck in a loop. I know this was not any behavior I saw, but something must be causing them to do this and I will investigate. I could use a save file if anyone wants to send it to carl@carlsguides.com with subject Dine Out. Try to also attach the settings ini file for the mod as it will let me reproduce your setup exacty.
Hi Carl. Love your mod. I can't seem to download 3.3 without hitting the paywall. Is there another download link?
Just signed up and going to get the mod going. Anyone know why Carl left yt?
Happy to answer the question. I just haven't had interest in covering a lot of the new content My mother was dying at the end of 2022 and we started the year with her funeral. It's been hard to even mod, which is where most of my interest lies right now.
thanks
when is this version going to be release for people that cannot pay for patreon membership
It is. Go to home page and pick dine out reloaded tag. One of them says public.
Is it possible to add a setting for Delivery only? Also sometimes the walkup diners or the Guest orders themselves doesn't work. They just sit around and the food doesn't come. Otherwise, great mod! Thx!
I've noticed that no matter where I put the Order Up! counter that it doesnt count the orders, I thought it just went on a wall.... am I placing it incorrectly?
I have to place the counter again everytime before opening the restaurant for it to work
I hope you can fix these EA bug like customer always standing or not sitting while eat causing they take notes, although they are not restaurant critic, also customer still steal other people food.
hi just wondering if i did something wrong when re installing because I can't even get the mod to show up in game but its there in the folder and mods are enabled and it shows up at the start menu.
Hey, is this needing an update? Its not working like it did before the update.
Hi Carl! I'm having a bit of an issue with lagging when running my restaurant. My hired team is just standing there making my household member run the entire restaurant. Is this just because of the update?
hi!! i love love love this mod, i can't play restaurants without it. i just got an LE that identified this mod as the issue... do you have any plans to update? no worries if not, just didn't know if i missed an update elsewhere. thanks so much for your creativity and all the thought/work you put into modding!!
You can send the lastexception to carl@carlsguides.com with subject dine out so I can take a look!
I'm having an issue where only one household can be the chef of the restaurant. Whenever I attempt to add a second household member as a chef, the interaction is cancelled.
Oh gee. Is this on another chef station? I'm afraid it might be the chef situation itself not liking it.
It seems like no matter how quickly my chef cooks the delivery food still piles up. It might just be a glitch but I am watching the sims that arrive and how quickly he puts the bags up. At the end of a shift there are zoomer bags that I have to delete that arent picked up.
This might be an issue with the maximum amount of Sims in the game. I'm sorry this is happening. Deliveries are supposed to be able to spawn regardless of the cap. Sometimes the game decides not to spawn them in. I tried to "rescue" this by waiting some time and seeing if no one showed, but it seems like it's still failing for some reason.
I cant go on a date is that normal after putting this file in my game. I love that my chef's dont wait outside the restaurant and I no longer have to debug them but to not go on a date might not be a good trade off
try to test with only DOR in your mods folder...if you are able to go on a date with just DOR then it may be a mod or cc conflicting
Hi Carl, so the option to give free drink or dessert almost never works. It would be amazing if you can find a fix for it! Just a suggestion
i had this same issue , ran the game with just dine out reloaded and it worked so it was one of my mods causing them to take hours to serve free deserts or drinks
I saw your tweet about updates for the patch and pack but it was a little hard to find confidence from it for putting the mod back in my game. I am not sure if you have a Discord where we can go if we do have issues? Some further feedback about the mod status after some time has now passed now would be welcome.
Carl does have a Discord. If you scroll up to the top of his patreon posts page, you can click on membership. On that page is a link to connect to his discord.
Hi Carl, I have a problem, in the restaurant menu, everything is appearing except the option "play as a chef"... I don't know what to do...
Hi Carl, I keep getting LE's from Dine Out Reloaded. I've taken it out and put it back and still I'm getting LE's. Will there be another update?
I just want add an update to my previous comment for anyone else curious. I did a backup before of course, but I did add this mod back into the game (after the latest base game update and new Growing Together pack) and I haven't had any issues that I have seen yet. I played for about 5 hours with it. Nice to have my restaurants functioning again! Lol... I tried to play with just Dine Out and without this mod for a few days... and it was terrible. No servers in any restaurant. So thanks again Carl for saving the game! I honestly appreciate your work so much!
Thank you for this!
I removed this mod temporarily for the infant update as well as the new Growing Together Pack... Is it safe to add it back? Or will there be an update coming? No hurry Carl, just curious. :)
is this working with the infant update?
Hi! Love this mod so much, the only thing I’m struggling with is that my chefs disappear a couple of seconds after showing up for their chef. I’ve tried multiple firings and hidings, exited the game, closed and reopened the restaurant… nothing is fixing it :(
It sounds like you have more than one chef station marked as main. I think he's working on a fix for this, but just make sure you only have 1 station set as main.
So I'm noticing something...I have so I can do take out and dine in orders, however the diners are getting ignored? Meaning chefs will keep cooking for the take out/walk in orders. Also, I'm noticing people come in that have stars over their heads but then it disappears and they won't go sit down sometimes?
First off I love your mods. You made running a restaurant absolutely fun in the game. One thing I noticed in v3.3 is sometimes the sims don't pick up their delivery orders and you can only go into build mode and delete them. Not sure if there is an adjustment to the setting you could make that they could be thrown out or something once you close the restaurant. The glitch happens occasionally. But love the delivery and all the new settings you added. Thank you for the hard work!
when is it going to be release to public.
how do I download the mod
I love the work. I love what you do to fix the problems in the game and I would love to play this mod but I keep running into all kinds of exceptions to the point where I just can't. I've sent, at least, one exception but I'm hoping that whatever fixes that need doing for the new patch will include this one. :-/
Hi, ever time I open my restaurant and a sims pick up their order my game always crash how do I fix that
Hii, I love this mod! There is a bug with the delivery system. A lot of orders never get picked up, especially if I select on the waiter station to disallow new customers.
Hey so I have bought the mod downloaded it, extracted it it in my mods folder of sims 4, still won’t work. It also on lot type doesn’t let me select restaurant lot type
What do I click on to get to restaurant settings?
shift click on the ground on your lot and you should see the options to make the changes you want to the settings
I love, love, LOVE this mod. My sim was able to run her little fast food restaurant. During rainy days, she’s strictly doing delivery orders. I hope to soon run a buffet with many selections of food. You are awesome and I thank you for allowing me to to enjoy my game more with your mod.
I noticed that after I downloaded this mod, my customers at my retail clothing store stopped showing up. Did this happen to anyone else?
That's really strange. If you want to mail the save file to me at carl@carlsguides.com I will take a look. Use subject Dine Out and remind me what I'm looking for.
When you say delete mod, do you mean every file that i search with "dineout reloaded" in the file name? or what specifically? Thanks much
Nuke all the files that start with Carl_DineOut :)
Mod is causing waiters to entirely disappear for me, essentially making all restaurants non function. This is the case with every lot. Ones owned by NPCs or players.
I'm sorry about this. It needs to have a check for if it's a player owned business or not somewhere, and I'll try to find it an ddo an update.
So I'm trying to play and for some reason i don't have the settings menu that allows me to let customers seat themselves and grab their own food and such. help? i pretty much have the ability to play as chef and that's it. i don't even think i can accept deliveries.
Hi Carl! I took a little Sims break but now that I'm back, I can't wait to try out all the stuff you've enhanced and created recently! I've also been looking up a lot of stuff on your webpage, which I so appreciate! (Thank you!) As always, I really appreciate all your hard work and am happy to be a patreon all these years!
Hey guys, does anyone know with this mod if I can hire any sim to work in the restaurant or just myself?
Hi Jessica. You can hire staff from a list of Sims or your Sims can work themselves in the restaurant. I recommend at least three Sims in the household to be a host, chef and waiter.
Hi Carl. Sorry if this has been answered before. You mentioned a couple of versions ago about enabling takeout orders in a future version. Is this in the mod yet? One of my favorite things to do in The Sims 2 Open For Business was to run a hybrid bakery/cafe where I would have displays with food to go or the option to dine in and be served coffee/cake/etc. I would love to be able to recreate this in the Sims 4. Thanks for all your hard work <3
here is an idea for gameplay, make the waiter a vampire, with a neat trait and that has vampiricly run enabled, thats the best thing, he does everything sooo fast, and clean by himself because of the trait!
I love the use of the burger bois food truck and of JamesTurnerYT's restaurant build!
Create food trucks??? Wooot!
Amazing update, thank you! Can't wait to give it a spin.
Does the beacon have to be placed right at/in front of a chef station or could it be placed just somewhere near and it would still work for the take out orders
Thank you so much!
When it says delete "Mod Package and settings file" does that mean delete the old Mod. Completely remove it, before installing the new update and only use the new one?
Yes. With big mod updates (or arguably with any update) it's good practice to delete the old mod files before putting in the new ones, rather than having them be overwritten. And since some mods, including this one, come with extra config/settings files, sometimes those need to be deleted as well, so they can be recreated to suit the new version of the mod. (Note -- not always; I don't delete my MCCC configs unless an update requires it, since those are my saved settings.)
You are a Rock Star ! Thank you for making this game play playable again!
About to play this update that I didn't know I wanted but reading about it.... yeah too many words... play now
YAAAASSSSSS