New Features in Dine Out: Reloaded v4
New Features Breakdown:
Three Course meals
Bartenders and Entertainment patrons.
Play as Bartender
More Guests possible.
Hire More Staff (+2 waiters, +1 chef) by default.
Better Restaurant Settings
Take Order Smart Interaction
Meal Base Value option
$5 Patrons can download Dine Out Reloaded v4 Here!
At Last! Three Course Meals
Dine Out features three courses, but Sims will only ever order random things on their meal and dessert only comes up if you as the owner give the table a free dessert. In Dine Out Reloaded v4, Sims can order an appetizer, main course, and dessert course. You can choose which courses your guests will order in the options menu for the restaurant. This also works on NPC restaurants.
Here for the FUN - Bar & Entertainment Venue Patrons
Another major feature of this update are the new bar and entertainment venue patrons. These Sims want to have a good time on your lot, and will rate your restaurant purely on drink quality, value, and whether they had a good time or not. They also still care about decor, but maybe not as much as regular diners.
Hire a bartender and these Sims will order drinks that earn profit for your establishment. Of course, you can also play as bartender if you like! As the bartender gains levels, new recipes will unlock for them just as they do any other Sim, allowing your guests to purchase more expensive drinks. If you do NOT hire a bartender but have the Is Entertainment/Bar Venue setting turned on for this lot, these Sims will still spawn but will be primarily focused on entertainment.
This option will basically let you turn any kind of entertainment lot into a thriving business. Sims will come and use all fun object on the lot, and since these guys don't care about dining, you can basically do what you want. Make a cabana next to the beach or a bar with a bowling alley and turn off standard diners in the settings.
You also have the option of using Entry Fees with these types of guests. Set an entry fee in the restaurant options and they'll pay when visiting. Having a high entry fee requires Sims to have more fun to give you the max rating, so don't go too nuts with it!
Bigger Restaurants
Dine Out Reloaded v4 has some new features that will help you to greatly expand how many Sims you can serve at once. Up to 25 guests can be in the restaurant at a time, and you're now able to hire an additional chef or up to two extra waiters without spending any perk points. It doesn't make sense that you can't do this, as you're free to make as many poor business choices as you like! Honestly, whether these will help a restaurant depends heavily on its star rating, advertising level, and the table count. The extra waiters and chefs are very helpful if you choose to serve three course meals as the place will be booming most of the day.
MUCH Better Restaurant Settings
One of the most heavily requested features since Dine Out Reloaded got a settings menu is the ability to set them up on a per-restaurant basis. A burger joint, fast casual, and fine dining experience should all differ. Sims can now be seated by the host at the fine place, where they also eat politely, or walk themselves to their seat in a faster locale. It's all down to player preference and the feel of each restaurant. This works MUCH better than having a single options menu for all restaurants, which is what the mod has now.
Meal Base Value Option
Want to serve burgers? The mod now has an option to add a small amount of money to every sale in order to make things like burgers, sandwiches, and appetizers more profitable. I chose not to apply any kind of penalty for doing this, because right now dine out gameplay benefits heavily from players picking only the highest value recipes and I want you to be able to succeed with a burger joint if you so choose.
New Interaction: Take Order
Click your own Sim and you will now see a 'Take Order' interaction. This is a smart feature that scans all the dining groups and finds a group ready to have their order taken. This will help a lot in crowded restaurants. It will help players who lose track of who has had their order taken and who has not.
New Setting: Customer Count Multiplier
With the new Customer Count Multiplier setting you can take a restaurant from 50% to 250% more customers. Use this on low end machines to reduce max customers, or push the limits and go for 2.5x more customers. Offers 50%, 75%, 100% (default), 150%, 200%, and 250% settings.
Bugfixes and Improvements
Guests are much more likely to sit when eating their meals.
Guests are unable to sit SOMEWHERE ELSE when eating their meals.
Guests do not steal each other's food or drink.
Guests who get stuck in conversation and not eating will leave group chat after 30 mins or so.
Waitstaff must wait at least 30 Sim minutes before taking a newly created food or drink.
Several rescue attempts exist to correct orders that go wrong in some way (ie waitstaff fail to deliver them, guests not in eat state with delivered food)
A variety of stability improvements around orders in general and guest flow.
It's now possible to queue up multiple 'take order' commands.
The Apologize for Wait interaction will now immediately update a guest's star rating, if it is still possible.
While playing as chef all interactions are visible on your Sim.
$5 Patrons can download Dine Out Reloaded v4 Here!
Comments (134)
What would be amazing if you could add an open and close schedule which will allow us to open and close automatically and set days and hours when we want the restaurant open
Hello, when dining out at restaurant, is the active sim able to order a three-course meal?
is this one ever gonna be released,we are now 4 years down the road
It's listed in my pinned post. It's been released for some time.
is v4 going to stay behind a paywall?
no, sims 4 does not allow mods to stay behind a paywal forever iirc
I really love this mod! I think it would be really cool if there were an option to open a restaurant on a residential lot.
If I set my player chef as chef and have sous chef on, chef doesn't cook food only have (test) in cooking interaction. Please help, I have updated version.
Hi everyone, I wish there was a way to set the customer limit higher than 25, is it possible with any other mods or by tuning the script file?
Is there a way to set hours on your restaurant so you don't have to open and close it yourself?
will this mod remain behind a paywall?
Here's the public version
having trouble, new to adding mods and still not having my host or chef show up for dine out
restaurant still loses money when I'm not there, i was hoping this mod would fix that so the restaurant could make money without supervision ):
After installing this mod, my fame increases when I sell paintings, even though it's turned off. After the reload, this didn't happen, so everything's fine :)
will this be updated I get the relaunch game error with the mod in
https://discord.com/invite/T42gU4bNBM I need you or someone else with this error to join the discord and share a LastException with me so I can get to the bottom of it. On my end, it's not presently broken.
Hello I keep on having exception report about this mod. Is it possible to update this? Possible cause 100% for Dine out Reloaded - Invalid Tuning. Exception raised while trying to run a test event in test_events.py: (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'background_situation')
For anyone who has this error, it's just when the game terminates a situation early or the phase changes due to some bug. It shouldn't happen frequently. if it does, my support link is in the sticky post on the front page of my patreon
You're the best <3 Your content has truly improved a broken pack and I love the restaurant system. I had one question regarding the restaurant options versus entertainment/bar. When you turn on the entertainment/bar option, at least in my game, I ended up having no regular diners enter the restaurant. Instead, sims exclusively went to the bar area. Is this option a one or the other choice? Can restaurants not benefit from bars/entertainment areas?
They are supposed to be about 40% entertainment/60% restaurant if you use it in a functioning restaurant. It could be just a bad roll of the dice or the restaurant needs to be bigger. At 5 stars with advertising it should be a very hopping place. I'm not sure if the customer count multiplier or adding more tables might help your situation. Thanks for the kind words!
my employees pay say $0. how do i change this
Hey, big fan of your work Carl. I am so sorry but I'm having problems with the latest version that of this mod (v4) I cant even seem to get it started in the first place. I have deleted all other mods and cc. restarted the game and even PC. and even deleted and redownloaded the mod again, but i still cant get to the mod settings...maybe i am doing something wrong? if anyone knows how to deal with it, SOS TT___TT
Staff are not showing up for me on version 4
Hey, so are you no longer releasing this for free to the public?
so to download this, i have to pay? it is not for free?
that's what i'm thinking? it's been out wayy past the early access time...
hello! I just downloaded this mod, and it doesn't appear on the game. is this because of the life and death expansion? could you help me, please?
Hello
def having L.E
Es excelente, pero hoy de la nada comenzó a dar error 😩☹️😢
Ihave chosen to have customers order with the beacon. It works well. But many of them, once they have eaten, do not leave their table.
the bartenders stopped showing up months ago
Mine still work. I have had players have some outdated mods that interfere with scripts, and this causes various employees to not show. I don't know what all mods can cause it.. i can just say that in my version, it does work, and they show reliably.
hey um Patreon version giving me a L.E
Hi there. I do not see any errors when I play, it might be a mod compatibility issue. I can't say much more without seeing it myself, and some of them are really wild given how some mods are outdated and break all scripts.
i didn't understand if i need the dine out expantion pack for this mode
Yes, you have to have Dine Out. Have fun!
so, does this need an update???
To answer for others seeing in the future, it does not. Most patches will not break it and if they do I'll be on it.
I am also getting a tuning error for this..
Tuning errors are generally non-serious. Sorry I missed this comment. While I don't like them, them appearing is just something to fix so that the game doesn't have to auto-correct the tuning error. I went through and cleaned up a bunch in the last update but these should be notifications to modders, not players unless trying to find a broken mod.
I am getting an invalid tuning error for this mod. I am assuming it is because of yesterday's update.
I am downloading 4. I had 3.3. The problem I have been having is that when I visit an eating establishment, I no longer can order, it is ordered for me. I do not know know I have a setting wrong, but I am looking for the gameplay where I am shown to my table, order my food from the menu and then it is delivered.
ugh this mod is not WORKING at all!!! from my chef not being able to cook, to the customers not eating, i am not getting anymore than 4 customers who paid for their food. This mod is very buggy and im getting upset
Do you use a lot of other mods? Some of them can interfere. Players can also use things like the moveobjects cheat that can make Sims have failures using tables/chef stations and other vital functions. I cannot know what is going wrong to cause this because there are too many variables, but my mod is not "very buggy" on its own. *Something* is going on to cause issues you have here, but I can't be sure without having a look at your restaurant and/or what other mods you may have installed that could be interrupting functionality. If you like, you can join our server to seek help. I just ask that you be patient with us. https://discord.gg/eFhFbfHJ
i don't understand how to find the resturant menu, can someone please help
Hi! I have just bought your mod today and I love it but I hwve the problem of ALL my chefs acting like theyre cooking but no orders or food goes out, only if im the one making them. I redid my kitchen and made it with no moveobjects cheat to see if it would fix it but it does not :( would u happen to know the problem?
I've had a couple of people report this. Could you help me out and visit here in the #mod-help-compatibility channel? We can look at your log to see what might be going on. I can do so tomorrow. https://discord.gg/Rcbux9hE
Hi! So I tried the mod again in different hours (8 a.m. - 4 pm) and (6 p.m.- 3 a.m.) still only like 3-4 customers showed up. This isn't normal. Without the mod, all is fine, there is much more customers. There must be something going on. Otherwise the mod is working fine and in other restaurants there is customers, but not in your own restaurant. I read someone else had this problem too?
Sorry for the delayed response here. I am not sure if this could be related to star rating at all? Early on there is not much buzz. Using advertising + star rating and the hours as you noticed will all boost customers. You can also use the customer count multiplier setting.
Hi! Love the mod, but I´m having a little issue with it. There are not many customers coming to my restaurant, only three or four. And if more sims come, they only go to the bar to order a drink (I have the bar is entertaintment on) and don´t order food. I kept my restaurant open for 12 h and only 3-6 sim come to the restaurant. Am I doing something wrong?
Hey! So, bar customers don't care about hours very much but normal diners totally do. If you have it open outside peak hours (noon to 9pm or so) then you are going to see very few diners. Sims are just like IRL and are scheduled to come during peak dining hours. I am not 100% sure this is the reason, but most of the time it is.
I keep getting a problem when serving food - it just resets with empty plates on the tables.
Not sure if I’m missing something on my end but waiters no longer show up for me. They only seem to show up to restaurants that I own. Am I doing something wrong ?
ive had the same issue for a while now, so I removed the mod from my game.
carl:ownableRestaurant_Immediate_HireEmployee_Bartender | employee_type has an invalid value for : BusinessEmployeeType> specified: 255. Setting to default value BusinessEmployeeType.INVALID
for some reason, my sims cant eat or drink, is there a mod that conflicts with your mod?
constant error - TODO: Exception thrown during Sim reset, possibly we should be kicking the Sim out of the game. (AttributeError: 'object_Campfire' object has no attribute 'part_owner')
Hey any idea why all of the new options disappeared? I had the bar option and different new meal options. But for some reason today they arent showing up.
Possible some kind of backup software/error has caused an older version of the config file or mod to appear in your mods folder? Delete the dine out reloaded settings file and it will regenerate.
Hi I’m trying to have my sim play as the chef but the option to “be the chef” does not appear when I click on the stove
same here
Is there a way to have a buyable bar without a restaurant?
Dine out keeps showing up as a BE error for me with the new update and my sims won't eat.
Something's going on to interfere. Do you have any badly tagged CC or mods that might not mesh with DO Reloaded?
I love this mod !! Idk if im doing something wrong but when I enable the entertainment option all of the sims go over the bar for drinks, I tought we could have both, some that drink at the bar and the rest will sit to eat but in a 8h shift I had maybe 3 sims sitting down to eat and looots of sim over at the bar. Is there a way to balance the feature ? Maybe limit the ppl at the bar to like 4 ? (since we can only have 4 stools) or could you point me where I can find that in the options or what should I disable/enable ? Thank you in advance !
The 2 types of guests are separate. So you should have bar and restaurant guests with the option on. I want to separate them.
do you have to have the pack to get this?
is this the lates since the last update
Yep!
Hey love this mod so much and the new update. However I was wondering if you can add the option to have Sims choose random meals like the original dine out. Love the idea of three course meals but some people may just want them to choose one meal from either of the three categories and leave.
Ah yeah, that could be done. I'll add it into my notes for the next update.
Hey! I just saw a review of this mod and i really loved it and want to try it. But I can't understand the way to download it. Is it only available for patreon members under 5$ per month? It's an honest question because i'm not familiar wit the way mods work.
There is a free version of this mod. You would have to download Version 3, if you want Version 4, you would have to become a member or wait until it becomes a free version.
Hey Carl! How you're doing? I'm just begging you to bring back my wedding stories fixes, please! This pack is still broken for me and for so many other people that i've seen
Haven't played this version yet, but I am looking forward to it. Before your mod dine out was unplayable. So I wanted to say thanks cause I can really enjoy it now.
Im having issues getting the restaurant options.... its upsetting
I also tried everything you told Zach to do... It has to be your mod...Honestly I paid just for this and its not working
I'm having issues even bringing up the restraunt options , I shift click the ground but Im not getting the option to bring it up..
Are testingcheats on? Try normal-clicking a host station. If neither of those work, it's an install / mod options not being on issue. Can't know for sure on this end :)
I'm having the issue where only a few customers dine in. Usually the amount was 20 sims a day now it's roughly around 9. It started happening after installing the latest version :(
Heyy, I'm having and issue where the chefs cook but no food ever shows up. The servers take the order and deliver it to the chefs but the meals are never finished. I had this issue before the updates and I just bought a new computer and started over with my mods?cc so I don't have much in game. Any suggestions?
Hello, I don't have costumers showing up anymore after installing the mod
This is likely to be a compatibility issue with another mod. I have full control over the customer situations in my script, but if something else overrides sim spawning or customer stuff, it could conflict and stop dine out reloaded from spawning them. I can't be sure what mod it could be.
What do I need to do to upload the recent patches, anything at all? I'm pretty new to CC...
Delete both the ts4script/package files in your mods folder and replace them with the new ones in the update zip file :)
hi there! your mod has made restaurants way more enjoyable so thanks so much for that! however, recently i'm having an issue where when my sims go to a restaurant to eat as customers, the hosts and waiters stay around for maybe 20 seconds before running off the lot, then new one's spawn but they do the same thing. i'm unsure if this is an issue with the mod or just a general game mod but, i figured i'd ask to see if anyone else is having this problem!
The restaurant may need re-placed. The game is buggy in some area when loading up lots and creates bad data. I don't fully understand it, but it will confuse if the restaurant is owned or not. It's something in the backend I haven't been able to figure out just yet.
When will this be available to the public?
According to the sims policy they could not sell mod or cc.
The game crashes after I try to change the restaurant menu, what could it be? Do I need to buy the restaurant in the base game or is it mandatory to use Karl's mod?
Fixed a bug some players had reported around multiple courses based on some input from players experiencing it. It should make guests as reliable as they were in v3 in terms of how well they complete the multiple courses before moving on :)
Thank you so much
https://www.patreon.com/RoshySims
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Hey, thanks for taking the time to do that!
when this version become free accses???
Thank you for making this mod! It sounds great, but I can't afford the $5/mo. subscription to download & use it. So, to the comment above, I say, "Yes, please! When? Can we please have a release date or ETA?" I hope it will, at some point, be free to download! Thank you.
Hi, I bought the expansion pack and unsubscribed. But now I can't access the entire read through anymore. I thought there would be a txt file with the pack. Can someone help me? Tnx so much.
Hello again, so I went to Discord and the suggestion I got there definitely helped! Thank you! One quick question though, I am wondering how does the game spawn guests, is the amount of guest everyday fully set based on star rating and advertising? dose it mean that if I have the extra standard diners set to 6, while getting larger groups, I'm also getting less number of groups everyday? not sure if I worded it right, like the total amout of 5-star is 20 guests, witch means either 5 groups of 4 sims or 10 groups of 2 sims? Sorry to bother you again, I am on a mission to make my very big restaurant as packed as possible XD
Carl, great mod. Thanks! Anyone have a tip for cooking alongside a hired chef. When I try to cook in the kitchen I will make one of the ordered dishes and from then on out every dish will come from the cook I hired and I will never plate another dish.
They are probably claiming it. I would turn on the sous chef system, and set your own chef station as player chef station. This will make you claim all the orders and sous chef will knock required steps off the recipes. So they will help continuously.
Hi Carl. I just finished my review for your mod. I love this mod! I did experience the glitch where too many people showed up but you fixed it. I hope you enjoy this https://youtu.be/ojCmbe7Iupo?si=5aq63zh_65dsiZMn I had too much fun playing with this mod.
Thank you! I watched the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed it. Appreciate getting to see it used in other people's restaurants :)
Hey! This is amazing, thanks for all the hard work you put into this mod-literally a game changer!
Sure! thank you :)
Hello, newcomer here, really grateful for your work, been using it since I started playing dine out. One little thing, is it possible for you to make a cheat that make the empty dishes simply disappear, so the staff don't have to clean it? My staff sometimes get stuck when cleaning, and I don't know why. Of course, this is just a tiny suggestion, your mod would forever be one of my favorite sims mod with or without it, thanks for your working, you are truly wonderful
Is moveobjects on possibly used on anything they might dump the dishes into? Or on any tables they might be trying to clean? Sometimes players want them closer to the wall than the game intends them to be when picking things up. I know a looot of players use MOO so it's the first thing that comes to mind.
Hey man! Love your mod and everything you do. I specifically subscribed to download this mod but a weird thing happens... all the npc sims just eat and do not interact with each other. Also elder sims keep standing up from the chair... Any leads?
This wasn't the case with previous versions btw! and I play with mods - but not sure what the issue might be - if it is another mod... Thanks for your help❤️
Hi! I love your mod, but I'm having an issue with the amount of customers. For some reason, my restaurant is only spawning 1-2 dining groups. I increased the maximum sims in a zone using MCCC, but I'm still having the same issue. Is there a setting in the mod for maximum customers at a time?
I'm looking into this. I fixed a bug in the previous version that was spawning double the intended customers. Turns out people liked it, so I think I am going to offer you all a multiplier that goes beyond advertising and increases the max available diners. For people with pcs that can handle it, of course.
YAY!! i love this mod, downloading immediately cant wait to try out the new features!!!
So happy to try this out! I'm having issues though. The waiters mostly stand idle and don't tend the guests much. They mostly clean dishes while I have to take orders, but they do deliver the orders so that's good! The biggest issue I have is that the host does nothing. They spawn but they stand idle outside, my host spent the entire 8 hour shift doing this. Is there something in the settings that I might have missed? I've gone over it a few times but no luck.
Not sure what might have broken your host! they normally immediately target the host station and walk straight to it. It's possible you could try deleting and replacing it as the game does assign relationships to some objects though I'm unsure atm if the host does this. Waiters is very odd. It makes me worried the guests are not really going into the order state. You might want to get with me on the discord so I can have a look at your save to see what might be the trouble: https://discord.gg/KAP4WyB5
When does this go public, i.e. no cost? Thanks....
Mid-March I've heard
Does this Mod make visiting restaurants better too? I haven't played running a restaurant in years. Just visit them for a night out or dating.
It does eliminate bad behaviors and bugs that can occur in any restaurant. Player orders can still disappear under the right conditions, so yep.
Tried this new download today. I have main dish and dessert enabled. I noticed that some customers will just sit there with the main dish on the table and not eat at all and/or just continue looking at the menu. Also some customers will just stand up for no reason at the table.
I'm investigating both of those. They don't happen in every restaurant but it's some type of autonomy issue. They are explicitly told not to stand while waiting for or eating food. I don't have the issues myself, but I'm working with a couple testers to try to iron out why it happens and how it can be fully eliminated.
Amazing!
@Carl's Guides Is there a way to PM you here on Patreon?
Yeah, my DMs are open. I am not sure what it looks like on your end, however (what you click, etc). I will watch for any messages and get back with you tomorrow. Edit: sorry I just realized if you don't see it, it might be Patreon stopping messages from people who are not subscribed to you. You can email carl@carlsguides.com if you like with subject Dine Out.
thank you!!
First time using one of your mods, do I need to unzip/extract the files on yours?
Sorry if my question is dumb, I'm very new to using mods!
Time to rejoin~
Happy to have ya! Appreciate the support.
When will it be free?
By mid-March :)
Love it!!! Signing back up today
Thanks! Join the discord if you have any issues!