SuperCommercial Buffets and Kiosks

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Description
Buffet tables in Sims 2 are underutilized and effectively forgotten. An old timer who played Sims 1 knows how Vacation feeds their Sims through buffet tables, complete with payment and infinite food. Cyjon's Commercial Buffets mod brought some of those aspects back, but it was never enough. Working with Jacky93's food stands gave me the drive and understanding to create and update this mod.

Make a buffet restaurant with this mod - tables on a community lot cost money to take food from and need no restocking. On an owned business, you can set the price (with no repercussion ) and the profit margin grows with the Wholesale perk. There is no dedicated dish cleaner as of now, but there are enough alternatives such as assigning an employee to tidy up, my Bartenders Cleaning Duties mod, or just enable the "Hourly Clear Tablewares" setting.

Best use on a venue with the ticket machine, as customers will not waste time browsing on the tables and kiosks.

The other features are changes to Jacky93's food stands, or as called kiosks in this mod. Much have gained from her works, so must I improve them. They have minor improvements, seemingly, such as multiple access points, settable pricing, and being maintenance-free due to self-deleting food and drink packagings. Well, why not buy some home instead?


Features
Buffet tables by default barely use their Semi-Globals, so only Maxis tables, and CC tables adapted by this mod, will benefit from this mod.

General
Costs

• Food from buffet tables and kiosks cost money to take on community lots, businesses and hotels.
• Food from buffet tables and kiosks cost higher the more fulfilling it is - Turkey costs more than Chef Salad, and Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich is costlier as it is more fulfilling than Chicken Sandwich.
• Buffet tables and kiosks cost customers and profit the business owner when done so.
• Buffet tables behave differently based on the lot types.

Convenience

• Food can be served and cleaned up on platter basis.
• Food costs for both serving and grabbing are shown in the menu.
• Food remaining is shown on the "Clean Up" and "Put Away as a Leftover" interactions.
• Food from buffet tables can be stored as leftovers directly from the tables.
• Food from kiosks have "self-deletion" and "instant clean up" features.

New Interactions

• Both buffet tables and kiosks have adjustable settings - mainly pricing and food type availability.
• The settings can be apply to other tables and kiosks and done so instantly.

• New interaction - "Clear Tablewares", click on it to instantly remove all emptied or spoiled dishes, food, mugs, and cups on the lot.
• Available on hotels, community lots and owned businesses, including home businesses
• On an owned business, each object removed costs 1 Simoleon.

• New interaction - "Take Home", allows your Sims to buy food and drinks and place them in their inventories.
• Available on kiosks only

Lot-specific Features
Mainly for buffet tables


Other Changes
The file zBW-SelfDeletingDishes.package is found in the main download, but predominantly used by Jacky93's food stands. It allows her food plates to delete themselves automatically.

The optional UnrestrictedMiniFridge.zip allows leftovers to be put away in mini fridges. The module also unlocks features of the normal fridge, such as less restricted cook types and the ability to retrieve a leftover.

Addtionally, the _KidsRights.package contains the features of Blueybre's More Fridge Rights for Kids! mod, allowing kids to retrieve ready-to-eat food from the mini fridges as well as fetching baby bottles without issue.


Custom Contents Adapted
MaryLou's Buffet Tables with Custom/Alternative Foods


Jacky93's Food Stands



Issues
CC buffet tables not adapted to this mod are not affected and will have no new functionalities.

As this is a large and complex mod, versions before Update 5 have a number of issues that were difficult to account for. Please get Update 6.

Please report any other bugs in the comment section.


Conflicts
This mod adds to or modifies the Buffet Semi-Global group (0x7FF9DF6B) in the following instances:


This mod adds to or modifies the Whatay Buffet group (0x7F444124) and the Bottomless Pit Buffet by Horizon-al Events group (0x7FAEB37F) in the following instances:


zBW-SelfDeletingDishes.package modifies the Food Dish Semi-Global group (0x7F8834C8) in the following instances:



The UnrestrictedMiniFridge module modifies the "MMM" Mini Fridge group (0x7F770F95), the Fridge Semi-Global group (0x7F9A5330), and the Food Dish Semi-Global group (0x7F8834C8) in the following instances:


GUIDs for objects in this mod:



Credits:
cyjon for the original Commercial Buffets mod.

Blueybre for the More Fridge Rights for Kids! mod.

Jacky93 for the work on functioning food stands, which both helped me in making this mod and allowing the stands to be adapted.

• Somik&Severinka for the sandwiches used by Jacky93's Sandwiches Food Stand.
• ONI for the original Korean Street Food Stand
• Insimnia for the original Chick-Fil-A and Pizza Hut Food Stands

MaryLou and Numenor for making Buffet Tables with Custom/Alternative Foods.

Inge Jones (Simlogical) for the work on Automatic Cast Register.

Jasana_BugBreeder for the work on Russian Food Packs [1] [2], which introduced the idea of changing body temperature while eating certain food.