This guide will let you know how to run a successful food stand business in Sims 4. You can acquire new appliances such as a food mixer, a waffle maker, and a pizza oven. Along with covering all you need to know about operating a food stand, it also offers several practical advice and extra resources to help you make the most out of your food stand business successfully to enhance the in-game experience.
New Appliances
In this section, we will take you through the steps to run a successful food stand business in Sims 4 by acquiring new appliances.
Chow Bella Stand Mixer
Chow Bella Stand Mixer is a machine that helps prepare various ingredients. When you use it, you’ll get five servings of the ingredient in your inventory. You can prepare the ingredients, and then the machine will finish the job. Remember to tick the checkbox for using prepped ingredients while cooking.
Chella Heart Waffle Maker
Chella Heart Waffle Maker makes different types of waffles. As your cooking skill improves, you’ll unlock more waffle options. The primary ingredient for waffles is batter, and sometimes you’ll need sweets or other flavors.
Chow Bella Portable Pizza Oven
Chow Bella Portable Pizza Oven is used to make pizza, a favorite for many. The main ingredient for pizza is dough, and occasionally, you might need prepped meat or seafood.
Appliance Upgrades
At handiness level four, the appliances work faster. At level five, they become unbreakable. By reaching level seven, they become self-cleaning, making managing your food store easier.
Portability
You can drag these appliances in and out of your Sims inventory. This means you can take them with you when you move around and then put them back in your kitchen when done.
Food Store Business
You can sell various items, not just waffles and pizza. Ice creams from the ice cream machine and popcorn from the popcorn maker are among the items you can sell. There’s a wide range of food options, including sweets and baked goods.
Prepped Ingredients
The prepped ingredients will be useful for many recipes besides waffles and pizza. Store any unused food in your Sims fridge to make it last longer, so you won’t need to worry once it’s up for sale.
Running A Food Stand
This section describes how to run a successful food business by running a food stand in The Sims 4.
Purchase and Customize the Anywhere Any Fair Food Stand
Buy the Anywhere Any Fair Food Stand for 585 Simoleons. You can customize it with different appearances to match your food store’s theme. You can also name your stand or business by choosing the Change Business Details option. The stand can be placed on your home lot or put into your inventory to set up shop in other locations.
Setting Up the Stand with Appliances
The food stand has two slots at the back for small appliances. Choose the appliances you need for your food business, like a mixer or waffle maker, and place them on the stand. For example, if you’re selling waffles, place the mixer to prep ingredients and the waffle maker on the stand.
Preparing and Stocking Inventory
Once your stand is set and you’ve prepared some dishes, open the stand’s inventory by clicking on it. Drag the dishes you plan to sell from your inventory to the stand’s inventory. You can filter your inventory by food to find what you’re selling quickly and keep things organized. Additionally, you can directly drag food from your inventory onto the stand to add it to the inventory.
Starting a Food Sale Event
Click on the stand and select Open to start showing your inventory. Choose to Start a Food Sale for a 5-hour event, and your Sim will automatically begin selling. If your Sim stops for any reason, direct them back to tend the table. Set a markup up to 300% on the table; a higher markup means more profit but can make sales harder.
Interacting with Customers
During the event, your Sim can interact with potential customers. Click on customers to give them a sales pitch or convince them to buy specific items. Charisma experience is gained after each food sale event, and the High School Years expansion pack adds entrepreneurial skill experience.
Stocking and Managing Inventory During the Event
While tending the table, your sim can still use small appliances without interrupting sales. Quickly cook more food if needed and drag it into the table’s inventory. Your Sim may autonomously restock the table if there’s space unless you disable the auto-stock feature.
After the Event
After the food sale event ends, you’ll receive a summary of sales, profits made, and gained experience. Choose to Clear the Table to put everything back into your inventory, including the food stand.
Helpful Tips And Information
This section will provide you with helpful tips and information that are essentially required to run a successful food stand business.
Rain Effects on Small Appliances
Rain won’t affect or damage the pizza oven, ice cream maker, or popcorn maker, so they can be used even during rainy weather. However, the stand mixer and waffle maker will break when exposed to rain, unless upgraded to be unbreakable.
Even if unbreakable, they can’t be used during rain.
Acquire the Marketable Trait
You have to spend 1,500 satisfaction points to gain the Marketable Trait. This trait makes the value of your created items, including food, increase up to three times its base value, resulting in higher profits when sold.
Complete Market Magnate Aspiration
Upon completing this aspiration awards, you will get the Booth Boss trait. Booth Boss improves sales interactions at food stores and allows a massive 500% markup on store items, leading to substantial profits.
Consider Appliance Wiz and Master Chef Aspirations
An appliance such as Aspiration rewards the Batch Cook trait, enabling sims to create duplicate food with prepped ingredients, doubling the amount produced. Mastering Chef Aspiration rewards the Fresh Chef trait, ensuring all food made is of excellent quality and never spoils.
Using Objects in Store’s Inventory
You need to own a store to place objects in its inventory for use. Communal objects on community lots cannot be used by any Sim. However, on a community lot, you can enter buy mode and grab appliances for free to use during the sale event, but you can’t take them home afterward.
Managing the Food Stand
Only one sim can tend to the food stand, but others can use appliances simultaneously, making it a potential family or multiple-sim business venture. Child sims can’t use many appliances or conduct sales interactions but can help tend the store.
Have Fun and Experiment
Selling various foods can lead to amusing outcomes, like temporarily turning sims into plant sims.
