If you have just built your restaurant and have no idea how to serve food to customers then this is the post for you! If you are struggling to build your restaurant still then read this post for guidance
So you need three people:
1. Someone to cook something
2. Someone to wait tables- 10 hours (click on the booth infront of the kitchen)
3. Someone to have meal- 1 hour (click on table)
The pictures below show each step: 
GLITCH: currently only one sim can sit at a 4 seat table at a time
When a meal is made and someone is sitting at the table the waiter will serve the food and they will eat the meal for 10 minutes 
Cleaning the dishes
To tidy up you need to click on the sink in the kitchen and select keep cleaning dishes- 10 hours, this sim will then collect and wash up all dishes. Once all dishes have been cleared away they will stop the action. 
What else can you do at the restaurant?
You can order a drink from the rooftop bar, to do this you need a sim to tend the bar for 20 minutes and then a sim can order a cocktail, this will cost you 2500. Cocktails will inspire your sim (fulfil their needs)
By the piano downstairs and upstairs near the sofa you can close dance for 10 minutes with another sim and the piano can be played at the same time! 
You can also build a romantic relationship up fast by clicking on the stools, one sim selects the option scope room and the other sim selects the other stool to hit on.
Pictures of sims enjoying the restaurant
Thanks for reading!
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Great blog! Can I use a dishwasher in the restaurant to clean the plates?
Thanks! No, there is no dishwasher in the restaurant and you cannot edit the restaurant to add one
I’ve been playing this game for two years and finally decided to have two sims have a romantic meal! Serving for 10 hours has been daunting. Cooking in the restaurant might be a way to stock up plates for diners as well as collect LPs, instead of simply cooking and demolishing plates.
Will the plates spoil if I leave them until I use the restaurant? Can I use more than one cook at a time?
Thanks for keeping this blog going. You’ve helped me a lot.
No the plates don’t spoil if you leave them so you can use them as long as you like
You’re very welcome, I’m glad I could help
Hi, thanks for the informative blog post! I was wondering if there is a way of clicking the “have meal” option on the four seater table downstairs for multiple sims and having a waiter serve all of them seated at the table at the same time, because the only way to get that for me is to do the “grab a plate” option. Thanks again
I tried this out myself and it wouldn’t let me have more than one sim sitting at the table either, I have let the makers know so hopefully it will be fixed at some point.
I can’t get more than one sim to have a meal at the four seat table. How do I fix that?
I tried this out myself and it wouldn’t let me have more than one sim sitting at the table either, I have let the makers know so hopefully it will be fixed at some point.
When I click on the tables in the restaurant, both upstairs and downstairs, it’s only allowing one sim to sit at each table at a time. I can have two sims at the booths. I see in one of your pictures it looks like a whole family is sitting at a table eating together. Am I doing something wrong?
You aren’t doing anything wrong, I tried this out myself and it wouldn’t let me have more than one sim sitting at the table either, I have let the makers know so hopefully it will be fixed at some point.
Hi. Do you need the restaurant for any other quests? I don’t know if I want to spend the time and money to clear it out right now but will if it’s needed to finish something else.
It isn’t needed for any other quest so you can leave it until you are ready.
Is it not possible to use both stove?
It is a double stove rather than 2 separate stoves so unfortunately can only be used by one sim at a time.
I can’t lift the star rating. All the dirty plates have been cleaned but I am wondering if there is a glitch?
Have you built all the areas in the restaurant?
Why can‘t there be all 25 sims at once in the resaurant?
Only 10 sims can be in any place at a time.
What if I get my cook to cook on the BBQ grill?
Will any of that be served to diners?
Unfortunately using the BBQ will only feed the sim who is completing the action.
this article seems to be 10 years outdated. I wonder how the restaurant works nowadays. I’m trying to figure this out.
The way the restaurant works has not changed.
First off thank you so much for this blog! How can a sim get a drink? Would it be after a sim tends the bar? What do you click on to give a sim a cocktail?!
The first sim tends the bar then the second sim will get the option to get a drink.
every time i try and make my sim sit on a booth, it shows a little chair on top of their head like there are no seats even if the booths are empty, is there a problem with the booths??
The makers are aware of this issue and are working on a fix.
why can’t my sims sit in the booths? they can sit at the other tables but for some reason they can’t sit in the booths.
The makers are aware of this issue and are working on a fix.
hi I am having a issue with the booth at the restaurant not allowing my sims to sit down it places the chair symbol above there heads
The makers are aware of this issue and are working on a fix.