Chef's just stand on sidwalk.

[purenergy]

My game has gotten so glitchy. The chef's in all my restaurants just stand at the spawn point without moving. Sometimes I can reset them and sometimes they just stay frozen. Any suggestions?

[deenahax]

I haven't see this but taking a guess - can you see if any of the doors are locked or restricted in anyway?

[Brian_Z]

Another guess-- is the kitchen on the second floor?  I'm seeing a lot of problems with certain lots and certain builds, where no one can use stairs to the second floor.  There's not an actual routing issue with the build, just for some reason sims routing fail trying to go upstairs.  One of the problem lots has been the Old Quarter Inn in Windenburg, suddenly one day no one can go upstairs there.

[Highlander]

Nope. This is a bug that was introduced in the last patch.

If you shift-click on the chef's station, you should see a menu that will allow you to debug it. Not sure if it works permanently or you have to do it every time you go to the restaurant.

P.S. You may have to click on the chef to debug them too. Either way, it can be fixed. Just annoying.

[Steellace]

I've been trying to figure this out for an hour, at least! I thought it was placement in my new restaurant, then mods, CC, etc. I gave up and searched only to find that it's not anything I did. I should have thought bug earlier before (sigh). Do you know if this is reported to EA? I'd love to add a "me too" to the thread but I don't have time today to search for it. Thanks for the solution.

[MrsFlynn]

This looks like the bug you are talking about?

[OPEN] [DO] Chef won't enter the restaurant
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-DO-Chef-won-t-enter-the-restaurant/td-p/6778984

[Brian_Z]

Someone on the bug report thread for this posted a really easy workaround:  With testingcheats on, shift-click the chef(s) and Reset Object.  They will then get to work!  I just tried it myself, it works.

[scoed]

Is this pack ever going to actually work as intended? I don't think it ever has.

[nomo]

Start a thread at The Official Forum asking for bugs to be adressed quickly and / or testing to be done thouroughly before release. Be constructive, polite and concise. I'm sure the thread will get a lot of attention.