Restaurant Simpossible

[Metropolis Man]

Restaurant Simpossible

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Goal
Former teammate Rachel came up with this clever take on the popular Food Network reality TV show a couple of years ago, so we're revisiting that challenge. You have two weeks to make five different restaurants a success.

General Challenge Rules
The General Challenge Rules always apply. If applicable, exceptions will be noted below.

Specific Challenge Rules

• In CAS, create a YA Sim. Alien or Human. Vampires, Mermaids, and Spellcasters are not allowed.
• You must choose the Private Dwelling lot trait to prevent abductions, and no adding to the household.
• You must place Hogans Burger Bar, Sunnyside Up Diner, L'attente Bistro, Villa Bovine, and Chez llama.
• Use the motherlode cheat two times to give your Sim 100,000 Simoleans. You may not use the cheat again.
• Purchase Hogans Diner. Any changes you make must be internal - no structural changes to the building. Changing internal walls is fine, but not outside walls.
• After you are happy with your restaurant's success, note your star rating and perk points and then sell your restaurant.
• Use the profits to purchase another restaurant and begin the process again.
• Any hired staff can be rehired if they are available when you move to subsequent restaurants.
• You may use manage world's to bulldoze a previously owned restaurant. This is the only permitted use of manage worlds. You may not use manage household to delete any Sims.
• The challenge ends on Week 3, Day 1, 8 a.m. or if you go broke and are unable to purchase a new restaurant

Scoring

Perk Points. Purchased Perks, as well as any unspent Perk Points, carry over from restaurant to restaurant, so when you are done add together all spent and unspent points for your total.

Star Rating/10. Add up the total star ratings of all five restaurants and then divide that number by 10.

Total. Just multiply your Perk Points by your Star Rating/10 for your final score.

Example: Hogans Burger Bar acquires 3500 Perk Points and a 2-star rating; Sunnyside Up Diner - 2700 Perk Points and a 3.5 Star rating; L'attente Bistro - 3000 Perk Points and a 4-star rating; Villa Bovine - 2250 Perk Points and a 3.5 star rating; Chez Llama - 4000 Perk Points and a 5-star rating.

Total Perk Points = 15450
Total Star Rating = 18/10 = 1.8
Total = 15450 X 1.8 = 27810

Ch-Ch-Changes
The team does not want to edit and make changes to the ruleset once this event goes live, but we may have to. If an exploit is brought to our attention or we discover something else we reserve the right to ask affected players to redo their effort.

Have Questions?
Please think hard before you ask in the challenge thread because it may be strategy. What you may consider an innocent question could cause another player to go — “oh, I did not think of doing that.” It’s always safer to PM everyone on the team (Metro, LenaLJ, MarianT, and sdhoey) for clarifications. Thanks.

And the Winner is...
After this event has closed everyone is encouraged to discuss how they approached the event, but the winner especially is expected to do so in detail.

This Event is Now Closed

Player	Perk Points	Star Rating/10	Total
Isabelalabe	62265	2.50	155662
Nikitachi	39420	2.50	98550
LenaLJ	38525	2.50	96312
Elinoee	37745	2.25	84926
mismck	28855	2.50	72163
JocyMc	30850	2.30	70955
SoulGal7	24120	2.50	60300
sone	22095	2.25	51063
Sarleenia	21455	2.25	48273
SueDenim	20475	2.20	45045
Metropolis Man	21155	2.10	44425
crstasse	18300	2.05	37515
sdhoey	17885	2.05	36664
coolsim9999999	16935	2.00	33870
Nandarelle	16870	1.95	32896
Noyo	14860	2.15	31949
furbyqueen	17290	1.65	28528
Deklitch	--	--	DNF

[MystiKitty]

I like ideas that are inspired by other media. Food Network was go-to network when I watched TV. ^_^

[Rainbow Dash]

I love watching Masterchef Australia (I'm from New Zealand!), I have so many food crushes on so many celebrity chefs I wouldn't know who to create, I'm such a foodie!

Sadly, I might be skipping this one, running a business is something I never do (Honey Money is my first time) and I've heard horror stories about how buggy restaurants are. Money making challenges are not my strength and having no experience with restaurants definitely won't help matters especially against those who have done this one before. I only just moved up in the World Ranking, I don't want to jinx it now.

Maybe I'll practice and give it some thought ... 

Before I forget, are Spellcasters allowed?

[SoulGal7]

Just doing some tests on this now, and it looks like there is still a restaurant bug. Sims who are in your restaurant will get up from where they are sitting immediately on sitting down. I found some info on this issue, and thought I would share. Have tested dividers, as suggested, which help. Have not tested half walls or fences as yet. https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2016/06/dine-out-issues-and-workarounds/

[Metropolis Man]

Added the following rule:

• You may use manage world's to bulldoze a previously owned restaurant. This is the only permitted use of manage worlds. You may not use manage household to delete any Sims.

[Metropolis Man]

Important rule edit...

• In CAS, create a YA Sim. Alien or Human. Vampires, Mermaids, and Spellcasters are not allowed.

[furbyqueen]

28528.5

I'll be afk in a few days so I only got one run-through. As usual I probably won't place very high anyways :'D

[Metropolis Man]

28528.5

I'll be afk in a few days so I only got one run-through. As usual I probably won't place very high anyways :'D

Please be more specific in how you attained your total -- i.e. look at the rule set scoring example listing perk points and star rating. Thanks.

[furbyqueen]

17290 perk points (11500 spent + 5790 unspent)

Stars/10: 1.65 (3.5, 4, 4, 4.5, .5)

1.65 x 17290 = 28528.5

[JocyMc]

I enjoy playing with restaurants, but they are so buggy!  This was a fun challenge.

Total Perk Points = 30850
Total Star Rating =23.5/10 =2.3
Total = 30850 x 2.3 = 70955

[sone]

Hazel Donahue finished with a score of : 51,063.75

Perk Points: 22,695
Star Rating: 22.5/10 = 2.25

[Elinoee]

Fun challenge about restaurants 

I got 37745 perk points and 22,5 stars (/10=2,25)
2,25x37745= 84926,25 points

[Metropolis Man]

Great score, Elinoee. Just a FYI for you and any others posting scores with decimals -- I am dropping them. If it turns out there would be ties, then we can look back and rank players accordingly.

[crstasse]

okay, so I gave this my best shot and all went well until the last restaurant, which had a number of bugs. 

I hope I've added this up correctly.

Star rating (4, 4.5, 4, 4, 4) giving a total of 2.05 star rating.

Perks, total = 18,300 (2,850 unspent)

Overall score of 37,515

[Noyo]

 My score (in details):

Hogan's Burger: 2950 pts - 4 star rating

Sunnyside Up Dinner: 2000 pts - 4.5 star

L'Attente Bistro: 2250 pts - 4 star

Villa Bovine: 2700 pts - 5 star

Chez Llama: 4960 pts - 4 star

So, final - total score is: 14.860 x 2,15 = 31.949 pts

For me, interesting point is, i bought the Dine Out game pack last year,(as bundle), however i tried very first time to owning - running a restaurant, strange but true. It was fun, except a couple of bugs, well, as usual. Regards, good luck for the rest.