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The Sims 4has never shied away from food-based items in its expansions, and Home Chef Hustlemarks a valiant return to Stuff Packs. Among other additions that came with the pack, your Sims are now able to step behind the counter and run their very own food stall to sell their culinary creations.
Whether you choose to specialize in thenew pizzasortasty waffles, or opt to expand on your expansions and see what else you may mark for sale, we’ve got everything you’ll need to run a successful food stall in The Sims 4: Home Chef Hustle.
Food Stall Basics
What Can You Sell, And How Do You Sell It?
Before you may run a food stand in The Sims 4: Home Chef Hustle, you’ll need to purchase an actual food stall itself. TheAnywhere Any Fare Food Standis available for585 Simoleonsand comes in a variety of colors, woods, and designs, so experiment with the design tool and see what speaks to your Sim and their brand.
Once you own the food stand,place it in your Sim’s inventory. Then, you may eithersell from your home lotto attract customers from the neighborhood or choose to travel with the food stand andset up shop on a public lotto sell in a more populated area. Customers tend to pop by regardless, but your sales from there are up to you.
Avid Simmers are likely to have multiple packs that include unique food items coming from countertop appliances, and these players will be happy to know thatfood from various packs that’s prepared in a countertop applianceare available tosell with the Home Chef Hustle stuff pack.
Thebaked goodsintroduced with theBaking skillinGet to Workoffer a new way to run a bakery with the food stall in Home Chef Hustle, while items likepopcorn or ice creamfrom other stuff packs are available for sale, too.
Prep Ingredients Beforehand To Make Food Faster
By using theCiao Bella Stand Mixerintroduced in the Home Chef Hustle stuff pack, your Sim is able toprepare cooking ingredients and doughahead of time. Doing so not only makes yourfood cook fasterthan normal, but it’ll also typically end up being of ahigher qualityandcosting lessto prepare in the end, too.
Prepared ingredients go into yourinventory, and you’ll receivefive servings of ingredientsper prep. These can then be used in your regular cooking, but dishes can still be prepared without these ingredients if you’re willing to sacrifice quality and cash for speed.
Just make sure they end up in a refrigerator before long so they don’t spoil! Sims originally used to eat prepared ingredients when you told them to get leftovers before, but this has been patched since launch, so ingredients can safely be stored to prolong their shelf life.
Bring Countertop Appliances To Cook On-Site
In the Home Chef Hustle pack, you’re able toput countertop appliance cookware into your inventory, which allows you to thenprep more food on-siteif you need to. These items include thepizza oven, waffle maker, microwave ovens, as well as the tools to prep more ingredients if you run out.
It’s best to prepare as much as you’re able to ahead of time and set the food out when you set up the stand, but if you sell out and aren’t ready to close up shop for the day, doing this allows you to replenish your sold-out meals as you go and continue selling without pause.
Give Your Sim The Best Traits
There are a few ways to make sure your Sim has a leg up during these timed Food Sale events in The Sims 4: Home Chef Hustle, includingboosting their Charisma skillbeforehand to make them better at chatting with potential customers, and buying theMarketable traitfrom the Rewards Store to increase the limit on your markups.
Additionally, The Sims 4: High School Years expansion pack brought theEntrepreneur skillinto the mix, which helps your Sim to market themselves and their product. If you have the expansion pack, not only will you have those new foods available to sell, but you may have your Sim build their Entrepreneur skill to help their food stall business in Home Chef Hustle.
Finally, if youcomplete the Appliance Wiz aspirationthat came with the Home Chef Hustle pack, you’ll receive theBatch Cook trait, which allows your Sim toduplicate food they made with prepared ingredients, allowing them to stock their food stall easier than ever before!
Chop Chopper
Own one small kitchen appliance.
Items that count for this aspiration are the following items from the ChowBella brand:
Collect prepped ingredients five times while Inspired.
Have your Sim become inspired and then prepare ingredients, ultimately collecting five portions.
Slice and Dicer
Use prepared ingredients to hasten your cooking five times.
Collect three prepared ingredients that were made with fresh ingredients.
You’ll need to do a bit of gardening for this one, but fresh fruit and veg are always the tastiest!
As you improve your Cooking skill, you’ll make higher-quality ingredients.
Cook meals with six different prepared ingredients.
Of the eight prepared ingredients types, cook with six of them.
Cook five times while listening to music.
Pop a stereo in the kitchen and jam out while you prep!
Mixing Maestro
Make a prepared ingredient using a stand mixer with an upgrade.
You’ll need to reach Handiness Level 4 to begin upgrading the stand mixer.
Make Pleasantly-Unpleasant Waffles.
Check out our Waffles guide for the recipe!
Cook two pizzas or waffles at a singled Goaled Social Event after reaching silver.
Keep your food stall going after you’ve finished the event, and keep prepping food.
It involves some extra skill gains in Gardening and Handiness, but the Batch Cook reward trait in The Sims 4: Home Chef Hustle is well worth the work!
How To Run A Food Stall In Home Chef Hustle
Put Down The Food Stall And Open Up Shop
After purchasing your food stand and the small appliances you’ll need to operate, it’s time to open for business. To do so,place the food stand from your Sim’s inventory. Once you’ve found a good spot to set up shop, click"Open"on the stall.
This brings up theshop’s inventory, which should be empty when you begin, alongsideyour Sim’s inventory. Here, you candrag food between your inventory and the store’s inventoryto mark dishes for sale.
you’re able to also choose amarkupfor your items ofup to 300 percentof their original cost, but beware thatexpensive goods are less likely to sell, so weigh your popularity and product quality before deciding on a markup. The Marketable trait allows you to instead go up to a 500 percent markup.
Having items in your inventory is helpful for keeping a constant supply, but beware thatfood spoils quickly in your inventory, so be sure to mark it for sale as soon as you’re able to for maximum freshness.
After your inventory is set, click the stand again toStart Food Sale. This triggers afive-hour scored eventduring which your Sim will be hawking their goods to any passers-by at their chosen location.
Sell Actively And Keep Your Table Stocked
If Sims are milling about but aren’t buying anything, your Sim caninteract with potential customers to give sales pitchesor try toconvince them to buy a certain product. Not only is this helpful if Sims are loitering a bit too much, it also gives you the option tonudge customers toward certain dishesas you see fit (such as ones with big markups).
If food starts to run out, you canenableAutoStockingto convince your Sim to replenish the table automatically with food from their inventory.
But, if your inventory is looking light, you’ll need touse your countertop appliances mid-sale to prep more food on-site. Using the equipment doesn’t stop your Sim from making sales with the current goods, so feel free to cook as you need without fear of missing a sale on what you’ve currently got in stock.
Just be wary of tending a food stand in inclement weather, assome appliances become broken when using them in the rain.
