Can't sell Ice Cream?

[ATXGains]

I just made a Book Store business but it won't allow me to sell ice cream using the Ice Cream Counter? That's crazy. Every book store I have been to has had an ice cream counter in its coffee selling area. I'm allowed to sell cupcakes and croissants but not ice cream from the counter? Please fix this.

[ATXGains]

I just realized the customers are helping themselves to the products instead of the customer service employee I hired to run the cafe area in my bookstore because it's not an order based business apparently... can we fix this for the bookstore please? There is usually always a cafe in a book store.

[David Estes Creations]

Originally posted by ATXGains:

I just made a Book Store business but it won't allow me to sell ice cream using the Ice Cream Counter?

Currently, you cannot have multiple types of businesses in one building, so the behavior of the selected business is what determines customer behavior.

To sell ice cream in stores where you have shopping baskets and the customers serve themselves, you need a freezer!

[ATXGains]

Originally posted by David Estes Creations:

Originally posted by ATXGains:

I just made a Book Store business but it won't allow me to sell ice cream using the Ice Cream Counter?

Currently, you cannot have multiple types of businesses in one building, so the behavior of the selected business is what determines customer behavior.

To sell ice cream in stores where you have shopping baskets and the customers serve themselves, you need a freezer!

Yes I realize this is how it works and is intended... I guess I am just requesting that you allow an order based system in the bookstore eventually so that the cafe inside my bookstore actually works like a cafe visually instead of the customers helping themselves. Thankfully the pastries, coffee, fruit, and sodas can still be sold at least.

[David Estes Creations]

Roger that! It would definitely allow more dynamic business types! Nothing has been announced about that, though!

Originally posted by ATXGains:

Thankfully the pastries, coffee, fruit, and sodas can still be sold at least.

Just making sure it's clear - the ice cream can also be sold there in a freezer!

[jhughes]

It does make sense to have the ability to have "sub-businesses" .. like a cafe/coffee shop in a supermarket or a bookstore. Obviously, that happens in real life. Almost every bookstore, except for very small ones, have a coffee shop (for example). Many Walmart stores have some type of restaurant.

[BobthenotsoGreat]

I think it should be more of a concession stand within your store. But it's your "brand" so to speak and as such it comes at a higher cost to sell them (repackaging costs or licence fee or something like that).

So if you want to sell items that are not primary or secondary you "pay the license fee" to sell goods outside of the stores remit. But it would still be profitable if the demand in the district is high enough.

You could further widen this by having a licence to trade for that business type included into the cost of renting the building initially and then you have to apply for an "additional" license to add more products. Some kind of upfront cost -long term profit.

In addition if this system was used, your licence could also cover opening hours. If you want to open longer, you pay for a licence to do so.

After all, it's New York. If they could charge for breathing they would.