Chain Restaurant

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This is a national chain, so it fits anywhere; or at least doesn't look any more out of place in one spot than another.

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This is a 3x3 lot so it may take awhile for the waitress to reach your table, but they won't wash dishes in the restrooms and at least you'll be comfortable.

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Chess, a fireplace, and a fountain on the side porch make it a pleasant place to wait for your table year-round. Unless it was built on a sea of concrete, as so many chains are.

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The corporate decorators operate on the principle that white and tan go with everything.

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You can drink coffee out here or get something with more kick inside.

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Pictures of food adorn the walls and the tablecloths are sage green for a touch of color that doesn't relieve the blandness.

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Those are the kitchen doors. The restrooms are off the bar area, on the other side of the half-wall.

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Bar with pub darts.

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Conversation pit, or makeout couches? You decide!

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The last of the date locations I felt moved to build for Land Grant University, the Chain Restaurant is really more the sort of place a student might take an outing full of relatives than a date. With darts, chess, and the bar and barista there'll be plenty of sedate fun for the family when not eating, and though the couches might tempt someone to makeout, at least no one will be rocking a photobooth.

The 3x3 lot is a tad on the large side for a restaurant, but is in harmony with the size of other community lots on the campus. The lot is meant to emulate one of those national chains of sitdown restaurants with large footprints and pretensions to luxury, whose main virtue is consistency. A lot of Maxis content aims for the same spot, so I didn't even miss custom content building it. On LGU, the logical place for it would be opposite the Big Box retail outlet or College Bluff Shopping Center, on the road entering campus. In other neighborhoods, it's likely to grow up overnight on any major commercial street or on the edges of new residential areas, where land prices haven't risen high enough to make its size uneconomical.

Like the other LGU date venues, it was built in AGS with University and Night Life only. Unlike them, it is clean, well-lit, and not remotely funky.

Lot Size: 3x3
Lot Price (furnished): $142,099

Additional Credits:
Thanks to AGS and to the Creator Feedback people, who were totally right about the white tablecloths and brown couches!

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