Dining Table Chooser & Toddlers In Restaurants

Choose a table at a restaurant, dine with toddlers and have outings with them!
This is a set of mods and a custom object for dining tables. One of my oldest WIPs got a facelift and finally sees the light! Check out preview pictures, I spent eternity on them xD

Works in both NightLife and OpenForBusiness restaurants (I only tested with all packs installed)

What To Download
- If you want *only* table reservations, get DiningGlobals and TableChooser
- If you want *only* dining toddlers, get DiningGlobals with toddlers, *one* of the Groups with toddlers (instant or not), and grab mods from requirements
- If you want *only* for toddlers to join outings, get *one* of the Groups with toddlers
- If you want *all* features, get DiningGlobals with toddlers, TableChooser, *one* of the Groups with toddlers, and grab mods from requirements
- Get compatibility patches if you need them
- If you had my testing files, please remove them (dining-table-reserver-TEST, toddler outings restaurants TEST)

Reserving a Table
Have your sims sit at a nice table of your choosing, instead of whatever the host gives them, which are usually the same tables all the time. Make use of far corners of your restaurants, where no one ever gets to sit! Involves placing special buy mode object beforehand.

Building
- Buy a table chooser in Misc/Misc section for §0 and place on the same tiles as dining tables.
- One object per table of any size is enough.
- Can place in table's slot, hover over, on omsp, off-grid, as long as it's still more or less on table tile and it's clear which table it belongs to.
- Has 3 models: napkin holder, upscale table light, and a flat piece that sits right above the table without blocking slots and turns invisible in Live mode, but you know where it is.
- To change object's model, if you're on lot without sims, pick it up and place again. If there are sims, go to Live mode and click on the menu option.
- Changes to model stay between purchases. PRO TIP: buy only one object first, change model, and buy the rest after that. Buy catalog will remember the last model and give you the same one.
- NOTE: these objects won't interfere with dining booths, but if you use omsp, that omsp may block them if it doesn't allow person intersection.

Playing
- In a restaurant, choose a table by clicking on the table chooser that belongs to it to reserve it.
- Click on a podium to be seated and watch the host bring your sims to that table.
- Reserve up to 2 tables for a larger group. Actually, you can book any amount of tables, but your group can be seated only at two of them.
- If there are not enough chairs at your desired table(s), the host will pick something different.
- May reserve a table for another sim in the 'hood, for example, have business owner reserve some table for a special guest (it won't force them to come and dine, but if they do, that'll be their table).
- May cancel reservations. Also, reservation will reset once it's used.

Toddlers in Groups
Form a casual group with toddlers, include and exclude them at any time. Have fun family outings! Mod can be used on its own without dining, but dining can't happen without toddlers being a part of the group.

2 versions (pick one!)
- GroupsWithToddlers - toddlers are added without asking/animations, others still do the asking and accepting or rejecting
- GroupsWithToddlers_HB_InstantGroups - everyone gets added to groups instantly, without asking or rejecting (merged with a mod by hexagonal-bipyramid)

Dining with Toddlers
The little ones can taste the big life and discover their favorite food. Take them out to eat and let them enjoy fancy foods, instead of mush and milk!

Building
- For a toddler-friendly restaurant, place high chairs the same way you put dining chairs (highchair must face its table). A table should have some normal chairs as well, as toddlers can't be dining alone.
- If you use my Pets and Toddlers on Vacation mod, you can build toddler-friendly restaurants in vacation locations, too.

Playing
- Form a group with toddlers and older sims and get ready to take kids to a restaurant. Take them out of their cribs or high chairs and have them outside near the road. Now you can travel to a community lot. My mod is not responsible for this part, but I do want to improve the existing mod one day, if no one does it by then.
- Be seated at a restaurant with toddlers, provided there's a free table with enough dining chairs and high chairs for your party.
- Watch members of your group place toddlers in highchairs before sitting themselves (intelligent system there, designates each toddler to an adult or teen as evenly as it can).
- Order any food for toddlers, including chef’s choice, and watch them eat it.
- Watch waiters serve and clean plates and have no problems with highchairs.
- Watch sims take toddlers out of highchairs after the dinner is over.
- Toddlers don't participate in conversation and basically just sit there, eat or throw tantrum. I was meaning to add more things for them to do, but scrapped it, because additional interactions for high chairs would complicate things and mess with a lot of stuff.

Technical Info
- Chooser in Catalog: Miscellaneous - Miscellaneous
- Price: §0
- Polycount: 28 faces, 26 vertices for the only mesh included, which is a flat plane, the others are referenced from the game
- Mods contain overrides, and the toddler part has more of them. I recommend running HCDU to check for conflicting mods

Conflict Resolving
- hexagonal-bipyramid's Instant Add/Remove for Casual Groups conflicts with my GroupsWithToddlers - remove it and use GroupsWithToddlers_HB_InstantGroups version
- Simler90's Cleaning Mod conflicts with my DiningGlobals with toddlers - get the zzPatch_DiningToddlers_CleaningMod and make it load after both mods (you could also use the patch without the Cleaning Mod to apply Simler90's improvements)
- Pescado's restaurantbarfix conflicts with my DiningGlobals - it's only one resource, so I would make my mod load after his to get the most of both (haven't looked into what it fixes)
- Simler90's RestaurantFoodBarDrinkFix conflicts with my DiningGlobals with toddlers - get the zzPatch_DiningToddlers_RestaurantFoodBarDrinkFix and make it load after both mods

There may be other conflicting mods, especially with the toddlers, since there are more overrides for them.

Credits & Thanks
I'd like to thank people from creator's feedback thread, especially Rosebine
Tools I used: SimPE, The Compressrizer, DBPF Compare, HCDU+ and PhotoScape X