I think I figured out when the bakery / disappearing inventory problem occurs

[Pegasys]

... and I posted a long post on the BBS explaining my testing and findings.  Anyway, the short story is, food inventory seems to disappear when:

1) a Sim goes to restock and there isn't enough to complete the restocking and then
2) the Sim makes more of same food.

The workaround is to always make sure you have enough of each item when restocking. Otherwise, the next time the Sim makes that item, a "phantom restocking" phenonemon occurs, and the number of items that were not stocked will disappear from your Sim's inventory.

[pioupiou]

Thank you so much !!!
For the first time I didn't lose one single cake while playing the Jacquet Family !
 It is a bit tedious to constantly go to the inventory to make sure the requested number of cakes is there, but it is better than the frustration to have some cakes vanished !!
I tryed to understand this problem and I failed. The only thing I did notice is that the problem did not occur on a home lot without a business : I did not make the connection with restocking.
Thank you and I hope Maxis while be able to address this problem in the next patch now you found how it works.
Pioupiou (happily baking with no vanishing  )

[Ancient Sim]

This does seem to make sense from what I have seen of this bug.  What do you mean when you say "manual restocking doesn't count towards a badge"?  Do you mean that if you click individually on an item and ask them to restock it, rather than using the Restock command, it won't count?  I do that a lot, so it might explain why only one of my Sims so far has managed to get a restocking badge!

[Pegasys]

I meant if you just remove the out-of-stock markers, and then place new food items there in the food display, that won't count toward restocking, naturally. But clicking on the individual out-of-stock markers will, I think.

[ZiggyDoodle]

Another oddity I've encountered is that with some fridges, there is no option to check food supplies.  I think it may apply only to Uni refrigerators  - should have kept notes but didn't.

Maybe if I get all my work done at home after work here at the office, I can check.   

[dusty]

I can't check food supplies on community lot fridges. I note that it deducts money from you when your sims take things out of it.

[crammyboy]

Fix is available here->http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=3812.0

[MissDoh]

Dusty I notice the exact same thing.  I think the reason Maxis made it that way is because we cannot have deliveries on owned business community lot which would make restocking the fridge impossible. 

It is frustrating that we cannot have maid or gardener on owned community lots, anybody found a fix for that working with OFB?

[Pegasys]

Fix is available here->http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=3812.0

YAY!!!!           

Thanks, CrammyBoy!

[VyeOlin]

It is frustrating that we cannot have maid or gardener on owned community lots, anybody found a fix for that working with OFB?

Christianlove's NPC stove works well for that.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=62777&highlight=Christianlove