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While i know this is just a shitpost, i cant help but remember, in nearly all english speaking countries and excluding the few countries with no regulations, businesses must offer customers a restroom if they have a dining area... The reason is hygenic as much as biologically imperative...
There is no rules that state they cant /charge/ for restroom access however (EG: they have to buy food, meaning there is a method of tracking who went in by timestamp). Most businesses could avoid this with putting smart entry locks on the door, that scan a barcode on the reciept and every hour, having a shift manager check and log the state of the restroom to manage the cleanliness.
but thats money most businesses dont want to spend away from the primary income source. smh... its almost like "preventive" anything is a scare word to business owners.
In my experience, these signs are the same as "Restroom is for customers only." Public means just coming in to use the restroom then leaving.
perfect example of "coffee is hot" signs/labels. I think we all deeply understand the sentiment that the general public, is in fact, generally willfully inconsiderate to themselves and others, when they want something lol
Unless you physically impede some one, to disrupt their flow, they will not think twice about desire fulfillment in today's society... Everyone needs to pee, but not everyone respects your need to pee.
NYC has local laws that if you have less than 20 seats, you don't need to provide bathrooms. And because it's on the books and not rare, the businesses don't suffer all that much from it.
NYC has laws that punish the poor for existing, allow people to piss in the streets and lets the homeless masturbate on public infrastructure/buses/trains to passers by, rather than get them the help they need by funding anything besides billionaires.
NYC is a example of a century of continued messes by wealthy, bigoted men... (and im not just talking the ghoul in a suit, "Garden Center" Giuliani)
Honestly, doing my best to hold back the incoming splatter while desperately trying to scan the crinkled-up receipt that I haphazardly stuffed in my pocket on the way to the bathroom because I didn't think it was important sounds like such a traumatizing experience that I'd probably never eat there again, and would be a lot more likely to result in the mess that caused the policy in the first place.
I mean, digital receipts and signs would take care of both those problems lol
Most parts of the world, public restrooms cost money.
You can't shit because your phone battery died. I can't shit because my social credit store is too low. We are not the same
Anyways disabling public restroom locks is praxis, every bit as much as grinding the spikes off of anti-homeless benches. I have way more sympathy for the poor bastard trying to clean themselves in there than the mildly inconvenienced pricks with better options
lol, i never said its a good solution, just the only reasonable one. The best solution is having government controlled public restrooms and regulating where dining institutions can operate their businesses to restrict them to areas where these restrooms are located.
Then have a always on-staff, thats well trained, well payed and lives in the local area. A Government personnel to keep them clean and paid for by tax payers, rather than wait staff that are forced to do it on top of their already demanding jobs of dealing with customers. Treat it as public infrastructure like roads and sewer and the problem solves its self. People generally treat public infrastructure much better than business infrastructure. They see business infrastructure as a outlet to their gripes with a businesses practices. Some one wants to vandalize? its suddenly not a business they are messing with, but a government facility... holds a lot more legal weight and punishment. Additionally staff have only one job, that bathroom facility, so if something happens, they are not going to miss it for 12 hours until some one complains...
Would it be worth if financially? yes. Most governments spend more per year on research groups to make policy decisions than staffing. Staffing costs are generally one of the lowest operation costs, and infrastructure pays for its self when you tax businesses for the use of it. Businesses ultimately save money, as its additional infrastructure they dont need to maintain or clean, and less operational cost.
Will it be done? no lol
Nearly every nation is trying to shift national operational costs to private industry as decades of corporations lobbying and pressuring has made it appear as if its cheaper to build it and sell it to them, then to operate it yourself. People are stupid and easily convinced against their own best interest, because they get situational biased based on the fact bad experiences are heavier than good ones mentally and businesses know how to placate them with sweet words and entertainment... We will own nothing and like it. its the future.