The lack toilets in every imaginable place is insultingly ableist and very degrading. It's like people are ashamed we're fucking people and need to piss and shit all the time. And then the cops have the gull to threaten me with fines when I take a leak under a tree in a park. You literally treat dogs better than people.
Most people like dogs, but they don't like other people.
Yeah but there's a reason for that. Dogs are great, humans not so much. Dogs are innocent.
If its anything like Vancouver, its quite possibly in response to doing absolutely nothing about a homelessness crisis and the open drug use that results from that. So yeah, ablist and degrading, as well as anti poor
In what country you can get permits without a bathroom????
At first I though "surely this is about the US", but no, even in the US at least some states require public bathrooms in all coffee shops, cafe, restaurants etc. Some states have exceptions depending on the size of the establishment and some states do not have this regulation at all.
I also just checked Dutch and some other countries' laws. Public bathrooms are required for new establishments with no exceptions. I have not found a EU-wide regulation though.
Vancouver, B.C. Canada Checking in, bathrooms are only required if you have indoor seating, so a lot of places didnt reinstall their tables post pandemic, and thus kept their washrooms closed
Yes I am indeed dutch but even here in Ecuador (14y now) I have not heard of a bar without a piss spot at the very least
"Just go home. I'd rather have a no-coffee-buyer than a defecator" -Latte Larry
Provide a restroom, or become the restroom.
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God damn, lol
Here it is compulsory. I am very surprised to hear that in the USA it isn't.
In mamy states in the US it is a requirement for any place serving food and drink to have a bathroom.
where i live we have minimal tap water flow at night due to drought, and coffeeshops like to pull this 'wc is closed since water is off' and now i am stuck with a ton of caffeine filling my bladder :(
Most toilets will flush when you add enough water to the bowl. So really if enough people pee it's a self someone solving problem.
exactly. pee is not really a problem, and the odor could still be manageable with minimum sanitation. A coffeeshop with open wc would earn its owner a lot of love points, and probably more clients too.
Where I live functional washrooms are required by code, and the coffeeshop would have to close until they are able to make the washroom functional.
it is functional, but they close it so they could cut costs (cleaning, water). They pull this at night, when regulatory body is off-duty
Sounds like an American problem to me. Right?
Yes, we're well known for not having free and publicly accessible bathrooms.
... Wait, I though you said "Germany".
From what I've heard Europe is way more gatekeepey with their bathrooms. Having ones you have to pay for? It's extremely rare for a place to not have a bathroom here, even in a city.
Edit: I think I grew up in one of the states where they're pretty strict about having bathrooms. Blue states rule lol
Well, it is public bathrooms you have to pay for here, as they are run commercially. But each place that offers food or drink and where you can sit down (so e.g. a food vendor cart is excempt) has to have free toilets for their customers. Some might be better, some might be worse (I've been in a McD in a ... not so well off part of a town and it was horrible - you had to ask for a key, and they had this horrible, dim bluish light that is supposed to reduce drug use). But customers toilets are free.
A friend of ours had a restaurant at a hiking trail in a forest, and he had put up a donation box for those who just wanted to use a toilet without eating or drinking there, which I consider fair.
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This is why America is better. Every restraunt and store has publicly available bathrooms.
No they don't. Plenty of retailers, fast food and gas stations that do not have public use restrooms.
Hell, even WMATA, the subway rail system in Washington DC, does not have public restrooms. So people piss and shit in the elevators.
Every place where you can sit down to eat or drink is required to have one in Germany.
UK does too
Only restaurants in my experience. Most stores here don't have public bathrooms.
