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I am just curious why we check bathrooms.

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We check restrooms for cleanliness, supplies, clean floors, lighting and of course the music level....did you really want an answer, or just have too much time on your hands tonight.

Live consciously....

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2011 07:34PM by Irene_L.A..

If the BRs are filthy, do you really want to eat in their establishment?

Cleanileness is next to OMG!!!!!

No towels,no TP and no soap----how R the employees taking care of buisness if the area where most customers will go is kept unkempt?

The nusic level or the smell of the place--- breath of fresh air, fruity, greasy, rancid oily smell, or stinky stanky.

I als think RR is a MSC spy. I read a lot of his post, they seem to be of a MSCs enqiurer. Inquiring minds wants to know but hey................

richraynor Wrote:
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> I am just curious why we check bathrooms.

I find your question curious.

I am perplexed as to why anyone who is being paid to evaluate service, cleanliness, and overall customer satisfaction would question why they are evaluating the bathroom, along with the rest of the facility?

Tell me Rich, how do you keep your post count at 39. Is that a "Jack Benny" thing?

Hey Rich. You need to move up from an outhouse to a real bathroom. Your " 4 Holer" is outdated...:p

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
I'm still learning 24/7.

I thought perhaps it was a way to split shops among gender. IE: If all men were shopping an auto parts store, no report would ever ne taken on the lady's bathroom, right? Obviously it is important in all restaurants. LOL!

Rich. There a lot more lady shoppers than men. I'm sure they check the bathroom in the auto parts stores. Same with gas stations, etc...

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
I'm still learning 24/7.

And when the ladies' room is out of order, we visit the men's and really wonder how you guys can stand it. I'm used to 'the girls' trashing the ladies' room, but more often than not the stench in the men's room is about enough for me to leave my cookies on the floor.

I've never done a men's bathroom (thank god)....the visual of that is making me dizzy!

Live consciously....

Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers. It's a small room for bathing. Retail stores, restaurants, theaters, etc have restrooms. Homes have bathrooms.

I have had to evaluate men's restrooms in travel centers and convenience stores. I can't get over how men seem to miss the target 9 out of 10 times, it's either an impaired sense of direction or a much exaggerated sense of what has to aim. You should see people panic when I then have to take pictures of soil for the MS company and whip out my camera.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

If they put some little bullseyes in the bottom of the toilets men would have something to shoot for. Men are, for the most part, very competitive.

ShopUntilYouDrop Wrote:
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> If they put some little bullseyes in the bottom of
> the toilets men would have something to shoot for.
> Men are, for the most part, very competitive.

Cherrios work well!

I guess in Canada they have washrooms. You know if you think about it restroom is the least accurate description of what actually takes place.

ces1948 Wrote:
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> I guess in Canada they have washrooms. You know if
> you think about it restroom is the least accurate
> description of what actually takes place.

You're right! I've wondered why we call them restrooms too. (Here in the states)

Here in Alabama they are "Rest Rooms". We like to rest up between Moon Shine runs...

And for Irene - The mens restrooms are very clean. Usually cleaner than the "Ugh" ladies rooms...

Shopping Bama and parts of Georgia.
I'm still learning 24/7.

Tumbleweed Wrote: "Cherrios work well!"

Not fair to use a moving target.

In the old days it was not unusual for a public ladies restroom to have at least one 'fainting couch' and usually a couple of easy chairs in an anteroom to the actual restroom.

Retail stores like Macys have a sitting area in case you have to wait for a "restroom", guess it's the resting area, couch, chair and mirror's. My how civilized we are....

Live consciously....

I had to do a very upscale restaurant that had two furnished rooms to walk through before you reached an area with plumbing. A couple of sofas, chairs and an antique amoire or two. Just put in a microwave and you could live in there.

Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain

I did some gas audits yesterday and took pictures of several restrooms. Without fail, the men's room was much worse off than the ladies' room. There definitely seems to be a problem with men hitting the target...that's the only way I can explain the SMELL.

Unisex rooms are confusing, but what is more confusing is "Men's" and "Ladies"
You have taken care of the Gentlemen and Scottish Gentlemen, but where do the women go?
Another thing, "Gentlemen" might be good on the door in a fine dinning establishment, but what if you are not really gentlemen, I go to the room for gentlemen and hope I am doing it properly.

You know I am not taking this discussion seriously!

Excuse me, but I believe that Flash pointed out that it is the women's restroom that has the "fainting couch."

Karen IL Wrote:
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> I did some gas audits yesterday and took pictures
> of several restrooms. Without fail, the men's room
> was much worse off than the ladies' room. There
> definitely seems to be a problem with men hitting
> the target...that's the only way I can explain the
> SMELL.

I believe I've also heard the term "lounge" used but I don't recall what type of place used that term.

Department stores tend to call it a "lounge." Years ago I as a high-schooler I had a summer job at Palais Royal, and the women's restroom was called the "Ladies's Lounge." It doesn't take much to amuse high-schoolers, and it really cracked us all up. We were badly scolded by the Manager one day for laughingly calling it a "sandbox" (not to customers, just among ourselves).

I always had wished they had separate entrances for the "lounge" and the plumbing part. When you wandered in there were often folks curled up with cramps, feeding babies or just having cat claw gossip fests.

I shopped a number of upscale/trendy restaurants in Manhattan that have unisex restrooms. It's seems to be a fashionable thing to do there and IMHO keeps the bathrooms cleaner overall (I think men are less apt to be disgusting if they think a woman will be using the toilet after them).

My ex-wife would disagree.

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