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Get it right - the bathroom door lock


davythefatboy

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I can't believe how many restaurants have bathroom door locks with "twist the little knob to lock or unlock". If you go to any hardware store, you will see that bathroom door locks always have a pushbutton to lock, and unlock when you turn the knob. But of course the really best thing if you care about your customers is a plain knob with no lock, and a separate airplane bathroom door type lock (except usually they rotate rather than slide) that shows "VACANT" in green or "OCCUPIED" in red. I mean, why not respect your customers, and why make your staff endlessly try the door handle (picking up germs) in order to find out of the bathroom is free?

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This would be great for a large household, too.

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Man... talk about first world problems. :P 

Sorry but I find the notion of "really caring about your customers" being reflected in the type of lock used on the bathroom stalls/doors a bit over-the-top. But carry on... I'm actually kinda interested in seeing where this goes. 

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OK, this is moving far, far away from being food-related. Not that that's a bad thing. 

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer

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16 minutes ago, Alex said:

OK, this is moving far, far away from being food-related. Not that that's a bad thing. 


Not all that far... food goes in, food goes out.

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On 4/19/2019 at 1:16 PM, Tri2Cook said:

Sorry but I find the notion of "really caring about your customers" being reflected in the type of lock used on the bathroom stalls/doors

 

Exactly. What I want is equal access to the bathroom. In most large buildings, the mens' bathroom has twice as many fixtures as the womens'.

 

Just sayin'.

 

(And it is food-related in one refrains from using that restaurant because of the bathrooms 😛 )

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18 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Round here we consider ourselves fortunate if the bathroom has a door!

 

I recall places where it was fortunate if the door had a bathroom.

 

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13 hours ago, TdeV said:

 

Exactly. What I want is equal access to the bathroom. In most large buildings, the mens' bathroom has twice as many fixtures as the womens'.

 

 

but the ladies facilities have twice as many "traps"!

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