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Ugh! Men’s Rooms! What is Wrong With You People?
Would you leave a mess like that at home?
Our local supermarket cleans its restrooms every hour.
Of course, they also have the usual sign asking you to bring any problem to management’s attention, but they do seem to clean it quite regularly, and it’s always been clean when I’ve used it. That’s unusual and it is impressive.
That’s a supermarket. Wouldn’t you think that a supermarket is perhaps a bit less important than a restaurant in the grand scheme of bathroom cleanliness? I wouldn’t say I like finding a dirty toilet seat anywhere, but finding it in the supermarket would not stop me from buying my groceries. A filthy restroom in a restaurant could send me right out the door.
So wouldn’t you think restaurants would clean the damn restrooms even more frequently? I hate to stereotype my own sex, but if I were managing a restaurant, I’d send someone in to inspect and spot clean every time I saw a man come out of the restroom, or at least every fifteen minutes.
For the women’s room, I’d have it checked maybe every tenth visit as a start, and we’d see how that went. Unisex? Every fifteen minutes again. Maybe every ten minutes to avoid retching by the non-male visitors.
