Since Covid - Do you expect to be allowed to use the toilet in a caffe at the moment?

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When getting a takeaway coffee or water ? Or when you're getting nothing ? Have your views on this changed since covid?

Customers can use it, but it can't be used like a public toilet and people need to understand that in these strange times. I've seen people get quite shirty expecting to use toilets when they haven't even given any custom.

I wouldn’t expect a takeaway to have toilets.

If you can sit outside then I’d expect there to be a toilet and to be able to use it. That’s been the situation everywhere I’ve been so far.

I don't think Covid is now a reasonable excuse. If a takeaway place had toilets accessible before, then I think they should now revert to normal practice. There's fair arguments for not having them at all at a takeaway (other than out the back 100% for staff) but I am increasing annoyed by 'because Covid' at this point.

The fact that toilets in the UK have not been reopening has made the papers in the US btw...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/22/britain-lockdown-toilets-parks/

To be frank I would not expect a cafe to have toilets open for non customers in covid or non covid times.

I would expect somewhere that has a customer toilet to open it whether you are having a takeaway or table service

I would not expect it from places that have only ever had takeaway and doesn’t ever have toilets open to the public

Yep I’ve used the toilet at our local cafe when grabbing a coffee (pregnant, but not visibly so at the time). The other option is squatting in the street?!

Sitting in or outside tables: yes
Takeaway: wouldn’t expect it but I think it’s ok to ask nicely and accept it if told no
Random person not buying anything: no

if the toilet has to be shared with the staff then no!!

if its separate from staffs then yes

Places like Nero and Starbucks where you go into order have opened their toilets.

Problem is that as soon as you say "yes" then you will have people nipping in and using them without using the café.
And people work round the buying something. They'll come and say "oh I'm going to do an order, can I just use the loo" and then leave. Or worse, give an order, "nip to the loo while you're making it" and leave without paying (and the order, but that's then a cost to the café) or "I'll go to the loo while I'm waiting for my friend who's coming here".

Where I work there are public toilets within 10m of our entrance. The toilets inside are further away from the entrance than the public ones. They're reasonable public ones, cleaned several times a day.

Currently we're not open-people will actually ring the doorbell to ask to go to the toilet, despite a notice on the door saying we are closed. Not one of the people who apparently was desperate enough to ring the bell (and wait while I run over from the other side of the building and unlock the door) has gone and used the public toilets when they've been pointed out.

I'll also note that when loo roll was in short supply last year, we went through around a month's worth of toilet paper, despite apparently not having the normal footfall as many groups had already cancelled, in a week. People were clearly coming in and pinching it-and we caught at least one person trying to fill a bottle up from our sanitising units too.

Visitors from the USA were frequently quite taken aback by our lack of public toilet provision/toilets being for customers only etc even before covid ime so I'm not that surprised to see that reporters there are noting it's so much worse now. It is an issue especially as pointed out for women, the elderly, disabled people and children. So, for the majority of the population then. But not for the segment of the population who tend to make decisions about amenities.