Need to name and shame kid friendly restaurants without single sex toilets

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I've come across 2 'kid friendly' restaurants with toilets that open out onto communal sink areas. I have unfortunately found this out while out with my 8 year old daughter after we had booked and ordered food. We need to try and pressure restaurants that market themselves as child friendly to display their toliet policies on the website so we can make the choice to book or not. I would love to have a list of those that don't have single sex toliets as policy. I know Giraffe don't guarantee single sex and Bills Restaurants have a chain policy of 'communal' toliets in all of them. Can anybody add to this ?

If the cubicles are floor to ceiling I don’t see an issue with a communal sink area, I think this is better for families where parents may not be the same sex as a child who still needs some supervision. If the state of the toilets is really that
important to you though then either ask about them when you phone to make a booking or check them on arrival before committing to ordering anything. There’s no need to name and shame.

Have a day off. Why are some women literally obsessed with public toilets? Have you not got anything to spend your days complaining about now since the ruling?

Agreed. What makes it worse is that the Bills Restaurant chain have taken over existing restaurants and remodeled them to remove 2 separate toilets with multiple stalls to make one separate unisex one with multiple stalls.

Isn’t that arrangement better for families? My boys are still young but there will come a day when they’re around 7/8ish and they’re verging on too old for women’s toilets but I don’t want them to go into men’s on their owns. We need to protect boys too, not just girls.

You are agreeing with yourself?

Totally agree, I see no problem at all with what Bills have done, fair play to them.

A ten year old should be able to go into a single sex toliet on her own. Unless you're worried that men are in them.

Having just been abroad eating at restaurants 2-3 times a day for 3 weeks with 2 children and having travelled a lot, I couldn't disagree with you more - it's completely the norm for a lot of the world and a far better set up in my opinion, not surprised at all that some chains are remodelling to install facilities that way - it's also been like this for years in the uk, nothing particularly new

I want to name and shame them for the ones that don't want this set up. It won't effect you because you prefer this. So no need for you to worry about my thread, is there?

Who are you to decide for everyone else?

Maybe just don’t go out at all if your than bothered.
I really don’t understand the issue. If anything it’s ideal for family’s.

it’s a restaurant toilet, there are individual cubicles. What do you think is going to happen?

Actually we have had an issue with this. Dad (my husband) went to take our son to the toilet, which was single sex toilet in a pizza express. He pressed on a door to a cubicle that wasn’t locked to find a young girl (around twelve years) on the toilet with her friend also in the cubicle. They then made a massive drama about my husband ‘coming in when they were on the toilet’ (never mind the fact it was unlocked!!) it was absolutely awful and actually it could have been quite serious. My husband was mortified and thereafter refused to use the rest rooms. I do think it puts men in an incredibly difficult situation.

Depends where and what the set up is.

Wetherspoons (generally family friendly during the day) and the toilets are usually a 15 minute walk from the tables. Fine for worldly ten yr olds who know where they’re going. A big ask for more sheltered ones who don’t.

Give me the open shared ones over single sex in that set up any day.

It's naming but not shaming, as going by the replies on this post alone most people are clearly not fussed at all

I prefer single sex loos too and a man free communal space to put my lipstick on and check skirt not tucked into pants.

If the loos have communal sinks etc I agree that they ought to signpost that. I’d choose another restaurant in preference.

Your poor husband!
And it was the men who came in and saw my 8 year old daughter washing her hands at the sink who looked the most uncomfortable.

Yes i prefer single sex, lots of of places i go to have individual cubicles with sinks or just single sex multi cubicle and sink area

with the exception of a few night clubs and one bar i have been in i have never seen what you are describing

What’s the issue? I’d never let a school age child go to a public toilet on their own regardless or communal or single gender. It’s just common sense. Your outrage is misplaced.

I expect my 8 year old daughter to be able to go into a toilet and not have the cubical open onto a room full of men. I also don't expect her to have to take me into the loos with her until she's an adult. What did families do before unisex toliets? Stay at home?

You are defeating your own argument, OP. Had the cubicles been unisex, @quietlysad 's DH wouldn't have had to deal with this embarrassing situation.

I doubt in a family friendly restaurant it will be a ‘room full of men’ by the unisex sinks. Not sure your campaign to name and shame is taking off here as quickly as you would have liked.

A room full of men?
Pretty much drama?

The child who was sexually assaulted by Katie Dolatowski in the Morrisons toilets while her dad waited outside was 10.

Mothers have taken boys into the ladies since womens toilets existed. I've seen plenty of boys older than that in womens toilets with their mother's. Everybody gets it.

"Unisex cubicals" ? What are you talking about ?