3yo keeps going to the toilet as soon a the food arrives at the restaurant...

[June2009]

I think this is pretty typical 3yo behaviour but it's driving me crazy.
Every single time we go to the restaurant my 3yo waits until we've just got our food and then asks to go to the toilet. Where she will sit and tell me stories. It's lovely that she tells me her secrets and everything but ... Argh!!!!!
This is after i have asked her 5 times if she needs to go, before sitting down, and explained that we cannot go once we're sitting. She does it every single time.
Just been on a 9 day holiday where we had to go out for breakfast lunch dinner and its been a nightmare as the staff clear your plates away if you're leaving the table so took ages making plates for her from buffet only to have them cleared as soon as we get up again for the toilet.
I am pulling my hair out. Sometimes she does need to go but sometimes she doesn't.
Help? (she's been potty trained since she was just over 2 so it's not a new thing).

[AllPastYears]

In the past few months several children have been reported as having been molested in public toilets. But regardless of this, 3 is too young to go to the toilet alone.