Sitting next to a public toilet

[mrssoap]

Not exactly to do with parenting, just something that I am curious about!!

In all restaurants I go to that the staff tell you where to sit, if I have my baby with me they always seem to sit me next to or opposite the toilets! It's happened a lot. Maybe I'm fussy but I don't like to sit near the toilets, so I tell them I'd rather not sit there and they move me somewhere else which is absolutely fine so not a problem at all.

I'm just curious if anyone else has noticed that happening to them and why they do that? Is there a reason they want to sit People with babies there?

Maybe they think it's easier for you if you need to use to baby changing facilities?

I dont think that's ever happened to 7s before. Usually get seated somewhere with space and, in our local, a bit with an easy to clean wooden floor rather than the carpeted area!

P.S. I thought this was going to be a thread about some creep sitting waiting outside public toilets, not about a restaurant!

Possibly because there is more space as you are not in the middle of the restaurant

I think the tables next to the toilets are hard to fill, I think they offer it to everyone. Just tell them “not by the toilet please”.

They’ve probably offered it to everyone before you; but they’ve refused... It’s not personal.

Do you bring a buggy inside the restaurant in a way that implies that you expect to keep it at the table? If so it's probably space.

I've noticed that in some place somes parents wheel buggies into restaurants - if you leave the buggy in a porch / cloakroom area or enter with your baby in your arms and ask where you can leave the buggy you'll be seated more normally because you don't need a table with space for a buggy next to it.

I only took a buggy into outdoor eating areas like pub gardens and cafes with outside tables, I think you get treated better if you don't take up room you don't actually need to take up. Taking your child out of the buggy also makes you look more likely to attend to them rather than ignore them making a noise/ chucking food, which may also explain the better reception.

Yeah maybe it is a space thing. Like I said It doesn't matter as such as I just ask for another table but I just wondered if it was a thing lol.

I don't usually take the pushchair in, sometimes babies in the car seat though.

Thanks for the replies 😃