Not in Texas. Restaurants are required, but I go into many convenience stores that don’t have a public restroom. Of course there might be city ordinances so perhaps it is a requirement in Austin
Cause some folks have to respect and ruin others places. Seen it so many times unclogging toilets. Some customers will throw things down the pipes on purpose. Also junkies like to get high in them. They both ruined it for everyone. I get it.
Even gas stations and it was obvious certain locations when the building went up were designed to have a customer bathroom. I actually reported one Sunoco do the corporate office in changes were made. What irritated me more about that particular situation is the customer bathroom or accessed through a hallway that was also a fire exit internet hallway have been barricaded by empty milk crates.
Last year I had a medical situation for a month or so that gave me bathroom emergencies every couple hours. I was afraid to go to certain stores that didn't have a public bathroom.
At my work people have ruined the restroom privileges, people kept getting high, steal, trash and vandalized them so bad we had to shutdown the store twice
Have you seen how some customers trash a bathroom. Only restaurants should have to allow this. Where I live almost everywhere allows it, but personally I dont use public facilities, too nasty most times.
1)private property: no they don't. They can also ban you from the property if they see fit: its called right to refuse service. 2)the business does not want people destroying the bathroom. That's why public toilets are getting less common. You can blame idiots that destroy the toilets for that.
I worked in a small family pizza shopthat has been there for 50 years, where the only bathroom was in the rear of the kitchen, inaccessable to patrons. Wouldn't do to have people who don't work there walking thru the kitchen all day/night. I understand though
@seeya205 most businesses, unless they are a restaurant, don't have a sit down area to eat. According to the video, they still must provide a restroom for their customers.
I've worked at several retail jobs where the restroom was employees only. It was a liability issue. We put a sign up in the summer "no public restroom". I guess the law is different in my state.
I’m in Trinidad…the only places here that have a public use restroom are the KFC and the Subway. Guys can go pee in a corner where there is shubbery, but women have to either hold it until they reach home, or not drink before they go out! If I were fabulously wealthy, I’d make paid public restrooms a thing again. Put them all around like the paid parking lots, charge maybe $2 for 10 min. They used to have them here, government run ones, but they don’t operate any more.
I’ve had this happen to me before and it should definitely be illegal because it’s a basic human need especially for people like me that have ulcerative colitis
In the state of FL, there are stores all over the place that refuse to let you use the bathroom. "Good to know, I'll tell my husband never to buy gas here!"
I’ve worked retail I always laughed when someone said they won’t be back. Of course I laughed to myself because I has to be polite to the customer. Most of the time I would see them in a few days later and I really didn’t care if they never came back, especially if they were annoying. Thankfully, I don’t have to do retail jobs anymore
They do this all the time in stores in Detroit area cause there are folks that plug them up all the time that ruined for good people that wouldn't do thatt
I have food allergies and someone spilled something questionable on me and I desperately needed to wash it off. I literally had to push my way in and apologized saying I needed to save my life thank you very much. They swore to me I was not allowed in the place anymore but later I escalated it and the manager apologized to me.
@kenlompart9905 you know what else I despise? So many public sinks try to conserve water. When you need to wash an allergen off it's a joke. I've had to dunk my hands in the toilet in an emergency.
IF YOU SELL FOOD, you HAVE TO HAVE a bathroom, I don’t care about the laws, its morally right. Everyone has to be able to go. You don’t want to have someone wet themselves, or embarrass themselves.
If you can’t hold your urine, then you should be wearing a pad or diaper. There’s no reason to wet or embarrass yourself. You shouldn’t even be embarrassed to wear a diaper because that’s a medical condition.
I think it depends on your state law. I live in Texas and many businesses have employee only bathrooms. It’s just a matter of not wanting to hire people to clean the restroom. I believe restaurants that have a seating area are required to have a public bathroom.
This happens to us at our coffee shop one time. We let customers used our restroom during parade but after a lot of non customer uses it, it started clogging. At that time, we're busy. The manager decided not to let anyone use the restroom for the time being as we can't really clean it on busy hours plus they told us that we can't handle it anyways since we're working on coffee and it's disgusting, we need to get someone to unclog it. We just tell them a closest shop that has one. One customer threatened us that "It's against California law to block us from using the restroom." We explained to them the situation but they refuse to acknowledge. They rage and started drinking other customers drink that are out on the counter. Our manager is busy at the time, we could have ban them but there's situation like this why we block the restroom. it's sometime not really our fault and baristas don't clean restroom until after hours as we don't want the bacteria or mess to get into ours and pass it on while making coffee.
But if so that they change the sign then workers might be confused. Can they now use the washroom or can only customers use it and not workers I don’t think that’s correct. I think the sign should say washroom for customers and workers.
I've heard of that although I've never been to one that's like that. I have a tendency to buy something anyways after I've used the bathroom in a business.
You honestly shouldn't have worked that job if cleaning the bathroom is a part of your duty. It has nothing to do with fairness. It's a part of your job.
It is very common place in NYC for a business to keep the bathroom locked and only paying customers are allowed to use it. I had an emergency situation and asked for the bathroom key and was told only for paying customers only. So in my distressed situation i dropped my paints and dropped my load on my paints and all over the floor. Pulled up my pants and walked out..
Newsflash...every store, place of business has the right to refuse business or use of bathroom to any customer they see fit, and they dont have to give you a reason. They have bathrooms for employees Only. In cases of emergencies like people with handicaps, some businesses make exceptions to this rule...but it is rare, i know because i myself am handicapped. But yes...they have a right to refuse. What can we do? Go to the next business available and find a bathroom to avoid confrontation with said business like what happened with the cake situation
I sometimes have to go to the restroom when out at a store. I am 61 and have grown children. So I might have a shorter time now to make it to a restroom and not have an accident. Anyone who has had colon cancer may have an issue. Children.Sometimes they can't wait. Do businesses really want to clean up accidents in their store if this happens? I don't think so. Like this man said it's a common curtesy. At any rate not everyone has the ability to hold it till they leave and find an alternative option.
Nowhere, is there a law in any of the 50 stares, that states that a business must let a customer, or anyone else use the on site restroom. Most businesses, depending on what they are, will have restroom access for customers as a courtesy.
Entitlement minded. Some businesses do what they have to do to curtail drug use on their premises. Not saying that the complainant wanted it for that reason, but all the others that came before him made it that way.
This is really news?! This has been the policy of numerous stores since I was a kid. And I want to know what law that is, that attorney looks like a quack 😂 Also, Kurt should update his kitchen, it does not go with that weird living room at all.
It's probably an apartment and he doesn't own it. Most older people don't have thousands of dollars to update homes anyway. Try living on what most have to survive on, now. Maybe don't be such a snob.
I have ulcerative colitis and I have a card from my doctor which has this on it! The Restroom Access Act of 2005, known as Ally's Law, requires retail establishments in certain states to make their restroom available to people with certain medical conditions.
Maybe, but a store that sells coffee should have a bathropm for the customers. Especially coffee is known to cause diarrhea. I would have understand if they only sell coffee machine and not coffee itself for not having a bathroom.
Because it's not a public restroom. It doesn't matter if they serve the public, they are not required by law to allow use of a restroom. Lose the entitlement dude its not your restroom.
Now all businesses will fall asleep in the customer bathroom, when someone asks they'll say oh it's over there just follow your nose. And they'll have the water turned off and the exhaust fan disabled, and as the years Roll by people will get trained to never ask to use the customer bathroom unless they like to breathe in heavy heavy ammonia smell.
As far as I know in ny , as long as the store has anything that can be eaten or drank at that immediate time , restroom must be available
Out of order
Not in Texas. Restaurants are required, but I go into many convenience stores that don’t have a public restroom. Of course there might be city ordinances so perhaps it is a requirement in Austin
@@seanmiley6294 not out of order
Cause some folks have to respect and ruin others places. Seen it so many times unclogging toilets. Some customers will throw things down the pipes on purpose. Also junkies like to get high in them. They both ruined it for everyone. I get it.
I can’t believe this is a news story
Must have been a slow news day.
Not only that they can block you from using the bathroom they can ban you from the property lol
yes but they can not block or ban you from Jesus! ❤
no they cant
Back in the day, restrooms at dept. stores were Coin operated.
In the UK that's where the term "spend a penny" originated from
The same also was the case for public bathrooms in the street or parks back in the day.
@Techno-Universal
.10 , but usually someone exiting would hold the door open, people were good to each other back then.
When I was a kid I would crawl under. Lol. Couldn't do that now.
That's what created the phantom shitter.
Alot of places still don't let you use the bathroom ever since covid
Even gas stations and it was obvious certain locations when the building went up were designed to have a customer bathroom. I actually reported one Sunoco do the corporate office in changes were made. What irritated me more about that particular situation is the customer bathroom or accessed through a hallway that was also a fire exit internet hallway have been barricaded by empty milk crates.
We need more public bathrooms.
Last year I had a medical situation for a month or so that gave me bathroom emergencies every couple hours. I was afraid to go to certain stores that didn't have a public bathroom.
At my work people have ruined the restroom privileges, people kept getting high, steal, trash and vandalized them so bad we had to shutdown the store twice
Thank you. On behalf of so many persons that are unable just to go someplace else.
I have seen it more often these days. Many don't let customers use the bathroom anymore.
@seeya205
Because the homeless and migrants shitting on the walls and door handles
I know too many homeless and drug addicts messed it up for everyone.
They "clean" needles in the tp rolls, too. You need to check for blood spots!
Have you seen how some customers trash a bathroom. Only restaurants should have to allow this. Where I live almost everywhere allows it, but personally I dont use public facilities, too nasty most times.
1)private property: no they don't. They can also ban you from the property if they see fit: its called right to refuse service.
2)the business does not want people destroying the bathroom. That's why public toilets are getting less common. You can blame idiots that destroy the toilets for that.
I worked in a small family pizza shopthat has been there for 50 years, where the only bathroom was in the rear of the kitchen, inaccessable to patrons. Wouldn't do to have people who don't work there walking thru the kitchen all day/night.
I understand though
They don't need to provide one if they don't have a sit down area to eat.
@seeya205 most businesses, unless they are a restaurant, don't have a sit down area to eat. According to the video, they still must provide a restroom for their customers.
I've worked at several retail jobs where the restroom was employees only. It was a liability issue. We put a sign up in the summer "no public restroom". I guess the law is different in my state.
I think if the store sells anything edible has to have a bathroom for customers. If only clothing then no.
Joann's once wouldn't let a woman use the restroom so she went on the shopping floor. They all now have restrooms for the public.
I’m in Trinidad…the only places here that have a public use restroom are the KFC and the Subway.
Guys can go pee in a corner where there is shubbery, but women have to either hold it until they reach home, or not drink before they go out!
If I were fabulously wealthy, I’d make paid public restrooms a thing again. Put them all around like the paid parking lots, charge maybe $2 for 10 min. They used to have them here, government run ones, but they don’t operate any more.
@@fernandomartin4031 We sold food.
@sharonlalli1414
She was Haitan, they're doing it up in Springfield, OH at the walmarx
I’ve had this happen to me before and it should definitely be illegal because it’s a basic human need especially for people like me that have ulcerative colitis
In the state of FL, there are stores all over the place that refuse to let you use the bathroom.
"Good to know, I'll tell my husband never to buy gas here!"
Florida is the new New York, just pee or poop 💩 in the streets
I’ve worked retail I always laughed when someone said they won’t be back. Of course I laughed to myself because I has to be polite to the customer. Most of the time I would see them in a few days later and I really didn’t care if they never came back, especially if they were annoying. Thankfully, I don’t have to do retail jobs anymore
They do this all the time in stores in Detroit area cause there are folks that plug them up all the time that ruined for good people that wouldn't do thatt
I have food allergies and someone spilled something questionable on me and I desperately needed to wash it off. I literally had to push my way in and apologized saying I needed to save my life thank you very much. They swore to me I was not allowed in the place anymore but later I escalated it and the manager apologized to me.
Good for you, I'm glad to hear escalated it and let them know using the bathroom could be a life or death situation.
@kenlompart9905 you know what else I despise? So many public sinks try to conserve water. When you need to wash an allergen off it's a joke. I've had to dunk my hands in the toilet in an emergency.
You're a snowflake & should not be allowed to leave the house.
Leave reviews online that state that there is no restroom available and don't bring your kids. They will open it next week.
IF YOU SELL FOOD, you HAVE TO HAVE a bathroom, I don’t care about the laws, its morally right. Everyone has to be able to go. You don’t want to have someone wet themselves, or embarrass themselves.
Guess you need to wear a diaper then, it's not a public restroom.
Wise up!
@ Then the person who has to go can also do what they want…pee on the floor.
If you can’t hold your urine, then you should be wearing a pad or diaper. There’s no reason to wet or embarrass yourself. You shouldn’t even be embarrassed to wear a diaper because that’s a medical condition.
Use the shitter before you leave the house, cry baby.
its because people are slobs, and trash the place.
I think it depends on your state law. I live in Texas and many businesses have employee only bathrooms. It’s just a matter of not wanting to hire people to clean the restroom. I believe restaurants that have a seating area are required to have a public bathroom.
This happens to us at our coffee shop one time. We let customers used our restroom during parade but after a lot of non customer uses it, it started clogging. At that time, we're busy. The manager decided not to let anyone use the restroom for the time being as we can't really clean it on busy hours plus they told us that we can't handle it anyways since we're working on coffee and it's disgusting, we need to get someone to unclog it. We just tell them a closest shop that has one. One customer threatened us that "It's against California law to block us from using the restroom." We explained to them the situation but they refuse to acknowledge. They rage and started drinking other customers drink that are out on the counter. Our manager is busy at the time, we could have ban them but there's situation like this why we block the restroom. it's sometime not really our fault and baristas don't clean restroom until after hours as we don't want the bacteria or mess to get into ours and pass it on while making coffee.
But if so that they change the sign then workers might be confused. Can they now use the washroom or can only customers use it and not workers I don’t think that’s correct. I think the sign should say washroom for customers and workers.
Some restaurants and coffee shop have a rule where you must buy something from their place of business before you can use their restroom.
I've heard of that although I've never been to one that's like that. I have a tendency to buy something anyways after I've used the bathroom in a business.
Is it okay to go in the corner
Because you have some customers that Will go in and mess the bathroom up and it's not fair to the workers
You honestly shouldn't have worked that job if cleaning the bathroom is a part of your duty. It has nothing to do with fairness. It's a part of your job.
For customers only
I've worked at a few places that do not have public restrooms because the public does not know how to use a bathroom.
It is very common place in NYC for a business to keep the bathroom locked and only paying customers are allowed to use it. I had an emergency situation and asked for the bathroom key and was told only for paying customers only. So in my distressed situation i dropped my paints and dropped my load on my paints and all over the floor. Pulled up my pants and walked out..
Video is correct. If disabled and they refuse you, easy lawsuit. No bathroom call Florida restaurant inspection.
Some establishments don't have public restrooms. The places that do it usually says for "customer's only."
As always others have destroyed this for the rest of us.
Some cities REQUIRE you give water during hot weather in the summer months
Newsflash...every store, place of business has the right to refuse business or use of bathroom to any customer they see fit, and they dont have to give you a reason. They have bathrooms for employees Only. In cases of emergencies like people with handicaps, some businesses make exceptions to this rule...but it is rare, i know because i myself am handicapped. But yes...they have a right to refuse. What can we do? Go to the next business available and find a bathroom to avoid confrontation with said business like what happened with the cake situation
I sometimes have to go to the restroom when out at a store. I am 61 and have grown children. So I might have a shorter time now to make it to a restroom and not have an accident. Anyone who has had colon cancer may have an issue. Children.Sometimes they can't wait. Do businesses really want to clean up accidents in their store if this happens? I don't think so. Like this man said it's a common curtesy. At any rate not everyone has the ability to hold it till they leave and find an alternative option.
Nacho bathroom
It used to cost $1.50 to use the bathroom at the Rose Festival (Portland, OR, US). It's Oregon 🌲, so, we became one with nature (the woods).
Nowhere, is there a law in any of the 50 stares, that states that a business must let a customer, or anyone else use the on site restroom. Most businesses, depending on what they are, will have restroom access for customers as a courtesy.
For paying customers only.
But it's out of order. 🤦♂️
Good point it's only operable in certain circumstances.
Thank you, UA-cam, for promoting our business. I'm sure we're going to see loads of new customers after this 😂
It's very common since covid
As far as I know business do not have to give the public access to their restrooms. But, I could be mistaken.
Tackling the real issues that plague Miami, thank you.🎉
Restrooms are out of order. It can be made operable in certain circumstances.
Being able to use the toilet where it is safe and clean is a basic human right.
Really, what part of the Constitution says this?
so do you let anyone into your home to wants to use the bathroom, or is it only other people besides you who are supposed to provide one for everyone?
Seriously? Why would you give this air time.
lots of stores don't let you use the restroom. this isn't new.
Any place bocks me from using the restrooms id do it outside the restrooms "you like that "😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Is this true throughout the nation?
Alot of businesses do this.
I would have expected more from a Nespresso store. it is a coffee store!
I think Kirk did a boo boo on himself from all that Nespresso
I still didn't get that code dude😮😮😅
Because customers chit the walls
Lets see those employees that denyed him.
Entitlement minded. Some businesses do what they have to do to curtail drug use on their premises. Not saying that the complainant wanted it for that reason, but all the others that came before him made it that way.
It's the end of the world I tell ya.
Reason behind the rampant state of open defecation and urination in large cities like NYC. Got2Go, please help US
This is all of the current day South Texas, Louisiana, Alabama. I wonder why 🤔. And yes Tennessee is the South.
Wear a diaper since you’re a toddler..
Good for you
They give the excuse Bathroom is out of service". But then an employee comes out that same "broke " Bathroom. These places are full of it!!
This is really news?!
This has been the policy of numerous stores since I was a kid.
And I want to know what law that is, that attorney looks like a quack 😂
Also, Kurt should update his kitchen, it does not go with that weird living room at all.
It's probably an apartment and he doesn't own it. Most older people don't have thousands of dollars to update homes anyway. Try living on what most have to survive on, now.
Maybe don't be such a snob.
Take your business elsewhere
This dude is a classic Karen 🎉 get a life Dude
Good for him. The staff obviously didn’t want to have to clean the bathroom.
Curt has a beautiful place
People have a right to use the damn bathroom 😠
Really, what part of the Constitution guarantees that?
yours or only other people's,?
this is like sorta a pointless issue but i like that it was solved. better then nothing
Kurt is cool
Not good usa
Let me know when WSVN will let me come by and use the same restroom that Howard uses.
I have ulcerative colitis and I have a card from my doctor which has this on it!
The Restroom Access Act of 2005, known as Ally's Law, requires retail establishments in certain states to make their restroom available to people with certain medical conditions.
Mentira, el pelado los llamó porque estaba histérico que no lo dejaron usar el baño. Ego battle.
Maybe, but a store that sells coffee should have a bathropm for the customers. Especially coffee is known to cause diarrhea. I would have understand if they only sell coffee machine and not coffee itself for not having a bathroom.
This is America, we speak English
Because it's not a public restroom. It doesn't matter if they serve the public, they are not required by law to allow use of a restroom. Lose the entitlement dude its not your restroom.
All people have to go sooner or later. I guess the only choice is outside, big daddy style.
Now all businesses will fall asleep in the customer bathroom, when someone asks they'll say oh it's over there just follow your nose. And they'll have the water turned off and the exhaust fan disabled, and as the years Roll by people will get trained to never ask to use the customer bathroom unless they like to breathe in heavy heavy ammonia smell.