Because it’s meant to be a single-user restroom, just like the more common ones that don’t have a urinal. I can only guess, but that urinal must be there as a water-saving device because if it was meant for two people to use at once, there would be a stall with a door.
Unless there are surveillance cameras aimed at the stalls or the local building code specifies how much privacy users require within a single-sex restroom I don’t see what the legal issue would be. “The public” in this scenario is merely other users of the restroom, not all of the customers of the restaurant.
Because sometime the dude is a dudette. It’s a unisex restroom.
Yes, I’ve been in many multi-user unisex restrooms, but they typically have serious partitions. Not something your McD’s or Subway is going to undertake…
Nevermind - I see up above you are calling out male specific rooms. Either way, these type rooms should all convert to unisex.
My college has two unisex single-stall restrooms, next to each other. One has a urinal, the other one doesn’t. They had previously been a Men’s restroom and a Women’s restroom, and were changed to unisex for various reasons (and why not?)
I was in a very trashy dive bar that had one bathroom. A crudely made sign on the door said, “ONE AT A TIME YOU FILTHY ANIMALS”.
We ran across both aviation-style latrines in our trek at Philmont back in the 80s.
Pilot-to-copilot: Two holes side by side The most common sort.
Pilot-to-bombardier: Two holes back to back. The one I remember some joker had placed beside a not quite cliff, so that the people using it were visible for a long way away.
If it exfoliates your scalp well, does it really matter?
It’s not the product; it’s the production.
At least I haven’t heard stories of getting real weird of something like “Rowboat”, where the holes are front to front, so you get to stare your neighbor in the eyes as you do your business.
On the Appalachian Trail there is a 2 seater privy called 'Your Move". Between the 2 seats is a cribbage board. It was never really intended to be used by 2 at the same time (and the board is a joke to admire when one does their business), though I’m sure it happened at times. It was done this way to increase the capacity of the privy and thus last longer before maintaining it as hikers will have to chose one of the other, and thus spread the wealth between 2 areas in the pit (or composting pile) Never being at Philmont, but at other BSA camps, I know those privy’s get serious usage and perhaps they were 2 seaters for that reason.
I feel obligated to post this.
There was a tandem toilet at the Sochi Olympics in 2014.
Side-by-side toilets in a single bathroom caused a social media sensation when they were discovered at the biathlon course of the Sochi Olympics.
Maybe that was just a mistranslation of “biathlon”.
I’ve never seen this in any kind of business establishment, but throughout my years in the L.A. public schools (1963 - 1975) the stalls in the boys’ bathrooms never had doors. In all that time, I used a stall maybe twice, when I just couldn’t wait until I got home.
Oops – already said that a few months ago…
wow so did I