Yeah, I’ve never seen a toilet code either. In fact, in the past 10 years I’ve only seen one or two places in America that had public bathrooms that you had to ask for the keys for. And I’ve seen pay toilets in England. But not a toilet code on a receipt: yet, that is.
I think you might be overestimating the chances of at least of the child pissing themselves. I don’t know about where you live,but where I live most stores don’t have public restrooms.* Neither do train stations and there aren’t public toilets on the street as there are in some tourist areas. I suspect that the parents of children in danger of pissing themselves arrange their travel around restroom availability.
- Target does and larger supermarkets do ( that’s a recent occurrence) and of course enclosed malls do but that’s about it. The fruit store doesn’t, or the drug store or the dollar store or the butcher or the dress shop or the uniform store… They may or may not have restrooms for employees (some may share with other businesses) , and they may allow customers to use them in an emergency but they are not meant for customers like the ones in Target are
those would usually be away from passing trade.
Not where I live- they are usually on the same streets as other businesses, near bus stops etc. But it doesn’t really make a difference to my point - which was basically that a place with few or no non-customers asking to use the restroom might not feel the need to restrict access.
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In the US anyway, I think you’ll find the preponderance of locked bathrooms is mostly correlated with dense urban places above anything else. Even office buildings may have locked bathrooms that can only be accessed by tenants on that floor and nobody else. That’s not the case in the suburbs or the country where non-customers tend to just keep driving to whatever their actual destination is. Since Europe is more urbanized it’s not surprising that they tend to have more locked bathrooms than you’d find in the sprawlburgs of America.
Europe is also the place where you have to pay for refills and condiments, especially at fast food places. Rent is costly. So why provide free toilets for non-paying customers?
And where are there office buildings where people can just walk in and use the bathrooms? I would have expected security requirements to have elminated such possibilities years ago.
I pity some of the small shops in a tourist district near me. People just walking in, through to the back. Then straight back out again a little while later.
You’d think that local government would provide better public facilities, but part of the problem is that in that area, the public facilities are fully occupied for anonymous sex.
I’d think with the small shops at least they’d have the potential of getting some business if one person uses their bathroom the rest of the party will look around the shop.
As far as I know, anonymous sex in public bathrooms isn’t much of a thing these days, at least among gay men. It definitely was in the past, although it was more limited to bathrooms in parks later at night other obscure places. But, I guess it still does since a Republican Senator from Idaho got caught a few years ago in a airport bathroom.
The only bathrooms I know of where anonymous gay sex happens often in bathrooms is on university campuses which are fairly limited access to begin with.
That used to be the case, but not so much these days.
When I worked at a McDonald’s 30+ years ago, we held promotions in which we tried to get a customer’s order filled within 60 seconds of pushing the “total” key on the register, and the tray was loaded up right there at the register where the order had been placed.
If you order at a McDonald’s or Wendy’s today, you get handed a receipt with a number on it, and at the other end of the counter, someone (typically not your cashier) slowly loads your tray up with food and calls out your number when it’s ready. This often takes several minutes or more, depending on how enthusiastic the employees are. I’ve found that this is typically plenty of time to visit the bathroom.
It’s too variable for me. Too often it takes much much longer than is needed to use the bathroom, but more often than that, your order is completed before you are done and you can hear them yelling out your order number impatiently. (At least McDonald’s has never thrown out my order like Five Guys did once when I placed an order then did some shopping while I was waiting: sure, I totally feel like always waiting around inside the store for 10-15 minutes while you grill my burger.)
I’ve seen fast food places with locked restrooms a few times in dodgier neighbourhoods of Toronto. I don’t think any of them had a code on a receipt, but I saw that in Amsterdam once.
Pretty much agree with you back in the day – I don’t live near any parks or know many men at present. But the tourist location I was referring to is a beach location, and I guess guys just pretend they are coming down to the beach to hang out on a Sunday afternoon.
These things take time to percolate up to the ruling classes. It’s become the big thing for the heteros now. Cultural appropriation. 
I literally don’t understand this. I would be too grossed out to have sex in a public washroom. If I wanted to have sex in public(ish), I could think of many other (apparently) cleaner places to do it.