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McDonalds has clean bathrooms? That's news to me. Source: went for a wee in a McDo in Belgium last week, place was predictably disgusting.

spike021 7y ago
They probably mean in Japan. Which to be quite honest was my experience while visiting for nearly a month two months ago. Bathrooms in general in Japan are very clean, and McDonald's is one of the great places with decent bathrooms to use there.
- Tharkun 7y ago
  That would make sense, actually, thanks for clarifying that.
mft_ 7y ago
I don't want to cast aspersions on Belgium, but that's atypical. My experience is that wherever you are in the world, McDonald's is usually reliable for its food (you know what you're getting, even if you're not a huge fan of it) and its decent toilets. (I admit there may be some residual rose-tinted-ness to my opinion here, after staying on a Greek island years ago; after days struggling with the idiosyncratic local toilets (stinking holes in the floor; dirty paper in a bin, not flushed) the clean porcelain throne in the McDonald's in the capital was like an oasis in the desert...)
- glenneroo 7y ago
  Continuing on your Greek tangent, Greek pipes are generally not built to handle paper products, therefore you are supposed to throw it in a small trash bin, which may sound disgusting but they generally are rather airtight and you honestly don't smell anything if you use them properly. The alternative is clogging the pipes, which from my experience living in multiple Greek cities, happens a lot especially due to the influx of tourists who don't know any better and/or ignore any signage.
  - logfromblammo 7y ago
    In my experience (in the mid-90s), Greek pipes weren't even built to handle an above-the-median #2. And while a wastepaper bin was standard-issue adjacent to tourist-frequented toilets, a decent plunger was not. Which seems odd, given how cheap plungers are in comparison to service employees.
    - glenneroo 7y ago
      From my own observations and talking with lots of residents, plumbers would come unclog at the street level or somewhere inside the lower floors of multi-story buildings. Most people I asked said it happened pretty routinely, sometimes multiple times per month. I'm not sure a plunger would help much for a blockage 20+ meters away.
- Tharkun 7y ago
  Really? I don't recall ever having used a clean McDo toilet. I can clearly recall filthy toilets in France, Belgium & the UK. I'm not sure where you frequent McDo, but it sounds to me like your experience is more atypical than mine.
  - mft_ 7y ago
    To be fair, it's probably a while since I've been to a McDonald's toilet - I've not chosen to eat there for years. Maybe I'll have to start frequenting them more and reviewing their toilets ;)
  - zrobotics 7y ago
    At least in the US, if I'm on the road and need to use the toilet I'll prefer to stop at mickey D's; I don't like the food so I'll often only buy a small order of fries but they're generally a very reliable bet as far as some of the most decent restrooms available.

spike021 7y ago

They probably mean in Japan. Which to be quite honest was my experience while visiting for nearly a month two months ago. Bathrooms in general in Japan are very clean, and McDonald's is one of the great places with decent bathrooms to use there.

Tharkun 7y ago
That would make sense, actually, thanks for clarifying that.

mft_ 7y ago

I don't want to cast aspersions on Belgium, but that's atypical. My experience is that wherever you are in the world, McDonald's is usually reliable for its food (you know what you're getting, even if you're not a huge fan of it) and its decent toilets. (I admit there may be some residual rose-tinted-ness to my opinion here, after staying on a Greek island years ago; after days struggling with the idiosyncratic local toilets (stinking holes in the floor; dirty paper in a bin, not flushed) the clean porcelain throne in the McDonald's in the capital was like an oasis in the desert...)

glenneroo 7y ago
Continuing on your Greek tangent, Greek pipes are generally not built to handle paper products, therefore you are supposed to throw it in a small trash bin, which may sound disgusting but they generally are rather airtight and you honestly don't smell anything if you use them properly. The alternative is clogging the pipes, which from my experience living in multiple Greek cities, happens a lot especially due to the influx of tourists who don't know any better and/or ignore any signage.
- logfromblammo 7y ago
  In my experience (in the mid-90s), Greek pipes weren't even built to handle an above-the-median #2. And while a wastepaper bin was standard-issue adjacent to tourist-frequented toilets, a decent plunger was not. Which seems odd, given how cheap plungers are in comparison to service employees.
  - glenneroo 7y ago
    From my own observations and talking with lots of residents, plumbers would come unclog at the street level or somewhere inside the lower floors of multi-story buildings. Most people I asked said it happened pretty routinely, sometimes multiple times per month. I'm not sure a plunger would help much for a blockage 20+ meters away.
Tharkun 7y ago
Really? I don't recall ever having used a clean McDo toilet. I can clearly recall filthy toilets in France, Belgium & the UK. I'm not sure where you frequent McDo, but it sounds to me like your experience is more atypical than mine.
- mft_ 7y ago
  To be fair, it's probably a while since I've been to a McDonald's toilet - I've not chosen to eat there for years. Maybe I'll have to start frequenting them more and reviewing their toilets ;)
- zrobotics 7y ago
  At least in the US, if I'm on the road and need to use the toilet I'll prefer to stop at mickey D's; I don't like the food so I'll often only buy a small order of fries but they're generally a very reliable bet as far as some of the most decent restrooms available.