All restaurant bathrooms must have an interior handle or a door that closes in two seconds or less.
You’ve already waited a while for someone to leave or for someone else to come back so your table isn’t left alone like nobody’s eating.
You shouldn’t have to wait 10-15 seconds to gamble on just going immediately and someone coming in (especially if it’s a one person bathroom and thus, no shielding between you and door) or waiting 15 seconds more and letting one slip out of the chamber.
If the door just locks with a deadbolt, that thing better close incredibly fast or have a way for me to yank it shut. No exceptions.
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Can you elaborate on this?
I can’t quite picture what you mean.
So at this one particular restaurant you eat at… the bathroom door does not have an inside handle, and it closes slowly with one of those anti-slam devices. When it finally closes, you can then lock the door? or what?
Precisely. It’s just a flat metal panel to push against to open it, but there’s no way to speed the closing. It has an anti-slam on it, and opens to the outside. Someone outside can push it shut quickly, but that’s it; you’re at the mercy of time without help. Once it shuts you can flip the deadbolt switch (the only locking mechanism), but not until then, and the deadbolt is just one of those smooth rotating metal rectangles that sits against the door. Nothing there to grip at all.
Well that’s just bad design.
Is that sort of thing quite common?
Take my advice and shit somewhere else.
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