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[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 49 points 10 months ago

If a business wanted to charge me to change a baby's diaper in the bathroom, I'd just do it right on the table or whatever in the middle of everyone. Let's see how your business does when everyone is seeing and smelling that business. I hope it's a restaurant.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 17 points 10 months ago

I expect that customers will not blame the business for that. They'll just think you're an inconsiderate person, like all the other parents who think a table where people eat is an appropriate place for their child's faeces...

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Well they’d be wrong in this case.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

Nope, I think they would still be right. No matter what, a baby's shit-covered arse doesn't belong on a table in a restaurant. That's just gross.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

Exactly right, it doesn’t.

Which is why the owners are responsible for providing the safe clean place for them.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago

Making the other customers suffer, and potentially get ill, isn't a reasonable response to a business doing something shitty. Just don't go to restaurants that don't provide baby-changing facilities. Don't expose innocent people to your baby's shit.

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 9 points 10 months ago

I disagree, that is the appropriate response.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

Nope, inflicting excrement on innocent people is never an appropriate response.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Collateral damage in a just war. Don't patronize restaurants that charge for the restroom and you're in the clear there, while also being on the morally correct side of history.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't patronise restaurants that charge for toilet use. But that doesn't put me on the side of parents who put their baby's shitty arse on tables where people eat. Both sides of this "war" are shitty people that I want nothing to do with.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

For their customers, or for anyone who walks off the street?

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Practically for their customers.

Ideologically and wistfully for everyone.

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

My local authority in East London pays local cafes a small amount if they make their toilets available to the general public and display a sign on the door. This feels like a good pragmatic solution to me.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that is definitely a nice, pragmatic solution. I imagine it's cheaper for the local council than running public toilets themselves, too.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Ooh yeah that's not bad at all!

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Based on the coffee shops I've visited, the patrons are just going to piss on the door.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do like the Romans did: ask for a recliner so you can get on your side to fart and piss freely while being fed by women whom you throw scraps of food to pick up from the floor... /s

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 10 months ago

People do this already and there are bathrooms to use. Saw a mom do this on a McDonald's table.

I also rarely eat inside fast food restaurants anymore, coincidentally.

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