"toilet" news and stories

I remember a friend once telling me that it is considered to rude to get up and step away from the table to use the restroom in the middle of a meal. Either "take care of business" before sitting down at the table, or wait until after dinner is over. Well, now you don't have to worry about it either way, because the bathroom is the restaurant!

Well, not exactly. This is a toilet-themed restaurant. Patrons sit on toilets at a table that looks like a glass top over a very large basin/sink. Sitting on toilets might be weird enough, but eating out of dishware that looks like toilets and urinals? Uh, no thank you. I'm not exactly sure which country this restuarant calls home - it looks to be Chinese, but for some reason, something as silly and weird as a toilet-themed restaurant just screams "Japanese!" to me.

A public toilet in Deepdale, Lancashire in the UK is probably not the best choice of buildings for a restaurant to be located, even if the building (described as "crumbling") has not been actively used as a restroom for a decade. And yet the city has just ruled that the building can be converted into a Japanese-pagoda styled takeaway restaurant.

The reason that they want to turn the space into a restaurant - two different people have tried before - is that it is just outside the Deepdale stadium and such a location could do very good business from sports fans. Both previous attempts failed because residents have been opposed to the change on the grounds that a restaurant would create litter and attract vermin. This is particularly ironic considering that the eyesore has been a haven for prostitutes and drug addicts in the past.

I think I'd rather have a takeaway restaurant but, hey - that's just me.

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