Coming soon to a restroom near you... inevitably:


Friday, December 17, 2010

China Platter in Bountiful's Colonial Square



Here's a little welcome to us. Why is it that I always feel like the signs are referring to me?





Great ambient in this place, with a price that you can't beat. Plus the food is delicious. This was a large wall panel right above where we were eating our delicious food.




The restroom certainly wasn't Grand America, with some fixtures that were kind of old, but it was clean. You could tell that it was cleaned, and very well maintained. The restroom was a great one in its rating. You can still be great without being Grand America.



But this restroom had something else too. It spoke to me. Look at the sign below. As I have been more tied to restrooms these past couple years I have noticed an alarming trend. From gas stations, to restaurants, to capital buildings and parks, a class of people are everywhere among us, and they are not washing their hands.



They come from every strata of society, and though of course I can only speak for the men in the restrooms I've visited, there's rarely a time I use the restroom where at least one person doesn't breeze through, drifting in and out without the sound of running water in the sink. (I'd like to imagine ladies are more conscious of the importance of this.) I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them. I'm just saying they don't wash their hands.

As a general, well intentioned message for dissemination among the world with whom we shake hands in greeting, please... Just, please.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Long Anticipated Grand America


There's been a little lapse, but I've been sitting on a great restroom for a while now. It's the Grand America, almost voted the winner of the best restroom in America, but it lost at the end. http://www.bestrestroom.com/us/Hall_of_Fame/2010/fountain.asp

Is it as nice as they say?

Nice...



Classy...



Oh yes, the restroom...



With a restroom like this, the overall aesthetic is nice, but a lot of what really makes a restroom is in the details.



Cloth hand wipes and clean fixtures...



Elegant, without being gaudy...



That was almost my favorite. And that light fixture was in bathroom stalls as well. But of course, the favorite was that each roll of toilet paper was folded into a triangle.

It was nice, and do you really need automatic everything in a restroom like that? I think they were balanced well. Nor is automatic so necessary in a place like this, since the room was clean everywhere, and very well maintained. It has to be the best restroom visited yet, while bordering on being so nice as to make me uncomfortable to use it, for fear of marring its perfect state.

So, I give it a pristine rating, which it embodies while maintaining a classy, and still comfortable feel.

Monday, December 6, 2010

It's the home stretch!

Look for a post tomorrow. I've got the Grand America visited! And then a really cool aesthetic from a local chinese restaurant with really good food. :) China Platter!

On Bathroom Aesthetics and Impartiality

Since we tend to pay attention in general to our surroundings, in restrooms the details are all assimilated and translated into very generalized responses.

In other words, sometimes for as clean as a restroom may be, the aesthetics are just wrong and leave you feeling icky. I'll try to be as impartial as possible, but let's face it, a lot comes down to how I generally feel while there.

This will undoubtedly, inevitably show in my ratings.

Restroom Goals

Restrooms that I would like to rate, but will take some time to get there.

1. Angel's Landing - Scout Lookout (It is a strenuous, 2.5 mile hike to the top. Well worth it, probably nasty, but I'm not there yet in any case. :)

2. The Louvre - obviously great, it would have to be.