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One of the nice little common questions I get is "Where is the bathroom?" followed by "Are you serious?"
According to the county code, Malls must have bathrooms at a respectable distance from any point of the public areas of the mall. In our mall, the Anchor Stores, the Food Court, and an "auxiliary" bathroom converted from a former restaurant's space are the public restrooms. Where we're located, an Anchor Store and the "auxiliary" bathroom on the second floor are the closest, about a minute away for both.
The same codes also specify that unless you have a certain amount of square footage, your not required to install public bathrooms. The store, while being big, doesn't meet the required building codes by thousands of square feet. Even the previous tenants weren't required to install public bathrooms (which was a former Market BTW).
Being we have a huge space, customers expect us to have a bathroom, right? When we try to explain to them the county building code, they get mad at us.
Example:
C: Where are your bathrooms?
Me: You need to go to (Anchor Store) or the ones upstairs where (store) is now.
C: You don't have any bathrooms?
Me: County building codes says we don't need them.
C: Well thats stupid!!
Me: *sigh* Complain to the County, not us ma'am.
It's almost getting to the point that giving them a bucket would be acceptable to them than walking the 250 feet to the Anchor store's bathroom.
According to the county code, Malls must have bathrooms at a respectable distance from any point of the public areas of the mall. In our mall, the Anchor Stores, the Food Court, and an "auxiliary" bathroom converted from a former restaurant's space are the public restrooms. Where we're located, an Anchor Store and the "auxiliary" bathroom on the second floor are the closest, about a minute away for both.
The same codes also specify that unless you have a certain amount of square footage, your not required to install public bathrooms. The store, while being big, doesn't meet the required building codes by thousands of square feet. Even the previous tenants weren't required to install public bathrooms (which was a former Market BTW).
Being we have a huge space, customers expect us to have a bathroom, right? When we try to explain to them the county building code, they get mad at us.
Example:
C: Where are your bathrooms?
Me: You need to go to (Anchor Store) or the ones upstairs where (store) is now.
C: You don't have any bathrooms?
Me: County building codes says we don't need them.
C: Well thats stupid!!
Me: *sigh* Complain to the County, not us ma'am.
It's almost getting to the point that giving them a bucket would be acceptable to them than walking the 250 feet to the Anchor store's bathroom.
You can't win either way.
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