[joenot443]

A lot of European countries I've been to suffer an even worse result - restaurants are legally allowed to _charge_ already paying customers to use a restroom. Coming from Canada, I can never imagine treating your patrons like that.

[Scarblac]

What country? I've never experienced this in any European country I've been to.

Edit: no, once. The McDonald's in the Netherlands on the A16 highway, right after the Belgian border has paid toilets, even for customers. It's a disgrace.

[joenot443]

I mentioned below, but in my case it was Netherlands and Germany. I'm seeing now it's not a very widespread practice, I just got unlucky last time I visited.

[fragmede]

When I visited Paris and Berlin, there were pay toilets.

I'd rather pay for toilets and have them be clean, than free and dirty.

[kyriakos]

It seems to be a central Europe issue from my anecdotal experience.

[herbst]

Little Germany or Netherlands experience here. But in Austria, Italy and Switzerland I never encountered a toilet in a bar/restaurant you had to pay for.

[kyriakos]

Never had problem in Denmark, Austria, Italy, Greece, Cyprus but did find places without restrooms in Germany France and UK.

[Agingcoder]

Which countries ? I’ve never been to a place where as an already paying customer I had to pay for the restroom. You often do see signs ‘customers only’ on the restroom though.

[joenot443]

If I recall, it was fast food type joints in Netherlands and Germany. What blew my mind was that these places would employ someone to actually stand guard at the washrooms and collect payment. Wild behavior, in my opinion.