Lonestar – a review in the toilet

November 21st, 2007 | Grant Tingley

Lonestar is a steakhouse… and the food is decent… nothing special, and the atmosphere is alright… but the biggest gripe I have with the place is the layout of the bathroom…

I think we all can agree that there are certain rules and expectations that people should take into account when designing the potty center of the restaurant…

First… let me introduce you to the men’s washroom at the restaurant in question…

Here is the door from the inside of the washroom… nothing crazy here… standard operating procedure in the design here, the door opens into the bathroom, and they used the standard brushed aluminum style of handle…

Any problems with what they have in this area of the bathroom? Well nothing comes to mind yet, but lets see if something does happen to enter the equation…

Next picture please…

Here is the counter and sink section of the washroom…
To get your layout down… you can see that that wall on the right is the wall on the left in the picture of the door. You can even see the door in the mirror… everything looks normal… no problem that i can see… Easy access to the soap, a good amount of space for the two sinks. I even like the color!

Ok next picture…

Here in this pic you can see the sink, and the poop-icle* that is off to the left, and you can also locate the urinal in the mirror… So these three pictures are perfectly designed to cover the whole bathroom… and it all seems normal…

WAIT!!! what the crap? Lets get a closer look…

LOOK!!! The automated towel machine is right by the crapper… WHAT THE … crap?!?! If you note the first and second pictures… there is a wall that is in between the sinks and the door, and that would be PER-er-er-ERFECT for the towel dispensers…

I think we can all agree the last place we want to be when drying our damp hands is in the lines of the exit strategy to the guy that was grinding away mercilessly on his large intestine… and we wonder why the bathrooms always have the same amount of liquid on the floor that the catacombs underneath the Italian streets that Indiana Jones wondered through contained…

To sum up…
Move the towel dispenser closer to the sink for two reasons…
1. It is SO CLOSE TO THE POOP area… AKA the PA
2. The drips will make the PA’s Systematic exit a horrible safety concern…

Epilogue:
People don’t know how to design, but I just wanted to warn you all in case you went to the Lonestar location in corona, ca… beware…

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