R-Bar: Brighton, United Kingdom
Dedicated to bringing color and fun to the whole bathroom experience, Bathroom Mania’s most creative and controversial product to date is their Kisses collection of urinals. Complaints from shocked patrons around the globe have forced Bathroom Mania to remove the open-mouthed urinals from lounges and restaurant like the Clubhouse in JFK Airport, New York and from a McDonald’s in the Netherlands, but the more open-minded gay folk over at R-Bar in Brighton UK don’t seem to feel threatened at all.
Sofitel Hotel: Queenstown, New Zealand
Words like “stage fright” and “performance anxiety” come to mind when visiting the men’s restroom in the Sofitel Hotel in Queenstown New Zealand. Life size images of local models adorn the walls, some are impressed, some are holding cameras, tape measures, and should you end up at the wrong urinal, some will make you feel as though you are hobbit-sized. I’ve seen a restaurant take this concept one step further. They’ve installed an eye-level, flat-screen television, which plays a looped video of two women looking down and giggling to themselves. As a man this seems to be a little unfair. Could you imagine the uproar if women were to suddenly find the staring faces of male models, lining the inside of their toilet bowls?
Originally posted by GCG
[b]Sofitel Hotel: Queenstown, New ZealandWords like “stage fright” and “performance anxiety” come to mind when visiting the men’s restroom in the Sofitel Hotel in Queenstown New Zealand. Life size images of local models adorn the walls, some are impressed, some are holding cameras, tape measures, and should you end up at the wrong urinal, some will make you feel as though you are hobbit-sized. I’ve seen a restaurant take this concept one step further. They’ve installed an eye-level, flat-screen television, which plays a looped video of two women looking down and giggling to themselves. As a man this seems to be a little unfair. Could you imagine the uproar if women were to suddenly find the staring faces of male models, lining the inside of their toilet bowls? [/B]
I had a sig of that once.
Jungle Jim’s International Market: Fairfield, Ohio
Winning the 6th annual “America’s Best Restroom” award last year, Jungle Jim’s International Market offers visitors a pleasant surprise. At first glance you’re like “Great! I thought I was in a restaurant, not a rock concert!” But as you hold your breath and open the door to the port-o-let you’re lead into a whole new world. The Narnia of restroom experiences, visitors make their way through a hidden hallway and into an exquisitely decorated 10 stall restroom, complete with flowers, marble, soft green tile, tropical pictures and more.
Taichung, Taiwan
This seafood restaurant never lets its patrons forget where all the delicious sea-treats comes from.
Dining out takes on a whole new dimension when your friend or date gets back to the table and excitedly informs you “Dude, you gotta go in there, the bathroom’s awesome!” As any restaurant owner will tell you it’s very difficult to get customers into your store, and once you’ve got them, your livelihood depends on getting them to come back, hopefully with friends. Oh sure, you can dazzle them with things like “delicious food” and “impeccable service,” but with so many restaurants offering these very qualities, the task now becomes standing out from the rest, sticking in people’s brains, get them talking. Who’s going to forget having their equipment measured and critically acclaimed by two-dimensional supermodels? Or opening the door of a port-o-let to discover a magical kingdom of tiles and toilets? So the next time anyone tries to sell you on a restaurant, going on and on about the food and the ambiance and all that jazz, just ask them, “Oh yeah? Well how are the restrooms?”