Toilets

Going down the pan!

22-Jan-2024 By Ed Bedington

Top toilets are vital for any pub operation, but are we always getting it right. The Lock In team go beyond the u-bend to find out how you can up your loo offer!

Can customers getting takeaways from pubs use the toilets?

23-Jun-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Pub toilets can be open for customers who are collecting takeaways provided the layout of the pub is suitable and subject to a risk assessment.

GK’s toilet signage to raise awareness of invisible disabilities

31-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

Greene King is rolling out a new signs outside all accessible toilets across its estate from next month to raise awareness of those with invisible disabilities.

Wine and charcuterie bar to open in former public toilets

04-Jul-2014 By Elliot Kuruvita

A wine and charcuterie bar is set to open on the site of a former underground public toilet in Clapham, South London, later this month.

Legal: Public convenience politics

04-Nov-2010

It was once the case that a British restaurant would have terrible food but wonderful toilets, whereas a French restaurant would have fantastic food...

Gloucester pubs sign up to community toilet scheme

28-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit

Three Gloucester pubs are being paid around £600 to let non-customers use their toilets as part of a year-long trial of a community toilet scheme....

Drugs in pubs: How clean is your pub?

23-Apr-2009 By James Wilmore

Trying to stop drugs being taken in the pub toilet is no easy task for licensees. Most drug taking in pubs is done in a toilet cubicle -...

Free access to loos earns pubs reward

14-Feb-2008

Pubs in Lambeth can earn grants of up to £1,000 a year for allowing the public to use their toilets. Pubs, shops, restaurants and other businesses...

Where small is beautiful

14-Feb-2008

It is false economy to devote as little time and money to your toilets as you can get away with, as recent research shows. Catherine Quinn reports...

Trade boss slams move to open toilets

21-Jun-2007

A trade leader claims pubs could become centres for drug traders if licensees are forced to open their toilets to the public. Guild of Master...

Andrew Pring asks for a penny for your thoughts

24-May-2007 By Andrew Pring

In a week when the Government announces its new alcohol strategy, it seems strangely perverse to write about public access to pub toilets. But for...

Thief steals urinal from pub

08-Jan-2007

A licensee thought someone was taking the pee when he discovered a urinal had been stolen from his pub toilets. Alan Dreja, licensee of the Royal Oak...

Is it time to spend a penny?

01-Dec-2006

Pub toilets can leave an impression on your customers as indelible as that created by food. Humayun Hussain reports. Acracked toilet seat or dirty...

Anger over calls to make loos go public

26-Oct-2006 By John Harrington john.harrington@william-reed.co.u

Licensees have reacted furiously to fears that pubs could be forced to open their loos to the public. Guild of Master Victuallers chairman Godfrey...

Hosts demand rate cut for public use of toilets

14-Sep-2006 By Ewan Turney

Reduce business rates and we will allow the general public to use our toilets - that's the solution being offered to the great toilet debate by a...

Dissolving a wee problem

27-Jun-2006

Men's toilets are notorious for being smelly, unpleasant places. Cleaners hate cleaning them, maintenance engineers hate maintaining them. However...

Raising bog standards

08-Mar-2002

The condition of your smallest room can be a big deal with some of your customers. Phil Mellows looks at the latest thinking on toilet hygieneWhile...