Is the reason most restaurants in the US don't have pay toilets the same as the reason that many grocery stores in the US don't have a bring your own bag/buy a bag policy? Both pay systems seem to be more common in Europe.
Also, both the grocery stores and the types I restaurants that would seem most likely to have a pay toilet policy (fast food-type joints, I guess) seem to have low profit margins. Is there something that would cause a business that has low profit margins to have "give aways". I would think that customers to either type of business would be very value orientented and the firms would do all they could to lower the price- i.e. no freebies. But, is it just the opposite, if a firm has small profit margins, it can't gain much from lowering the price any more, but can gain from promotional type things such as free bathrooms and free bags? Jason
