Are toilets in cafes mandatory

[getpooh]

In my local bakers there is a customers toilet with a notice on the door stating "Not for customer use". Is this allowed. The cafe has a large seating area of 20 X 2 person tables. The sign has been like this for months. I have now covertly filmed staff going using a key to use the toilet. I have asked to use the toilet and have been told that it is not for customer use. Any ideas?

[Buenchico]

Boxtops:
Exactly the same thought crossed my mind earlier. But then I remembered that (since my mother named me after Christopher Robin) I really ought to know who Pooh is!

[JonnyBoy12]

I would make a joke about this but you would just call it toilet humour. It would be a cr*p joke anyway.

[DTCwordfan]

bog off, johnny, lol....

let's hear it then, especially as the Super "Bowl" is on tonight.

[JRB]

As I have always understood it they are obliged to provide toilets for staff but not customers.

[Buenchico]

JRB:
To the best of my knowledge, the only legal obligation is to provide hand-washing facilities for staff. (There are quite a few takeaway food facilities - with some seating for customers - around Covent Garden where I've noticed the staff leaving the premises to use the loo [usually in a neighbouring shop]).

[hc4361]

Motorway service stations are legally obliged to provide free toilet facilities.
The bill for toilet paper alone runs in to hundreds of thousands of pounds, never mind the cleaners, soap, water rates, electricity, repairs and maintenance.


As far as I know, this facility is the only type legally obliged to provide toilet facilities.