Public restrooms are hard to find in America
Shameless plug: I developed a site to help with this in my city Winnipeg called Winnipee.It went viral last summer and had a flurry of activity with community contributions (locations, updates). Winter came, traffic levelled off, and it didn't spike again this summer (though it has remained stable).I tried to track whether it was OK to use the washroom without a purchase, wheelchair accessibility, size. When I worked at McDonald's, an executive told me they wanted their customers to know there was always a bathroom they could use anywhere in the world even if they weren't making a purchase this visit.AFAIK, Starbucks had a similar policy for a long time.It was interesting to see how some locations featured immediately locked down their washrooms.I had a Tim Hortons franchise owner email me and freak out, so we marked her location as "purchase required."It's been pretty brutal here with the meth crisis, though, so I also get it.At the end of the day, I would love for our governments to provide taxpayer funded facilities around the city and even on several of our major highways. We used to have a lot here but they closed almost all of them.You can check it out: https://www.winnipee.com