You’ve been there. You know you have. You are out in public and well, when you have to go… you have to go. Heading into the nearest possible bathroom, you wait slightly impatiently for the restroom to clear out before you bolt yourself into the last stall. You do your business, reach for the toilet paper and it’s the thinnest paper you have ever felt in your life. I mean, you can’t even pull it without tearing it into nine tiny peices. The best you can do is reach up into the plastic covered dispenser and manually make the spool of paper turn as to let some escape from the plastic cage encasingg it.
It takes longer to wipe than it does to actually expell the waste from your bowels. I am not trying to be profane here, and that’s even with a somewhat normal bowel movement.
Let me explain why this even matters.
If you walk into a Walmart bathroom. You expect it to be less than ideal. Cheap paper. Dirty stalls. Floor needing to be swept/mopped/sterilized.
If you walk into your favorite coffeeshop, you expect better quality. None of that cheap non-absorbant paper that feels like sandpaper, ‘rips-when-you-sneeze-in-it’s-general-direction’ type of stuff.
I know it’s more expensive. Maybe it doesn’t clog the toilet so often. Maybe it’s even more hypoallergenic (I doubt it) that normal paper that you would find in your own home. But this simple act of kindness can tell a lot about your business ideology.
Do you care? What kind of products do you use? Cheap? Economical and (to put it bluntly), butt-friendly? If you care enough to use the best ingriedients for your coffee, maybe you will use at least something comparable for other things your customers will experience of your establishment or even your church! The alternative is that if you are offering sub-standard products in even the smallest way, you are probably offering sub-standard products in larger facets of your establisment.
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Nope, I don’t care about how quilty and comfy the TP is. I can just layer up if need be. I do care if the staff is friendly, the place is maintained and the bathroom is kept clean.
really? Maybe it is just me then? One of those little pet peeves that really just annoy me. Must post something else and let it be relinquished to archives in that case….lol
LOL wow I never thought of this before, and I am usually analytical about certain things myself…wait til I bring this one up to Ryan lol