Banyo, shopping centre toilets are not actually public toilets, they are facilities provided to the shoppers and paid for by the tenants.

Butch,
Firstly, read the opening post again, he/she did not say anything about using taxpayers money!

Secondly, it is a bit concerning that you, a former butcher, say you are not concerned about germs. For a food handler, you should be very concerned about hygiene. I would expect that you have spent a lot of time insisting that your staff washed hands often and that you expected the shops to be sparkling cleaned at the end of the day.

Or was that only to satisfy the heath regulators? I hope it was not 'out of sight, out of mind'. There are too many dirty food places.

Bit surprized that you think hygiene is unimportant.

Butch,
The toilets at shopping centres are the most used public toilets these days, as are the ones at service stations. They are built for use by the public. i.e. customers. The centre management pays for cleaning, etc. which is part of shop rental fees. The better the toilet facilities, the more customers that centre will attract.

The point Is Mse was making is that many toilets are poorly designed and could be improved for better hygiene.

I am an old bushy and not overly fastidious, but I do know people do carry and distribute bacteria like e coli. The more people, the more germs are spread.

The more people you have the more deceases will surface. Hygiene is important that goes without saying but there are those who live super hygienic & they're the ones that get sick easily & cost the rest of us a lot. travellers are the main culprits. Travellers decease carrying tax anyone ?
There's no real answer to that particular problem. Accept that & do your best to keep away from public toilets. I mean we all know what types frequent them most.

Banyo, whenni say I domt get bothered by germs, what I mean is Im one who be Ives that it better to be exposed as it increases your amune system.

As for hiegene in my buts her shops, I was always annal about cleaning and sanitizing. Even today I always wash my hands before touching food stuffs.

I do think some people go overboard and, they can be quite over reacting. One example being when I upset a guy who said to me one day, "I purchased a ham and salad roll from the servo today, and the lady who made it didnt even wash her hands first". Of cause I said, that was terrible, so tell me, did you wash your hands before you ate it, he said no, then I said, do you think that lady might have pumped fuel, touching the hadle that hundreds a day touch, before she made your roll. He said, you're just a smart arse.

Finally, most shopping centre toilets are very clean, and they are usually cleaned on a very regular basis. They also are less likely to have peop,e with dirty hands entering them.

So as I say, if you are concerned, the best solution is to take your own bacterial wipes.

I have seen on a number of occasions workers (men) in Shopping Center use the toilets, leave without washing there hands (in male public toilets about 50% don't wash their hands). These workers have often been seen back at the job preparing and selling food, serving etc.
Small business are literally killing their customers through dirty practices, this is very common. Butch I'm not having a go at you, I did once report a local butcher which I observed smoking while he chopped meat on the block very early one morning.

This name and shame file makes for interesting reading.

http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/penalty-notices/