How to Properly Design a Restroom Door for a Restaurant

It appears that many restroom door entrances in restaurants are still being designed using the unsanitary traditions of the 20th Century, and perhaps with a since of humor. The last Arby's Roast Beef, Subway Sandwich shop, and Taco Bell, I visited, have upgraded to 21st century thinking. Don't get left behind.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Design a door that opens outward from a restroom instead of inward with no knob turning required to exit.
2. Install a dead bolt lock if your restroom is designed for only one visitor at a time.
3. If the door requires a firm shut to keep it closed, install an internal
   door opener like a hospital designed one, that you can unlatch merely by backing into it.
4. Replacing an existing door knob with a side angled lever is the very least you should do to upgrade, when other upgrades are not economically feasible for your situation.
5. Having a place for cooks and customers to wash outside of the restroom is the alternative remedy to meet sanitation standards.

Tips & Warnings

• A recent law requiring cooks to wash before they return to the kitchen is at least one step away from barbaric practices. Example: a cook goes to the restroom and then washes their hands. They've fulfilled their legal obligation.
• It's true that a lot of restaurants built with yesterdays traditions can't be modified to meet new health preferences without tearing down and rebuilding. However, new restaurant builders should build with thoughts for our health' s sake or be replaced. If necessary forward these thoughts to law makers. Let's give it our best to keep ourselves and our children healthy.
• If you have to grab and twist a door knob to get out of a restroom, it can be left up to your imagination, "did the other people that grabbed this door knob prior to me wash their hands?" Further more, if the door knob is found to be wet, you're left to wonder, "is the door knob wet because someone before me didn't dry their hands or is it wet because they didn't wash at all?"