MIO + TUO cafe

Ack! Their bathroom wasn’t working! I think that’s a violation of public health code. And, at a minimum, this is a café, so people will need to go to the bathroom! Especially after drinking coffee. ;) The place was really sweet. The servers were great. She made me a drink that wasn’t on the menu. Nothing to fault there. But not having a working bathroom is just a dealbreaker. I’m assuming they had a handwashing station in the back, because they had running water and they were making drinks, so that sanitary element was not really the issue for me. But not having access to a toilet, as a customer, is an issue. They did tell me that I could go next-door to the building and just tell them that I was in the café and they would let me use the bathroom in the lobby. But when I did that, the person said the lobby bathroom is not to be used and she was nice enough to let me up all the way to the 10th floor where there was a bathroom near their outdoor area. And she told me that she thought that the only people using their bathroom were supposed to be workers in the café. So I think that the folks in the café should have had a deal with the building next-door to let all of their patrons use the bathroom, even if they had to give them free drinks or something. It just seems really odd not to have a bathroom in use as a restaurant. I do understand sometimes the restaurants will point you to a public bathroom, that’s totally fine, and sometimes they’re across the street, or down the hallway, such as in a large shopping mall, or outdoor shopping area, and there are some clusters of places in other countries that have a lot of restaurants surrounding a single larger grocery store and all of the patrons go to the grocery store, but the grocery store is aware of this. This cafe was surrounded by residential, and so I think the only option was the building next-door, but they should’ve made it clearer with the building next-door that this was going to be happening until they fixed their bathroom. I was going to stay and have some food. That was my plan. To have a coffee drink and work a bit and then grab some lunch, but since there was no bathroom, and I already used Nextdoor once, and it was a trek up to the 10th floor, I walked back to the hotel and used the bathroom. So I’ll just grab something in another café nearby that has a working bathroom!