This is more of an observation, but the TGI Firdays in my area placed a urinal in a very unusual place.
You walk into the restroom (after having some drinks at the bar during happy hour) and see a very normal looking public restroom. There are two urinals on the wall to your right with a wall as a partition (very nice). The stalls are directly ahead in the back. Sinks on left. Nothing unusual right?
Well if you go to the stalls and look back towards the entrance, you can see a third urinal hidden in the wall right behind the sinks and directly in front of the left stall. Unless you use the left stall or are wandering the bathroom looking for stuff, you will never see this urinal.
It comes out of nowhere.... but gives great privacy. I wonder why they decided to place the urinal there in the first place... but no matter.
Personally, I only use that urinal now when I go there. I think I am the only one who knows about it because its always available, not to mention the most clean.
I wonder if there are other restrooms with hidden urinals somwhere.......
Personally, I think that the hidden urinal is phenomenal. You are probably right in your assumption that since it's the cleanest that it is probably not used too often. Overall, this TGI Fridays that you have dined at seems to have gotten the restroom layout correct. Props to TGI Fridays!
-SocraPees
So, my fiance and I went to Sweet Tomato, which is like a salad all-you-can-eat buffet. The place is great; there is salad, pizza, pasta, and great soft drinks--definitely recommend going there if you want to eat healthy. Anyway--I went to the restroom to simply take a piss. Nice restroom--it was kept clean, with partitions of an acceptable height and decent spacing. However, as I was pissing there was this dude just letting loose in the stall. I mean damn--I've heard of nasty shits, but this guy was taking it to the next level; that is, he went beyond explosive diarrhea, and in to the realm of atomic bomb Hiroshima style diarrhea. Honestly, really bad news. Turns out that he must of have been finishing up--as I was washing my hands, an old Man (of about 70) with the biggest grin you ever saw walked out. Obviously, he must have felt better.... only thing is, I don't know if he washed his hands....
-SocraPees