So on 2/20/2010, a couple friends and I visited Tugboat [London Style] Fish & Chips in Lincoln. The sign on the window says “and Sushi”…and we were a little nervous at the prospect of fish and chips and sushi. I ordered a piece of fish and a piece of chicken with chips, and they were pretty good. However…the sushi was very good! There are a few sushi places in Lincoln, so I can see why they’d serve both, but that was pretty freakin’ good sushi. I’d definitely recommend you check em out for the sushi, and give the fish and chips the ol’ college try!

The bathroom was pretty impressive…it was painted two-tone aqua and white and nicely decorated! I’m not sure what the deal was with putting the toilet paper so high (see picture #2), but that was really the only complaint I had here.  The art was pretty cool, too. Overall, I’ll give ‘em three-and-a-half rolls for a great bathroom (they would have gotten four except for that toilet paper height…I fail to see the logic in design when everything else was so well done!) I thought the flowers and bow-and-arrow set with quiver was certainly interesting. Cupid anyone?

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I need to get out more…and travel, so I can review some bathrooms not in the Sacramento area. Which reminds me…if you’re interested in writing for us, pop me an email at goodies[at]nobathanksthroomgoodies[dot]com. We’d love to hear from ya (and hopefully get a crazy bathroom or two in!)

Okey dokey…wow, this was further back than I thought! Here I was thinking I was gonna talk a bit about the Double Down sandwich and it turns out this was a much earlier outing (I guess twice in 3-4 months isn’t horrible). So I can only guess this was about the time they released the grilled spicy wings (would be about right…around football season marching toward “the big game”—thanks for not suing me, NFL!). On a side note, the Double Down sandwich a couple months later was alright, but overly greasy (they were fresh…think they might have needed to sit a bit), and frankly, missing a bun. Not sure about the missing bun thing…although it probably saves a couple hundred calories off a quarter of your daily intake (540 original/460 grilled…nearly half from fat…from KFC’s nutritional document—requires Adobe Reader). Two trips in four months now seems like more than enough.

Anyway…onto the bathrooms…they’re more or less your “neo-typical” fast-food bathrooms. Nothing fancy, but not the old dingy look from back in the day. They’re nicely accented with red tiles on the white background, and the staff does a decent job of keeping them clean. I’ll give ‘em 3 rolls for a clean bathroom and not the plain ol’ white.

I always like to see clean restrooms in fast food joints because it’s slightly encouraging that the kitchen may not be terrible. People get all weirded out with bacteria and grease build-up, but are a-okay with eating two slices of pepperjack cheese and two slices of bacon between two fried chicken breasts…

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I stopped at Carl’s Jr. on Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin on October 9, 2009. I have no idea what I ate; if they had those Chicken Parmesean sandwiches, I had one of those…but I’m not sure. On a side note, their Big Carl with an extra bun is a great way to enjoy that sandwich.  There’s even a Facebook Fan Page and Group Page for that fantastic “modified” Big Carl!

This is a quickie…I’ll get right onto the bathroom. First, I thought the “hammered steel” look was great on the stalls. I don’t know whether it really was hammered metal or just a “skin”-type dealio. Either way, it was pretty damn cool. Other than that, the bathroom was pretty standard…paper towels (yay!), a handwashing reminder (complete with Carl’s Jr. star), and a door that pushed open from inside the bathroom.

People forget, but that last one is pretty freakin’ important. Let’s face it…some people just don’t wash their hands. Sure that’s gross—and can spread disease—but ya know, people are gonna do whatever they’re gonna do. The least stores can do is make that door open out from the inside, so if you don’t wanna touch it you don’t have to (and you don’t have to waste paper towels). I won’t recommend a Chuck Norris kick to open it, but a gentle push with your toes oughta do the trick. 4 rolls for the stalls, overall cleanliness, paper towels in a fast food joint, and that door!

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“I once got busy in Burger King bathroom“—ah, the immortal words of Humpty and Digital Underground…

I dropped by on 10/5/09, and while there was no “gettin’ busy” (hey, this is a family site!) I did take photos of the bathroom and even reviewed it (even if I am two weeks late in posting it).

As a nice touch, they kept the red-and-yellow BK color scheme through the bathroom. I especially love the hand-washing instructions posted near the sink and the reminder to employees to wash their hands over the paper towel holder. It seems slightly more thought-out to post them on the door though, as a “last-minute” reminder to wash your hands in case you “forgot.” Three rolls for being a clean well thought-out bathroom and another half because I love handwashing instruction posters (seriously, has it come to this? We need to tell people how to wash their hands???)

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