A coffee shop in New York City has sparked outrage because its restrooms are filled with signs warning customers not to poop.
Twitter/X user Mayor (wedge_shaped) shared photos of a Williamsburg cafe with signs all over the walls and bathroom doors warning of queued customers.
Most of the signs show an image of a pile of poop crossed out by a red STOP animation and the text: “NO! POOP! Someone has made another mess. It’s expensive to clean up and repair.”
One sign features a colorful pile with a “no” symbol, and a printout next to the toilet shows Uncle Sam with the message above his hat: “Don’t shit.”
The big sign above the toilet reads: “NO POOPING! NO! TO ANYTHING! EXCEPT SMALL AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF OUR TOILET PAPER.”
“The pipes can’t take it. The last time someone dropped it, the pipes were clogged. Damage was done and it cost a lot of MONEY and time to get it repaired.”
The mayor’s post quickly went viral, reaching over 6.3 million views, with many users unable to believe that the cafe was getting its customers to stop going to the cafe.
“A place that sells coffee but does NOT allow you to poop is evil,” wrote one critic. “Pooping is forbidden in a cafe? This feels like a trap,” said another. “It’s coffee. It makes people poop,” added a third.
According to the New York Post, the cafe is the Social House Cafe, whose co-owner William Somerville explained that the signs were made to discourage people from flushing tampons and other disposable products down their old drains.
He added that toilet repairs cost the company more than $10,000 last year alone, but since the signs were put up, “it’s helped stop people throwing things in the toilet that don’t belong there.”
