A spill near a museum collection isn’t a cleanup problem, it’s a conservation one, which is why almost no museum bends on its food and drink policy.
What the Museum Bag Check Does With Your Coffee Read More »
Federal and local courthouses increasingly ban liquids at security, leaving visitors with a water bottle and nowhere official to put it.
The Water Bottle That Doesn’t Make It Past Courthouse Security Read More »
Libraries ban food and drink to protect books and equipment, but the policy rarely covers the moment right before a visitor walks in with a drink in hand.
The Coffee You Can’t Bring Into the Library Read More »
Transit systems that pulled trash cans from stations solved one problem and created another: riders still show up with drinks they haven’t finished.
Where the Half-Finished Soda Goes When There’s No Trash Can Read More »
Stadium and arena bag policies ban outside drinks, but almost none of them say what to do with the cup in your hand when you reach the front of the line.
What Happens to the Drink You Can’t Carry Through the Gate Read More »
A festival site has four or five forced disposal points, and the bar is only one of them. The gate is the biggest, and the one nobody plans for.
Every Drink a Festival Guest Puts Down Read More »
The thing that surprises a cinema turnaround crew is always the same thing. A large soda, half full, standing in a cup holder.
Auditorium Turnaround: Cleaning Between Showings Read More »
Milk is the hardest thing in a school cafeteria, and it has almost nothing to do with nutrition policy. It’s that somebody has to move the bag.
The Milk Problem in a School Cafeteria Line Read More »
A family reaches the front of a forty minute queue holding three drinks. The operator points at the sign. What happens next decides how the rail looks by four o’clock.
No Drinks on the Ride: Designing the Ditch Point Read More »
Banquet teams are good at the parts they rehearse. The part that goes wrong is what to do with two hundred half-finished glasses.
Turning a Banquet Room Over Between Events Read More »
