America’s best restroom

If you ever find yourself in downtown Nashville, TN looking for a place to pee, WBBM780 Chicago recommends using the facilities at the Hermitage Hotel.

The hotel’s ground-floor men’s bathroom has won the award for “America’s Best Restroom”.

Janet Kurtz, director of sales and marketing at the hotel, says,

"You just can’t find anything like it anywhere else. People see it and fall in love with it."

The redoubtable restroom is art-deco style with gleaming lime-green-and-black leaded glass tiles, lime-green fixtures, terrazzo floor and a two-seat shoeshine station.

The restroom won the honor in online voting sponsored by Cincinnati-based Cintas Corp., which supplies restroom hygiene products and services. The company says "tens of thousands" of people voted over two months last summer.

Criteria were hygiene, style and access to the public. The highfalutin honor has earned the restroom entry to "America’s Best Restroom Hall of Fame."