Imagine arriving at a restaurant for the first tim...

Imagine arriving at a restaurant for the first time, finding a place to sit at a group table (this was a sponsored event), going to the restroom, and upon attempting to exit said bathroom to meet your fellow guests and enjoy a meal, being unable to escape!
I have entered (and managed to leave) bathrooms all through North America without incident, and have successfully negotiated in-line locks, deadbolts, sliders, flip-overs, and all manner of devices designed to assure privacy....and this was the FIRST time I have found myself imprisoned in an "unsavory chamber".
I tried everything...which was basically, trying to turn the knob on the lock the OPPOSITE direction from the "lock position" and thus (I hoped) clearing me for exit....to no avail.
I stopped, pondered the situation, tried again and again, with no success.
I jiggled, knocked, rattled, and did all I could to free myself. Finally, I started banging on the door hoping someone on the outside would hear my pleas, all the while becoming increasingly embarrassed at my plight.
The banging was heard and someone (I assumed an employee) started shouting at me to move a deadbolt. Huh? There was no deadbolt visible. This person kept shouting at me about the deadbolt. Finally, in the mechanism of the doorlock assembly I saw a teeny deadbolt that would not budge, try as I might by moving it with my fingernail. I became increasingly unnerved and impatient, and FINALLY, either by my own efforts or those of someone on the outside, the door OPENED!
I came home and wrote an e-mail to the place, mainly to express my dissatisfaction and to alert them to a problem so that other customers would not suffer my fate.
Ben Meyer, one of the owners replied and basically told me that the whole thing was my fault because I did not operate the lock correctly. "... the lock and door are in fine working order," he asserts. Then he outright lies when he wrote that "The slide lock on our bathroom door is a standard door lock. It does not automatically lock, or catch in any way.." I assure you, it is NOT standard and DOES automatically lock. Mr. Meyer entirely discounts my own experience, THEN later tells me he hopes he won't "lose a customer." RIIIIIIGHT!
Welcome to the alternative universe of Old Salt! If being locked in a bathroom is your idea of a fun night out, by all means visit this place!! But don't complain about it later, because they don't care!