I've heard that New Orleans is slowly sinking. Perhaps the ground is growing more unstable because it's becoming more and more saturated every Mardi Gras...
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Unlike bars, the to-go operations are not required to provide toilets for their customers. And they either don't have restrooms or say that they don't, said Leo Watermeier, a French Quarter resident who has been taking inventory of take-out shops that, he said, contribute to a problem long lamented by Quarter residents and visitors alike: the stench of urine in the streets.

A business culture that sells people alcoholic beverages without offering them a place to relieve themselves is one of the reasons, said Watermeier and other residents of the historic district, that so many people urinate in the streets, on walls, between parked cars, in alleyways, on doors and against the walls of landmarks such as St. Louis Cathedral. The French Quarter needs every toilet it can get, said Watermeier, who is leading an effort to require all businesses that sell beer and mixed drinks -- not just bars -- to provide restrooms for their customers.
It's a campaign that has attracted the attention of City Council members Marlin Gusman and Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson, who said they are researching the matter. City Councilman Oliver Thomas said he supports a fact-finding campaign that would, among other things, determine the number of to-go outlets without restrooms.