They stopped making these in 1983, and have been recycling them ever since.

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Writing_Femme@reddit

They're going to outlast us and the cockroaches.

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

They remind me of A&W for some reason

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Perkinberry@reddit

It’s interesting that these days I think of plastic as being flimsy and cheap. You could build a house out of these things

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Substantial_Diver_34@reddit

I still use these as car seats for my twins

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roncopenhaver13@reddit

Pro tip for the other parents. Don’t buy into the NHTSA propaganda

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jamescb819@reddit

I have a 5 year old and that exact style booster seat has been used at a few different restaurants in recent years. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it right?

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yakkitysaxmoment@reddit

This is like Lewis Black’s theory that they stopped making candy corn in 1911 and have just been selling the excess ever since.

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VehementVillager@reddit

I remember sitting in (more accurately, trying not to slide out) of these in the early/mid '80s!

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maggie320@reddit

I gotta wonder how many times they’re actually cleaned. These and the wooden high chairs.

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ErnieBochII@reddit

Or the toxic fumes they’ve been offgassing for 40 years, or the Chinese factory worker that fell into the plastic mould like it never happened.

Gross ass world forced upon us, as we sat and enjoyed our “treat” from McDonald’s

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0le_Hickory@reddit

If anything the cfcs volatilized in the first year.

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Mdriver127@reddit

Calmly but swiftly, place your phone down, exit through the front door, breathe fresh air for 20 minutes.

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Ok_Breakfast5425@reddit

At my restaurant job that had them, they got wiped down twice a day, assuming whoever was cleaning the lobby each shift wasn't slacking...

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barefootincozumel@reddit

I used to clean both nightly back in my waitressing days. But that was 20 years ago

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tetrasodium@reddit

They still make them. Here is one in a slightly different style

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abbydabbydo@reddit

This is where I am confused. We still have them everywhere I work(ed)?

Also, somebody mentioned how often they are cleaned. They are usually wiped down after ever used. Sanitized, on the other hand? Never.

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coci222@reddit

Are you not using a quat sanitizer to wipe them down? It's what you should be using on the tables

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tetrasodium@reddit

Yeah it wasn't even hard to find them, I've seen them quite a few times on the shelves at restaurant depot and similar

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kateastrophic@reddit

Chilis has notoriously been dumpster diving for booster seats since the 70s.

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My mom worked for a Darts company (soft tip) back in the 90s and they had made “indestructible dartboard cabinets”. They showed them off by running them over with a jeep. Needless to say these cabinets still exists but the technology, more specifically the monitors, from back in the days were much smaller so the retrofitted cabinets all look so crappy.

But yeah, they still exist. I see them with different company names or no stickers on them.

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