Gym, Healthclub, Spa Users
Tend to notice and or can be picky about towels. Personally given all the noise about MRSA and whatever being found all over such places bring my own towels from home. I mean you never know where their's have been do you? Nor do I trust the laundering methods of some places. Happy pour moi Manhattan being a compact city it tis possible to simply go home and shower there afterwards. Many who use the showers at gyms and such are either working out on their lunch break and or have some place to go after.
It is not rocket science to determine the type and amount of laundry equipent required for any commercial use, from small business to large. There are armies of consultants and designers who can be employed to design, build and fit out laundries to suit a particular place's needs. Also most every commercial laundry equipment maker has a salesforce that will work with buyers to get them what they need currently and make sure it is sized to grow with their business.
This spa did things on the cheap and didn't want to spend the money for a proper laundry operation.
All commercial ventures that use linens, from hotels to restaurants to spas and so forth must do the sums as to how much stock they must have for daily use. These calcuations will take into account what is sent to the wash and the turn around time that process entails.
Just as with households if a place wants to ensure a steady supply of linens whilst delaying wash days the only choice is to have a vast enough stock to allow this. Of course that will mean also having huge laundry bills or costs as all that linen must be processed.
Jamie's place could have simply purchased more than enough towels to last say from opening until closing or if open very late until a certain period of the day. Then the second part is to ramp up the laundry staff so they are working until the job (all linens in house are clean and stocked for use). This could mean running a evening or overnight shift to process all that linen. OTOH the reverse could also apply; hire dedicated laundry staff that works from early morning until the last of the soiled linen is processed daily in order to assure a steady supply of clean towels.
Places that send their linen out run into the problem of having too little or even no stock on hand if delivery is delayed and or someone didn't notice stock was running low and kept giving out fresh linen until the cupboard was bare.
Spas and such can be very wasteful with linen. Because they are "free" many customers will take a new fresh clean towel after each machine, class or simply because the wiped their face once and now the thing is *dirty*. Am willing to bet they don't pull such stunts at home, especially married men whose wives must deal with all that wash.
Tend to notice and or can be picky about towels. Personally given all the noise about MRSA and whatever being found all over such places bring my own towels from home. I mean you never know where their's have been do you? Nor do I trust the laundering methods of some places. Happy pour moi Manhattan being a compact city it tis possible to simply go home and shower there afterwards. Many who use the showers at gyms and such are either working out on their lunch break and or have some place to go after.
It is not rocket science to determine the type and amount of laundry equipent required for any commercial use, from small business to large. There are armies of consultants and designers who can be employed to design, build and fit out laundries to suit a particular place's needs. Also most every commercial laundry equipment maker has a salesforce that will work with buyers to get them what they need currently and make sure it is sized to grow with their business.
This spa did things on the cheap and didn't want to spend the money for a proper laundry operation.
All commercial ventures that use linens, from hotels to restaurants to spas and so forth must do the sums as to how much stock they must have for daily use. These calcuations will take into account what is sent to the wash and the turn around time that process entails.
Just as with households if a place wants to ensure a steady supply of linens whilst delaying wash days the only choice is to have a vast enough stock to allow this. Of course that will mean also having huge laundry bills or costs as all that linen must be processed.
Jamie's place could have simply purchased more than enough towels to last say from opening until closing or if open very late until a certain period of the day. Then the second part is to ramp up the laundry staff so they are working until the job (all linens in house are clean and stocked for use). This could mean running a evening or overnight shift to process all that linen. OTOH the reverse could also apply; hire dedicated laundry staff that works from early morning until the last of the soiled linen is processed daily in order to assure a steady supply of clean towels.
Places that send their linen out run into the problem of having too little or even no stock on hand if delivery is delayed and or someone didn't notice stock was running low and kept giving out fresh linen until the cupboard was bare.
Spas and such can be very wasteful with linen. Because they are "free" many customers will take a new fresh clean towel after each machine, class or simply because the wiped their face once and now the thing is *dirty*. Am willing to bet they don't pull such stunts at home, especially married men whose wives must deal with all that wash.
