Survey - Cleanliness more important than menu for restaurant diners
The number one deal breaker when it comes to eating out isn’t expensive prices or rude wait staff — it’s cleanliness, according to a new survey…
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Survey - Cleanliness more important than menu for restaurant diners
The number one deal breaker when it comes to eating out isn’t expensive prices or rude wait staff — it’s cleanliness, according to a new survey…
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A comprehensive guide to hotel housekeeping
The past year has been economically challenging for many hotels. As a cost-intensive department, housekeeping is often the first target of strategic optimization and cost reduction…
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Ice machine invention smashes through hotel trial
A firm behind a commercial ice machine sanitiser that purports to slash maintenance costs for kitchen operators has now completed trials with a major hotel group and is working with Shine Food Machinery to sell the technology…
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For Xochitl Mendez, a housekeeper who has worked at an MGM hotel in Las Vegas for the past 14 years, cleanliness (or lack thereof) is a safety issue. “The rooms aren’t cleaned every day, and every day we see guests who are super, super annoyed…
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India Aims To Attract More Tourists By Implementing Hygiene Ratings For Hotels
Hotels and homestays in India will be ranked for sanitation and hygiene in the first such exercise by the Union Tourism Ministry. The idea behind the proposal is to give tourists more comfort and choices…
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Japanese hotel boss apologizes for only changing water in spa bath twice a year
The boss of a 158-year-old Japanese guesthouse has apologized for only changing the water in its spa bath twice a year, after it was found to be teeming with potentially deadly bacteria.
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Guest Preparation Like Never Before
For owners, managers, and employees alike, the past few years have been, in a word: unpredictable!
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HotStats: The Future of Housekeeping
Hotels struggled to remain profitable in 2020, and breaking even was considered positive. In order to stay in business, many hotels cut services where they could…
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Check It or Remove It: The Two Absolute Minimum Requirements for Room Attendants
Housekeeping standards for cleaning guestrooms often vary amongst brands and franchisors…
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Hilton Housekeeping Is Now On-Demand
During the pandemic we’ve seen hotels cut all kinds of services due to lack of demand and to minimize contact between people. Over the past several months it has become increasingly clear that many of these service cuts are permanent…
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