What Is The Key For Hoteliers To Purchase Guest Room Linens?

Hotel linen has unique advantages in creating a hotel atmosphere, optimizing the environment, and providing humanized and personalized services. It will directly affect customer experience and hotel reputation. Therefore, linen procurement occupies an important strategic position in hotel operations. Nowadays, hotel linen supply resources are abundant and the quality and price vary. Hotel operators need to master the key to guest room linen procurement in order to select linens that suit their hotel’s style, taste, and grade, to get value for money. The following has compiled six key points for hotel linen purchasing. I hope it will be helpful to you.

 

1. Reasonable allocation of investment proportions

 

There are about a dozen major categories of hotel room textiles, such as towels, bathrobes, quilt cores, pillow cores, quilt covers pillowcases, etc. I divided the above categories into two categories: consumables and non-consumables. Quilt cores, pillow cores, mattresses, bedside towels, etc. are non-consumable items, while towels, bathrobes, quilt covers, pillowcases, bedsheets, etc. are consumable items.

 

We need to wash consumables frequently and generally dispose of them in 3-5 years (poor fabrics in 2-3 years). High-grade quilt covers and sheets (such as 60-count) have lower resistance to washing. Non-consumable items like quilt core pillows, filling materials for cores, mattresses, and bedside pads are crucial. Active 1: For a longer lifespan, it is advisable to use a high-quality quilt core and pillow core, rather than relying solely on the durability of quilt covers and bed sheets. Therefore, it is essential to invest in quilt core pillows, mattresses, etc. Good quality (including fabric and filling).

 

 

Generally speaking, people use economical 40-count, high-density bleached fabrics for quilt covers and sheets, which are practical and washable, while 60-count products focus on feel and grade. It is necessary to choose linen suppliers with high brand awareness and guaranteed quality. Only linens can be of both quality and practicality. In short, hotel operators should scientifically plan and rationally allocate limited funds, and focus on non-consumables. Some small items of linen are also the key to improving the style of the guest rooms, such as the use of bedside towels and decorative cushions. Significantly, improve the quality of guest rooms.

 

 

2. Pay attention to the quality of fabrics

 

The linen used in hotel rooms is different from home textiles. It needs to be highly washable and has high requirements of the inherent quality of the fabric. Good-quality fabrics are not much more expensive (5%--10%), but their service life is much longer (60% longer). There are many quality indicators for fabrics. The most important thing is to choose:

 

 

a. Combed fabric. Combed fabrics are smoother, stronger, washable, and less prone to pilling than carded fabrics.

 

b. High-count and high-density fabrics. For example, we should make bed sheets of at least 40S/110×90 fabrics.

 

c. Singed fabric. The singed fabric has a beautiful surface and is not easy to fluff.

 

d. Hydrogen peroxide bleached fabrics. Fabrics bleached with hydrogen peroxide feel better than fabrics bleached with hypochlorite. The fabric is less damaged by bleach and has less strength reduction.

 

 

3. Reasonably determine the ratio of consumables

 

The general ratio of consumables is 1:3, that is, one set is in use, one set is being washed, and one set is in storage. (Note: Pillowcases are subject to the greatest wear and tear due to the hair oil and baking oil dye used on the guests’ heads, so the best ratio is 1:4 or 1:5).

 

 

There is another trick here: the fewer the number of hotel rooms (less than 100 sets), the larger the ratio; the more rooms there are, the smaller the ratio. We can adjust the rooms to each other when there are more of them, but if the number of rooms is small, they cannot be adjusted. Therefore, for new hotels with numerous guest rooms, the ratio can be appropriately reduced according to specific conditions when opening and replenished during operation.

 

4. Choose dyed or printed fabrics carefully

 

In recent years, it has been popular to make hotels more family-oriented, but hotels are not families after all. In terms of actual use of guest rooms, dyed and printed fabrics with poor quality have four major problems compared to bleached fabrics: First, due to dyes (such as high formaldehyde content)The color fastness has declined; secondly, all cotton dyed and printed fabrics have the problem of fading, which easily produces a sense of staleness after fading; there is also the problem that I cannot mix old and new quilts during the use of quilt covers. Quilt covers that have been used for a period and new ones. The quilt cover used has a large color difference and cannot be used in the same room, which increases the workload of the waiter; the third is the problem of washing. If there are stubborn stains on the quilt cover, the washing factory will use strong detergent similar to 84 disinfectant partial pre-washing will cause local whitening of the quilt cover, seriously affecting the appearance; fourth, dyeing or printing fabrics require the use of formaldehyde to fix the color, so they are harmful to the human body and not conducive to environmental protection.

 

 

5. Decorations enhance the class and personalization of guest rooms

 

When decorating guest rooms, many hotels can lower the grade of carpets (focusing only on the pattern) and spend extra money on textiles and decorations, especially bed skirts, bedside pads, and decorative cushions. The first is the bed skirt. Many hotels did not replace the Simmons base when they were renovated and renovated. They just installed new bed skirts, which still gave people a brand-new feeling. In recent years, beds and cushions and decorative cushions have also become very popular. Even with the most ordinary quilt cover, adding them can immediately improve the quality of the room.

 

 

6. Select the style and opening of quilt cover and pillowcases

 

This problem may seem small, but it is actually very important. When choosing quilt cover and pillowcase styles, hoteliers should not just consider aesthetics but also consider durability and waiter work efficiency.

 

Take the opening form as an example. There are many ways to open quilt covers and pillowcases in China. Each opening has its advantages. After several years of research on the use of hotel guest rooms, based on factors of actual use and aesthetics, I recommend that customers use bottom openings. Sealed on both sides, flush front and back (without ties) duvet cover and tongue-press pillowcase with 1/4 opening on the back. It is recommended that customers use duvet covers with bottom openings for both functionality and aesthetics. These duvet covers are sealed on both sides, ensuring that the quilt core does not leak out during use. Additionally, they eliminate the need for tying and make changing the covers quicker and more convenient. Moreover, the flush openings on the front and back improve the unevenness of the ties. Using a quilt cover It is more beautiful and smooth when laid on the bed. Active 1: The hotel recognized that the opening process at 1/4 of the back of the pillowcase not only facilitates the waiter in changing the corners of the pillowcase but also improves the unevenness when the opening is on one side.