When people consider joining a golf club, sport, or country club, one of the top things one their list of considerations is the amenities. Included in that are the locker room, lounge, and dinning areas, all which require laundry services. This article offers ideas on how you can upgrade your commercial laundry room to improve your club members’ satisfaction.
Understand Your Club’s Needs
Before upgrading your commercial laundry room, assess your club’s:
laundry needs
volume
type
peak time
feedback from members
current laundry practices, facilities, and capabilities
service time
cleaning quality
equipment condition and energy efficiency
If you find that your commercial laundry services are lacking in any of the above areas, it is important to redress them before a continual lack of clean towels or frequently spotted or stained table linens turn members off your club. Keep reading to discover five upgrades you can make to avoid these situations and keep your club’s members satisfied and eager to renew their membership at term’s end.
Five Upgrades for Your Club’s Commercial Laundry Facilities
Streamline your process with a dryer Ironer/Folder combo
Impress your members with impeccably pressed table linens. Harco offers a range of Dryer Ironers/Folders to suit your needs. The Chicago Comet Executive tackles napkins easily, while the mid-range Laser Line is perfect for larger clubs with frequent events.
Paired with a Chicago Dryer folder like the Air Chicago Elite, you'll ensure crisp linens and faster towel service. This winning combination from Harco guarantees a superior laundry experience, boosting member satisfaction and loyalty.
Modernize Your Equipment
High efficiency (HE) machines consume less water and less energy than traditional machines, so you’ll be saving on utility bills while getting a better, faster clean. Plus, these machines tend to have a bigger capacity, which means fewer loads (and less time) for the same amount of laundry.
Smart technologies like remote monitoring and user-friendly interfaces are time-saving benefits of modernizing your commercial laundry equipment. Maintenance alerts are another advantage that can help prevent breakdowns and laundry backups.
Choose Eco-Friendly Solutions
While the world slings complaints about golf clubs wasting water, your club can respond by implementing energy and water saving practices in the laundry room. Modernizing your machines (as mentioned above) and carefully selecting your soap and other laundry products will help your club move towards greater environmental sustainability.
Improve the Layout & Design of Your Laundry Room
While machines are an important part of any commercial laundry room, so are the people who run them. Help improve their performance and prevent strain and injury by:
placing washers and dryers in logical order with enough space between them for easy loading and unloading
placing all machines, products, and workstations at appropriate heights
ensuring proper:
flooring (i.e. non-slip materials, anti-fatigue mats)
lighting, including task lighting in certain areas
ventilation to control humidity and temperature for comfort and property maintenance
Adopt a Maintenance Routine
Keeping the laundry room running is essential to meet the demands of your club’s membership. To that end, seek out a reliable service provider who can offer a regular maintenance plan for your machines. Not only will this help prevent breakdowns, but it can also extend the lifespan of your equipment and keep it working at its best longer.
Partner with Harco
Harco Co Ltd. has been Canada’s leader in laundry systems since 1961. We can help you design your club’s commercial laundry services and operational efficiency. Contact us today for cost-saving machines and services that will meet your members’ needs and surpass their expectations.
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