To assist outsourced launderers who are seeking hotel bed linen business, TRSA’s Hospitality Committee recently released an Excel spreadsheet calculator that will allow launderers to demonstrate to a hotel’s purchase decision-maker its likely savings from outsourcing.

Now available to TRSA members for testing, this “OPL Cost Calculator” familiarizes hotel management with the expense items that they need to consider in comparing options by inputting costs and other variables, such as the hotel’s number of rooms, pounds per room and occupancy level. Inputting this data will enable the user to calculate the comparative cost of laundry per room for ...