LINEN AND LAUNDRY OPERATION

THE LINEN AND UNIFORM ROOM

• A central depot for all hotel linen
• Cleans articles of linen are distributed throughout the establishment

Linen room

Uniform room

LINEN ROOM ORGANIZATION

There are 2 types of linen room which is :

a) Centralized linen room

Linen centre room in a hotel

• Linen from all floors are collected and sorted in one central area
• Control by the room supervisor
• All linen must have a receipts when it brings out from here

b) Decentralized linen room

• Each floors have its own linen room
• Floor supervisors responsible to maintain the par stock in every floor
  

  
  

  
  

Linen brings out from linen centre room kept in here

ACTIVITIES IN LINEN AND UNIFORM ROOM

• Collection of soiled linen
• Counting amd sorting of soiled linen
• Packing of soiled linen for the laundry
• Dispatch of soiled linen to the laundry
• Receipt of fresh linen from the laundry
• Checking and sorting of fresh linen
• Storage of fresh linen
• Distribution of fresh linen to the floor & other areas
• Stocktaking for linen and maintainance of records
• Stitching, repairing, and monogramming of all hotel linen & uniform
• Uniform selection 
• Uniform storage and issue
• Discarding of unusable linen