Bathroom Cleaning

When I was teenager, I went in Venice with my family and we went to a restaurant for dinner. My mother had to use the bathroom and after she came back from the restroom she said that she can’t eat here since the bathroom is dirty. I asked her “who cares about the bathroom?” Her response was that how the bathroom looks reflects the restaurant. If a place makes sure that every room is cleaned and taken care of that says something different than a place that only cares about making sure that the main rooms that everyone sees is cleaned and looks nice but neglects cleaning rooms that maybe not everyone will inspect.

What my mother taught me turned out to be true. People judge a place by how clean the restroom is. The restroom is the most annoying and dirty room (usually) to clean. Also when people go to a restroom they expect the room to be dirtier than the other rooms so many people assume that customers would be more forgiving if they saw a dirty bathroom than if they say other dirty rooms in the office building. A building that has a dirty restroom looses more business (typically) than a place with a clean restroom, which is why it is so important to make sure that the restroom is properly cleaned.

According to a recent Harris Poll survey, 86% said that a clean restroom is as important as a clean kitchen and 75% said that they wouldn’t return to a restaurant that had a dirty bathroom. Cintas Corporation also conducted a similar survey and 94% of people said that they wouldn’t do business with people (again) who had a dirty bathroom, irrespective of the industry.

While certain businesses loose more business than others if they have a dirty bathroom (restaurants and hotels loose the worse-according to 80% of the people surveyed), having a dirty bathroom is bad for all businesses.

The Cintas Corporation asked over 1,000 adults what specific types of businesses they would avoid if they encountered dirty restrooms, and they reported the following:

“To satisfy customers, businesses must ensure restrooms are consistently stocked, clean, dry and functioning,” explained Dave Mesko, Senior Director of Marketing, Cintas.

What this shows is that if you want to have repeating customers (which is pretty much every business) neglecting to properly clean your bathroom can cost you more than germs, but a loss of money as well.

Since it’s so important to have a bathroom properly cleaned, it’s best to hire professional cleaners to clean the restroom. If you are interesting in hiring professional cleaners to clean the bathroom in your office, please contact Four Star General Cleaning.