Explore hotel textiles<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Cost per occupied room (CPOR) is a rooms-department metric. A common definition is total departmental operating costs divided by rooms sold over the same dates. Frye, writing in LODGING<\/a>, describes laundry cost per occupied room as labor, laundry chemicals and utilities added together and divided by rooms occupied in that period. The same article puts variable costs per occupied room anywhere from $12 at a budget property to more than $75 at a world-class hotel, which shows how much the answer depends on what a hotel counts and what level of service it sells.<\/p>\n The textile version narrows this to one question: what does it cost you, per guest room sold, to keep clean, presentable linen on every bed and clean towels in every bathroom?<\/p>\n This is useful because textile costs behave in two ways. Laundry is variable: it rises and falls with the number of rooms sold. Linen replacement is semi-fixed: you buy stock for the rooms you have, and it wears out through washing and handling. A good CPOR calculation puts both into one figure that you can compare across months, seasons and years.<\/p>\n In the USALI uniform chart of accounts, Account 5003 is Linen and Laundry<\/a>, listed under Rooms Expenses next to housekeeping supplies and guest room amenities. That gives you a sensible boundary: the textile figure covers linen and laundry, and the other lines stay separate.<\/p>\n Inside that boundary, include:<\/p>\n Leave out:<\/p>\n Write your definition down. A consistent definition used every month tells you more than a sophisticated formula that changes quietly from one report to the next.<\/p>\n The numbers below are illustrative, not benchmarks. Replace them with your own.<\/p>\n Take a 50-room coastal hotel that is open 150 days.<\/p>\nTL;DR<\/h2>\n
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What cost per occupied room means for textiles<\/h2>\n
What to include in the calculation<\/h2>\n
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A worked example for a seasonal Albanian hotel<\/h2>\n
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