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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Ways to improve efficiency and cut costs

Hi all, Please share your thoughts on cost measures adopted in your hotels that yield results. All ideas are welcome !

11 comments:

  1. At Radisson Front office we saved some money by taking newspaper preference. Seems not all Guests read newspaper!!

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  2. AT club Lounge all the Cat's Eye blubs have been replaced with LED bulbs which resulted in substantial saving

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  3. Ice Cubes making machine - out of the two machine one machine is switched on only when it is required thus saving lot of electricity and also for banqueting requirement for chilling we use the cold rooms instead of using ice blocks

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  4. Avoiding Breakages at all our outlets by creating awareness on the cost of each equipment during the briefings and discussing about the previous months breakages and targets are given and montionered regularly

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  5. Dish washer timing is rationlized. In this all the outlets and banquets crockery are collected and washed at a particular time thus reducing the operating time of the dishwashing machine which saved not only the electricity but also water

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  6. Portion control in tea and coffee pick up by waiters - Standarized the quantities of milk, coffee and tea bags. Avoided the wastage of the same.

    Portion control on ice cubes - sops are introduced on the no. of ice cubes to be picked up for the drinks

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  7. Bulbs in the Lobby & Spa areas are changed into LED from halogen bulbs thus saving costs.

    Re negotiated with the Hindu news paper and brought down the rates from Rs.2.50 to Rs.1.

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  8. Raw water is been used fro watering the plants instead of treated water.

    Computers & lights are been switched off when Managers are not in office thus saving costs in electricity.

    Monthly reports are send via e mail instead of taking print outs thus saving the costs of paper

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  9. Efficiency focus with weekly meeting on mondays with the process leaders and the focus area champions

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  10.  The use of Dairy Walk in has been stopped, where by storing the same has been managed in other cold rooms.
     The use of Cling Films and Aluminum foils has been minimized
     Preparing food in accordance to the demand where by reducing the wastage.
     Using of in house machineries (pulverizer) to grind spices and bread crumbs where by isolating the process of getting it done from third party.
     Following a schedule at the bakery, where all the baking is done at necessary times, where by shutting the units for reasonable periods which helps in minimizing the consumption of power.
     Shutting down of hot food counters & salamanders during periods which are sans busy.

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  11. Words,phrases and pictures on "How to ensure cost control and utilising minimum source of energy", in the computer's screensaver can knowledge a person's to use effective cost control.

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