U-KLEEN-IT Motels Eyeball San Juans
M. Toole | Jul 11, 2015 | Comments 0
(From The Palmer Street Journal -Downtown Delta –July 10, 2015)
A new approach, aimed at relieving the daily pressures of the hospitality industry, may be on the horizon in Western Colorado with the opening of some sixteen self-housekeeping lodges.
U-Kleenits allow the patron the option of cleaning his room, changing the sheets, scrubbing the bano and vacuuming so as to receive a discount of up to 35% from the management.
Custodo-Lounge Corporation, founders of U-Kleenit, which boasts three new enterprises in Northwest Colorado already this year, is reportedly taking preliminary steps to open a new facility here.
Custodo is the nation’s largest manufacturer of organic janitorial supplies. Its fine hosiery division did well over $125 million in 2014. U-Kleenits have already transformed the hotel-motel industry and are expected to take Western Colorado by storm come springtime.
The concept appears to be tailor-made for the bed and breakfast set but local innkeepers say the idea will never fly.
“People are too lazy. People are too sloppy. People can’t do the math,” said the six-star proprietor of Snyder Arms and Roadhouse, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“How can we expect these guests to make the beds when they won’t even do the breakfast dishes?” said Mary Waffle who operates a bed and breakfast locally. “Pigs.”
The idea is simple: Each guest checks into his reasonably clean room in the evening and in the morning he gives the place a serious once-over. If the place needs a maid he pays full price but if it looks good enough he can expect a discount.
“We’ve had a lot of trouble with the bathrooms, winced Belle Toole, Executive Executive Director of Custodo-Lounge. “It seems that people don’t mind taking out the trash or sweeping the floor but nobody wants to scour the ceramic, if you catch my drift.”
Toole leveled with reporters saying that they expected no new conflicts with state and local health officials.
“We have fine repartee,” said Toole, inspecting a room. “If they present a problem we just offer them a free room and they generally go away.”
– Uncle Pahgre
Filed Under: Soft News