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Summer-ready lodging 2024: Add savings to your hotel housekeeping checklist

Summer-ready lodging 2024: Add savings to your hotel housekeeping checklist

April 5th, 2024
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Is your hospitality facility ready for a sunny, profitable season of outdoor wining, dining, sunning and swimming? You can bet your guests are!

Poolside drinks, outdoor snacking, leisurely lounging, dining alongside sweeping golf-course views…it’s all happening in just a few months.

A GPO (Group Purchasing Organization) like Entegra has you covered with vetted suppliers that get you all the summer-friendly items you need for your operation — when you need them — at the best prices.

Hotel Checklist: Property & Landscaping

When it comes to outdoor events, every detail matters, from flowers, lawns and hedges to freshly resurfaced exterior patios and walls. Here’s just a sampling of things to spruce up for a successful summer season:










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With locations within reach of any job, SiteOne is the nation’s largest supplier of wholesale goods for green industry professionals in the United States and Canada. Its local experts know the communities in whichwhere they work and what it takes to succeed there because it’ is their hometown, too.

Hotel Checklist: Sparkling Pools & Spa

Guests are more spa-savvy than ever. Your pools and hot tubs need to go beyond clean to Instagram-worthy. Elements that a vetted pool- care company can help you with include:










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The largest U.S. pool and spa care brand, Leslie’s Pro team offers businesses a one-touch national solution for healthy, clean, and safe water. Their advisors partner with companies to learn their business and provide consultative services to take care of all their water supplies, service and repair.

Hotel Checklist: Outdoor furniture

From sun-friendly fabrics to comfortable lounge chairs to cocktail-party high-top tables and full-service outdoor dining, beautiful outdoor furniture sets the tone for outdoor fun. Outdoor furniture to include on your checklist include:











Get more insights on FF&E (Fixtures, Furniture and Equipment), and learn how Entegra can help.

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Founded in 1987, MityLite provides durable commercial furniture from its warehouse facilities in Orem, Utah, MityLite manufactures tables, chairs, portable dance floors, and other event furnishings. MityLite is driven by the idea that the best work is born from diligence, artisanship, and innovation. The company holds dozens of patents for inventions related to its products and manufacturing processes.

Hotel Checklist: Chefs and servers

If your facility is summer-ready, your staff should be too!

Chefs, servers, and housekeepers – during the warm summer months, be sure to keep them cool, comfortable, and professional-looking with high-quality, on-brand uniforms. Think:





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Uniform industry leader ChefWorks’ offers Cool Vent™ technology, which according to its website: "has been the preferred heat-management solution for some of the globe’s top chefs” for over a decade. With beginnings that date back to the 1960s, ChefWorks has been an industry leader in the design, development and management of uniform and culinary apparel programs across the globe.

For more summer preparation of your facilities, see our checklist for managing energy costs in the summer: Entegra’s Energy Services team is available to help operators like you to make smarter energy decisions to safeguard your bottom line.

Call 833-977-1765 or contact us to get more information about putting Entegra’s robust lodging suppliers and added value services to optimize your operation for summer — and beyond!