May 26, 2021As hotels reopen throughout the United Kingdom after a lengthy pandemic-driven shutdown, they are challenged with managing the status of linens that were little used for months or a year. The hotels need to ensure the linens are available, serviced and returned to linen closets promptly, without the distraction of manual counting.
The Lowry Hotel reopened its doors on May 17 to approximately 50 percent capacity, and it is leveraging data provided by passive UHF RFID tag reads to view its available inventory of bedsheets, towels and other laundered assets automatically. The Linen Group (TLG) began providing the service for customers as its business grew during the past few years, says Tarik Saleem, TLG's managing director.