Housekeeping Made to Standard
Starkey International has taken years to fine tune our approach to Housekeeping and Housekeeping Standards. One of the basic requirements of setting up a housekeeping system is that it must be successful in every environment and it must be to your standard! The Secret is it must also be time oriented. To accomplish this, we have developed baselines for each of our ten Standard Categories. Our housekeeping baseline is:
It takes 4 hours to clean 2,000 square feet to average standards. A higher rate of Housekeeping Standards requires more time. (more…)
I recently went to the newly released movie featuring the life of Julia Child, Julie & Julia! For those of us who have ever had a dream, and struggled many years to achieve it, it was downright inspirational! I loved it. It’s important not to take one’s self too seriously, but after 30 years in Private Service and now achieving age 60, it’s hard not to take some time on the subject. What I saw in the movie was an ambitious young woman, seeking to find her gift in life. Ultimately she found her calling writing about cooking with the great and very humorous Julia Child as her muse. I decided right then and there that while I have written many texts and manuals in the field of my passion, Household Management and Service, I have not often written from my heart. To that end, I am beginning today to do so. I hope you like what you read, and will respond if you feel inspired to do so! 