Par is the amount you want on the cart and on the shelf before a shift starts. Copying one number across every washroom in the building is how the lobby runs out while the staff room is buried in cases.
Public rooms
Lobbies, reception, and any room a visitor can walk into need a higher par and a check more than once a day. Traffic is uneven. A tour, a clinic block, or a Friday event can empty a dispenser that was fine at 8 a.m. Keep the spare roll in the housing or in a locked closet on that floor, not three levels away. Pair that with a restocking checklist so the second visit is a habit, not a complaint.
Staff rooms
A washroom used by the same crew can sit on a lower par if someone walks past it all day. The failure mode is different. People will leave an almost-empty soap bottle because they know where the refill is. That still leaves the next shift with nothing if the refill was used in the kitchen. Stock soap, towels, and tissue for the washroom separately from the break room. Kitchen roll towels and folded towels should not be the backup for the staff washroom.
How to set it without a spreadsheet
- For two weeks, note which rooms are empty at the end of the day and which closets still have unopened cases.
- Raise par only on the rooms that ran out. Do not raise the whole building.
- Write the par on the shelf: how many rolls, how many soap refills, how many liners.
Bottom line
Public washrooms need more on hand and more checks. Staff washrooms need their own supplies, not leftovers from the kitchen. Set the number from the rooms that actually run out.
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