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The average hotel is losing $3M annually on housekeeping labor, and it still can't meet demand.

The hotel industry is facing a massive labor crisis. They can’t find enough staff to keep up, and they’re paying more than ever to try to fix it.

To quantify the cost of this problem for hotels, it can be broken down into two key parts:
  1. Hotels spend $50,000 per room annually on operations1, and 15% of that goes to housekeeping labor costs. For a typical 200-room hotel, that’s $1.5M per year spent on housekeeping labor alone.

  2. 76% of hotels are understaffed2, with housekeeping roles being the hardest to fill. This shortage forces hotels to leave 10-20% of rooms unbooked3, costing them $1.5M annually in lost revenue for a 200-room hotel (at $150 average revenue per room per day)4.
What makes matters worse is that hotels have increased wages by 20% in recent years to entice people to work in housekeeping5, but it hasn’t been enough. There are still 100k+ vacant housekeeping jobs6 in the U.S. alone currently, because people don’t want physically demanding, low-paying jobs with little to no career growth.

The result? Higher labor costs, and fewer rooms booked that’s costing a typical 200-room hotel $3M every year.

We’re building robots to solve this problem for hotels.

Our robots will perform all core housekeeping tasks (making beds, cleaning bathrooms, tidying rooms, etc.) at a cost of $1,000 per month, which is 3–4x cheaper than a human housekeeper.

These robots are ready to work around the clock to help hotels operate more efficiently, improve guest experiences, and increase profits.

1 https://businessplan-templates.com/blogs/running-costs/hotel?

2 https://www.ahla.com/news/76-surveyed-hotels-report-staffing-shortages

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgvmCNp2IHU

4 https://str.com/press-release/us-hotels-posted-record-high-adr-and-revpar-2023?

5 https://www.zippia.com/housekeeper-jobs/trends/?

6 https://www.zippia.com/housekeeper-jobs/trends/?utm_source=chatgpt.com