Paper towels enhanced from lounges?

[Daver6]

Can confirm paper towels were in the PER J lounge on Monday but none in the CBR J lounge on Tuesday.

@Matt Graham I feel there is a story here for you

 

[dajop]

Memo to self: stop using Google Chrome to read AFF with.

Almost certainly not coincidentally, this popped up in my YouTube shorts feed this morning.

 

[kookaburra75]

I do lament demise of the very excellent business lounge "woven paper" (or whatever they were) towels. With excellent absorbency, they could be used as a face cloth, baby wipe, packing/ protective wrap or "bath" towel at a pinch! R I P

MrsK is also "not happy". She would collect a few extra paper towels to go into her bag for future needs. She was definitely not happy last week when she discovered the hand dryer machines had appeared.

 

[kpro]

Haven't seen paper towels in QF domestic J lounges for at least a month now, don't know about international.

 

[1022]

I was about to comment that at least they could have gone from the nice thick paper towels to the Tork ones in order to enhance but retain most people’s preferred hand drying option.

But then I donned a beancounter’s hat for a moment. It’s not just that they save x cents per paper towel that doesn’t end up in a bin (or Mrs K’s handbag) but all of a sudden you can probably also save n hours per week per lounge on barely legal, outsourced cleaning contractor costs for not having to top up towel supplies, empty bins as often etc. Bathroom checks can therefore go from hourly to a few a day. And no doubt someone else in the greenwashing department can claim a carbon emission reduction, further bolstering the triple bottom line. 21st century market capitalism at its finest! (Too cynical?)