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Ask HN: On Toilet Paper Consumption

5 points by danradunchev ↗ HN
1. How much toilet paper a restroom in a restaurant consumes in a month?

2. How much toilet paper a hotel/motel consumes in a month?

Guesses/Estimations welcomed. If you work in the industry and have direct observations or know someone who have - please share.

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JimtheCoder
I would guess Mexican, Thai and Indian restaurants with a large Caucasian customer base use more toilet paper than an average restaurant...
iExploder
not sure here, from my experience the aftermath presents itself with a delay, usually in the home setting later that day
jaclaz
Strangely, it depends on the size of the restaurant and how many meals are made daily/how many customers are served.

Same goes for motels/hotels, size of the building/number of bathrooms and number of people staying there affects the result.

Some rule of the thumb can be used based on water consumption however, if you have (for the restaurant) a separate metering device for the bathrooms.

For the restaurant (bathrooms only, not including water used for the kitchen and dish washing) 1 meter of toilet paper every 20 liters.

For the motel/hotel 1 meter of toilet paper every 60 liters.

hinata08
For a hotel, it depends on your policy.

But you could consider up to 1 roll per room and per night for short stays, as PPL will leave with it, and as you can't leave nearly empty rolls.

I mean, as a customer, I would expect to have tp innmy room.