How to keep a washroom clean (And drive consumption of your products)

Washroom cleaning instructions at Safeway

Ecolab is a major manufacturer of commerical cleaning products. Although the firm is pretty much unknown in the consumer market.

According to the Ecolab website, "Around the world, businesses in the foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environments clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals.
For nearly 90 years, we’ve worked behind the scenes to keep food safe, prevent the spread of infection and protect vital resources. And today we’re doing more than ever before." (Source: http://ecolab.com/our-story)

I saw this sign on the wall in the washroon in my local Safeway store. The most interesting part of the sign was the level of detail in the instructions. What products to use for what surfaces, how much to use, and how to use them to actually ensure that they products work as intended.

Following these instructions to the letter will ensure that the washroom gets clean, and that the full compliment of products get used, in the appropriate quantities. You can't really argue with spending money to customize these signs for each customer if it means that they use the correct amount of each of your products. It will probably mean more product sold to the customer. From Ecolab's perspective you can't argue with that.