had a great day today, 2 random events resulting in 1 definite clean, and another clean which we need to quote for that sounds very promising as long as we can offer the customer what they want.
i wont go into details but the property we need to quote to clean is a smallish restaurant with approx 30 booths/tables. we wont be cleaning the tables/chairs, but will be cleaning the public toilets, staff toilets, mopping wood floor daily with varnish once a month (something i've never done
), and dusting things like picture frames, higher surfaces once a week.
the biggest concern for me is the time which is 5am to approx 6.30am every single day! which is something i've also never dealt with before. i imagine the pay for staff will be higher (my guess is that early and so few hours isn't too appealing for many people if pay is standard), and charge rate will be higher too, but how much. the guy mentioned twice don't be too stupid with price so i'm unsure if this meant be fair not stupid, or be cheap like £7 p/h which they could be used to.
also as weekend work will be involved i assume again this will be higher? time and half etc?
reason i am quoting is because their current outsourced cleaners aren't very good. good for 2 weeks then it went down hill. i know this is too common an issue, but i know from a cleaners point it can simply be because you aren't getting paid enough and realise after 2 weeks with early morning, so few hours, 7 days a week, low pay etc, it's not worth it.
what would be a realistic rate to go in for this? i'd say 1.5 hours is plenty for the daily cleaning, but not enough for once a week jobs as it's a lot to mop and dust in one day, and even varnish i have no clue how long this takes. we'd like to get this as it's a well known restaurant in guildford so a good one to mention that we clean when selling our business to other customers.