Paper Towel and Dispensers

Because wet hands transfer more than dry ones, so drying is part of hand washing rather than an optional finish. A dispenser that hands out one sheet at a time, mounted where someone with wet hands can reach it, is what makes that happen.

Put it beside the basin with the hand soap, not across the room. Distance is why people wipe their hands on an apron.

Interleaved gives one sheet per pull, which controls usage and suits hand drying. Standard roll is cheapest per metre and suits bench work. Centre-feed sits in between and works well on a trolley or a mobile station.

Most kitchens end up with interleaved at the basins and centre-feed on the line. One format for everything always over-serves one of the two jobs.

For a kitchen, paper usually wins on speed and on not blowing air around a food area. An air dryer has no consumable cost, which suits a busy public washroom.

Paper also doubles as bench stock, which an air dryer cannot. Washrooms are the place to consider a dryer, alongside the washroom cleaner consumables.

It is commonly used that way, and absorbency is what to buy on. A thin two-ply sheet goes to pulp under hot chips; a heavier bench roll holds up and keeps the product crisp.

A better answer for volume is a draining rack or a frying basket over a tray, with paper only for the final blot.

Change the dispenser rather than the instruction. A controlled-feed unit decides the sheet count for you, and usage usually drops noticeably once it is fitted.

Mount dispensers at the point of use. A roll on the bench is an open invitation.

Fit a paper towel dispenser beside every basin, at the pass, and near the bin so wiping and disposal are one movement. Mounting height matters more than it sounds: too high and the sheet tears, too low and it drags on the bench.

Keep the mounting clear of the exhaust hood and away from open flame. Paper near a cooking surface is a fire risk nobody plans for.

Enough that nobody has to improvise, which in practice means a carton per dispenser location. Paper towel is bulky, so the constraint is store room space rather than cost.

Buy it with the rest of the kitchen disposables so it arrives on one delivery.