Planning Towels Around Salon Stations
Salon towel ordering tends to be done by headcount, because staff are the visible cost. The volume follows stations instead: a station runs a service, and the service consumes towels. Two salons with the same staff and different station counts need different orders.
The station is the unit of planning
Per station, the variables are services per day and towels per service. Multiply by station count and you have a daily figure; multiply by opening days for a month. Neither input is published by us, because a colour bar and a blow-dry bar have nothing in common on towels per service. The point is that both inputs belong to the salon and can be counted from a normal week rather than estimated.
Why the 40 × 80 cm reference and the 50-piece pack work together
The salon range has a 40 × 80 cm reference size, GSM of 50 to 100, and a recorded pack of 50 pieces. That combination is a stocking decision: one pack is a station-days supply, so a salon can issue in whole packs and keep the count honest. Contrast with the spa and pet formats, which are recorded as folded bulk with the unit count confirmed per project — cheaper per piece, but with no pack boundary to count against.
White and black are two records, not one product
Both salon colour records are 100% viscose at the same 40 × 80 cm reference, so a salon can move between them without reopening the material decision. What does not carry over is the surface: the white record sits in a range where plain, pearl and F textures are recorded where compatible, and the black record lists no pattern at all. A salon that switches to black for its colour work should confirm the pattern on the sample, not assume it.
The towel count that actually matters
Most salons discover their real consumption in the week they run out. A simple way to establish it without a study: count the packs issued to one station over five opening days, and divide. That figure is the salon's own number and is more useful than any average, because it includes the salon's own service mix — the colour work, the tonics, and the two extra towels the senior stylist uses without thinking.
What to specify
Size, GSM within the recorded 50 to 100 range, colour record, pack count, and whether the towel needs a texture. That is a complete salon specification, and it is short enough to confirm in one message.
Both colour records and the pack count are on disposable towels; the workflow they support is described under hair salon towels and beauty and nail salon towels.