When planning an event, accommodating the guests is the most significant aspect of the details. After choosing your preferred food or entertainment, it’s time to begin the portable restroom search. How many will you need? How many people are coming? In this article, we help you navigate these tough questions to ensure your event is well put together and accommodating.
Consider the Type of Event
Always keep your event goals and purposes in mind when picking accommodations. This will significantly impact your ability to equip the event with the necessary supplies for your guests.
If you’re hosting a small birthday party, perhaps one to two portable restrooms will suffice. For large-scale events, foot traffic is a significant factor. Even though you can’t know for sure how many people will attend, you can use bulk foot traffic patterns to dictate the ratio of restrooms.
- 25 guests will require a minimum of one restroom
- 26-50 guests will require a minimum of two restrooms
- 51-100 guests will require a minimum of three to four restrooms
It’s essential to note that gendered attendance will play a role in your final count. Event spacing and type will also contribute to your numbers.
Are You Serving Food or Beverage?
Food or beverage will change how you set up your portable restrooms and increase your number slightly to accommodate these added restroom behaviors. You can alleviate long lines by increasing your final count by roughly 15 percent if you serve alcohol.
As for food services, most states require you to have restroom services nearby the food station to accommodate handwashing and bathroom behaviors. Partnering with your local health department to understand specifics surrounding food and restroom policies is essential.
Serving food or beverage at a formal event is something to consider; most often, the simple John is not enough. Guests will feel more comfortable in luxury porta potty spaces as these generally offer handwashing and proper sanitization.
Does Your Event Space Have Permanent Facilities?
People often rent event spaces that house permanent restroom facilities. While this is ideal, you should not factor this into your accommodations. Visit the location before the event date to confirm the condition of these facilities and determine if it is wise to rely on them or not.
Sometimes, the permanent facilities are too far from the event and become inconvenient. If they are within a viable walking distance and in good working condition, count this space as one unit and accommodate the rest with portable facilities.
Now that you have an understanding of how to plan and accommodate an event space with portable restrooms, it’s time to book your accommodations. Partner with us at The Lavatory to set up your luxury porta potty rental, and we guarantee to keep your guests happy and the line moving!