Two Aucklanders have come up with an innovative business plan that could ease the pain of hungover party hosts trying to clean up after a big night.
Flatmates Catherine Ashurst, a consultant, and Rebecca Foley, a chartered accountant, are the founders of startup Morning-After Maids, a service that will come to your house the morning after a party and vacuum the chips out of the carpet, wipe unidentified sludge off the walls and even cook you breakfast to cure the hangover.
The innovative service was dreamt up by the duo following their own hungover experiences, Ms Ashurst said.
"My flatmate was actually hungover and lying in bed one morning ... and we were just chatting and it came up in conversation.
"I am quite a clean freak and she said 'imagine if we didn't have you around we would have to do all this cleaning', and I said well we can do that for other people and then we laughed about it."