Most hostels (including ours) maintain excellent kitchen facilities so backpackers can save money by cooking for themselves.
Cooking for yourself is obviously a lot less expensive than eating out. Surprisingly, a lot of your travelers are quite competent chefs.
It the cleanup part a lot of them have to work on!
Too many backpackers leave their dirty dishes and pots and pans unwashed in the sink. Then, of course, it falls on hostel staff members to clean up after them.
The bottom line is that such behaviour shows a lack of? character.It is also very inconsiderate to the next pperson who wants to use the pots, pans, dishes and sink!
Quite often, you will find a hostel guests who will wash his or her dishes then wash the dishes left by someone far less considerate. As soon as you see them do just that, you think how well their parents raised them!