Contract laundry for tablecloths, napkins, chef whites, uniforms, towels, and bed linen. Linen and laundry is one of the highest-value and most consistently overpriced operational costs in hospitality. The commercial laundry market is competitive — but only for volume that individual venues rarely have alone.
A 50-cover restaurant processing tablecloths, napkins, and chef whites might spend £18,000–26,000 annually with their contract laundry. A hotel with bed linen, towels, and F&B linen can spend considerably more. In most cases that contract was set up when the operation launched — or when a previous relationship ended — and has been rolling ever since, with the contractor adjusting prices annually and the operator accepting without scrutiny.
Commercial laundry companies compete actively for hospitality contracts — but they compete for volume. A single restaurant's linen account is marginal to a regional laundry business. A pool of 30–40 restaurants and hotels in a region represents £700,000–1.1M of annual laundry spend. That is a contract worth competing seriously for, and the price difference between marginal and preferred customer status is significant.
Restaurant linen (tablecloths, napkins, chair covers), kitchen and chef wear (whites, aprons, trousers), hotel bed linen and towels, bar towels, and any specialist items specific to your operation. Each operator's requirement is specified individually — fabric type, item count, collection frequency, and any special handling requirements. The pool tender goes to commercial laundries on an aggregated basis; individual service agreements are maintained with each operator at the pool rate.