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In today’s fast-paced world, many employees take their technical workwear and personal protective equipment (PPE) home for washing. While this might seem convenient, it poses significant risks to both the effectiveness of the PPE and the safety of those living with the workers. This blog explores the critical reasons why professional laundering, such as the services provided by CLEAN, is essential for maintaining the integrity and safety of workwear.

As the summer season approaches, hotels and their housekeeping teams face the challenge of managing increased demand. With rising costs across various products and services, optimising linen and towelling service becomes more crucial than ever. Accurate stock levels are not just vital for cost control, but they are the key to a successful summer season.

Choosing your hotel linen is a huge decision. After all, it can change the look and feel of your guestrooms and is probably one of your biggest costs, so requires careful consideration. When you are in the process of choosing the right linen and towelling for your property, it’s vital to understand more about the products you are choosing and consider the different options available before agreeing the range you will use. From thread count, to weave, here we demystify the top fourlinen myths.

With increased costs across a range of products and services, it is more important than ever for hotel housekeeping teams optimise their linen and towelling service. Ensuring linen and towelling stock levels at the hotel are correct is vital, and the most efficient way and to keep costs under control.

Although the idea of employees washing and managing their own workwear is - at first thought - a reasonable and inexpensive approach, dig deeper and this can lead to problems, as well as ultimately costing you more.

We look at the many benefits your business could enjoy from renting workwear from a leading provider of workwear rental and laundry services.

Commercial laundries play an essential part in helping the hospitality industry function, and we need to ensure our industry survives this crisis to be able to support the re-opening phase plus the longer term requirements for our hospitality customers in the post-corona economy, says Kevin Godley, CEO of CLEAN.

Often cited as a bold design choice, naked tables are now popular in many restaurants and cafés all over the world. In recent years, it has become trendy even for expensive and exclusive dining establishments to serve meals on bare tabletops, foregoing crisp and pristine table linen to give the illusion of modern and sleek design.

At CLEAN, we know how hard housekeeping teams work to prepare rooms for guests, which is why we do everything we can to support them by providing high quality, clean linen and towelling.

Whether you have stayed in a modest, city centre hotel or an ultra-luxurious country house, there is one element of your room that will be consistent in both – white bedsheets.

While we have already established that higher thread count doesn’t mean higher quality material and Egyptian cotton isn’t always the stamp of ultimate luxury in our previous myth buster articles, the question about softness and quality of bedlinen also comes down to a choice of two types of weave: percale or sateen.

The laundry sector plays an integral part in allowing many businesses to function. Throughout the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we have continued to serve both workwear customers that have remained open and those hospitality customers that have remained open to provide accommodation to key workers.

For centuries, Egyptian cotton has been hailed the best and most sought-after bed linen, with retailers, movies and the world’s wealthiest individuals depicting the linen to be the epitome of luxury. The truth is, however, that Egyptian cotton has become an over-used term that now stretches across a range of fabrics and doesn’t necessarily mean you are buying high-quality sheets.

Towels are definitely hard working. Constantly wet, rubbed, washed and tumble dried until they lose all sense of their original purpose. Having spent money on fluffy, absorbent, colourful towels, it is disappointing when they quickly become faded, thin and worn, with little absorbency, ready for the rag pile.

Thread count has been given a huge importance in the world of bedding. Manufacturers and marketers use high thread counts as an indicator of quality, shouting about 600, 800 or 1000 thread count sheets as if they are the epitome of luxury.

Fewer than 30% of hotel guests have experienced a ‘better-than-expected quality of sleep’, according to a recent study by J.D. Power.

Since our establishment in 1886, we’ve strived to be the best textile services provider to the hospitality industry. To do this, we know we must offer nothing less than an efficient, quality service to all our customers and work with like-minded suppliers while looking after each of our employees in every corner of the business.

When it comes to linen management for the hospitality industry there are usually three main objectives: Experience - to give your guests a great experience, whether that be high-quality, crisp and sumptuous bed-linen or elegant, professional and dazzling tableware. Price - to keep costs under control Ease - to make the process of providing fresh linen and towelling to your establishment as easy, efficient and effortless as possible.

With the commercial cleaning sector continuing to evolve in line with innovative market trends and growing business capabilities, commercial laundries today must continue to adapt their operations to add value to their service offering and remain competitive.

As highlighted in our 6 things to consider when looking for a linen and laundry provider blog, the process of selecting a linen supplier should never be rushed.

Choosing a linen supplier isn’t a process that should be rushed. The company you choose will be responsible for supplying your hotel or venue with a fundamental part of your everyday business – if you don’t have clean linen, you cannot sell your rooms.

Whether it’s for a restaurant or special event, tableware gives F&B managers and event planners a multitude of options to set the scene and ensure guests feel the way you want them to feel when taking their seat.

To build further on our knowledge of the hotel industry, we got under the sheets with 1,000 UK hotel guests to understand what makes them smile in the bedroom and generates a big thumbs up during their stay.

CLEAN’s Christmas top tips for maintaining optimum linen levels

Are you a hotel operator considering a linen rental service? If yes, then you’ve come to the right place. Here, I want to tell you how hotels can benefit from leasing their linen.

The hotel industry sees multiple peaks and troughs in occupancy levels throughout the year and at CLEAN we know how important it is for our laundry service to consistently meet our customer’s needs. These peak periods can often be demanding on housekeeping teams, so in an effort to try to minimise this pressure we have put together some useful tips to help ensure a sufficient service is provided to everyone.