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How a Linen Service Benefits Small Businesses

• March 21, 2022
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• Century Linen Services

Linen services exist to help a variety of businesses, both big and small. Any small business can greatly benefit from a professional linen service. The demands of even the smallest business are considerable. Between paying the bills, keeping tabs on the building, employees, customers, and stocking inventory, small business is a big operation. Professional linen service can lessen much of that burden.

Here’s how: 

A Linen Service Saves Money

If your business uses linens, towels, tablecloths, napkins, or bed sheets on a regular basis, linens services save you money. 

Linen Ownership is Expensive 

Ownership, on a surface level, might seem like the cheaper route at first. You pay once for your materials and then just keep them clean and ready to use. However, that’s easier said than done. The time, energy, and resources that go into keeping a regular stock of linens far exceeds linen service costs. 

Depending on size of need, taking care of your own linens takes two or more hours per week at a minimum. That’s eight hours every month, assuming your business only has a small amount. Then there’s the costs of machine usage or maintenance and repairs if that too is owned. After that, there’s the cost of replacing damaged or stained linens, labor, detergents, other chemicals, and utilities. 

There’s one other thing these variables bring to your checkbook: instability. Sure, most weeks you’ll spend on just washing and drying. Those are the easy weeks. Sometimes, though, the machine will breakdown, or you’ll notice more damaged or stained materials. Suddenly your low-cost operation blasts through its average, and you’re stuck with a last minute (and more expensive) decision. 

A linen service makes these variables one regular, reasonable, and rational rate. The damage is taken care of, the items are replaced, and the price stays the same. 

A Linen Service Gives You Inventory Control

Unlike ownership, where you’re stuck with your supply or with the problem of what to do with the old one, a linen service makes change easy. Whether you have an increase or decrease in need, a change in color theme, or just want to try something different, Century Linen and Uniform’s service can help with that change. 

A Linen Service Gives You Consistent Quality and Cleanliness

Quality and cleanliness are necessities for any business’s linen. When they’re stained, damaged, or uncleaned, that reflects poorly on your business. By having a professional service in charge of those linen operations, you’re putting that burden on a company built to shoulder it. 

Century Linen has the resources, machinery, expertise, and experience to fulfill your linen needs every time. 

Contact Century Linen and Uniform Today for Great Linen Services Tomorrow

There’s no time like the present to prepare for tomorrow. If you’d like to save your small business money, time, resources, and space, Century Linen and Uniform is just a phone call away. Give us a call at (518) 620-3720 or contact us here for a free quote for service!