United Linen Blog

4th of July Holiday Schedule

In observance of the 4^th of July, all of our locations will be closed on Friday, July 3^rd, 2009.

 

However, we will have someone on-call over the weekend to handle any last minute linen needs.

 

To reach our on-call service staff, call 800-259-6808

 

We hope you have a great 4^th of July weekend!

New Link on United Linen's Website Makes Sharing Information Easy

We're excited to announce an improved way to share information from United Linen's website.  The SHARE THIS PAGE link helps spread the information you want to share across the web.  This link makes it easy for you to bookmark and share the content to your favorite social destinations.  Now, when you click on the SHARE THIS PAGE icon from any page within United Linen's website, you can:

•    send an email with the page's URL included
•    post the page to your Twitter account
•    send the page to your Facebook acct  (as well as many other social networking and bookmarking sites). 

Here's a demo video to show you how it works.

Napkin Folding - The Ice Cream Cone Fold

Just in time for summer...the Ice Cream Cone Fold

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Behind The Scenes: Part 5 All Wrapped Up

Part 5  All Wrapped Up

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Behind The Scenes: Part 4 Getting The Wrinkles Out

Part 4  Getting The Wrinkles Out

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Behind The Scenes: Part 3 The Napkin Comes Clean

Part 3   The Napkin Comes Clean

Separation Anxiety - Once the linen bag full of napkins has made its way back to United Linen's production facilities, the bags are staged "in the air" with other bags full of assorted linen.  The napkin stays in this holding pattern until the production crew is ready for the bags of linen to be sorted.

When the soil sort crew is ready to sort the napkins, the bags are let down through a rail system to one of many Soil Sort stations.  Here, the bag will be opened and the napkins dumped on a sorting table.  United Linen's automatic Soil Count System accounts for each napkin as it is fed up a vacuum tube and placed in a holding bin.   

 

Large slings are used to transport the sorted linen from the Soil Sort dept to the Washroom.  In a days time the Washroom will wash an estimated 60,000 lbs of linen.

After being washed, the linen is dumped back into baskets, rehung in slings and transported by overhead rail to the dryers. 

Some linen products get dried in the dryers while other products, like our napkins and tablecloths are dried through the ironing process.  

The napkin's next stop...the ironers!

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Behind The Scenes: Part 2 Down and Dirty

Part 2  Down and Dirty

Once the the dinner guest is through, the napkin's journey back to the table has just begun.  After the restaurant staff have finished clearing off the table for the next guest, the napkins are placed in a linen bag, where they stay until the United Linen driver comes back by with a delivery of fresh linen.

When the United Linen driver (we call them Customer Service Reps) shows up with a new set of linen for the restaurant, the linen bags full of soiled linen are picked up and loaded onto route trucks.  All the products picked up by United Linen are transported back to the production facilities in Bartlesville, OK.  Before the napkin makes it back to the restaurant's table, it is conceivable that the napkin travels round trip over 300 miles.

For example purposes we are talking about the journey of a napkin as if the napkin from a specific restaurant were returning to the same restaurant.  In the real world, specific napkins are not designated to a particular business.  

Tomorrow...the napkin comes clean.

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OKC Shuttle Gets A New Look

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Behind The Scenes: Part 1 Clean, Folded and Ready

Part 1:  Clean, Folded and Ready 

 

This is the napkin everyone is used to seeing.  The napkins are clean, folded, ready to enhance your dining experience and keep you free from spills and crumbs. 

So we'll start here and over the next few days take you through the cleaning process from a napkin's perspective.  We hope you enjoy this rare behind-the-scenes look at the laundry processes at United Linen & Uniform Services. 

Tomorrow, A Napkin's Journey: Part 2  Down and Dirty

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Behind The Scenes: What it takes to get a napkin on our customer's table

You go to a restaurant...sit at a table, take the napkin, unfold it and place it on your lap. 

HOLD IT! 

That napkin...how did it get on the table?  How did it get to the restaurant?  how far did that napkin have to travel before it finally found it's place at your table?

All this week, we will pull back the curtain and give you a behind the scenes look at how United Linen & Uniform Services handles the processing, caring, handling, transporting and supporting necessary to successfully get a napkin on a table and enhance the restaurant guest's dining experience.   

There is more to it than meets the eye.

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