Comparing the models
One question decides nearly everything else: who owns the linen? Replacement, storage, seasonal volumes and who carries the loss when a banquet goes wrong all hang off it.
The difference
The textiles are ours. You use them, we care for them, and we replace them as they wear. You invest nothing and hold no reserve stock.
The textiles are yours. You buy them once, we collect, process and repair them. Replacement is your decision and your cost.
Worked through
Prices are in your quote. What is not in it — or anywhere else — is the mechanics: who acts, who pays, and what you actually have to do on Monday.
Linen rental
You start with a full set without buying anything first. If the volumes turn out wrong after four weeks they get adjusted — you are not sitting on a bad guess.
Wash service
You buy everything before the first guest, at the point where nobody yet knows what the place actually does. Whatever was too much stays in storage. Whatever was too little, you buy again.
Linen rental
We sort them out and replace them. There is no line on the invoice and no decision for you to make — the next delivery is complete again.
Wash service
We tell you before we sort anything out. You decide whether to re-buy, and you order. Until then twelve napkins are missing from circulation.
Linen rental
Volumes go up and down as occupancy demands. Off-season you are not paying for stock sitting on a shelf.
Wash service
Your stock is sized for the peak and sits idle the rest of the year. That is capital tied up and floor space used — but it is yours, and nobody can allocate it away from you.
Making the call
The most common arrangement is mixed: the business owns its workwear and rents its table linen. Both run on one rhythm and one invoice.
All servicesEven when that is the wash service and we earn less on it. Tell us your volumes and rhythm.
