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Table linens: making or breaking the dining experience

By Sitex Corp   /    Thursday, October 13, 2016   /   , ,

Table linens have become integral in the way that restaurants are creating their branded experience. Choosing the right napkins and tablecloths can elevate your dining experience to something completely unique. As small a detail it may seem, maintaining a strategic and well-kept table linen plan can make or break your customer’s dining experience.

For starters, it’s the piece of decor that can show your guests that you care about creating a unique and well-polished atmosphere for them. Just ask any detail-oriented bride, and she’ll tell you about the long list of table linen choices she made for her big day. This doesn’t mean that your linens have to be fancy— sometimes a thoughtfully crafted atmosphere is a rustic or minimal one!

Secondly, it’s the part of your restaurant that guests will interact with most, aside from the food itself. It’s something that people worry about and that has been addressed by etiquette pro’s for years: what do I do with my napkin?

Seize this opportunity for involvement by giving your guest a napkin that’s interesting— perhaps with texture of some sort— but also by giving them a napkin that is clean and functional.

Ahh, clean!

We need to talk about this for one more second. Did you know that some people actually blow their noses into restaurants’ linen napkins? Having a patron of your restaurant do this is awful not only for the servers that will collect the napkin but also for the other guests that might have witnessed the act and realized the risk they take when sharing table linens with strangers.

That’s why it’s fundamentally important to maintain your image by replacing linens that need replacing and by regularly laundering the linens that you keep in rotation. If you slack here, your customers will absolutely notice. Whether they’re unconsciously noticing the atmosphere you’ve created or actively noticing the wear, tear, or grime on their linens— trust us, they will notice.

SITEX cares about the image your business maintains. It’s our business. Let us help you with your restaurant linen services, so that you can spend more time creating the experience and less time managing the little details that achieve it. Call us today to give your linens the SITEX touch: 1-800-444-3001.

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