A New York Times video recently served up a positive portrayal of a TRSA operator member in a documentary dubbed “Where NYC Restaurants Send Their Dirty Linen.” This 16-minute program on Arrow Linen Supply Co. Inc., Garden City, NY, offered an overview of processing and distributing linens and garments for food-and-beverage (F&B) outlets across New York City.
Visits to Alsco’s Chicago facility and the UniFirst plant in Hammond, IN, highlight the agenda for TRSA’s Production Summit and Plant Tours, May 18-19, based at the Embassy Suites Downtown in Chicago. The visits, set for the morning of Thursday, May 19, will follow the traditional TRSA plant tour format, with Summit attendees dividing into small groups, each one observing a different stage in the facility’s production process at the same time and rotating through these stages.
With California paving the way for businesses everywhere to use alternative-fuel technology and industrywide interest growing in improving effectiveness, efficiency and compliance on the road, TRSA is addressing the need for more information to support members’ fleet management and maintenance. The newest example is the inaugural Fleet Summit, slated for May 9-10, which will run in conjunction with the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo in Long Beach, CA.
During the March 30 awards dinner at the TRSA Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, the Unitex Healthcare Laundry Services Linden, NJ, facility will be honored as the 2022 winner of the TRSA Best Plant of the Year award.
UniFirst Corp., Wilmington, MA, recently acquired Budget Uniform Rental, Gardena, CA, according to a news release from James Gutheim & Associates Inc., Encino, CA, which served as the financial adviser in the sale. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Golden Star, Overland Park, KS, recently acquired Premier Mop and Broom, Corona CA, according to a news release.
Messe Frankfurt, the owners of the Clean Show, recently announced that this year’s biennial trade exhibition – the largest such event for linen, uniform and facility services companies in North America – is now open for attendee registrations.
Motoring through an itinerary of meetings with member company personnel at 14 of their facilities over five days, TRSA completed the Florida segment of its Reopening Tour on March 4, the final leg in a series of trips that began a year earlier.
Eleven TRSA member operator and supplier partner members’ video work has been honored with a 2022 TRSA Industry Award for such productions, to be acknowledged at a March 30 dinner at TRSA’s 12th Annual Legislative Conference & Annual Industry Awards in Washington, DC.
As TRSA recently completed the Florida leg of its Reopening Tour on March 4, the association’s executive leadership team is aware of the challenges, like labor and supply chain issues, that are challenging everyday business decisions for its members. This may impact budgets for travel and professional development or time constraints of being away from the office. Due to these ongoing challenges impacting the linen, uniform and facility services industry, TRSA has decided to offer its March 15 F&B and March 16 Hospitality Virtual Summits for free to all TRSA members, as well as nonmembers.
