Laundry operators and their customers in Michigan, including restaurants, clinics and manufacturers, soldiered on through the long winter of COVID-19, hoping that by mid-summer they’d see renewed opportunities. Many have, but the state’s recent reopening has brought challenges too.

TRSA’s Supplier Partner Council held its inaugural Supplier Partner Council Workshop during the recent TRSA Leadership Meetings in Oakbrook, IL.

TRSA’s first Reopening Tour legs – two 2,500-plus mile road trips with staff driving to meet members – have generated unprecedented information-sharing through personally reporting these meetings’ highlights to members at subsequent stops on each leg and generating social media posts for industry stakeholders to view everywhere as the trips proceeded.

TRSA hosted nearly 50 operators and supplier partners for an F&B/Hospitality Roundtable on July 14. The meeting was the latest in TRSA’s roundtable series for each market sector served by the linen, uniform and facility services industry.

TRSA recently completed the second leg of its COVID-19 reopening tour, with visits to 24 companies across the Midwestern United States.

TRSA continued its series of webinars for the linen, uniform and facility services industry with a June 23 presentation on improving route stop performance. The hour-long webinar was presented by TRSA’s Industrial, Uniform & Workwear Committee, and is the first of a three-part series.

Videos and photos from the June 20-25 stops on the Midwest leg of TRSA’s Reopening Tour can be viewed on TRSA’s Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter pages; same for followers of the social media accounts of Joseph Ricci, TRSA president and CEO; and Kevin Schwalb, TRSA’s vice president of government relations.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently posted updated and expanded technical assistance related to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing questions arising under the federal equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws, according to a news release.

This time a year ago, if you’d asked food-and-beverage (F&B) laundry operators what they wanted most, they probably would have said an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with restaurants reopening thanks to a vaccination drive launched late last year, the emerging post-COVID era has brought with it a host of new challenges.

TRSA President & CEO Joseph Ricci recently appeared on a Goldman Sachs webcast to discuss key trends in the linen, uniform and facility services industry.