While the COVID-19 pandemic has posed an existential threat to many businesses, among the most endangered species in terms of today’s textile services industry could be the hotel on-premise laundry (OPL).

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Pablo Lucchesi, managing director for Crown Linen LLC, which manages five hotel laundries in Florida and a recently opened sixth plant just outside Atlanta, didn’t quite go that far in assessing the new competitive environment in the U.S. hotel market. But he does see progress in his company’s long-running mission to convince hotels to outsource their laundry operations, as is commonly done ...