Rapid growth—in both tourism and related commerce—is fueling the hospitality laundry market in Florida, according to J.R. Garcia, COO and chief safety officer of Crown Linen LLC, a Miami-based group of five hospitality laundries, all located in strategic markets across the “Sunshine State.”

“It’s staggering,” says Garcia, who joined Crown in 2016 after 22 years of overseeing (and expanding) the Walt Disney World laundry complex in Orlando, FL, and another year and a half with the PureStar Group leading seven laundry operations on the East Coast and in Mexico. “I read not long ago that as of Jan. 1, 1970.…It’s ...