For linen, uniform and facility services companies, today’s post-COVID market comes with a mix of good and bad news.Clearly, restaurants are confronting inflation and labor shortages like other businesses. Many have raised their prices significantly. Yet they’re still working to shrink the costs they pay for linen and uniforms, says Vancouver-based Brian Davidson, Alsco Uniforms National Sales Manager for Canada. “What what’s really amazing on the F&B side is they’re still price-driven even though for many pricing has gone up, on the order of 50% plus,” he says.

Another post-COVID trend—in Canada and the U.S.—is cutbacks on the use of ...