Kentucky's new requirements for restaurants, which can open at one-third capacity on Friday, explicitly say that the use of table linens should be discontinued.
As they are at most fine dining establishments, tablecloths at his restaurants are replaced after each guest leaves. The used linens are then bagged and sent off to be washed at a large third-party plant that also serves, among other customers, hospitals and medical facilities.
“If their product can be safe enough to be put in there, I don’t know why it’s not safe enough to put in restaurants,” Varanese told The Courier Journal. Varanese’s linen provider, Louisville-based Universal Linen, said about a quarter of the company’s business comes from medical facilities. It neutralizes bacteria by the use of high temperatures at multiple stages in its industrial-grade cleaning process, CEO Tom Austin said. The cleaned linens are wrapped in clear plastic and heat-sealed, then transported in trucks that are sanitized daily. “We think public health officials are doing a good job of informing Kentuckians of what’s going on in the state,” Austin told The Courier Journal. “We just want them to know that table linens and napkins are a safe, hygienic, clean and sanitary solution to protect patrons in restaurants.” Austin’s family-owned business can trace its roots in Louisville to 1896. In ordinary times, Universal Linen employs 220 people across facilities in Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee, Austin said. Every week they wash an average of 290,000 pounds of table linens, medical and lodging linens and uniforms. Most of that operation has ground to a halt during the pandemic. With many elective surgeries on hold and the hospitality industry in tatters, Universal Linen workers are on furlough.
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