Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Attempt One for a Linen Vendor

I did some searching on-line and called around to all of the linen rental companies in the area, and of course added to our huge awesome tracking spread sheet.

It is kind of weird how they seem to work things. Not every company offers all of the basic linens. One company may only have table cloths and chair covers but not carry napkins, then they will sub-rent the napkins from the one company in the area that does provide them and of course up charge you.

I narrowed down the search by prioritizing companies that carry at least all three of the basic linens (table cloths, napkins, and chair covers). Believe it or not, that really narrowed thing down quick.

Jax and I had Monday off work so we stopped in at one of the linen company's showroom. This place was kind of high class. They didn't carry a Cotton or Polyester solid color table cloth, all of the table cloths were either satin or crushed or patterned. The only napkin they carried in the color we wanted was satin. I don't think that satin would really be absorbent enough to qualify for a napkin. Yeah it only took us a few minutes to realize we were out of our league.

I have a few other linen companies to check out this month, including the company our reception site referred us to.

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