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Top-quality restaurants need top-quality towels to keep the front and back of the house running smoothly, but you don't have to break the bank to get them. Towel Supercenter offers the durable, dependable wholesale restaurant towels chefs, servers and bartenders need to work safely and efficiently.
A restaurant’s full complement of equipment keeps food service running smoothly — and towels are a crucial tool in your arsenal. You’ll find towels in every corner of your restaurant, from the front to the back of the house. Every single staff member, from the servers to the sous chef, will touch a towel in their restaurant career. Many of them don’t understand just how crucial towels are to maintaining a clean and efficient restaurant.
The towels in your restaurant represent your first line of defense from contamination. No matter where you use them, restaurant towels see a good deal of dirt and other unsavory substances. From the towels you employ to clean the bathroom to the ones you carry hot plates on, every towel contacts a surface you don’t want to get dirty.
Disinfecting towels is the number one way to keep your restaurant clean and defend against contaminants like bacteria and viruses that can make people sick. More than 48 million people come down with a foodborne illness each year, with 128,000 of them showing symptoms dangerous enough to require hospitalization. There are more than 250 different types of foodborne disease, but just a few of them make up the bulk of all cases. They include:
One other germ is responsible for far fewer bouts of illness overall but is more likely to lead to a hospital stay when it does cause illness. Most people first hear of escherichia coli (E. coli) when they’re told not to eat raw cookie dough because it can make them sick. Many strains of these bacteria exist, but only a few cause illness. These target different body systems, like the gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract or respiratory system.
None of these germs are pleasant, and if someone gets sick after eating at your restaurant, you’ll have to weather some negative reviews and potentially an extra health inspection. Neither of these prospects is ideal, and if your restaurant is the source of an outbreak, you’ll have a real problem on your hands. Conscientious disinfection of your restaurant kitchen towels will prevent them from becoming bacteria breeding grounds.
To disinfect restaurant towels, it helps to understand what factors influence the buildup of bacteria. After all, you can’t tell how much bacteria is in a towel just by looking at it. A stained old dish rag that’s been sanitized will harbor fewer bacteria than a newer towel that was recently used to mop up around the fish prep station.
Bacteria are built to reproduce. They can adapt to harsh conditions all over the Earth, and they have no problem settling down in towels. One recent study from the University of Mauritius investigated the buildup of bacteria in ordinary household kitchen towels. They found several predictors associated with the growth of both staph and e. coli on towels, such as:
Restaurants contain each of these bacteria-encouraging factors at significantly higher levels than in households. A kitchen crew is much larger than the families surveyed in the study, and restaurant towels almost always perform multiple functions — even if their purpose only changes between washings.
A restaurant kitchen is full of steam and involves mopping up a lot of liquids, so towels become damp. And, of course, most restaurants prep and serve a substantial array of meat dishes. In short, restaurant kitchen towels need constant disinfection to stay safe and sanitary.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes a new edition of the Food Code every four years. The Food Code includes required processes and procedures specifically relating to the use of towels in restaurants. These are the basics every chef, cook and kitchen manager should know::
These guidelines seem like common sense, but there are some things you can do to make disinfecting restaurant towels easier on the kitchen staff.
It’s not always easy to ensure that towels meant for meat and raw animal products stay separate from the rest. Depending on the size and layout of your kitchen as well as the size of the kitchen crew, the team may be quite spread out. When communication is a challenge, it’s easier to visually identify the right towels by color than any other marker. Designating black towels for use in meat prep, for example, makes it immediately obvious which ones to use for what task.
Space is a concern in many restaurants, so chefs or managers may choose to place sanitizer buckets together in one spot. Even with proper labeling, mistakes happen — especially with new employees. If a meat prep towel is carelessly dropped into the wrong sanitizer bucket, that bucket needs to be emptied and refilled while all the towels head to the head to the laundry.
This takes someone off of their current task and disrupts the flow of food service. Place sanitizer buckets with different designations in different spots in the kitchen. Often, you can simply place the bucket for meat prep towels near the meat prep station, and so on. But in small kitchens where a couple of prep stations serve multiple purposes, keeping sanitizer buckets separate can avoid time-consuming cross-contamination.
The Food Code has detailed guidance on the concentration requirements for sanitizer used in disinfecting restaurant towels. Surprisingly, it contains little information on how often to change out that sanitizer. Most restaurants dump sanitizer at the end of the day and start over in the morning, but larger or more complex operations may need to change it more than once a day.
Visual cues such as food particles or haziness in the sanitation container suggest you need to change your solution, but you don’t want to rely on those alone. Ideally, you should freshen towel sanitizer before you can tell it’s dirty. A schedule encourages accountability and ensures your restaurant towels stay as clean as possible.
A last bit of advice is not to skimp on drying after you launder restaurant towels. Many people think hot water kills germs in the laundry, but that’s not the case. High-heat drying kills far more germs than the wash cycle itself. Kelly Reynolds, an associate professor of environmental health and germ researcher at the University of Arizona, notes that the most effective way to kill viruses is to use the high-heat dry cycle for at least 28 minutes.
The purpose of restaurant towels varies based on a person’s role in the establishment. From food prep to casual cleaning, nearly every person in the building needs quality restaurant towels to do their job right. These three roles use the bulk of towels in a restaurant:
Everything in a restaurant needs to be cleaned frequently to keep up to code and protect the health of customers and workers alike. The best towels need to be extremely durable to stand up to constant use, exposure to sanitization chemicals and high-heat tumble drying. With proper care, they can last for a very long time.
Restaurants go through a staggering number of towels on a daily basis. A towel used for polishing glassware will see less wear and tear than the towels used to clean the dish machine, so you’ll find yourself needing many for different categories of use.
Instead of placing small orders more frequently, you should consider purchasing restaurant towels in bulk from Towel Supercenter. Choosing wholesale restaurant towels provides three benefits any chef or kitchen manager will appreciate:
Towel Supercenter carries towels that your restaurant can rely on. With 100 percent cotton terry weave, our bar and restaurant towels offer exceptional value to everyone in and out of the kitchen. You need towels to keep your restaurant running efficiently, but you don’t have to pay a premium to keep your restaurant well-supplied.
Towel Supercenter understands towels can’t eat up too much of your budget. That’s why we carry several varieties to mix and match for the best combined value.
Our tough economy towels get the job done at the lowest price point, while our premium cotton and premium plus lines add extra professionalism to the appearance of front-of-house staff. Our bleach-resistant towels are low-maintenance and sturdy, while our 86/14 blend line offers the exceptional quality and affordability of polyester combined with cotton.
Towel Supercenter is your source for finding affordable restaurant towels in bulk. Browse our extensive collection and stock up on this essential restaurant resource today.
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