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Restaurant Laundry Service in Chicago, IL

Drop & Dash cleans the linens your Chicago restaurant owns, napkins and tablecloths through aprons and chef coats, on a 24-hour turnaround at a per-pound rate, never rented stock. Picked up after service, back before the next one that matters.
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You own your linens. We clean them. No rental contracts.

Linen cleaning, not linen rental

Search for linen service in Chicago and nearly every result is linen rental: the company’s stock, on the company’s schedule, under the company’s contract. Rental programs typically run $100 to $250 a week for a 50-seat restaurant, plus replacement charges when counts come up short, and the linens never belong to you. Cancel, and the tablecloths leave with the truck.

Drop & Dash is the other kind of linen service. You buy linens once, in the fabric, weight, and color you actually want, and we launder them at $1.40 to $1.70 per pound, all-in: pickup, washing, and delivery included, with a 60 pound minimum per pickup and a 24-hour turnaround guarantee. There is no weekly rental fee and no rental contract. We compete on service and professionalism, not price.

Linen rental (nearly every result)

  • Typically $100 to $250 a week for a 50-seat restaurant
  • Replacement charges when counts come up short
  • The linens never belong to you
  • Cancel, and the tablecloths leave with the truck

Drop-off

  • You buy linens once, in the fabric and color you want
  • $1.40 to $1.70 per pound, all-in
  • 60 lb minimum · 24-hour turnaround guarantee
  • No weekly rental fee, no rental contract

Front of house, back of house

  • Tablecloths and napkins
  • Kitchen towels and bar mops
  • Aprons
  • Chef coats

Restaurant laundry comes back soiled in ways home machines cannot clear: grease, wine, smoke. We run it through commercial-grade washers and dryers with controlled cycles, controlled temperatures, and professional laundry chemistry built for odor and stain removal, then fold everything and seal it in airtight bags for delivery. Staff uniforms beyond the kitchen run through our uniform laundry service.

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Employee in a blue shirt standing beside black wire shelves holding wrapped bundles of blankets, pillows and folded clothing

Routes that match your service days

Pickups run on a recurring schedule built around your week: after Sunday brunch, before Friday dinner, whatever your calendar needs. Every pickup carries a 60 pound minimum, every return is guaranteed within 24 hours, and billing works by credit card or invoice. In the unlikely event an item is damaged or lost, we make it right. The claims process is covered in our service terms, and your account contact handles it start to finish.

Running rooms as well as tables? Our hotel and hospitality laundry service works the same way.

Hotel & Hospitality

Proof in numbers

4.7 stars on Google across 313 reviews, with 273 of 313 star ratings at five stars. Every commercial pickup carries the 24-hour turnaround guarantee.

4.7-Star

★★★★★

273/313

ratings are five-star

24 hr

guarantee on every commercial pickup

Frequently asked questions

Do you offer linen service in Chicago?
Yes. Drop & Dash provides linen service across Chicago: we launder restaurant-owned napkins, tablecloths, kitchen towels, bar mops, aprons, and chef coats, picked up and delivered on recurring routes with a 24-hour turnaround guarantee. It is a cleaning service, not a rental program, so your linens stay yours.
No. Drop & Dash cleans the linens you own; we rent nothing. There is no rental stock, no weekly rental fee, and no rental contract: you buy your linens once and pay a per-pound rate to keep them clean.
Drop & Dash cleans restaurant linens at $1.40 to $1.70 per pound, all-in: pickup, washing, folding, and delivery included, with a 60 pound minimum per pickup and a guaranteed 24-hour return. Request a quote for your exact rate. For comparison, rental programs typically run $100 to $250 a week for a 50-seat restaurant [DEV: receipt — superlinen.com PAA], and you never own the stock. Billing is by credit card or invoice.
Our pickups and deliveries run 7am to 6pm, seven days a week, so instead of after-close pickups we schedule around your service: before you open, during prep, or between shifts. Tell us your closing hours when you request a quote and we build the route so fresh linens are back before the next service.
Linens come back within 24 hours of pickup, guaranteed. The 24-hour turnaround is the standard on every Drop & Dash commercial route, not a rush option.
A restaurant linen service collects, cleans, and returns a restaurant’s washable textiles on a recurring schedule: tablecloths, napkins, kitchen towels, bar mops, aprons, and chef coats. Rental programs supply the stock and charge weekly for it; a laundering service like Drop & Dash cleans the linens you already own, with pickup, washing, folding, and delivery included in one per-pound rate.
Restaurants clean linens one of three ways: in-house machines, a rental swap program, or a commercial laundry service that washes what the restaurant owns. Drop & Dash runs restaurant linens through commercial-grade washers and dryers with high-temperature wash cycles, ozone-enhanced cleaning, controlled drying, and professional laundry chemistry built for odor and stain removal, then folds and seals everything in airtight bags for delivery within 24 hours.

Restaurants are one arm of our commercial laundry service: the full program and quote form live there.

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