Superior Linen Service

What Superior Linen Service does

Superior Linen Service, Inc. is a privately held B2B textile rental and services company founded in 1954 and headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company operates three integrated vertical divisions: a Hospitality Division supplying restaurants and hotels with table linens, napkins (in over two dozen colors), toweling, aprons, and chef apparel; a Healthcare Division providing medical linens, patient apparel, protective garments, scrub apparel, and cubicle curtains to hospitals and medical facilities (backed by TRSA Hygienically Clean Healthcare certification); and a Facility Services Division offering entrance and logo mats, wet/dust/microfiber mops, restroom products, and storage solutions. Services are delivered on a recurring weekly subscription basis under custom-quote B2B contracts.

The company runs a regional industrial laundry operation with no disclosed proprietary technology stack beyond standard web infrastructure: a Customer Portal (portal.superlinen.com) for account management and reporting, and an interactive Table Design Tool that lets hospitality customers visualize napkin/tablecloth color combinations. No API, SDK, or AI/ML capabilities are documented. Service delivery is supported by 7 branch locations organized into Western (Oklahoma and Kansas) and Eastern (Arkansas and Missouri) divisions, enabling same-region responsive delivery and after-hours service across four contiguous states.

Commercially, Superior Linen Service runs a sales-led, quote-based B2B model with recurring rental revenue tied to weekly service intervals. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is tailored per customer/industry. Acquisition is driven by a request-a-quote form segmented by industry (hospitality, healthcare, facility), supplemented by branch-level field sales. Account management is reinforced through dedicated client service representatives who conduct monthly personal visits and produce usage reports for cost optimization. The company's website also references an active job board and Glassdoor profile, but provides no revenue, headcount trend, ownership, funding, M&A, or leadership information.

Name

Superior Linen Service

Legal name

Superior Linen Service, Inc.

Website

https://superlinen.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1954

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Linen Rental Services

NAICS

Linen Supply (812331), Linen and Uniform Supply (81233), Industrial Launderers (812332)

akta.pro primary industry

Foodservice & Restaurant Linen/Apron Laundry (HSAJAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hospitality (Hotel/Resort) Linen Laundry (HSAJAEAB), Healthcare & Hospital Linen Laundry (HSAJAEAA), Laundry, Linen & Uniform Route Service (B2B) (TLAAAEAL)

Keywords

• Commercial linen rental
• Healthcare linen service
• Hospitality textile rental
• Industrial laundry services
• Facility services supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Tulsa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Linen and Textile Rental Services: Recurring B2B rental services providing linens, toweling, chef apparel, medical apparel, and facility products on a weekly basis. The company launders, maintains, and delivers textiles to business customers. One-time individual rentals are severely limited and not a primary focus.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Superior Linen Service provides recurring B2B rental and laundering of commercial textiles delivered on a weekly schedule. The company serves three vertical segments — hospitality (table linens, napkins, chef apparel, toweling), healthcare (medical linens, patient apparel, protective apparel, scrub apparel, cubicle curtains), and facility services (entrance and logo mats, mops, restroom supplies, storage solutions) — through a network of branch locations across Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.

Product overview

Superior Linen Service is a business-to-business linen and facility services provider operating three integrated divisions. The Hospitality Division offers linens (tablecloths, napkins, special event linens), toweling, aprons, and chef wear for restaurants and hospitality businesses. The Healthcare Division provides medical linens (bed sheets, blankets, pillowcases), patient apparel (gowns, pediatric wear), protective apparel (isolation gowns, surgical gowns), scrub apparel, and cubicle curtains to healthcare facilities. The Facility Services Division supplies mats, mops, restroom products (paper, soap, sanitizers), and storage solutions. All divisions are supported by a Customer Portal for account management and reporting, and a Table Design Tool for hospitality customers to preview color combinations. Services are delivered through a network of branch locations across Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Linens Rental and laundering of hospitality table linens including tablecloths, napkins, and special event linens in over two dozen colors, delivered on a weekly recurring schedule to restaurants and hospitality venues.
• Toweling Rental and laundering of hospitality toweling products including grill pads, bar rib towels, microfiber towels, and swipe towels for restaurants and hospitality venues.
• Chef Wear Rental and laundering of hospitality chef apparel including chef coats, cook/utility shirts, mesh back chef coats, chef pants, and custom apparel for restaurants and hospitality venues.
• Aprons Rental and laundering of hospitality aprons including bib aprons and bistro aprons for restaurants and hospitality venues.
• Healthcare Linens Rental and laundering of healthcare linens including pillowcases, flat twin bed sheets, thermal blankets, envelope sheets, flat draw sheets, bath blankets, and underpads for hospitals and medical facilities.
• Patient Apparel Rental and laundering of patient garments including mammogram capes, mammogram gowns, mother's gowns, patient gowns, telemetry gowns, pajama pants, pediatric gowns, pediatric tops, pediatric pants, and adolescent gowns for hospitals and medical facilities.
• Protective Apparel Rental and laundering of healthcare protective garments including isolation gowns, barrier gowns, and unisex fluid and static resistant coats and surgical gowns for hospitals and medical facilities.
• Scrub Apparel Rental and laundering of medical scrub wear including unisex scrub tops, unisex scrub pants, warm up jackets, lab coats, cuffed lab coats, and staff coats for hospitals and medical facilities.
• Cubicle Curtains Rental and laundering of reusable snap panel cubicle curtains for hospitals and healthcare facilities.
• Mats Rental and laundering of facility mats including entrance mats, logo mats, comfort flow mats, complete comfort II mats, scraper mats, and stick and stand mats for commercial facilities.
• Mops Rental of cleaning mops including dust mops, wet mops, and microfiber mops for commercial facilities.
• Restroom Products Supply of facility restroom products including paper products, soap and sanitizers, air fresheners, urinal screens, and urinal mats for commercial facilities.
• Storage Solutions Supply of facility storage solutions including premium covered hampers, regular hamper racks, garment rails, hanger racks, and laundry carts for commercial facilities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over two dozen napery colors to choose from
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Cintas: Cintas is the largest uniform rental and facility services provider in North America, offering uniform rental, restroom services, and — via its apparel program — chef/medical apparel; a broad incumbent that competes for the same B2B accounts as Superior Linen.
• Vestis: Vestis (spun off from Aramark in 2023) is a major North American uniform and linen rental provider serving healthcare, hospitality and industrial customers with weekly route service — overlapping meaningfully with Superior Linen's rental program.
• UniFirst Corporation: UniFirst is a publicly traded uniform rental and supply company that also supplies cleanroom and facility services through its route network, making it an adjacent broad incumbent serving similar B2B customers to Superior Linen.

Regional players

• Clean Rental Services: Clean Rental Services is a regional commercial linen and uniform rental operator with route delivery to restaurants, healthcare and industrial customers — a comparable regional rental-services peer, though anchored in different geographies.

Direct peers

• Medico Professional Linen Service: Medico Professional Linen Service supplies healthcare linens, patient apparel and facility textiles to hospitals and clinics on a rental basis, directly comparable to Superior Linen's Healthcare Division and Hygienically Clean positioning.
• Dempsey Uniform & Linen Supply: Dempsey is a regional linen and uniform rental company delivering table linens, healthcare textiles and industrial uniforms via scheduled routes — same business model, similar mid-sized regional positioning to Superior Linen.
• ImageFIRST: ImageFIRST is a healthcare-focused linen rental and laundry specialist with a national footprint, comparable to Superior Linen's TRSA-certified healthcare division and overlapping on patient gowns, bed linens and protective apparel.
• Alsco: Alsco is one of the largest family-owned linen and uniform rental companies in North America, providing table linens, chef apparel, healthcare textiles and facility mats on a scheduled route-rental basis — directly comparable to Superior Linen's three-division offering.
• Prudential Overall Supply: Prudential Overall Supply is a family-owned uniform and linen rental company with western U.S. operations, providing restaurant linens, industrial uniforms and hospitality apparel through scheduled route delivery comparable to Superior Linen's model.
• Mission Linen Supply: Mission Linen Supply is a family-owned commercial linen and uniform rental company operating across the western and southwestern U.S., offering the same restaurant, healthcare and industrial linen rental model with route delivery that Superior Linen provides in the Mid-South.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/superior-linen-service-inc.

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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