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Any company or business that needs to purchase napkins is first faced with the choice of purchasing paper or cloth napkins. Other choices include whether or not to use plain napkins, coloured varieties or napkins with designs or lettering on them.

Much depends on the type of business. A restaurant can choose between paper and cloth to set a tone. A small diner, food cart, cafeteria or other organisation that needs napkins might want to take advantage of the promotional opportunity or simply purchase napkins as cheaply as possible.

Paper or Cloth Napkins?

Choosing between paper or cloth napkins is a relatively easy choice for most organisation that need napkins. For almost all applications, paper varieties are best. They're the cheapest, they're disposable and they're replaceable without hassle.

Cloth napkins are best for restaurants that want to maintain a certain image and convey class and style. Higher-end restaurants are the ideal place for cloth varieties. For companies that are considering cloth napkins over paper, though, there are a few other points to consider.

While it might seem more cost effective and even more environmentally conscious to use cloth napkins, using paper napkins may still be better. Cloth napkins are washed after each use, and that requires soap, water and time. Most restaurant cloth napkins are white, and they're bleached quite heavily to keep them looking good and to keep them sanitized.

The frequent use of soap, water and bleach offset the cost savings and the environmental benefits of reusable napkins. And each napkin may only be used 50-60 times before it needs to be replaced. So the cost savings and the savings to the environment by using cloth napkins might be negligible.

Benefits of Paper Napkins

There's obvious no need to launder paper napkins, so the time spent washing them as well as the cost of water, soap and bleach are eliminated. They have to be purchased more frequently, but they're much less expensive.

And they can be printed with logos, company information, ads for products and services or new dishes. They can be used as a promotional item, so that the company gets double duty out of them. They serve their purpose as napkins but also serve as an advertising vehicle. 
  
They can also be purchased in different colours for certain holidays or special occasions, or printed especially for those occasions.

Napkin Providers

For companies that plan to use plain napkins, finding the best prices is probably the most important thing about finding a source to purchase from. You might also shop around for a provider for any specially printed, promotional napkins you plan to use. A plain napkin source might not have competitive prices for printing, if they print at all.

For cloth napkins, finding a reasonably priced source that offers the quality you want is most important. All cotton napkins aren't exactly alike, as some will have a finer weave, which is better for more high-end restaurants, and some will be less soft and more basic, which is best for more every day use.

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