| TORONTO, Ontario – November 21, 2011 – Situated in the heart of Toronto’s sports and entertainment district and complete with rich marble from floor to ceiling, modern sink basins, Toto Washlets and elegant mosaic tile accents, the contemporary and spacious washrooms at e11even are the most royal in all the land. So says the Internet public who cast online ballots in the 2nd annual “Canada’s Best Restroom” contest presented by Mississauga-based Cintas Canada, a leading provider of restroom hygiene products and services. High-resolution images of the winner’s facilities are available at https://www.bestrestroom.com/canada/. |
| The 2011 contest attracted nominations from a wide range of businesses, including restaurants, hotels, convention centers and even a car dealership. Five finalists were selected based on exceptional hygiene, style, public accessibility and usability. |
| “We are thrilled to receive this honor,” says Steven Salm, e11even’s General Manager. “It is especially gratifying since it was the public that made the final decision. When we designed e11even we took great pride and care to make sure that no detail went unattended. While it may not always be top of mind when dining, we feel that the restroom is an integral part of the overall design.” |
| Thousands of votes were cast on the contest’s web site, which produced the following results: |
| First Place: e11even |
| Toronto, Ontario |
| e11even’s contemporary and spacious washrooms were designed by members of the world renowned New York design firm, The Rockwell Group. Ensuring the luxury and intimate ambiance of the restaurant was infused into the restrooms, guests are able to relax and indulge in a private space with finishes such as rich marble tiling from floor to ceiling, modern sink basins, elegant mosaic tile accents and hygienic Toto Washlets. |
| Second Place: Allstream Centre |
| Toronto, Ontario |
| Allstream Centre combines luxury with the highest environmental standards. The ladies washroom features a separate carpeted lounge and makeup area, complete with comfortable seating and individually illuminated mirror areas finished in walnut wood accents. The vanity areas showcase clean white custom Corian countertops with frosted and backlit mirrors and touch-free taps and soap dispensers. Allstream Centre is Canada’s first conference centre built to a LEED Silver Standard, which incorporates the highest quality interior finishes and fixtures while maintaining a superior ecological standard. The individual waterclosets are equipped with low flow, automatic fixtures and utilize a rainwater-harvesting program that collects water from the rooftop to flush the toilets. All paper products are made from recycled fibres and the hand-towels are composted after use. |
| Third: Hôtel Le Germain Montréal |
| Montreal, Quebec |
| Hôtel Le Germain Montréal offers the comforts of home in their public washroom. Soft hand towels and luxurious bath products await you. The ambiance is serene, the light both functional and soothing, and the luxury unparalleled. |
| Fourth: David Morris Fine Cars |
| Edmonton, Alberta |
| This contemporary washroom features an exquisite handpicked sandstone floor-to-ceiling accent wall, mosaic floor tiles, cultured stone and a mahogany freestanding sink. The washroom features low flow toilets and energy efficient CFL bulbs. Water restrictor taps finish off this modern space. Fresh flowers and cloth hand towels add to this inviting space. For a personal touch, this auto dealership offers its clients a shelf of complimentary items such as mouthwash, body spray and hand lotions. |
| Fifth: Ottawa Convention Centre |
| Ottawa, Ontario |
| The Ottawa Convention Centre, which opened this year, is Canada’s newest meeting space. Its sophisticated ‘space-age’ style washrooms are quite a sight! Designers wanted to avoid one large bank of washrooms on each of four meeting floors, preferring to spread them out and place them where people expected washrooms to be. In order to accomplish this, the washrooms at the north end of Levels Two and Three are located inside a key design feature – the “orb” – to maximize the use of space. These handicap accessible restrooms have no exterior doors leading in to the washrooms, which are accessed through curved entranceways. This prevents the spread of germs, as do the hands-free faucets. The curved entrances also keep light, odours and noise from escaping the washroom. The Ottawa Convention Centre uses a rainwater cistern located under the building to decrease water consumption by nearly 70%. |
| Cintas created Canada’s Best Restroom in 2010 to honour those businesses across Canada that place hygiene and style at the top of their priority lists. Proprietors recognize the parallel between clean washrooms and customer retention. |
| “This contest is undoubtedly fun but it also conveys a critical message that restroom hygiene matters for good health and good business,” says Cintas Canada’s Senior Marketing Manager Leslie Molin. “Cintas is proud to honour e11even, and we congratulate all of our participants this year.” |
| The winner of the inaugural Canada’s Best Restroom contest was The Cactus Club in Vancouver. To view photos of previous winners, visit www.bestrestroom.com/canada and click on the Hall of Fame. |
| For more information or to set up an interview, please contact the survey editor, Sabrina Zimring, at 757-338-7731. |
| About Cintas Canada Ltd |
| Cintas Canada Ltd, with headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario is a subsidiary of Cintas Corporation. Cintas Canada designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs and provides entrance mats, restroom cleaning and supplies, and document shredding services to approximately 55,000 businesses in Canada. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
For more information about Cintas products and services, visit us at www.cintas.ca. |
Category: Canada
Toronto Restaurant Crowned King of the Throne
Five Finalists Chosen For 2011 Canada’s Best Restroom Contest
| Public Voting Begins for Second Annual Awards Program Presented by Cintas Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MISSISSAUGA, ON, September 7, 2011– Will Canada’s next Best Washroom be nestled inside of an egg-shaped pod? Will it feature rich floor-to-ceiling white marble tiling? How about energy efficient lighting, low-flow automatic fixtures and recycled paper products? These are just some of the impressive images inside the five public washrooms that will compete for the coveted title of Canada’s Best Restroom, the popular contest sponsored by Cintas Canada and now in its second year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The public is invited to vote for their top pick at www.bestrestroom.com/canada through October 24, 2011. The site takes visitors on a photographic tour of each facility and then encourages them to choose their favourite. The winner will be announced this fall. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This year’s finalists for Canada ’s Best Restroom are: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fans can also participate by visiting the Best Restroom Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube Channel to post comments, receive contest updates, share photos or upload videos; links to all three sites are on the contest homepage. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cintas created Canada’s Best Restroom in 2010 to honour those businesses across Canada that place hygiene and style at the top of their priority lists. Proprietors recognize the parallel between clean washrooms and customer retention. “We like to think of this contest as an entertaining way of drawing the public’s attention to the very important issue of restroom hygiene,” says Cintas Canada’s Senior Marketing Manager Leslie Molin. “There is a bigger business message behind this quirky contest: How you keep your restrooms is indicative of how you run your facilities. In business operations today this is extremely important.” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The winner of the inaugural Canada’s Best Restroom contest was The Cactus Club in Vancouver. To view photos of previous winners, visit www.bestrestroom.com/canada and click on the Hall of Fame. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| For more information or to set up an interview, please contact the survey editor, Sabrina Zimring, at 757-456-5212. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| About Cintas Canada Ltd: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cintas Canada Ltd, with headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario is a subsidiary of Cintas Corporation. Cintas Canada designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs and provides entrance mats, restroom cleaning and supplies, and document shredding services to approximately 55,000 businesses in Canada. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
For more information about Cintas products and services, visit us at www.cintas.ca. |
Vancouver Restaurant Has Canada’s Finest Restrooms
| The Bryne Road Cactus Club Cafe Wins 1st Annual “Cintas Canada’s Best Restroom Award” |
| Vancouver, British Columbia – Complete with padded furniture, televisions, smoked glass floor-to-ceiling stall doors and hardwood walls, the washrooms in the Bryne Road location of the Cactus Club Cafe are the finest in all of Canada. So says the Internet public who cast online ballots in the 1st annual Canada’s Best Restroom contest presented by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS), a leading provider of restroom hygiene products and services. |
| The 2010 contest attracted nominations from a wide cross-section of businesses, including restaurants, hotels and a convention center. Five finalists were selected based on exceptional hygiene, style and open access to the public. These washrooms feature some of the world’s finest materials, customer comforts and a few surprises. “We are so pleased to have earned this honour,” says Richard Jaffray, President of the Cactus Club Cafe, which received its award during a ceremony at the popular eatery on September 22. “We feel that the restrooms at our restaurants are an important of the overall design that creates our customers’ experiences. So it is gratifying that the public recognized our restrooms with their votes in this first annual award.” |
| “This contest is fun but it also conveys a critical message that restroom hygiene matters – for good health and good business,” said Cintas Canadian Marketing Manager Leslie Molin. “Cintas is proud to honour The Cactus Club Cafe, and we congratulate all of our participants in the first year of this program.” |
| Thousands of votes were cast on the project’s web site, which produced the following results: |
| First Place: Cactus Club Cafe |
| Burnaby, British Columbia |
| Padded furniture, televisions, hardwood walls and smoked glass, floor-to-ceiling stall doors. |
| Second Place: Spice Route Asian Bistro & Bar |
| Toronto, Ontario |
| Eclectic Asian décor, exposed stone walls and rich coloured tiles, overlooking a private garden oasis. |
| Third: Mildred’s Temple Kitchen |
| Toronto, Ontario |
| Hand-painted murals, designer fixtures, slate floor and slate walls. |
| Fourth: The Shangri-La Hotel |
| Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Private washrooms featuring two-storey ceilings, crystal chandeliers, lighted mirrors, hardwood walls, mosaic tile and designer fixtures. |
| Fifth: Metro Toronto Convention Center |
| Toronto, Ontario |
| Designer fixtures, mosaic tile and 100% hands-free. |
| Cintas Corporation first launched this contest in the United States in 2002 to recognize businesses across the country that maintain exceptional hygiene and style in their public restrooms. Over the last nine years, the contest has attracted tens of thousands of voters. Recent winners include the Shoji Tabuchi Theatre in Branson, Missouri; Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; the Fort Smith, Arkansas Airport; Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio; the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2010, the Fountain on Locust in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| About Cintas Canada Ltd |
| Cintas Canada Ltd, with headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario is a subsidiary of Cintas Corporation. Cintas Canada designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs and provides entrance mats, restroom cleaning and supplies, and document shredding services to approximately 55,000 businesses in Canada. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
For more information about Cintas products and services, visit us at www.cintas.ca. |
Cintas Searching for Canada’s Best Restroom
| TORONTO, ON – March 7, 2010 – Nominations are now being accepted for the first annual Canada’s Best Restroom Award – presented by Cintas Canada Ltd. Submissions can be made at www.bestrestroom.com through May 10, 2010. |
| Canada’s Best Restroom Award is a new extension of the highly successful America’s Best Restroom Contest, launched by Cintas to draw attention to the importance of clean, appealing restrooms in public places. |
| “There is no question that restroom hygiene plays a big role in determining customer satisfaction and repeat business,” said Cintas Canada Marketing Manager Leslie Molin. “When we learned how successful our American colleagues were in sharing this message and how much fun the public was having nominating and voting on these extravagant restrooms, we knew it was time to show off our own great facilities here in Canada.” |
| Up to 10 finalists will be announced in July, at which time the Internet public will be asked to cast its votes. The winner will be announced in September and receive the coveted CBR plaque of recognition from Cintas during a formal ceremony and media event. |
| The contest is open to any non-residential restroom that is free of charge and open to employees, visitors or the general public. Nominators are not required to have a professional relationship with the business or staff that manages the facility, but personal experience is encouraged. |
| Cintas created the award to honour businesses that combine good hygiene with functionality and exceptional style in their public restrooms. Past champions have boasted breathtaking skyline views, unique décor and state-of-the-art fixtures. |
| Recent winners of the America’s Best Restroom Award include the Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; the Fort Smith, Arkansas Airport; Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio; Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee; and in 2009, Shoji Tabuchi Theatre in Branson, Missouri. To view photos of previous winners, just visit www.bestrestroom.com and click on the America’s Best Restroom icon. |
| For more information or to set up an interview, please contact the survey editor, Sabrina Zimring, at 757-456-5212. |
| About Cintas Corporation |
| Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, and document management services to approximately 800,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a Nasdaq-100 company and component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
For more information about Cintas products and services, visit us at www.cintas.ca. |