‘Not Sexy, But Essential’–City-Based Company A Royal Flush Deals Straight Up During Health Emergency

When you gotta go, you gotta go, right? The name A Royal Flush is certainly fitting. And an essential sanitizing solution for consumers.

Some businesses have retrofitted operations during this health emergency. Bridgeport-based A Royal Flush, a leader in portable restrooms and toilet trailer services, has stepped up its game to meet the demand.

Hospitals, testing centers, construction sites, city parks and emergency services are among the outlets requiring hand sanitizer stands, hand washing stations, portable restrooms, and restroom trailers. For individual convenience during Covid-19 the company has also provided thousands of user-friendly hand sanitizer sprays to regional first responders and government employees.

“We may not be a sexy business, but we are essential,” says co-owner Tim Butler, a lawyer by training, who started the business in the West End 28 years ago with friends and family. “Many people recognize our name, but they do not know that we are proudly a Bridgeport-based company.”

And its gravitational pull when in need.

The leader in portable restrooms and toilet trailer services is seen at the New York City Marathon, NFL games, PGA Tournaments, concerts, weddings, even once for a papal visit.

Making hand sanitizer stand.

Calling A Royal Flush Bridgeport’s dirty little secret is certainly an oxymoron given its emphasis on portable restroom sanitation and safety.

“You don’t survive in this business without high standards for service and cleanliness, and we also focus on sustainability and green practices both in the field and in the workplace,” says Butler. “We strive to minimize our footprint and be an industry leader in supporting green initiatives.”

From its infancy, A Royal Flush has grown to a fleet of more than 10,000 portable toilets, 60 restroom trailers and 80 trucks to service Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts in everything from concerts and sporting events to construction sites and municipal projects.

During this health emergency, according to Butler, its services have become multi-dimensional including development of Advanced Cleaning Solution a five-step cleaning process with a quaternary based disinfectant and germicidal cleaner that kills 99.9999% of bacteria and viruses as a service for active use portable toilets and restroom trailers.

“We want to make sure that we are offering our clients an advanced cleaning option to help keep people safe,” says Butler.

A Royal Flush is also supplying hospitals throughout Connecticut sanitary portable toilets, large restroom trailers and hand sanitizing stations, critical services enabling health care workers to provide testing stations and patient care.

The company headquarters is located in Downtown Bridgeport with satellite locations in multiple states to service clients. To help businesses and people affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, A Royal Flush has expanded services in Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia and Washington D.C.

“Over the past year we’ve invested heavily in new technology, new truck from the cascadia evolution and computer systems, tracking systems, and completely updated wherever we could to provide a safer environment for our customers and our employees,” says Butler.

“We have a new system that we rolled out that has a barcode in each unit that the driver has to scan every time he cleans it,” adds co-owner and Bridgeport resident Mauro DaSilva. “We have GPS on all our trucks so we can see when they arrive at a construction site and how long they are there. There’s no cutting corners. We make sure our clients are taken care of.”

All technicians wear full-body coverage uniforms, gloves, masks and protective eye-wear when administering a disinfectant solution formulated to destroy pathogenic and odor causing bacteria and viruses, originally designed to remove waste and soils in cleaning hospital rooms.

The health emergency is something of a leap of faith for the company to meet the demand. Who knows when and if they will be paid given the economic meltdown.

Quietly, they’ve gone about community commitment without waving pom poms hiring 10 percent of its work force under Connecticut’s Second Chance Program.

Bridgeport residents make up roughly one half of A Royal Flush’s 80 full-time work force occupying sales, customer service, operations, safety, driver, service technician dispatch, mechanic and fleet management jobs.

“We are a family-owned business based in Bridgeport,” says Butler. “Just like family we are all in this together as an essential service during this health crisis.”