Kitchen Linen In Ash Collected To Schedule

Yes — Ash sits on the GU12 round, 7 days, 28.3 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Ash Green, Ash Vale and Tongham — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the service entrances around Ash — which matters when the drop has to miss prep by half an hour.
• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens, because of that distance.
• 13 kitchens around GU12 are already on this round — so the vehicle is sized for kitchen work rather than adapted to it.

Yes — the GU12 round is sequenced around service patterns.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — and a relief driver inherits it with the route.
• Timed around Ash because that is where the delay actually happens.
• If a drop is missed, collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens.
• A relief driver inherits the window with the route — the timing is a property of the account, not of one driver remembering it.

No long-term tie-in and no exit fee.

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — you are not held to a peak figure through a quiet quarter.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — the count and the quote commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so no Ash section starts a shift without whites.
• If it is not working, say so — the fix is usually a number on the sheet rather than a new contract.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. Plenty of Ash kitchens run half and half.

• Hire — stock, replacement and sizing are ours; you never place an order.
• Wash-only — the same whites that left Ash, tracked by name, never swapped into a pool.
• Plenty of kitchens do both — hired cloths and aprons, own-branded jackets on wash-only.
• You can move a line between the two later — without reopening the account or renegotiating anything.

Always. Kitchen work never follows table linen through the machine.

• Grease, protein and scorch need their own wash — grease lifts at a different temperature from protein, and scorch responds to neither.
• Whites never run through the cycle the table linen was on — which is the usual reason jackets go grey.
• Colour-coded cloths stay in their own classification — which matters on any site that needs an audit trail.
• Every load is temperature logged — which matters on any site that has to show an inspector how its linen is handled.

It is quoted, not tariffed. The number depends on sections and turnover, not on floor area.

• We count a real week in Ash before quoting — including the summer weeks, which is where most estimates fall over.
• No minimum order — a two-section Ash kitchen is priced per item, same as a brigade of thirty.
• The count includes your busy season — peak weeks are the ones the par count has to survive.
• The count and the quote cost nothing — there is no cost to finding out what it would look like.

Yes, and they are not an afterthought on a restaurant round.

• 5 school kitchens around GU12 are already on the round — we are not learning catering work on your account.
• 2 care home kitchens nearby — sites that need an audit trail get colour-coded cloths and named whites as standard.
• Colour-coded cloths and named whites — which is what an inspection actually looks for.
• Contract caterers running several sites — keep one invoice and one point of contact however many kitchens are on it.

We size the brigade before quoting, not after the first complaint.

• Every section is sized at setup — larder and pastry do not wear through jackets at the same rate, and the count reflects that.
• A new commis goes on the account the same week — rather than waiting for an order cycle.
• Garments are named — so nobody is sorting a mixed box at the start of a shift.
• Par counts are re-set after the first month — and again after your first busy season, which is where opening figures usually fail.