Cafe Linen In Barnes Before You Open

Yes — Barnes sits on the SW13 round, 7 days, 6.4 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Castelnau, Mortlake and Fulham — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single-site account sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around Barnes and Barnes Bridge — which matters more at seven in the morning than it does at eleven.
• A missed morning window here is recoverable the same day, which is what 6.4 miles buys you.

Coffee oil, milk protein and syrup are not the same soil as food-service linen. A cycle built for table linen leaves them behind.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification — not as the tail end of a kitchen load.
• Milk protein needs the right temperature, not just a hotter one — past a point, heat bonds the protein to the cloth.
• Grey whites are usually a wash problem, not an age problem — replacement rate is the clearest signal the classification is off.

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

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — Barnes in February and Barnes in July are different businesses, and the account should say so.
• 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 — the two overlap by design.

No minimum, on any line. Most of what we collect in SW13 is exactly that size.

• Small sites go on the same SW13 round — so you are not paying for a dedicated trip into Barnes.
• 34 cafes around SW13 are already on it — so the round is built for counters, not bolted on to a hotel run.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Barnes and a busy July are the same account.

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

• Hire — stock, replacement and par management are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• Plenty of cafes do both — branding matters on the apron, rarely on the tea towel behind the counter.

Tell your account manager and a missed morning window here is recoverable the same day.

• If it happens twice, the par count is wrong — we reset it against what you actually used, not what was estimated at setup.
• Most Barnes cafes are not short of linen overall — the shortage has a shape, and the shape is Saturday.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — rather than handled as emergencies.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same SW13 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — the round does not change when the kitchen opens.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — priced per item on the account you already have.
• 32 restaurants around SW13 are on this round too — the kitchen classification already runs on it weekly.

Before you open, because that is how the SW13 round is ordered. Cafes open earlier than almost anything else we serve.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — not left to whenever the van happens to reach Barnes.
• Timed around Barnes so the van is not arriving into the worst of it.
• If a drop is missed, a missed morning window here is recoverable the same day.