Restaurant Linen In Bread Street Collected On Round

177 restaurants in Bread Street sit inside the area we already collect from, 8.8 miles from our Wembley plant. Alongside them, 122 cafés and 65 pubs and bars are on the same run.

• Shared with Cordwainer, Cheap and Vintry — the round already passes, so you are joining a journey rather than paying for a new one.
• 7 days collections, set once with you, then kept — not re-planned each morning by a scheduling system.
• an 8.8-mile round trip is short enough that a missed collection is recovered on the next run, not the next week.

It depends entirely on the mark. Oil, wine and wax behave differently in a wash, and treating them the same is how cloths come back looking tired after a season.

• Items are sorted before washing, not after. A tablecloth and an oven cloth never share a load — that is how cloths come back grey.
• Marked items are pulled at the check stage rather than sent back for you to find. Re-treatment first, replacement only if it fails.
• Wax is lifted before wash, because heat drives it into the weave and fixes it there for good.

Front of house and back of house, one collection. Whites and cloths travel with the tablecloths, on one docket and one bill.

• Whites come back on hangers, not folded into a bag for someone to iron again before service.
• Cloths are bagged by type — glass, oven, waiter — so the right cloth is where it should be before service starts.
• Sizes are held in stock, so a new starter on Monday is not waiting until the following week for a jacket that fits.

One contact for all of them. Running several City of London sites through one account is the common case here, not a special arrangement.

• Each site keeps its own par level. A 30-cover bistro and a 200-cover brasserie should not carry the same stock, and averaging them is how one site runs short every weekend.
• Consolidated billing that shows the total and the split, so nobody has to reconcile it by hand.
• Adding a site later is a change to the drop list, not a new contract or a new supplier relationship.

Outside service, both ways. The EC4M slot is agreed before the account opens and does not move week to week — it is a fixed place on a round, not a two-hour window that lands mid-lunch.

• Access around Mansion House is planned into the route rather than discovered on the day. Loading restrictions and one-way systems are the reason most suppliers drift late here.
• Deliveries land before the doors open, which is the difference between laying up calmly and laying up at speed.
• If a run is disrupted — a road closure, a breakdown — we come back the same day. At 8.8 miles that is a decision, not a logistics exercise.

We size the account on your peak. Averaging a quiet Tuesday with a full Saturday produces a number that is wrong on both nights.

• We count a real week in Bread Street — covers midweek, covers at the weekend, and how many cloths a turn actually costs you rather than what the last supplier's sheet said.
• Reviewed after a full month once there is real data rather than a first guess — at no cost either way.
• Seasonal swing is expected — EC4M trade moves across the year, and the par level should move with it rather than being agreed once and forgotten.

Both, and most Bread Street accounts run both. Hired table linen where volume is high, owned whites where the branding matters.

• Owned stock stays yours. What you bought, you keep — including the items we would not have chosen.
• Hire covers replacement — the cost of a cloth reaching the end of its life sits with us, not with you.
• Most Bread Street accounts run both: hired table linen where volume is high, owned chef whites where the branding matters.

No minimum order. Bread Street is already on the round, so a small account costs us a stop rather than a journey — which is exactly why some suppliers quote a minimum here and we do not.

• Cafés and bars sit alongside restaurants on the same run, and a 24-cover room is priced on what it actually uses.
• No tie-in and no volume threshold to keep the price you were quoted — the rate does not change if you have a quiet January.
• Growing later is a par-level change, not a renegotiation — adding a second flat does not reopen the contract.
• No exit fee. If it is not working, you say so and we collect our stock.