Cafe Linen In Brixton On The Morning Round

Yes — Brixton sits on the SW2 round, 7 days, 10.0 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Lambeth, Brixton Hill and Clapham Park — the same vehicle covers them, which is why a counter here can be added without moving anyone else.
• The driver knows the streets around Clapham North, Brixton and Stockwell — which matters more at seven in the morning than it does at eleven.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, because of that distance.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same SW2 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 — all available on the same account, hire or wash-only.
• 126 restaurants around SW2 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

That is the point of putting Brixton on the SW2 round rather than a separate trip. 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 Brixton.
• Timed around Clapham North because that is where the delay actually happens.
• If a drop is missed, a missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week.

Because cafe soil is chemically different from kitchen soil. Run on the wrong programme they accumulate rather than lift.

• 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 — too hot sets it into the fibre.
• Grey whites are usually a wash problem, not an age problem — if stock is replaced every few months, the cycle is wrong.

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 there is never a morning in Brixton with nothing clean.

No minimum, on any line. Most of what we collect in SW2 is exactly that size.

• Small sites go on the same SW2 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 90 cafes around SW2 are already on it — which is why the timings suit opening rather than check-out.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Brixton and a busy July are the same account.

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

• Hire — stock, replacement and par management are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — your own branded aprons come back to you, the same items, not pooled.
• Plenty of cafes do both — hire what nobody sees, keep your own name on what the customer does.

Tell your account manager and a missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week.

• If it happens twice, the par count is wrong — we reset it against what you actually used, not what was estimated at setup.
• Most Brixton cafes are not short of linen overall — they are short of it on two predictable days, which is a counting problem rather than a volume one.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Brixton in December is not Brixton in February, and the par count should know that.