Cafe Linen In Broad Street On The Morning Round

Yes — Broad Street sits on the EC2N round, 7 days, 9.2 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Cornhill, Bishopsgate and Langbourn — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the streets around Mansion House, Old Street and Bank — 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 Broad Street is only 9.2 miles out.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. The two sit on one invoice and one round.

• Hire — we own the stock, replace it as it wears and keep the par count topped up.
• 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 — a second shortage is a counting error, and we correct it.
• Most Broad Street 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 — Broad Street in December is not Broad Street in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same EC2N collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — because the menu grew.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — all available on the same account, hire or wash-only.
• 200 restaurants around EC2N are on this round too — so the food side is not an afterthought here.

That is the point of putting Broad Street on the EC2N 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 Broad Street.
• Timed around Mansion House and the traffic that comes with it.
• If a drop is missed, a missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week.

It is the wash, not the cloth. 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 — you are not held to a peak figure through a quiet quarter.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — there is no cost to finding out what it would look like.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — you are never between suppliers.

No minimum, on any line. Most of what we collect in EC2N is exactly that size.

• Small sites go on the same EC2N round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 118 cafes around EC2N are already on it — the vehicle is sized for this kind of work rather than adapted to it.
• Volume changes are expected — the account flexes rather than holding you to a floor.