Cafe Linen Clean Every Opening

We run fixed rounds across London and the Home Counties — 1,034 areas in all, up to roughly 100 miles from our plants.

• Your area already has a collection day. We fit you to the round that already passes rather than adding a separate journey, which is why a small cafe costs the same to serve as a large one.
• Every area has its own page with that area's collection days, the distance from our plant and the venues already on that round.
• Outside the ring? Tell us where — if a round already passes near you it is usually still workable.

Yes — that is the point of putting you on your area 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 reaches you.
• A drop timed for mid-morning is a drop that missed the shift it was for — so we schedule against your opening time, not ours.
• If a drop is missed it is recovered on the next round rather than the next week.

Because coffee oil, milk protein and syrup are not the same soil as food-service linen. Washed on a general cycle they build up, and whites dull within weeks.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification here, rather than whatever the machine was doing before.
• 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 being replaced every few months, the cycle is wrong.

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

• Terms flex with seasonal demand rather than locking you into a winter volume you do not use in August.
• Nothing here needs you to be out of your current contract first — the count and the quote cost nothing and commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down, so there is never a morning with nothing clean on the shelf.

No minimum, on any line. A single-site independent cafe is an ordinary account for us.

• Small sites go on the same round as everyone else in the area, so you are not paying for a dedicated trip.
• A dozen aprons and a bundle of tea towels is a real account, not something we turn away or surcharge.
• Volume changes are expected. Quiet January, busy July — the account flexes rather than holding you to a floor.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. One collection covers whichever way each line is set up.

• Hire means we own the stock, replace it when it wears out and keep the par count topped up.
• Wash-only means your own branded aprons and tea towels come back to you, same items, not pooled.
• Plenty of cafes do both — hired glass cloths and tea towels, own-branded aprons on wash-only.

Tell your account manager and it is recovered 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 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 rather than handled as emergencies.

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

• No second supplier and no second delivery day just because the menu grew.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen are all available on the same account, hire or wash-only.
• If the kitchen is the bigger half, our restaurant laundry page covers how we price on covers.