Cafe Linen In Camberwell On The Morning Round

Yes — Camberwell sits on the SE5 round, 7 days, 10.3 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Peckham, Walworth and East Dulwich — the same vehicle covers them, which is why a counter here can be added without moving anyone else.
• The driver knows the streets around Denmark Hill and Loughborough Junction — 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 Camberwell is only 10.3 miles out.

Yes — the SE5 round is sequenced by opening time. Cafes open earlier than almost anything else we serve.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — it goes on the round sheet, not into a delivery window.
• Timed around Denmark Hill so the van is not arriving into the worst of it.
• If a drop is missed, a missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week.

Coffee oil, milk protein and syrup are not the same soil as food-service linen. Run on the wrong programme they accumulate rather than lift.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification — the programme is chosen for them, not inherited.
• 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 — Camberwell in February and Camberwell 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 — you are never between suppliers.

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

• Small sites go on the same SE5 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 74 cafes around SE5 are already on it — which is why the timings suit opening rather than check-out.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Camberwell and a busy July are the same account.

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

• Hire — the count is maintained for you, including the items that wear out first.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• Plenty of cafes do both — hired glass cloths and tea towels, own-branded aprons on wash-only.

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 Camberwell 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 SE5 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — one account covers both sides of the counter.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — added as lines, not as a new agreement.
• 69 restaurants around SE5 are on this round too — so the food side is not an afterthought here.