Cafe Linen In Coulsdon On The Morning Round

Yes — Coulsdon sits on the CR5 round, 7 days, 17.8 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Chipstead, Woodmansterne and Little Woodcote — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single-site account sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around Coulsdon Town, Woodmansterne and Coulsdon South — 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 Coulsdon is only 17.8 miles out.

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 — 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 — the count and the quote commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — the two overlap by design.

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

• Small sites go on the same CR5 round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 10 cafes around CR5 are already on it — which is why the timings suit opening rather than check-out.
• Volume changes are expected — 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 — we own the stock, replace it as it wears and keep the par count topped up.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• Plenty of cafes do both — branding matters on the apron, rarely on the tea towel behind the counter.

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 — and resetting it is our job, not a favour.
• Most Coulsdon cafes are not short of linen overall — the weekly total is fine; the weekend distribution is not.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Coulsdon in December is not Coulsdon in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same CR5 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 — added as lines, not as a new agreement.
• 13 restaurants around CR5 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

Before you open, because that is how the CR5 round is ordered. 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 Coulsdon Town 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.