Cafe Linen In Crayford On The Morning Round

Yes — Crayford sits on the DA1 round, 7 days, 21.4 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Bexley, Slade Green and Bexleyheath — the same vehicle covers them, which is why a counter here can be added without moving anyone else.
• The driver knows the streets around Crayford — route knowledge is most of what separates a kept window from a missed one.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, because Crayford is only 21.4 miles out.

Before you open, because that is how the DA1 round is ordered. 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 Crayford.
• Timed around Crayford 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.

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 — 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 — 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 — we will count your week while you are still under someone else.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so there is never a morning in Crayford with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same DA1 round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 9 cafes around DA1 are already on it — the vehicle is sized for this kind of work rather than adapted to it.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Crayford and a busy July are the same account.

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

• Hire — stock, replacement and par management are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — the same garments that left Crayford, tracked, never swapped into a pool.
• 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 Crayford cafes are not short of linen overall — the shortage has a shape, and the shape is Saturday.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Crayford in December is not Crayford in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same DA1 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.
• 4 restaurants around DA1 are on this round too — the kitchen classification already runs on it weekly.