Cafe Linen In Kensington Before You Open

Yes — Kensington sits on the W8 round, 7 days, 5.8 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Kensington Chelsea, Earls Court and South Kensington — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single-site account sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around South Kensington, Notting Hill Gate and Kensington (Olympia) — which matters more at seven in the morning than it does at eleven.
• A missed morning window here is recoverable the same day, because Kensington is only 5.8 miles out.

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

• Hire — stock, replacement and par management are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• 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 morning window here is recoverable the same day.

• If it happens twice, the par count is wrong — a second shortage is a counting error, and we correct it.
• Most Kensington cafes are not short of linen overall — the shortage has a shape, and the shape is Saturday.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — we set them ahead rather than react.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same W8 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 — priced per item on the account you already have.
• 237 restaurants around W8 are on this round too — so the food side is not an afterthought here.

Before you open, because that is how the W8 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 South Kensington and the traffic that comes with it.
• If a drop is missed, a missed morning window here is recoverable the same day.

It is the wash, not the cloth. 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 — there is no cost to finding out what it would look like.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so there is never a morning in Kensington with nothing clean.

No minimum, on any line. A one-site independent is the normal shape of a cafe account.

• Small sites go on the same W8 round — so you are not paying for a dedicated trip into Kensington.
• 116 cafes around W8 are already on it — the vehicle is sized for this kind of work rather than adapted to it.
• Volume changes are expected — we adjust rather than hold you to a winter figure.