Cafe Linen In Lambeth On The Morning Round

Yes — Lambeth sits on the SW2 round, 7 days, 10.0 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Brixton, Brixton Hill and Clapham Park — the same vehicle covers them, which is why a counter here can be added without moving anyone else.
• The driver knows the streets around Clapham North, Brixton and Stockwell — 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 Lambeth is only 10.0 miles out.

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

• Small sites go on the same SW2 round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 93 cafes around SW2 are already on it — the vehicle is sized for this kind of work rather than adapted to it.
• Volume changes are expected — the account flexes rather than holding you to a floor.

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

• Hire — we own the stock, replace it as it wears and keep the par count topped up.
• Wash-only — your own branded aprons come back to you, the 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 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 Lambeth 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 — Lambeth in December is not Lambeth in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same SW2 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.
• 129 restaurants around SW2 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

Before you open, because that is how the SW2 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 Lambeth.
• Timed around Clapham North 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.

It is the wash, not the cloth. A cycle built for table linen leaves them behind.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification — 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 — a Lambeth cafe buying aprons three times a year is paying for a bad cycle, not for wear.

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 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.