Cafe Linen In London Bridge On The Morning Round

Yes — London Bridge sits on the SE1 round, 7 days, 9.4 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Southwark, Billingsgate and Bridge — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single-site account sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around Mansion House, Bank and Monument — 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 London Bridge is only 9.4 miles out.

Yes — the SE1 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 Mansion House 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.

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 — rather than whatever the machine was doing before.
• 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 — the count and the quote commit you to nothing.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so there is never a morning in London Bridge with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same SE1 round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 124 cafes around SE1 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 London Bridge and a busy July are the same account.

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 — 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 London Bridge cafes are not short of linen overall — the weekly total is fine; the weekend distribution is not.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — we set them ahead rather than react.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same SE1 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — because the menu grew.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — all available on the same account, hire or wash-only.
• 172 restaurants around SE1 are on this round too — so the food side is not an afterthought here.