Kitchen Linen In London Bridge On The Kitchen 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 small kitchen sensible to price.
• The driver knows the service entrances around Mansion House, Bank and Monument — the same crew runs it weekly, so nobody is looking for your back door.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, which is what 9.4 miles buys you.
• 449 kitchens around SE1 are already on this round — which is why the timings suit prep and service rather than check-out.

We size the brigade before quoting, not after the first complaint.

• Every section is sized at setup — larder and pastry do not wear through jackets at the same rate, and the count reflects that.
• A new commis goes on the account the same week — brigades in London Bridge change constantly, and the account is built for that.
• Garments are named — which takes the sorting job off the pass entirely.
• Par counts are re-set after the first month — and again after your first busy season, which is where opening figures usually fail.

Yes — the SE1 round is sequenced around service patterns.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — against your service pattern, not ours.
• Timed around Mansion House 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.
• A relief driver inherits the window with the route — so cover weeks do not become the weeks it goes wrong.

No long-term tie-in and no exit fee.

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — rather than locking you into a summer volume you do not use in February.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — we will size your brigade while you are still under someone else.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — you are never between suppliers.
• If it is not working, say so — we would rather correct the account than lose it.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. Plenty of London Bridge kitchens run half and half.

• Hire — the rail is maintained for you, including the jackets that scorch first.
• Wash-only — the same whites that left London Bridge, tracked by name, never swapped into a pool.
• Plenty of kitchens do both — the embroidery matters on the jacket, rarely on the oven cloth.
• You can move a line between the two later — it is a change to the sheet, not a new agreement.

Always. Kitchen work never follows table linen through the machine.

• Grease, protein and scorch need their own wash — grease lifts at a different temperature from protein, and scorch responds to neither.
• Whites never run through the cycle the table linen was on — which is the usual reason jackets go grey.
• Colour-coded cloths stay in their own classification — which matters on any site that needs an audit trail.
• Every load is temperature logged — which matters on any site that has to show an inspector how its linen is handled.

There is no honest price list for kitchen work. The number depends on sections and turnover, not on floor area.

• We count a real week in London Bridge before quoting — including the summer weeks, which is where most estimates fall over.
• No minimum order — a two-section London Bridge kitchen is priced per item, same as a brigade of thirty.
• The count includes your busy season — which is where most estimates fall over; a figure taken in February will not survive August.
• The count and the quote cost nothing — we will count your week while you are still under someone else.

Yes — catering kitchens are a large part of what we collect.

• School and care home kitchens run on the same rounds — one round covers the whole food-service side of an area.
• Term-time and seasonal swings are planned in — a quiet August is expected, not penalised.
• Colour-coded cloths and named whites — which is what an inspection actually looks for.
• Contract caterers running several sites — get one account manager and staggered collection days across the group.