Cafe Linen In London Fields On The Morning Round

Yes — London Fields sits on the E8 round, 7 days, 9.8 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Hackney, Hackney Central and Cambridge Heath — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the streets around Dalston Junction, Haggerston and Dalston Kingsland — the same crew runs it weekly, so nobody is reading a map on your doorstep.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, which is what 9.8 miles buys you.

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 — we reset it against what you actually used, not what was estimated at setup.
• Most London Fields cafes are not short of linen overall — the weekly total is fine; the weekend distribution is not.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — London Fields in December is not London Fields in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same E8 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.
• 113 restaurants around E8 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

Before you open, because that is how the E8 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 Dalston Junction 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. On a general cycle they build up and whites dull within weeks.

• 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 — too hot sets it into the fibre.
• 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 — London Fields in February and London Fields in July are different businesses, and the account should say so.
• 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 London Fields with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same E8 round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 128 cafes around E8 are already on it — which is why the timings suit opening rather than check-out.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in London Fields and a busy July are the same account.

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

• 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 — hire what nobody sees, keep your own name on what the customer does.