Cafe Linen In Maidstone Collected To Schedule

Yes — Maidstone sits on the ME14 round, 7 days, 40.1 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Bearsted, Aylesford and Coxheath — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the streets around Maidstone West, Maidstone Barracks and Maidstone East — the same crew runs it weekly, so nobody is reading a map on your doorstep.
• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens, which is what 40.1 miles buys you.

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

• Hire — we own the stock, replace it as it wears and keep the par count topped up.
• 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 collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens.

• If it happens twice, the par count is wrong — and resetting it is our job, not a favour.
• Most Maidstone 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 — we set them ahead rather than react.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same ME14 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — the round does not change when the kitchen opens.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — added as lines, not as a new agreement.
• 33 restaurants around ME14 are on this round too — so the food side is not an afterthought here.

Before you open, because that is how the ME14 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 Maidstone West and the traffic that comes with it.
• If a drop is missed, collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens.

Because cafe soil is chemically different from kitchen soil. 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 — overheating fixes the stain instead of lifting it.
• Grey whites are usually a wash problem, not an age problem — replacement rate is the clearest signal the classification is off.

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

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — Maidstone in February and Maidstone in July are different businesses, and the account should say so.
• Nothing needs you to be out of your current contract first — we will count your week while you are still under someone else.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so there is never a morning in Maidstone with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same ME14 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 17 cafes around ME14 are already on it — so the round is built for counters, not bolted on to a hotel run.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Maidstone and a busy July are the same account.