Restaurant Laundry · Mortlake SW14
Restaurant Linen In Mortlake Collected Daily
Tablecloths, napkins, chef whites and kitchen cloths collected across SW14 and back before service, processed 6.5 miles away in Wembley.
- 7 days
- Collection days
- Dedicated
- Account manager
- No
- Minimum order
Restaurant Linen Hire in Mortlake
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- 41
- restaurants in Mortlake
- 6.5mi
- from our Wembley plant
- 37
- cafés on the same round
- 7 days
- collection days
Nearest stations Barnes · Mortlake · Barnes Bridge
Venue figures are indicative · data compiled Aug 2026
What goes wrong in Mortlake
Mortlake service starts before the doors do
The difference between a supplier who works in Mortlake and one who merely delivers to it shows up on the third Saturday, not the first.
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Late drops before a full book
A late run near Barnes means napkins arrive while the first covers are already seated.
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Linen the customer notices
Kitchen soil is not room soil. Grease needs the temperature and the chemistry to match, or it comes back grey.
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Running out on a Friday
A stock level built around a Tuesday does not survive a full Saturday in Mortlake.
How it works
Starting in Mortlake takes a week, not a quarter
Four steps, then you stop noticing it.
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The count
We look at a week of real service in Mortlake — covers midweek, covers at the weekend, how many cloths a turn actually costs you.
Before anything changes
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Par levels that flex
Par is set to your busiest day, not your average one, so a full Saturday does not empty the cupboard by Sunday lunch.
Adjusted, not renegotiated
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Your place on the round
You get a fixed place on the SW14 round at 7 days, timed around service rather than around the vehicle.
Agreed, then kept
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Back before the doors
Everything arrives ready to use: linen pressed and counted, whites hung, cloths separated. No unpacking job at the start of a shift.
One invoice, one contact
Running more than one site in Richmond upon Thames? The same account manager covers all of them, on one invoice and one collection round.
Behind the round
Mortlake cloths are washed where we say they are
There is one building between your linen and ours: a plant in Wembley, 6.5 miles from Mortlake, that we own and run.
It also means kitchen soil is treated as kitchen soil — grease, wine and wax on the right programme, not whatever the machine was already running.
- 6.5mi
- Plant to Mortlake
- Every load
- Temperature logged
- 100%
- Insured in transit
Collections into Mortlake run on the SW14 round, to plants we own and run.
Front of house and back of house in Mortlake, one round
Hire it from us or send us your own — the SW14 round collects both the same way.
- 2
- Napkin weights
- 4
- Chef jacket sizes
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Table linen Cloths, slips and napkins in two weights — banqueting and everyday. View the range -
Kitchen & chefwear Jackets, trousers and aprons, hung and sized — plus the cloths behind the pass. View the range -
Kitchen cloths & tea towels The cloths that disappear fastest — glass, oven, waiter, service. View the range -
Aprons & front of house Bib and waist aprons, bar aprons and front-of-house wear. View the range
Switching in Mortlake without missing a service
Most Mortlake operators stay with a supplier they have stopped rating, because changing one feels like risking a service. It is the objection we hear most, so here is exactly how it runs.
- Before you commit
An hour on site, before anything changes
An hour in Mortlake: what goes out on a Saturday, what is still in the wash, what is past saving. You keep every item you own — nothing is bought back or written off to make a contract look neater.
- Week two
The old round and the new one overlap
Your current supplier finishes their cycle while the SW14 round starts delivering. For that week you are holding more than you need, which is the point — there is no service you lay up short for.
- From then on
It becomes a delivery you stop noticing
Collections settle into a standing slot, processed at our own plant rather than passed on. East Sheen and Barnes are already collected on the same run, so this is an existing journey rather than a new one.
No exit fee, no buy-back, no minimum term to escape from. If your notice runs to March, we start in March.
The week you switch is the week nobody in Mortlake notices.
Near Mortlake — what businesses say
- Serving SW14
Mortlake sits on an established round — these are the numbers behind it.
- 1
- hotels served in East Sheen
- 1
- plant, no subcontracting
- 7 days
- fixed collection days
- 1
- account manager, named
- Serving SW14
Running a busy dining room alongside eight letting rooms needs a versatile laundry partner. Kitchen aprons, table runners and bed sheets all go in one collection, and the seven-day pickup schedule flexes around us.
Liam Gallagher Operations & Pub Manager · Gastro pub with rooms -
Our members expect fresh sweat towels immediately after back-to-back spinning classes. They handle our daily volume seamlessly, and I would single out the punctuality and the clean, long-lasting scent of the eco-friendly detergents.
Marcus Thorne Studio Manager · Boutique fitness studio -
In clinical and aesthetic practice, hygiene standards have to meet rigorous compliance. High-temperature sanitised gowns, drapes and bed covers arrive reliably every week. I trust their quality control completely.
Dr Elena Rostova Clinic Director · Private healthcare clinic -
For high-end short-stay apartments, guest reviews live and die by linen quality. We get hotel-grade crispness that consistently earns us five-star cleanliness ratings, and the communication lines are short when something needs resolving.
Beatrice Dupont Head of Housekeeping · Luxury serviced apartments -
We use dozens of salon towels and client gowns every day. Stubborn hair dye and product stains come out effortlessly and our capes still look new. They are an indispensable part of the daily flow here.
Chloe St. Laurent Salon Owner & Manager · Hair & beauty salon -
We rely on clean bolster covers, fleece blankets and eye pillows. Delicate fabrics are treated with care while still getting a deep, hypoallergenic sanitisation, and everything comes back beautifully presented.
Hannah Sterling Studio Coordinator · Yoga & pilates studio -
From velvet seat throws to staff aprons and heavy bar towels, our eclectic mix of textiles is handled without fuss. The turnaround times and the account management are what stand out.
Kieran Davies Venue & Hospitality Manager · Boutique cinema & lounge -
As a family-run Victorian B&B we need a partner who understands traditional hospitality. Our heritage cotton sheets are treated with real care, the drivers are friendly and the weekly delivery is consistent.
Arthur Pendelton Proprietor & Manager · Traditional bed & breakfast
What we collect across Mortlake and SW14
- 41 restaurants in Mortlake
- 37 cafés across SW14
- 16 pubs & bars in Richmond upon Thames
- 1 bars around Barnes
- 3 care home kitchens across SW14
- 13 school kitchens in Richmond upon Thames
- 9 gym & spa cafés around Barnes
The area
Mortlake — what the round has to work around
A historic riverside district famous for its brewery heritage and as the finish of the Boat Race. Unique to Mortlake.
The constraint in Mortlake is timing rather than distance: the round is planned around service, which is what stops a delivery landing mid-lunch.
Area detail compiled from the location file and the round that serves it.
Local detail
- Nearest stations
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- Barnes
- Mortlake
- Barnes Bridge
- On the same round
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- East Sheen
- Barnes
- Roehampton
- North Sheen
Asked by Mortlake kitchens
Is Mortlake on one of your rounds?
41 restaurants in Mortlake sit inside the area we already collect from, 6.5 miles from our Wembley plant. Alongside them, 37 cafés and 16 pubs and bars are on the same run.
- Shared with East Sheen, Barnes and Roehampton — they sit on the same run, so an extra stop costs us minutes rather than miles — and that is what keeps a small account viable here.
- 7 days collections, in a window agreed when the account opens rather than assigned by a routing system on the morning.
- a 6.5-mile round trip means a problem is a second trip that day rather than a note on next week's sheet.
How do you deal with grease, wine and wax in Mortlake?
Four different problems, four different answers. Grease needs heat, wine needs speed, wax needs lifting cold — a supplier running everything on one cycle returns you the average of all three.
- Items are sorted before washing, not after. Sorting after the wash is too late; the grease has already moved.
- Marked items are pulled at the check stage rather than sent back for you to find. Re-treatment first, replacement only if it fails.
- Wax is lifted before wash, cold and mechanically — a hot cycle is what makes candle wax permanent.
Do you do chef whites as well as table linen in Mortlake?
Same round, same invoice. Chef jackets, aprons, trousers, oven cloths and kitchen cloths are collected with the table linen — there is no second supplier and no second delivery day to remember.
- Whites come back on hangers, sized and named where you want them named, so they go straight to the changing area rather than onto a pile.
- Cloths are bagged by type — glass, oven, waiter — so the right cloth is where it should be before service starts.
- Sizes are held in stock, and a change of size is a phone call rather than a reorder.
We run more than one site around Richmond upon Thames — one account?
Yes, and it usually costs less. Sites on the same Richmond upon Thames rounds share the journey, which is the whole reason a group rate exists.
- Each site keeps its own par level. The busy site gets the depth it needs without the quiet one paying for stock it never uses.
- Consolidated billing that shows the total and the split, so nobody has to reconcile it by hand.
- Adding a site later is a change to the drop list, not a new contract or a new supplier relationship.
Can you work around our service times in SW14?
Outside service, both ways. The SW14 slot is agreed before the account opens and does not move week to week — it is a fixed place on a round, not a two-hour window that lands mid-lunch.
- Access around Barnes is planned into the route rather than discovered on the day. Loading restrictions and one-way systems are the reason most suppliers drift late here.
- Deliveries land before the doors open, so the team lays up with what arrived that morning rather than what was left in the cupboard.
- If a run is disrupted — a road closure, a breakdown — the plant is 6.5 miles away, so the recovery is a second trip that day, not a note on next week's schedule.
Mortlake is quiet midweek and full at weekends — does that work?
Par is set to your busiest service, not your average one. A stock level built around a Tuesday fails on a Saturday, which is the night it matters.
- We count a real week in Mortlake — not an estimate, and not the number inherited from whoever quoted before us.
- Reviewed after a full month of live usage and adjusted, with no renegotiation and no change fee.
- Seasonal swing is expected — SW14 trade moves across the year, and the par level should move with it rather than being agreed once and forgotten.
In Mortlake, do we have to hire or can you wash our own?
Both, and most Mortlake accounts run both. Hired table linen where volume is high, owned whites where the branding matters.
- Owned stock stays yours. What you bought, you keep — including the items we would not have chosen.
- Hire covers replacement — wear, loss and staining are ours to carry rather than a line that appears on your invoice each quarter.
- Most Mortlake accounts run both: hired table linen where volume is high, owned chef whites where the branding matters.
Is there a minimum order?
Nothing is too small if you are on the round. Mortlake already is, so the question is what you use, not how much.
- Cafés and bars sit alongside restaurants on the same round — the vehicle does not care what is on the sign outside.
- No tie-in and no volume threshold to keep the price you were quoted — the rate does not change if you have a quiet January.
- Growing later is a par-level change, not a renegotiation — adding a second flat does not reopen the contract.
- No exit fee. If it is not working, you say so and we collect our stock.
Something we have missed?
Ask us directlyRewashing Mortlake linen is the real environmental cost
Most of the environmental cost of restaurant linen is rewashing and early replacement, not the wash itself — a cloth retired at the first oil mark has cost more than one washed twice. In Mortlake there is a second saving: the kitchens here sit close enough together that one round covers them, instead of separate journeys out from Wembley.
- One SW14 round serves Mortlake, East Sheen and Barnes — 3 areas, one set of miles.
- A 6.5-mile plant distance is the transport cost of every collection here — it is why routing matters more than detergent.
- Rinse water recovered and reused rather than discharged after a single cycle.
- Stained napkins are worked on twice before they leave the count — replacement is the last resort.
- 6.5mi
- Plant to Mortlake, each way
- 3 areas
- covered by one round
- 68%
- Water recovered and reused per wash
- 0
- Linen to landfill — end-of-life stock is recycled
Plant figures are measured over a rolling twelve months. Routing figures are specific to this round and available on request.
Mortlake restaurant laundry — request a quote
Give us your covers and your current supplier and we will price the SW14 round for you. No obligation, and the count that follows is free.
- Priced on your covers, not a tariff
- Free linen count, no obligation
- Dedicated account manager for Richmond upon Thames
Or call 01224 024759
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We reply to every enquiry within one working day, usually sooner. If it is urgent, call us on 01224 024759.
Mortlake and the SW14 round
Mortlake sits on the SW14 round. These are the areas collected on the same run — and the other services we run at this address.