Cafe Linen In Northwood Before You Open

Yes — Northwood sits on the HA6 round, 7 days, 6.8 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Ruislip Common, Moor Park and Pinner Green — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the streets around Northwood Hills and Northwood — the same crew runs it weekly, so nobody is reading a map on your doorstep.
• A missed morning window here is recoverable the same day, because Northwood is only 6.8 miles out.

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

• Hire — stock, replacement and par management are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — your own branded aprons come back to you, the same items, not pooled.
• Plenty of cafes do both — hired glass cloths and tea towels, own-branded aprons on wash-only.

Tell your account manager and a missed morning window here is recoverable the same day.

• If it happens twice, the par count is wrong — we reset it against what you actually used, not what was estimated at setup.
• Most Northwood 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 — rather than handled as emergencies.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same HA6 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — because the menu grew.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — priced per item on the account you already have.
• 21 restaurants around HA6 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

That is the point of putting Northwood on the HA6 round rather than a separate trip. Cafes open earlier than almost anything else we serve.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — and a relief driver inherits it with the route.
• Timed around Northwood Hills because that is where the delay actually happens.
• If a drop is missed, a missed morning window here is recoverable the same day.

Coffee oil, milk protein and syrup are not the same soil as food-service linen. A cycle built for table linen leaves them behind.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification — the programme is chosen for them, not inherited.
• 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 — 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 Northwood with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same HA6 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 13 cafes around HA6 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 Northwood and a busy July are the same account.