Kitchen Linen In Penge On The Kitchen Round

Yes — Penge sits on the SE20 round, 7 days, 14.0 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Sydenham, Anerley and Crystal Palace — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the service entrances around Penge West, Crystal Palace and Sydenham — which matters when the drop has to miss prep by half an hour.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, because Penge is only 14.0 miles out.
• 91 kitchens around SE20 are already on this round — which is why the timings suit prep and service rather than check-out.

Yes, and they are not an afterthought on a restaurant round.

• 12 school kitchens around SE20 are already on the round — the classification and the paperwork already suit that kind of site.
• 3 care home kitchens nearby — sites that need an audit trail get colour-coded cloths and named whites as standard.
• Colour-coded cloths and named whites — suit sites that need an audit trail.
• Contract caterers running several sites — are handled as one account across Bromley, not as separate customers.

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

• Every section is sized at setup — including the sections that get through two a shift.
• A new commis goes on the account the same week — brigades in Penge 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.

That is the point of putting Penge on the SE20 round rather than a separate trip.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — against your service pattern, not ours.
• Timed around Penge West 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 — holidays and sickness are the usual cause of a missed slot elsewhere; here the slot travels with the round sheet.

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 — there is no cost to finding out.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — the two overlap by design.
• If it is not working, say so — we would rather correct the account than lose it.

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

• Hire — the rail is maintained for you, including the jackets that scorch first.
• Wash-only — your own embroidered jackets come back to you, the same garments, named, not pooled.
• Plenty of kitchens do both — hire what nobody reads, keep your own name on the whites.
• You can move a line between the two later — without reopening the account or renegotiating anything.

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

• Grease, protein and scorch need their own wash — and their own temperature.
• Whites never run through the cycle the table linen was on — that transfer is what dulls a brigade's whites inside a month.
• Colour-coded cloths stay in their own classification — which matters on any site that needs an audit trail.
• Every load is temperature logged — and the log is against your account, not a general plant figure.

It is quoted, not tariffed. The number depends on sections and turnover, not on floor area.

• We count a real week in Penge before quoting — including the summer weeks, which is where most estimates fall over.
• No minimum order — a two-section Penge kitchen is priced per item, same as a brigade of thirty.
• The count includes your busy season — a Penge kitchen quoted off a quiet month runs short in the one that matters.
• The count and the quote cost nothing — we will count your week while you are still under someone else.