Cafe Linen In Queenhithe On The Morning Round

Yes — Queenhithe sits on the EC4V round, 7 days, 8.8 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Vintry, Cordwainer and Bread Street — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single-site account sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around Mansion House, Bank and Barbican — 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 8.8 miles buys you.

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

• Terms flex with seasonal demand — rather than locking you into a winter volume you do not use in August.
• 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 Queenhithe with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same EC4V round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 120 cafes around EC4V are already on it — the vehicle is sized for this kind of work rather than adapted to it.
• Volume changes are expected — the account flexes rather than holding you to a floor.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. The two sit on one invoice and one round.

• 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 window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week.

• If it happens twice, the par count is wrong — a second shortage is a counting error, and we correct it.
• Most Queenhithe cafes are not short of linen overall — the shortage has a shape, and the shape is Saturday.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Queenhithe in December is not Queenhithe in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same EC4V 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.
• 177 restaurants around EC4V are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

Yes — the EC4V round is sequenced by opening time. Cafes open earlier than almost anything else we serve.

• The time is agreed when the account opens — not left to whenever the van happens to reach Queenhithe.
• Timed around Mansion House 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.

It is the wash, not the cloth. A cycle built for table linen leaves them behind.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification — rather than whatever the machine was doing before.
• 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 — a Queenhithe cafe buying aprons three times a year is paying for a bad cycle, not for wear.