Cafe Linen In Reading Collected To Schedule

Yes — Reading sits on the RG1 round, 7 days, 30.6 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Caversham, Earley and Tilehurst — the same vehicle covers them, which is why a counter here can be added without moving anyone else.
• The driver knows the streets around Reading and Reading West — which matters more at seven in the morning than it does at eleven.
• Collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens, because Reading is only 30.6 miles out.

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 Reading cafes are not short of linen overall — the weekly total is fine; the weekend distribution is not.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Reading in December is not Reading in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same RG1 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 — all available on the same account, hire or wash-only.
• 105 restaurants around RG1 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

Before you open, because that is how the RG1 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 Reading and the traffic that comes with it.
• If a drop is missed, collections here run to scheduled days, agreed when the account opens.

Coffee oil, milk protein and syrup are not the same soil as food-service linen. Run on the wrong programme they accumulate rather than lift.

• 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 — too hot sets it into the fibre.
• Grey whites are usually a wash problem, not an age problem — a Reading cafe buying aprons three times a year is paying for a bad cycle, not for wear.

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 what it would look like.
• Stock arrives before the old supplier is stood down — so there is never a morning in Reading with nothing clean.

No minimum, on any line. Most of what we collect in RG1 is exactly that size.

• Small sites go on the same RG1 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 73 cafes around RG1 are already on it — which is why the timings suit opening rather than check-out.
• Volume changes are expected — the account flexes rather than holding you to a floor.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. Plenty of Reading 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 — hired glass cloths and tea towels, own-branded aprons on wash-only.