Cafe Linen In Sanderstead On The Morning Round

Yes — Sanderstead sits on the CR2 round, 7 days, 17.6 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Selsdon, Kenley and South Croydon — one van, one run, which is what keeps a single-site account sensible to price.
• The driver knows the streets around Sanderstead — route knowledge is most of what separates a kept window from a missed one.
• A missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week, because Sanderstead is only 17.6 miles out.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same CR2 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — because the menu grew.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — added as lines, not as a new agreement.
• 12 restaurants around CR2 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

That is the point of putting Sanderstead on the CR2 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 Sanderstead so the van is not arriving into the worst of it.
• If a drop is missed, a missed window here is picked up on the next round rather than the next week.

Coffee oil, milk protein and syrup are not the same soil as food-service linen. On a general cycle they build up and whites dull within weeks.

• 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 — past a point, heat bonds the protein to the cloth.
• Grey whites are usually a wash problem, not an age problem — a Sanderstead 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 — Sanderstead in February and Sanderstead in July are different businesses, and the account should say so.
• 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 Sanderstead with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same CR2 round — the journey is already happening; you are a stop on it.
• 4 cafes around CR2 are already on it — the vehicle is sized for this kind of work rather than adapted to it.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Sanderstead and a busy July are the same account.

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

• Hire — we own the stock, replace it as it wears and keep the par count topped up.
• Wash-only — your own branded aprons come back to you, the same items, not pooled.
• Plenty of cafes do both — hire what nobody sees, keep your own name on what the customer does.

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 — we reset it against what you actually used, not what was estimated at setup.
• Most Sanderstead cafes are not short of linen overall — the shortage has a shape, and the shape is Saturday.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — rather than handled as emergencies.