Restaurant Linen In Shortlands Collected On Round

43 restaurants in Shortlands sit inside the area we already collect from, 16.5 miles from our Wembley plant. Alongside them, 27 cafés and 16 pubs and bars are on the same run.

• Shared with Beckenham, Bromley and Downham — the round already passes, so you are joining a journey rather than paying for a new one.
• 7 days collections, on a fixed day and time that does not drift week to week.
• a 16.5-mile round trip keeps the recovery window short — the plant is close enough to come back.

It depends entirely on the mark. Oil, wine and wax behave differently in a wash, and treating them the same is how cloths come back looking tired after a season.

• Items are sorted before washing, not after. Sorting after the wash is too late; the grease has already moved.
• Marked items are pulled at the check stage so the decision about whether a cloth is still good enough is ours, not yours at 6pm.
• Wax is lifted before wash, cold and mechanically — a hot cycle is what makes candle wax permanent.

Front of house and back of house, one collection. Whites and cloths travel with the tablecloths, on one docket and one bill.

• Whites come back on hangers, ready to hang up — which is the only state a chef jacket is useful in.
• Cloths are bagged by type — glass, oven, waiter — because sorting a mixed bag at 5pm is nobody's job.
• Sizes are held in stock, and a change of size is a phone call rather than a reorder.

Yes, and it usually costs less. Sites on the same Bromley rounds share the journey, which is the whole reason a group rate exists.

• Each site keeps its own par level. A 30-cover bistro and a 200-cover brasserie should not carry the same stock, and averaging them is how one site runs short every weekend.
• Consolidated billing that shows the total and the split, so nobody has to reconcile it by hand.
• Adding a site later is a change to the drop list, not a new contract or a new supplier relationship.

Before the doors, not during them. The BR2 round is planned around service times, which is the difference between a supplier who works here and one who merely delivers here.

• Access around Bromley North is planned into the route rather than discovered on the day. Loading restrictions and one-way systems are the reason most suppliers drift late here.
• Deliveries land before the doors open, so setup starts with a full cupboard instead of a count of what survived last night.
• If a run is disrupted — a road closure, a breakdown — a 16.5-mile plant means the fix is hours away rather than days.

The weekend sets the level. Stock that only just covers midweek runs out exactly when the room is full and nobody has time to notice.

• We count a real week in Shortlands — not an estimate, and not the number inherited from whoever quoted before us.
• Reviewed after a full month of live usage and adjusted, with no renegotiation and no change fee.
• Seasonal swing is expected — BR2 trade moves across the year, and the par level should move with it rather than being agreed once and forgotten.

Both, and most Shortlands accounts run both. Hired table linen where volume is high, owned whites where the branding matters.

• Owned stock stays yours. What you bought, you keep — including the items we would not have chosen.
• Hire covers replacement — the cost of a cloth reaching the end of its life sits with us, not with you.
• Most Shortlands accounts run both: hired table linen where volume is high, owned chef whites where the branding matters.

Nothing is too small if you are on the round. Shortlands already is, so the question is what you use, not how much.

• Cafés and bars sit alongside restaurants on the same round — the vehicle does not care what is on the sign outside.
• No tie-in and no volume threshold attached to the quote. The price you agree is the price at any volume.
• Growing later is a par-level change, not a renegotiation — adding a second flat does not reopen the contract.
• No exit fee. If it is not working, you say so and we collect our stock.