Cafe Linen In Sydenham On The Morning Round

Yes — Sydenham sits on the SE26 round, 7 days, 13.6 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Penge, Forest Hill and Crystal Palace — adding you changes the schedule, not the route.
• The driver knows the streets around Penge West, Crystal Palace and Sydenham — 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 of that distance.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same SE26 collection and the same invoice.

• No second supplier and no second delivery day — because the menu grew.
• Chef whites, oven cloths and table linen — priced per item on the account you already have.
• 29 restaurants around SE26 are on this round too — we are not learning kitchen work on your account.

Before you open, because that is how the SE26 round is ordered. 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 Penge West because that is where the delay actually happens.
• 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. A cycle built for table linen leaves them behind.

• Cafe cloths and aprons run on their own classification — the programme is chosen for them, not inherited.
• 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 Sydenham 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 — Sydenham in February and Sydenham in July are different businesses, and the account should say so.
• 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 — you are never between suppliers.

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

• Small sites go on the same SE26 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 36 cafes around SE26 are already on it — so the round is built for counters, not bolted on to a hotel run.
• Volume changes are expected — a quiet January in Sydenham and a busy July are the same account.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. Plenty of Sydenham 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 — 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 Sydenham cafes are not short of linen overall — the shortage has a shape, and the shape is Saturday.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Sydenham in December is not Sydenham in February, and the par count should know that.