Table Linen In Tenterden Collected To Schedule

8 restaurants in Tenterden sit inside the area we already collect from, 54.0 miles from our Wembley plant. Alongside them, 10 cafés and 3 pubs and bars are on the same run.

• Shared with Headcorn, Hamstreet and Hawkhurst — 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 54.0-mile round trip keeps the recovery window short — the plant is close enough to come back.

Kitchen soil is treated as kitchen soil. Grease, red wine, oil and candle wax each need a different combination of temperature, dwell time and chemistry, and no single programme gets all four out.

• 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 rather than sent back for you to find. Re-treatment first, replacement only if it fails.
• Wax is lifted before wash, not melted through the fabric by a hot cycle, which is what sets it permanently.

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, sized and named where you want them named, so they go straight to the changing area rather than onto a pile.
• Cloths are bagged by type — glass, oven, waiter — so nothing needs sorting at the pass during setup.
• Sizes are held in stock, and a change of size is a phone call rather than a reorder.

One account manager, one invoice. Multi-site operators across Ashford are the norm rather than the exception, and the round does not change — only the drop list does.

• 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 on one invoice, itemised by site — one number for finance, the detail for whoever asks.
• Adding a site later is a change to the drop list, not a new contract or a new supplier relationship.

Outside service, both ways. The TN30 slot is agreed before the account opens and does not move week to week — it is a fixed place on a round, not a two-hour window that lands mid-lunch.

• Access around Tenterden Town 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, which is the difference between laying up calmly and laying up at speed.
• If a run is disrupted — a road closure, a breakdown — a 54.0-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 Tenterden — because the figure that matters is what you actually get through, not what you ordered.
• Reviewed after a full month once there is real data rather than a first guess — at no cost either way.
• Seasonal swing is expected — TN30 trade moves across the year, and the par level should move with it rather than being agreed once and forgotten.

Both, and most Tenterden 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 — which is usually the larger number over a year, because linen wears out in public.
• Most Tenterden accounts run both: hired table linen where volume is high, owned chef whites where the branding matters.

No, and no tie-in either. A 24-cover room in Tenterden is a stop on an existing run, not a trip we have to justify.

• 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 — a slow month does not move you onto a worse rate.
• 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.