Cafe Linen In Windsor On The Morning Round

Yes — Windsor sits on the SL4 round, 7 days, 14.7 miles from our Wembley plant.

• Shared with Eton, Datchet and Slough — the same vehicle covers them, which is why a counter here can be added without moving anyone else.
• The driver knows the streets around Windsor and Eton Riverside and Windsor and Eton Central — 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 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 — 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 Windsor with nothing clean.

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

• Small sites go on the same SL4 round — which is why size barely moves the per-item price.
• 38 cafes around SL4 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 Windsor and a busy July are the same account.

Both, and mixed accounts are normal. One collection covers whichever way each line is set up.

• Hire — stock, replacement and par management are ours; you never reorder.
• Wash-only — item for item, never substituted.
• Plenty of cafes do both — branding matters on the apron, rarely on the tea towel behind the counter.

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 — and resetting it is our job, not a favour.
• Most Windsor cafes are not short of linen overall — they are short of it on two predictable days, which is a counting problem rather than a volume one.
• Seasonal swings are planned in — Windsor in December is not Windsor in February, and the par count should know that.

No. Kitchen cloths and table linen go on the same SL4 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 — added as lines, not as a new agreement.
• 54 restaurants around SL4 are on this round too — so the food side is not an afterthought here.

Yes — the SL4 round is sequenced by opening time. 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 Windsor and Eton Riverside and the traffic that comes with 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. 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 — too hot sets it into the fibre.
• Grey whites are usually a wash problem, not an age problem — a Windsor cafe buying aprons three times a year is paying for a bad cycle, not for wear.