For a first custom order with new artwork, plan for four to six weeks from sign-off to delivery. That covers pre-press setup, a printed proof sent for your approval, the full production run, finishing, and delivery to a UK address. Once your artwork is on file, repeat orders usually ship in two to three weeks — we keep your artwork on record so future orders move faster.

Custom branded orders with new artwork start at around 10,000 pads per design. Stock formats without custom print carry a lower minimum, often as low as 2,500 pads. Restaurant groups ordering across several sites can mix formats on one purchase order to hit that minimum sooner.

Yes. Our presses run full Pantone spot colour matching across the coated, uncoated, and solid coated libraries. Send us your Pantone code with the artwork, and we match it on a printed proof before we run the full job. If you only have a colour swatch and no Pantone code, our pre-press team can find the closest match for you.

Yes. White is the standard, but as a restaurant order pad manufacturer UK brands build custom programmes with, we also produce coloured stock, tinted carbonless sets, and full branded colour runs on request. Custom colours carry a small surcharge and rarely add to the lead time.

Our standard sizes fit the common UK order rails, server wallets, and check holders used across the trade. For barcoded pads linked to a POS system, we match your vendor's barcode format on the proof before the full run goes to print.

Yes. We offer sequential numbering, watermarked stock, void-pattern backgrounds that show through on a photocopy, and tamper-evident perforation. Most security options add to the spec without adding to the standard lead time.

Yes. All our paper comes from FSC-certified forests with full chain-of-custody paperwork. Our sites hold ISO 14001:2015 environmental certification, and we also offer recycled-content paper for operators with stricter sustainability targets, at a small added cost and one extra week of lead time.

A local printer can often turn around a small job fast, and that has real value. But most local printers buy their paper stock from a wholesaler, add a margin, then print on general-purpose equipment built for many industries, not just food service. As a restaurant order pad manufacturer hospitality groups across the UK have used for years, we control the paper from the pulp stage onward, which means better pricing at volume and paper built specifically for a busy service, not a generic office job. That's the real difference buyers notice once they compare us side by side against other suppliers, and it's why so many of them stay.

Yes. We deliver order pads for restaurants across every UK region, not just London and the big cities. Whether you run a countryside pub, a seaside cafe, or a city-centre restaurant chain, our UK-based warehousing means delivery times stay consistent no matter your postcode. We treat a rural single-site order with the same priority as a city-centre chain contract.

Our standard sizes fit the check holders and order rails used across most UK dining rooms and bars. If your site uses a non-standard book size, tell us the exact measurement and we will match it. We keep every past specification on file so a reorder is just a phone call.

Small independent restaurants are a core part of our business, not an afterthought. We keep our minimum order quantities low enough for a single cafe to justify a custom print run, and our stock formats even lower than that. Whether you need 2,500 restaurant order pads or 250,000, the process and the quality checks stay exactly the same.