Terms & Conditions
Restaurant Supplies Ltd - CONDITIONS OF SALE
All dealings including all quotations and any other order placed following
such quotation are subject to the following conditions of sale in which
Restaurant Supplies
Ltd is referred to as ‘the Company’.
- Validity of quotation
No order received from a customer by the Company and no purported variation
of these terms shall constitute a contract until accepted in writing by the
Company.
- Prices
Prices quoted by the Company are those prevailing at the time but we reserve
the right to make adjustments if necessary due to currency fluctuations, raw
material or factory increases. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are
exclusive of any applicable value added tax, for which the customer shall be
additionally liable to the Company.
- Payment
Approved credit account customers shall pay the price in full strictly NETT
MONTHLY within terms If payment is not made on or before the due date, the
Company will charge interest at the rate of 8% per annum above the base
lending rate of National Westminster Bank Plc from the due date for payment
until the date of actual payment and shall further be entitled to statutory
compensation pursuant to the Late Payment of Commercial Debts Regulations
2002.
- Delivery
Delivery periods and dates are given in good faith, but are not the subject
of any warranty or condition, and time shall not be of the essence of the
contract in these respects. No liability will attach to the Company if
delivery periods or dates are not met for any reason whatsoever. Please
advise us of any non-delivery within 10 days of date of invoice and confirm
in writing to enable us to claim under the carrier’s terms. Any shortage or
damage on delivery must be reported to us immediately and confirmed in
writing within 3 days of delivery. For deliveries to third parties we do not
accept liability for shortage or non-delivery unless we are given in advance
the name of a specific person who will sign for the goods.
- Warranty
The Company warrants that all goods supplied by it will correspond to their
specification and will be free from defects in materials or workmanship for
a period of 12 months from the date of delivery. The Company’s obligation in
the event of a breach of this warranty is limited to the repair or
replacement of any defective goods, which shall be returned to the Company
by the customer. This warranty is given in lieu of all other warranties or
conditions expressed or implied (whether by statue or otherwise) and is
subject to the following conditions:
- Claims must be notified in writing to the Company within ten
days from the date of delivery.
- The Company shall be under no liability in respect of any
defect in the goods arising from any drawing, design or specification
supplied by the customer.
- The Company shall be under no liability if the defect or failure, in
the reasonable opinion of the Company, arises from wilful damage or
misuse, negligence by the customer or any third party, failure to follow
the Company’s instructions, or alteration or repair of the goods without
the Company’s prior approval.
- The Company shall be under no liability if the price for the goods
has not been paid by the due date for payment.
- The above warranty does not extend to parts, materials or
equipment not manufactured by the Company, in respect of which the
customer shall be entitled only to benefit of any such warranty or
guarantee as is given by the manufacturer to the Company.
- Except in the case of death or personal injury caused by the
Company’s negligence, the Company shall not be liable for any
consequential loss or damage (whether for loss of profit or otherwise)
or other claims for consequential compensation.
- Returns
Once you have received your goods, if you not be completely satisfied, or have simply changed your mind, we will be happy to offer you an exchange of your choice, or a refund. Please note that all returns must be received within 21 days of receipt, unused and in perfect condition complete with packaging. We are unable to refund return postage costs.
- Carriage Terms
Carriage paid terms: £200 carriage paid to UK
Special & Express deliveries will be charged extra – P.O.A.
- Risk
The risk in the goods shall pass to the customer on delivery to the customer
or (if earlier) when possession of the goods is taken by a carrier for
delivery to the customer.
- Force majeure
The Company shall not be liable to the customer, or deemed to be in breach
of any contract with the customer, by reason of any delay in performing, or
any failure to perform, any of the Company’s obligations in relation to the
goods. If the delay or failure was due to force majeure or to any other
cause beyond the Company’s reasonable control.
- Reservation of title
- The goods sold under these Conditions shall remain the
absolute property of the Company and legal title in the goods shall
remain vested in the Company until payment in full of all amounts
invoiced or due to the Company in respect of the Goods, or until the
goods are resold by the customer, whichever shall first occur. In the
event of sale of the Goods by the customer, the Company shall have the
right to trace its title to the proceeds of sale of the Goods or any
part thereof. In the event of the buyer becoming insolvent the
right to resell the goods shall be suspended and of the Company. by
their servants or agents may enter the premises of the buyer to recover
any goods as yet unsold by the buyer of the Company shall be entitled
to waive title to any goods resold prior to the buyer’s insolvency and
to trace the proceeds in the buyer’s hands or in the hands of any
Liquidator or Receiver. No liquidator, receiver, administrator
administrative receiver of the Customer shall have authority to sell
goods to which the Company has title without the prior written consent
of the Company.
- Until such time as the property in and legal title to the
Goods passes to the Customer, the Customer shall hold the Goods as the
Company’s fiduciary agent and bailee and shall keep the Goods separate
from those of the Customer and third parties and properly stored,
protected, insured and identified as the Company’s property. Until that
time, the customer shall be entitled to resell or use the Goods in
ordinary course of its business, but shall account to the Company for
the proceeds of sales of the Goods, including insurance proceeds, and
shall keep all such proceeds separate from any moneys of the customer
and of third parties.
- The Customer shall not be entitled to pledge or charge, by way
of security for any indebtedness, any of the goods which remain the
property of the Company but, if the Customer does so, all moneys owing
by the Customer to the Company shall (without prejudice to any other
right or remedy of the reseller) forthwith become due and payable.
- The Company shall be entitled to maintain an action for the
price of the goods notwithstanding that title in them has not passed to
the customer.
- Insolvency of customer
If the customer, being a body corporate, shall pass a resolution or suffer
an order of the Court to be made for winding-up, or if a receiver,
administrator or administrative receiver shall be appointed or, being an
individual or partnership, shall suspend payment, propose or enter into any
composition or arrangement with his or their creditors, or have a bankruptcy
order made against him or them, then the Company shall have the right,
without prejudice to any other contract with the customer, not to proceed
further with the contract, and shall be entitled to charge for work already
carried out (whether completed or not) and for goods and materials already
purchased for the customer, such charge to be an immediate debt due from the
customer.
- Patent rights
The acceptance of a quotation includes the recognition by the customer of
the right of the Company under any patent rights, trademarks, registered
designs or other intellectual property rights relating to the goods, and the
customer undertakes that patent numbers, trademarks or other trade markings
on goods supplied shall not be obliterated, altered or defaced.
- Acceptance of orders
The Company reserves the right to refuse any order, including subsequent
to the sending any order acknowledgement.
- Applicable law
These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
English Law and the parties acknowledge the exclusive jurisdiction of the
English Courts.