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Enhance Catering Uniforms with Stylish Neckwear

One of the most affordable ways to update hospitality uniforms is to add a stylish touch with some colourful neckwear. Whether you’d like to choose the same colour for every member of your team, or would prefer to mix things up by buying ties and scarfs in complimentary colours, eye catching neckwear is a great way to bring a little elegance to your bar, café or restaurant.
Stylish catering uniforms designed to enhance the image of your brand.

Here at Catering Uniforms we supply a wide range of smart uniforms designed to be worn by bar, waiting and catering staff. Our collection of stylish neckwear includes ties and scarves to suit all styles and budgets, from classically simple bow ties, through to colourful fashion ties and chiffon scarves.

A smart bow tie will never go out of style and for a touch of classical elegance, is pretty hard to beat. When teamed up with a traditional white shirt, black waistcoat and trousers, the bow tie has long been the uniform of choice for anyone looking to create a formal feel. However, if you want to go for something a little more eye catching, coloured bow ties offer the ideal solution. Our range is available in a wide range of colours.

From bow ties to neck ties – we’ve got catering uniforms covered
Clip ties are ideal for anyone on your team who has difficulty tying a traditional tie! A great way to ensure everyone looks smart; our range of fashion clip ties is available in a wide range of stylish colours, including traditional black or white.

Our range of luxurious silk ties offer a great way to inject a dash of colour and with a selection of elegant shades available, our collection has something to complement all colour schemes and enhance the image of your brand.

Here at Catering Uniforms we also supply a range of beautiful chiffon scarves for women, available in a range of colours to complement our men’s range of satin ties. With colours ranging from traditional black and silver, through to vibrant reds, greens and blues, our inspirational range is ideal for freshening up the look of your team’s uniforms.

To find out more about our range of stylish catering uniforms and accessories, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for further information.

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Are you using colour to create the best impression of your business?

The colours you use for your business can say a surprising amount so we thought we’d give you a brief insight into what different shades of colour can portray to your customers.
Did you know that red, for example, is said to represent courage, warmth and energy, whilst blue gives an impression of trust, efficiency, calm and intelligence? Yellow can be used to represent optimism, confidence and creativity, but green shows balance, reassurance and environmental awareness. Last and by no means least, black can be said to portray sophistication, efficiency and glamour.

Take time to choose the right colours

Interesting isn’t it? When you stop to think about it, colour really does have a significant impact upon our day-to-day spending habits and buying decisions. If your business is well established and has been up-and-running for some time, the chances are that you already have a colour scheme and logo etc. However, if you’re still making those all-important decisions, don’t forget to take some time to consider which colour or colours will help you portray the right impression to your customers.

Stylish, practical catering uniforms from Catering Uniforms

Practicality does, of course, have an influence on choosing catering or bar uniforms and this is why black tends to be the most popular choice. However, injecting splash of colour with contrasting shirts or blouses is a great idea and can really help to get your team noticed. White shirts and blouses still tend to be part of the uniform of choice for many establishments but choosing something a little out of the ordinary can be a great way to reinforce your brand image whilst still creating a professional impression.

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Here at Catering Uniforms we supply a huge range of smart, stylish catering and staff uniforms available in a collection of eye-catching colours. From suits and trousers, shirts and blouses through to aprons, tabards and chefs wear, we’ve got your catering uniform requirements covered so why not browse through our range today?

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Refresh your image for Spring with smart new restaurant uniforms

New restaurant uniforms for spring from Catering Uniforms

Spring is well and truly on the way and although it’s still pretty cold out there, what better time of year could there be to invest in stylish, smart new restaurant uniforms for your front of house team?
Here at Catering Uniforms we supply a wide range of restaurant and catering uniforms in styles specially designed for everyone from chefs through to bar and waiting staff. By ensuring your team are dressed to impress, not only will this give your customers the best possible impression, it will also give your team a morale boost – something that’s often needed at this time of year!

Restaurant uniforms for waiting staff

Your waiting staff are the face of your business and whether you’re after a look that’s smart and traditional, or feel that casual uniforms would be more suitable, you’ll find that our range offers a wide range of styles to suit any restaurant, café, bar or hospitality business.
Our collection of suits and trousers is designed to help you create a highly professional, business-like impression and includes crisp poplin shirts and blouses, tailored jackets, waistcoats, skirts and trousers in a range of styles. We’ve also got casual restaurant uniforms covered, including polo shirts and t-shirts available in a huge range of colours.
We know that kitting your team out in brand new uniforms can represent a significant investment, particularly if you run several establishments, but if your budget won’t run to this, it’s easy to give your staff a fresh new look with our range of ties, scarves and aprons.
A stylish scarf or smart tie is the ideal way to finish off the look of a catering uniform and our range includes a wide range of high quality accessories specially designed for those working in the hospitality industry including chiffon scarfs, ties, bow ties, silk ties and plain scarves.
Not only do aprons help to keep uniforms clean and tidy they also offer a great way to add a stylish, professional touch to bar and waiting staff uniforms. Our range of aprons represents excellent value and a cost effective way to ensure your staff look professional and business-like, including bistro aprons, apron wallets, bib aprons, aprons for chefs and tabards.

Personalised catering uniforms

Personalising catering uniforms with an embroidered logo will help to reinforce your brand image and make your company name stand out. Here at Catering Uniforms our entire range is suitable for customisation with an embroidered badge or logo and this simple to use service is available on all orders. If you require further information on this we’d be delighted to discuss your requirements with you.

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If you would like advice on choosing new restaurant uniforms, our team will be happy to help – please don’t hesitate to contact us today.

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Catering Clothing Designed to Minimise the Risk of Injury

Catering gloves and footwear to help protect your staff

If you run a café, restaurant, pub or bar you’ll doubtless be aware of the wide range of regulations which are designed to help you keep your catering team safe whilst they’re at work. With this in mind, if you’re choosing new uniforms for your catering staff, it’s vital to ensure that not only do they look smart and professional, but that they also provide protection from burns, scalds, cuts or falls.

Catering gloves for catering and bar staff

Catering staff can face a number of health and safety issued caused by their working environment and amongst the commonest tend to be skin problems. Skin problems such as eczema or dermatitis can be triggered by prolonged immersion in water and this is where wearing gloves can make a significant difference. Catering gloves, specially designed to protect the hands from hot water are an essential piece of kit for anyone who works in a professional kitchen.
Catering gloves can also reduce the risk of knife related injuries and specially designed gloves are available which are designed to protect the hands from shape blades without any loss of dexterity and comfort. White cotton gloves are useful for ensuring bar or waiting staff are able to keep their hands clean whilst working, whilst the natural fibres of the fabric will help to keep the hands cool.

Catering safety shoes and clogs

Another hazard of working in a catering kitchen can be the risk of slipping on wet floors. Specially designed catering footwear is the best solution to this problem as these shoes have thick rubber soles, designed to provide traction on damp or greasy floors. In addition, catering shoes with toe caps will help protect toes dropped equipment or hot liquids.

Contact Catering Uniforms for advice on choosing catering clothing

Here at Catering Uniforms we supply a wide range of high quality catering clothing and accessories, designed to keep your staff safe whilst ensuring they look neat, tidy and professional. If you would like to find out more about our clothing, please don’t hesitate to contact us today for further information.

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Wear Your Uniform with Pride – Which Staff Uniforms are Best for your Catering Business?

New staff uniforms to get your business off to a great start

staff uniform apronsWhether you’re starting a brand new business or are thinking about a change of image, investing in smart new staff uniforms is a great way to get off to a fantastic start. Whatever your reasons for buying new uniforms, it’s a good idea to spend time thinking about what will suit your staff and establishment best. In the Catering and Hospitality trade especially, fast judgements are made on the basis of staff presentation. Whilst this adds some pressure, it also means there’s a great opportunity to nail the impression you make.

If you run a hotel, the chances are you’ll have a fairly wide range of staff to provide uniforms for. Hotels are, on the whole, quite large establishments and by rushing into making a purchase, you could end up making a costly mistake. With chefs, waiting on staff, housekeepers, bar staff and reception staff to think of, buying new uniforms can seem particularly daunting but by choosing to order from us, we’ll aim to make it as easy as possible.

Staff uniforms designed to suit all tastes and requirements

chefs staff uniforms We offer a wide range of staff uniforms available in a broad selection of styles and colours. In order to make the best selection, we suggest that you try to choose a style of staff uniform that best fits with the image of your business. If your hotel is fairly traditional, for example, you might like to choose a traditional style of uniform such as black trousers/skirts and white shirts or blouses. If your establishment has a more contemporary feel, this is a great opportunity to go for something in a brighter colour, maybe to match or complement your logo.

When it comes to choosing uniforms to suit individual members of staff, don’t forget to take into account the nature of their role as this will have a bearing on the type of clothing that will make the most practical and comfortable uniform for them. Chefs generally prefer to wear traditional chef’s whites but during the summer a t shirt and chefs trousers might be a more practical option. For superior temperature control for chef’s whites, we also have specially designed mesh panelled chefs jackets which are also a practical chef uniform. Housekeeping staff usually wear tunics to protect their clothing but there’s no reason why these can’t be chosen in a colour to match or complement your logo.

Last and by no means least, don’t forget to order an adequate supply of uniforms! Shirts and blouses must always be in good to supply as they need to be changed more often but formal garments such as waistcoats don’t need to be quite so plentiful. Many of our items of uniform clothing for catering staff use Colourfast technology to hold their colours whilst their being washed. This does however mean that you’ll need a good rotation of uniform items for staff whilst worn items are in the laundry.

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If you would like advice on any aspect of choosing staff uniforms please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the team here at Catering Uniforms – we’d be delighted to help.

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New Year, new bar staff uniforms?

Now the hectic Christmas and New Year period is over, the January lull is the ideal time to start thinking about creating a fresh new look for the coming year. Investing in smart new bar staff uniforms is a great way to breathe new life into your bar or restaurant and will help give your team a much-needed boost.

Here at Catering Uniforms we supply a huge range of stylish clothing for bar staff, waiters, waitresses, chefs and kitchen staff. Whatever your budget we’ll have the ideal uniforms to help you create a smart, professional image, designed to impress your customers and to show your bar staff at their best. All this whilst being comfortable, practical for a busy service and affordable.

Using new uniforms to create a brand new look

Updating uniforms is a great way to create a brand new look and maybe try something a little different. We supply bar staff uniforms in a collection of fantastic designs, perfect for coordinating with your style concept and the requirements of your staff. Have a browse through the different styles and colours we offer to see if something fresh would improve your bar uniforms.

bar staff uniformsUniforms for restaurant or bar staff needs to be multifunctional and in the first instance should be designed to look smart and professional. The right uniforms should not only look stylish, they should also help to promote a productive, busy working environment that’s well run and meets health and safety legislation. Customers are always quick to make judgements about the quality of service and hygiene from the presentation of staff, from restaurants bars or hotels, so ensure you make the right impression.

Alongside the style of uniforms, practicality is a hugely important consideration. No self-respecting bar person, waiter or waitress wants to wear something uncomfortable or cumbersome as this will only restrict their ability to their job properly. No one wants to spend their working day uncomfortable- particularly when you’re dealing with the public. With this in mind, choosing the right materials and style is incredibly important and is a decision that your staff will undoubtedly appreciate being involved in.

Our range includes smart bar aprons, stylish shirts and blouses, alongside suits and trousers. Every item we sell is manufactured from high quality fabrics so you’ll have the reassurance of knowing your new uniforms are made to last and will withstand the rigours of life in a busy bar, hotel or restaurant!

Personalised uniforms

Choosing personalised bar staff uniforms is a fantastic way to create a unique look whilst improving staff motivation. Here at Catering Uniforms we offer logo or text embroidery with every order so why not consider adding your logo and staff names to your new bar staff uniforms? Whether its for chef whites or hotel uniforms, the benefits of personalising uniforms with embroidered branding are numerous- we wrote a blog on the subject last month so have a look to find out how they could improve your bar, hotel or restaurant.

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If you would like further information on any aspect of ordering bar staff uniforms, please don’t hesitate to get in touch today!

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Dress to impress with smart new staff uniforms

Hospitality uniforms have changed a lot over recent years and although black and white bar staff uniforms are still popular, many establishments are now adopting a more relaxed look, adding a touch more colour and style variation to their uniforms.

Whilst it’s always important that your staff look smart and well-presented; staff uniforms can prove to be a useful way to create your own image for your bar or restaurant; helping set you apart from the competition whilst enhancing your reputation.

Stylish staff uniforms

There’s no doubt that carefully chosen staff uniforms can make a significant contribution to the atmosphere and image of a bar or restaurant and here at Catering Uniforms you’ll find that we supply a wide range of smart, stylish uniforms, perfect for bar or waiting staff. Many of our aprons, uniforms, shirts and blouses are available in a collection of eye-catching colours, ideal for coordinating or contrasting with the interior design of your establishment.

Practical good looks are important

Not only should staff uniforms look good they should be practical too and with this in mind it’s important not to overlook the practicalities of different types of uniform. Consider which pocket options will be best for carrying an order pad or payment terminal, whilst a bib apron is a great way to protect the uniform underneath. It could be argued that simply wearing a uniform is a practical solution to the problem of what to wear to work and, because changing into a smart uniforms has been shown in studies to boost self-esteem and performance, uniforms can help improve efficiency too!

Contact Catering Uniforms for further information

Staff uniforms can bring a wide a range of benefits and if you’re considering investing in uniforms for your team we’d be delighted to help. Our experienced sales staff are available to answer any queries you might have so why not get in touch today?

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How to boost staff morale and increase efficiency with personalised catering uniforms

There’s no doubt that running a busy restaurant, pub or café calls for a healthy dose of team spirit and introducing personalised catering uniforms is a great way to encourage your staff to feel part of that team.

Enhance staff performance

Selecting the right uniforms for your staff will not only ensure that they’re appropriately dressed, studies have shown that changing into a uniform for work helps encourage a team mind-set. Even something as simple as changing into a personalised apron, for example, can prove highly effective, helping staff to stay motivated and business-like!

Create a professional image

Introducing a staff uniform – whether a full uniform or aprons – is also a great way to help avoid any awkward conversations on inappropriate work wear. Staff uniforms will help ensure a professional image and when embroidered with your company logo or brand name, your customers will be easily able to identify who your members of staff are. Don’t forget that when every member of staff wears a clean, fresh catering uniform, your customers will have the reassurance of knowing that your restaurant, pub or café is clean and efficiently run.

Improve customer service

The hospitality industry is highly customer-focused and with this in mind the importance of smart personalised uniforms shouldn’t be underestimated. Branded or personalised workwear will encourage your customers to interact with your staff, resulting in faster response times and improved customer satisfaction.

Order your personalised catering uniforms from us

So why not start the New Year in style and kit your staff out with smart personalised uniforms from Catering Uniforms? Our range covers everything you need to create a professional image, from chefs wear and personalised uniforms for bar staff, through to aprons, hospitality suits, gloves, ties and scarves. Our embroidery service is designed to make catering clothing stand out and thanks to our easy-to-use ordering service; your smart, new personalised uniforms will be with you in no time at all!