Custom Restaurant Uniforms

Custom restaurant uniforms are read at the table, not in a lookbook. The logo has to survive being seen at arm’s length, on cloth washed daily, across three or four different garments.

Why one factory for the whole branded range?

When shirts come from one supplier, waistcoats from another and polos from a third, each digitises the artwork its own way, on its own thread card, with its own idea of where “left chest” sits. The drift is small on any single garment and obvious when the team lines up at the pass. One range cut and decorated under one roof keeps a single digitised file, a single thread standard and a single placement record across everything your staff wear.

Where the logo sits on each garment

• Shirts and blouses: left chest, cuff or collar point
• Café polos: chest, sleeve or back yoke
• Waistcoats: chest, sized so the welt pockets stay flat

Placement is measured from fixed points such as the shoulder seam and centre front, recorded in millimetres and checked against that standard during bulk production — not eyeballed piece by piece.

Embroidery, print or transfer?

The garment decides. Logo embroidery suits twill waistcoats and piqué polos, because firm cloth supports dense stitching and the mark survives the wash. On light poplin, a dense logo puckers the cloth, so the same artwork runs at lower density or moves to heat transfer. Gradient or photographic artwork usually prints better than it sews, and we will say so at review rather than let you find out on five hundred shirts.

How reorders stay identical

The digitised files, thread codes and placement records are kept on file permanently. A reorder of twenty shirts six months later is decorated from the same file and checked against the sealed sample, so the new pieces disappear into the existing stock instead of standing out from it. That consistency is most of what you are buying when you consolidate the range with one factory. For groups running several sites, the same file discipline scales into a full uniform programme with per-site packing and scheduled top-ups.

What to send us

A vector file of the logo, the garment list per role, and any brand rules on colour or clear space. If names or outlet variants are involved, include the list and the variants too. We come back with a placement plan, strike-offs on each fabric and a quotation. Hospitality brands and distributors buying restaurant wear to resell under their own label should start with our private label manufacturing service instead.