How NOT To Choose Your Uniform Program For Your Organization

If you’re an avid Office Space follower, you have to remember the scene where Jennifer Anniston’s character expresses her feelings about here flare. If you haven’t seen the movie, here is a clip of the scene below.



She had been berated about here flare in other parts of the movie as well, and you could tell that it didn’t make her like her job.

Here is an article from The San Francisco Chronicle that discusses
The seven worst chain restaurant – fast food uniforms of all time. As you can tell there are some real doozies.

Don’t be a dud, choose Master Brands for your uniform program, and avoid being a laughing stock.

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Project A Unified Image To Your Customers

Did you know that 32 million people wear uniforms to work today? A couple of reasons for this is because it allows companies to project a unified image, and because it takes stress off of the manager in terms of what their employees wear to work. Uniforms also make employees easily identified to customers and clients.

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If you are careful not to select a uniform that is ugly or difficult to wear, most employees will accept that they have to wear them without any problems. Uniforms let members of staff know that you care about their appearance and that you do not mind making an investment in them. Uniforms are good for morale too, as they encourage a feeling of togetherness in the workplace.

You will probably end up paying somewhere between $100 to $500 per employee for each uniform, with the difference in estimates coming down to how many items you need to buy and the quality that you opt for. That may seem like a lot of money but the average shelf life of a staff uniform is two years so, over time, it does not end up costing too much.

At the very minimum, you will need to buy a shirt for each of your employees as, being the most visible, that is the most important item of a staff uniform. You might want to tell your workers that they need to get a pair of black pants or a skirt, but be prepared for the fact that a few of them will not dress up to your standards because they are not going to want to wear their best clothing to work.

Spending some time to choose which colors are best is crucial since color alone can really enhance or diminish the appearance of an entire uniform. You need to choose colors that match, will look good with your logo, and which do no easily show up stains and dirt. It would be best to go with three colors at most, with one of those colors being the main color of your company logo.

Look for stain guard treated fabrics when choosing staff uniforms as these fabrics will last, and will keep their full colors, for longer. You will probably want to shell out a bit more money in order to get better quality items, because over the long run this will save you money. You will want to select a uniform that is comfortable for the area in which your employees work, so if they work in a hot area, you will want cool clothing, and if they work in a cold area, you will want warm clothing.

Chef and Nurses Uniforms and Their Image To the Public

What do you think of when you hear of a chef or nurse uniform? When you think of chef’s uniform you probably think of him/her dressed in a crisp white uniform with a large hat, when you think of a nurse’s uniform you might think of a neatly pressed white uniform as well. The styles in uniforms in these industries greatly vary, and here’s a bit more about them.

From Few Facts on Chef or Nursing Uniforms:

Many chefs do not wear their full uniforms while they are working, but usually the respectable hotels and restaurants insist that their chefs wear all the uniform. These uniforms are made of several pieces. From these, the most popular is of course the chef hat, which is a big white hat with special decorations on top. Also known are the chef’s apron and scarf. Most chefs wear these pieces all the time. But the uniform is also composed of a bandanna, a tie, a pair of pants, gloves and shoes. These parts are not compulsory however.

Large chains of restaurants and hotels usually prefer that their chefs wear designer jackets that have the brand of the hotel written on them. Also, instead of the well-known chef hats they may wear normal caps. This is recommended, because they can keep hair finds from falling inside the food. But the other people in the kitchen are wearing regular caps, so it’s better if the chef wears his special hat so that he can be recognized.

When it comes to the chef uniform’s colur, usually the regular color is white, a color that inspires higene, but this is not a standard, the uniforms may have any color, depending on what the company wants. Some prefer dark colors because stains are less visible in this case.

The apron is usually used to display the company’s logo, and the pants are usually baggy ones, that allow freedom of movement. Finally, the shoes must have low heels and they too must be comfortable.

On the other hand, nurses uniform’s included few pieces at the beginning. the firs ones were simply white dresses with an apron attached. But as time passed, this changed, and now thy are composed of a pair of comfortable pants and a tunic. The colors may vary from situation to situation, but the most popular colors are of course the white ones, and these also help the patients recognize the nurses.

Many different types of uniforms are available for purchasing on the Internet, and clients may also order customized ones, that fit their preferences.

Portraying a Professional Image In Your Organization

From: DORA’S DIARY: Portray a professional image

LOSERS
What image does your employees’ appearance portray? I recently spent a week in a client’s Conrad Plaza office. One of the benefits my client offers employees is a daily buffet lunch served on the premises by a catering company. I have no complaints about the food. It was comprised primarily of wholesome, healthy traditional dishes.

What I found interesting however, was one of the server’s attire. Given that appearances do count and that servers handling food do make an impression on the people being served, I was surprised to observe that for five days straight, one particular server proudly showed up to serve food in a thoroughly wrinkled, off-white chef’s coat, presumably his uniform.

The daily visual assault made me wonder what kind of place the food was prepared in and if by letting the caterer get away with crumpled uniforms my client was hurting, as opposed to helping the catering company’s prospects for future business growth.

What makes that particular catering company – and other service providers that ignore employee appearance – a loser? Unkempt employee uniforms are unappealing, make a poor impression and are not the way to attract new customers.

Master Brands, through our subsidiary Master Uniforms can help your company’s image with our no-contract Uniform Program. We offer a full line of uniforms for all types of industries. To see our catalog of products, visit this link. We can brand these uniforms with whatever specifications you need, from screen printing to custom sewing, to embroidery. Whatever your needs are, we can fulfill them.