All About Aprons!

All work and no play can make anyone fell a little dull. If you run a restaurant, it’s your job to make sure that your waitstaff looks and feels great. We can help you out with the “look” part—our waitstaff aprons are the perfect addition to your restaurant uniforms. Choose from our variety of waist aprons, bistro aprons, bib aprons, and more! You can rest assured that your waitstaff will look great in these aprons. But how about feeling great? Sometimes you need to cut loose and have a little bit of fun. Consider creating a food-themed soundtrack for your daily prep time. That can help get everyone in good spirits! Here are our favorite fun food songs.

• “Cheeseburger in Paradise” – Jimmy Buffett
• “Chicken Fried” – Zac Brown Band
• “Cherry Pie” – Warrant
• “Sugar Sugar” – The Archies
• “Milkshake” – Kelis
• “Two Pina Coladas” – Garth Brooks
• “Strawberry Fields Forever” – The Beatles
• “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” – Billy Joel

Aprons are important for your restaurant—but so is an upbeat waitstaff! With these fun restaurant and food tunes, everyone will be geared up and ready to go for the next dinner service. Shop the selection of perfect waitstaff aprons here at Averill’s Sharper Uniforms.

Every once in a while, you should outfit your waitstaff with new restaurant aprons. Over time, your existing aprons can begin to look a little dull and worn out—and that’s where we come into play. Here at Averill’s Sharper Uniforms, we have a selection of waitstaff aprons that are wrinkle resistant, stain resistant, and made in the USA. But don’t just throw away the old ones! There’s a great opportunity here for you to have a team-building and bonding moment with your waitstaff. Try having a fun holiday apron decorating party!

Whether your staff is retiring their bistro aprons or bib aprons, there are many ways they can dazzle them up a bit. Give them the opportunity to adorn their old aprons with beads, jewels, rhinestones—anything sparkly. Some others on your staff might want to decorate their old aprons using specific colors or patterns—even tie dye. Patches from old clothing or other odds and ends like buttons, safety pins, ribbons, and beads are also really interesting embellishments.

Choosing your new waitstaff aprons is easy with the selection of wrinkle resistant, stain resistant, and made in the USA aprons here at Sharper Uniforms. You could even turn it into an annual event with your team!

If you do end up retiring your old aprons and decorating them, we’d love to see some fun pictures!

Here at Averill’s Sharper Uniforms, we love helping our customers find the perfect clothing for everyone on their resort staff. When you run a resort, you need uniforms for your front desk staff, restaurants, banquet halls, housekeeping, maintenance operations, and spa staff. A little while back, we looked at the importance of front desk staff uniforms. Let’s move on to the next important component of your resort: The Restaurant. Restaurant uniforms can set the tone right from the start, so you want to make sure you get them right.

Restaurant Uniform Considerations

• Your restaurant staff is going to be moving around a lot throughout the day. It’s important for you to choose restaurant uniforms that can keep up with their pace. We carry a selection of restaurant uniforms with moisture wicking technology that’s sure to keep everyone comfortable.
• Take the colors into consideration. White shirts and black pants are popular restaurant staples—but they aren’t necessarily the best choice for restaurants that sell traditionally sloppy foods. (We’re looking at you, barbeque!) Choose colors that can hide stains and dirt quickly. Our restaurant uniforms are durable, so they can stand up to the frequent washing that’s often necessary.
• Restaurant aprons can tie the whole look together. Shop through our selection of restaurant aprons and choose the color and style that best fits your needs.

We recently spent some time at one of our customers’ businesses. The Sea Crest Beach Hotel & Resort located in North Falmouth, MA keeps its staff looking great with a variety of products from Averill’s Sharper Uniforms. In fact, we provide all of the embroidered and heat seal shirts, pants, shorts, belts, ball caps, visors, kitchen uniforms, aprons, white dress shirts, and banded collar shirts for their top-notch crew.

What does the Sea Crest Beach Hotel & Resort love the most about their Sharper Uniforms gear? Well, it’s not so much the gear as it is the service that comes along with it. We offer free hemming with our pants, and that saves the staff time (and $20 per pant!). Keeping the entire staff looking clean and crisp is easy… especially with the WEB belt that comes in two sizes. And what if the WEB belt is too long? They can easily be cut down to the right size.

When the uniforms work with your staff, your clients are sure to notice. Well-fitting garments with comfortable styling can really be the key to success. We love getting out and meeting the fine folks that wear our hotel and resort uniforms!

Here are some fun shots we snapped on our visit:

You can make uniforms work for your business, too! Shop with Averill’s Sharper Uniforms and see the difference.

We just can’t seem to keep to ourselves anymore! We’ve spent the past few months sharing our wares and information at various trade shows across the country. And now we’re proud to announce that we shared a little bit of the wealth with a great local charity event.

The 9th Annual Cooking for a Cause was held on March 30th, 2012 at the Seaport Hotel on Boston’s waterfront. An all star lineup of chefs were in attendance—led by Culinary Chair Jason Santos of Blue, Inc. Additionally, vendors and some of the best and brightest bartenders in the area were there. The bartenders were led by Wine Chair Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli of Island Creek Oyster Bar.

What were we doing at such a fun and prestigious event? Averill’s Sharper Uniforms sponsored aprons for this great charity event. All of the proceeds from the Cooking for a Cause event benefited the East End House. The East End House has been offering innovative programming to the community since 1875. We were proud to be involved in this event! The East End House community center uses a holistic approach to promote the well-being, academic achievement, and successful transition to adulthood of children and youth from Cambridge and other surrounding communities.

We firmly believe that a little love, attention, and a few great aprons can go a long way!

Are you as proud of America as we are? There are so many things that this great country offers us. Frankly, there are so many things about America that we couldn’t experience anywhere else. We’re a relatively young nation with a rich and storied history—and we should be proud of our roots. That’s why we’re proud to say that all of our waitstaff aprons are 100% made in the USA. That means you can outfit your waitstaff with high quality aprons at a price that’s perfect for your budget. Show your pride in the USA with any of our Made in America aprons.

Are you worried that we might not have what you’re looking for? Hey, this is America after all! We have over 75 different styles available in 20 great colors. Basically, if you can’t find your perfect waitstaff apron here, you probably won’t be able to find it anywhere. And who else can guarantee that your apron will be manufactured right here in the USA? Put your trust in our wrinkle resistant, stain resistant, and high quality aprons. Whether you’re looking for a two pocket, six pocket, or even no-pocket apron you can find it right here.

And, since this is America, you can feel free to have your apron your way. We provide embroidery and screen printing on any of our made in the USA aprons.

Ah, it’s good to be an American!

Halloween is fast approaching… The time of year with creepy crawlies, ghouls, goblins, witches, monsters, and chefs.

Wait… What was that last one?

That’s right! We said chefs.

Why not dress your little one up as a mini sous chef or executive chef this Halloween? There’s going to be so many scary and ghoulish costumes out there—let your child stand out from the pack. Choose from our kid’s chef uniforms like a kid’s chef coat, a kid’s chef pant, a kid’s chef hat, and adorable two-pocket or no-pocket youth bib aprons. Complete the look with cute kid-sized cooking supplies, and you’re little one is ready to trick or treat in style.

The best part about these kid’s chef uniforms is that they have applications that go past Halloween. Once the holiday is over, your child can use his or her chef clothing to help you out in the kitchen. What better way to spend time together than creating something delicious for the whole family to enjoy?

Let your kid make his or her own mark on the Halloween holiday. Choose kid’s chef uniforms from Sharper Uniforms and celebrate in style!

Are you riding the wave with the newest trend in the restaurant business? From New York, to Atlanta, to Southern California, restaurants are ditching paper menus in favor of iPads. Apple iPads allow diners to do many different things. They can check out the menu on the devices, and they can also custom design and order their meals.

For instance, a customer might order a burger, choose from various buns and rolls, toppings and sauces, and other add-ons to create their ideal meal. A recent study has even shown that young diners between the ages of 18 and 34 prefer restaurants that have some high-tech gear. Many iPad-clad restaurants have alarms in the units that sound if anyone tries to carry the iPads out the door.

Increase your restaurant’s “cool” factor by incorporating iPads into the ordering routine. And where would your staff be without the right apron? Here at Sharper Uniforms, we’ve taken our popular Criss Cross apron and turned it into the iPad Bib Apron. We’ll customize your order so you get exactly what you want. The iPad fits comfortably in the apron pocket, and we can even customize the aprons with additional pockets and decorations.

We have such a wide selection of waitstaff aprons here at Sharper Uniforms, that you can find the perfect one for every situation. If your staff uses aprons on the job, you should make sure that they’re doing it properly. After all, the purpose of an apron is to protect your clothing from whatever you’re doing. They’re there to get dirty, so you shouldn’t feel guilty every time a little something spills on it! There is a line, of course. Your staff should look as neat as possible on the job.

So where is that line?

It should go without saying that extremely dirty aprons are unsanitary—especially if you’re working with food. They also look unprofessional and unattractive. You don’t want to spread any germs or be unsightly to your co-workers or patrons of the establishment.

What’s the bottom line? You can generally wear an apron through an entire shift at work (if you’re a waiter or barista) without having to change it. But if you spill something on yourself or come into contact with something unsanitary, you should replace your apron ASAP. With Sharper Uniforms, there are enough aprons and options to keep you going for weeks!

What’s in a color? Here at Sharper Uniforms, we know you like to outfit your staff in the latest fashions and colors… and that’s why we strive to find the hottest stuff available.

Today, we’re talking about aprons. Many different people on your staff might wear an apron for one reason or another. It’s important to keep them looking fresh, clean, and up to date. Be sure to check out our new apron styles!

The criss-cross three pocket bib apron is ideal for those that don’t like the strap rubbing around their neck. The unique criss-cross straps lay on your shoulders… comfort at its finest!

Our new three pocket waist apron with belt buckle is one of our most popular choices. With three pockets and two different belt buckle sizes, you’re sure to find the solution right here.

The two pocket scalloped apron is simply adorable! It’s reversible, so it’s like two aprons in one. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Finally, the center divided pocket bib apron is the classic apron that you need.

But wait… it gets better! We have five new apron colors here at Sharper Uniforms. Look for aprons in hot pink, charcoal, turquoise, silver, and light blue.

There’s never been a better time to stock up on aprons!