subject: How To Choose A Chef Jacket For Your New Cook [print this page] There are two key ways in which an hotelier can get a chef jacket for a newly employed cook. In a kitchen, everyone involved in food preparation would have to don a chef jacket as part of their kitchen uniform. Similar to doctors with their own coats, a lot of senior chefs also have their very own chef jackets. It is a different case with the not so senior kitchen staff. You, as the hotelier, would have to supply them with chef jackets that are, for all intents and purposes, their uniform. It becomes necessary to have the cooks wear the chef jackets so as to comply with public health standards/rules. That is where we tend to have a requirement that all kitchen staff members who are actually involved in food production should wear chef jackets (or equivalent pieces of clothing). The cooks, when seen in identical chef jackets and uniforms, will give the impression of an upright and utterly classy restaurant or kitchen.
If you are an hotelier, your first option would be to have chef jackets tailor-made for the cook you just employed. It is not rare to see tailors and hotel managements (especially the larger ones) entering into agreements that will have the former providing all the uniforms of the kitchen staff, and that includes chef jackets. The cooks will be able to wear chef jackets that are fitted or molded perfectly to their measurements if this were the approach chosen. On the downside though, this approach does mean that the newly employed cook has to wait for quite a while, as his or her new jacket is tailored. This would translate to inefficiency. After all, the lack of a uniform would hinder the cook from doing his job properly, and the waiting would mean it would take a while before the cook could fully get to work.
The second way in which an hotelier can get a chef jacket for a newly employed cook is by ordering a ready-made one. You can choose to order from online sellers, or you can go to some clothing stores who specialize in these types of clothes. This approach does have one major advantage: in the fact that it doesn't involve waiting for the jacket to be made. There would be no sentimentality involved as cooks who happen to be urgent hires will be able to get to work at once without having to wait for any custom-made chef jacket to be provided. It is also worth noting that the ready made chef jackets tend to be cheaper than those that are custom made.
Basically, those are the two ways available to you to get a chef jacket for a cook you've only just hired. There are pros and cons to each of these methods, and you would have to weight them yourself. Of course you would also have to consider the circumstances surrounding the hiring of the new cook because they would have an influence on your choice of a chef jacket. Cooks are that employed on an urgent basis would be better off if they are given ready-made jackets. Unlike custom-made chef jackets, which could take a long time, ready-made jackets would save a lot of time.
