Sharper Uniform Blog

There are many areas you need to pay attention to when you’re running a resort. The resort uniforms here at Sharper Uniforms are perfect for every aspect of your operation. Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a look at the different areas of your resort operation and how our resort uniforms can help make your staff look crisp, clean, and capable. You’ll need to consider resort uniforms for your front desk staff, restaurants, banquet halls, housekeeping, maintenance operations, and spa staff.

Today, let’s look at how a well-dressed front desk staff can benefit your resort.

The front desk staff are generally the first people your clients will see when they enter your resort. These important staff members are also usually the first people individuals will interact with. That makes it extremely important that these members of your staff present a clean and professional image at all times. On top of the perfect front desk uniform, you should also consider putting your front desk staff through some sort of image training to ensure that the first impression they give is the right one for each person that walks through the door of your resort.

Here at Sharper Uniforms, we have a wide selection of front desk staff uniforms in our resort collection. Shop though our ladies front desk hotel uniforms and find an array of blouses, shirts, vests, pants, and more. We also have a wide range of casual and formal front desk uniforms for the men on your staff. No matter what image you want to convey, you can find the perfect front desk resort uniforms in our store.

Stay tuned for a look at some other areas of resort operations!

There’s just something about outfitting your front desk staff in sharp looking suits. Your clients get a sense of confidence when they see a well-dressed front-of-the-house staff. We’ll admit it—it’s not difficult to find the right suit for your team. But it’s not always easy to keep those suits looking fresh and clean. You never know what you’ll have to deal with in the front end of your workplace. Spills, slips, accidents, messes—they can pop up at any time. A good suit should be able to stand up to the test and come out of it looking no worse for wear. But who has the time for all that dry cleaning?

Never fear, washable suits from Averill’s Sharper Uniforms are here!

We have completely machine washable suits for both men and women. These washable suits are made out of EcoPoly, so the pieces always look crisp and clean. The men’s suit jacket is styled with two button front, one chest pocket, and two lower outside pockets. The ladies’ suit jacket is styled with a one button closure and two front pockets. Both jackets feature a moisture management lining and some stretch in the shoulder and elbow. Why? Because comfort is just as important as looking good.

Our washable suit jackets are available in black, brown, or navy. Choose your washable suit jackets from SharperUniforms.com today.

With Earth Day just behind us, we thought it was a great time to point out our line of environmentally friendly restaurant uniforms. After all, it’s important to be good to the environment—no matter what time of year it is! Are you interested in learning more about our Tru e eco friendly products? We thought so. Let’s make the world a better place one step at a time!

Tru e products go far beyond just being made from recycled material—they’re produced from recycled polyester. This is about as green as it gets. It starts by using 100% recycled yarn, and polyester is the greenest apparel fiber available since it can be washed in colder temperatures, it dries quickly, and it holds its color longer. When you choose these environmentally friendly restaurant uniforms from Sharper Uniforms, you can rest assured that you’ll get a long usable life out of them. That’s important when it comes to choosing uniforms for your restaurant staff.

The best part? These Tru e environmentally friendly restaurant uniforms can be returned and recycles when the garments reach the end of their usable life. This way, you can continue the green cycle all over again! Once the garments are received, Tru e works to ensure that the garments are either recycled for other uses or converted back into apparel yarn.

Do your part and go green with Sharper Uniforms!

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!

Well, we’ve really been getting around lately. The fine folks here at Averill’s Sharper Uniforms have been traveling around the area (and the country!) to attend various conferences and shows related to our industry. If you need a uniform for your line of work, then we’ll be able to help you out! That’s why we were so happy to spend some time at the New England Food Show recently. Workers in the food service industry are some of our best customers, and that’s why we make sure we get out there and show them what we’ve got. Our chef coats, serving uniforms, and aprons are the ideal fit for your food service business.

The New England Food Show is the region’s largest trade event for the food service industry. The people behind the show are committed to helping attendees satisfy their customers, get some new customers, and improve their businesses. And, let’s face it, a successful business starts with a good first impression. A good first impression starts with a clean looking staff in attractive restaurant uniforms. When you’re successful, we’re successful!

The show was held March 11th through the 13th at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

And we’re not done, yet! We’ll be at the Maine Restaurant & Lodging Expo at the Cumberland Civic Center in Portland, Maine on Wednesday April 4th. Come find us in Booth #604!

Averill’s Sharper Uniforms is really getting around these days! We spent some time at the 2012 Club Business Expo in New Orleans, LA on February 26th and 27th. We were fortunate enough to meet some great people, make some great connections, and get in touch with those that could benefit from our line of uniforms.

A Bit About the Club Business Expo
The Club Business Expo is the largest industry event of its kind, bringing general managers, CEOs, and COOs from some of the best and most prestigious clubs around the world. Here at Sharper Uniforms, we have the right outfit for many different kinds of businesses, and that’s why we were so happy to spend some time with all of these great people. We met management teams from yacht clubs, athletic clubs, golf facilities, and so much more. We were proud to offer information about our polo shirts, spa uniforms, and other quality business club products.

To top it all off, everyone that visited the Averill’s Sharper Uniforms booth got a free Crumber!

Future Sharper Uniforms News
If you didn’t make it to the expo, don’t worry! We’ll be at the New England Food show from March 11th to March 13th. Come visit us at Booth #2913. We’ll have free gifts at the booth and a drawing for a surprise gift at the end of the show!

We believe that every good chef deserves a good start, and that’s why we were proud to team up with the 2012 Massachusetts ProStart Student Invitational earlier this year. The invitational was a high school culinary and restaurant management competition to showcase the areas’ future chefs and restaurateurs. Ten area schools participated in the competition, and the panel of judges included some celebrated fixtures on the local culinary scene. Few things are more exciting than seeing young chefs and restaurateurs show what they’ve got—it really gives us hope for the future of the industry!

The future of the Massachusetts restaurant industry!

And that’s why we wanted to pitch in. We provided embroidered chef coats for all of the students involved in the event. We are proud to help support the future of the restaurant industry by giving them a little something personal. After all, you can’t feel truly professional as a chef until you have the proper embroidered chef’s coat!

We believe that the Massachusetts Restaurant Association Education Foundation provides young culinary minds with an excellent foundation. Since 2000, they have awarded 900,000 scholarships to over 300 high school and undergraduate students in the restaurant and food service industry. With people like that helping to develop quality restaurant professionals in Massachusetts, we have absolute faith in the future of the local restaurant scene.

We just hope these lucky students remember us and their embroidered chef’s coats when they make it big in the culinary world!

Here at Averill’s Sharper Uniforms, we like to make sure that you can get the perfect restaurant uniforms, hotel uniforms, and spa uniforms to suit your needs. That’s why we have a wide selection of polo shirts, khaki pants, and other quality uniform pieces. That’s also why we make sure we get out to restaurant shows, too. After all, we’re in the business of outfitting your staff with the perfect clothing for the job… And what better way to share our wealth of knowledge than at restaurant shows? Here’s a look at where we’ll be in the coming months.

On February 26th and 27th we’ll be at the CMAA 2012 Club Business Expo at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. If you’re going to be in the area, come down and check us out at Booth #118. Each guest that visits us at the show will receive a free gift and the chance to win a surprise gift in our drawing.

If you can’t make it down to New Orleans, you can always check us out at the New England Food Show. This is one of our favorites because it really showcases what New England has to offer. Held March 11th through the 13th in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, the New England Food Show is sure to be a good time. We’ll be in Booth #2913 to show you many of our front and back of the house garments. And just like the CMAA Expo, we’ll be offering free gifts and a surprise drawing for all visitors.

We’re also going to spend some time at the Maine Restaurant & Lodging Expo at the Cumberland Civic Center in Portland on April 4th. You can find us in Booth #604.

We hope to catch you at some of these great restaurant shows!

There’s no better way to dress your restaurant staff than in comfortable poplin button down shirts, which are available in a large assortment of colors. There are many reasons that these shirts are a favorite among Averill’s Sharper Uniforms’ customers.

• Waiters, waitresses, hostesses and other restaurant staff will be comfortable in these 65% polyester and 35% cotton blend shirts.
• You’ll definitely find the right color for your business with our large variety of colors, including black, gray, white, pink, French blue, burgundy, royal blue, cucumber green, purple, tan, buttercup, navy, red, espresso, hunter green, and gold.
• The men’s poplin collared shirts feature button down collars, left chest pockets, back box pleat and matching collared buttons.
• Each woman’s poplin blouse features back darts, a soft collar, narrow placket, matching buttons, and an open neck.
• In addition, you can choose to personalize each classic button down shirt with the name of your business!

At Averill’s Sharper Uniforms we have a large assortment of men’s and women wait staff uniforms that are well suited for many different restaurants. Choose from a large assortment of ladies blouses, men’s shirts, cocktail blouses, men’s and ladies vests, men’s and ladies pants and shorts, skirts, aprons, sweaters, ties, ascots, scarves and much more!

Ahh… Few things are more relaxing than spending some time at a spa! Spas are a great way for people to relax, get pampered, and de-stress. Skin and nail treatments can renew the mind, body, and spirit—all at the same time. If you’re running a spa, you know that the environment plays a major role in the customer’s experience. You need to make sure the setting is inviting and tranquil. Ladies’ spa uniforms and men’s spa uniforms can help add to this mood. Fortunately for you, we have a wide selection of spa uniforms right here at Sharper Uniforms.

Many people go to a spa to enjoy the opportunity to be pampered. During spa treatments, clients are usually waited on hand and foot—and treated like royalty! Men’s and women’s spa uniforms are designed to make clients feel comfortable. Made from durable and comfortable fabrics, our spa uniforms really add to the overall look and feel of your spa. Available in a variety of soothing colors, your clients are sure to feel relaxed when they see how great your staff looks.

Our men’s spa uniforms complement the women’s spa uniform collection—so you can rest assured that your whole staff will look professional and unified.

Spa uniforms are also perfect for dentists’ offices, eye doctors’ offices, and other areas of the medical field. If you want to make sure that your staff looks comfortable, reliable, and professional, choose men’s and women’s spa uniforms from Sharper Uniforms.