When you are preparing to open a new restaurant, everything from menu planning to budgeting, may seem more important than choosing your waitstaff uniforms. Designing your menus and decorating your space is, at least, more fun! But your server’s uniforms will make a lasting first impression, for good or ill – and you certainly want good! Moreover, careful branding on your uniforms can reinforce brand loyalty. If your waitstaff is comfortable, they will be able to focus more fully on customers. Read these tips for help making this important decision.

A Little Soul-Searching Goes a Long Way

Formal and casual restaurants have different uniform requirements. Casual restaurant server uniforms must stand out to help customers quickly identify who to go to for ordering and service, especially in crowded dining areas. A strongly branded uniform will also create an impression of cooperation among your servers as they move about the restaurant. In addition to brand, you should consider what image you want your uniforms to convey: edgy? comfortable? urban? retro? traditional? etc. Choose uniforms that reinforce the atmosphere and the brand you are busy building.

Upscale or formal restaurants want their customers to feel like they are going to get special attention from their servers. Formal restaurant server uniforms should convey that sense of extra polish. Ties and vests add a formal touch. Aprons or smocks are practical and fashionable. A formal restaurant will emphasize atmosphere over identity, and branding, while important, is usually more subtle. Design uniforms that enhance the mood and reflect the unique dining experience your restaurant has to offer.

Be Practical!

You would probably not wear long sleeves and a jacket if you were planning to work outside in the summer, so don’t ask your waitstaff to, either! Keeping your servers comfortable keeps them focused on your customers. You must choose uniforms that meet the needs of your specific dining environment. Cotton and other cool fabrics are good choices for servers who work in warm conditions or who move around frequently. Not only will staying cool prevent unsightly sweat stains and grumpy attitudes, but it can save you on cooling costs as well. Conversely, consider uniform options that include jackets and sweaters if your staff will ever want to add extra layers to stay warm. Mismatched coats or pullovers won’t create the impression you want! Fabrics for all uniforms should be durable and able to handle multiple washings. Wrinkle free and treated fabrics can improve durability and provide the most value for your investment.

Choose Your Provider

The next step is to research your apparel provider. With your list of basic uniform requirements in hand, a good provider will help you finalize your server uniform designs. They should have many styles and options to choose from. You will want to ask about the difference between buying and leasing, and decide which path is better for your business. There are many modern tools available for managing inventory. Your provider should be able to offer you a range of e-commerce solutions, from on-demand shipping to a personalized company store. If they seem unwilling to work with you on a solution that fits your needs, keep looking. With the perfect waitstaff uniforms designed, and a quality apparel provider handling inventory, you can get back to doing what you love – making your customers happy!

Branded Uniforms offers top quality standard and custom server uniforms for restaurants and service businesses. Experienced designers will work with you to create restaurant uniforms that reflect your brand’s standards.

In order to maximize your Park City holiday experience, it`s essential that you make time for three square meals when you`re in the area. Park City has a interesting dining scene, with restaurants representing many types of cuisines, including American, Mexican, Italian, and Asian food. These are a sampling of the top Park City restaurants to eat.

A light and healthy dinner of sushi is a nice way to cap off a busy day in town. Consider Yuki Arashi or the Flying Sumo, both on Main Street in the historic section of Park City. Each of these restaurants offer fresh sashimi, sushi and tapas for tastes of all varieties. Slightly off the beaten path, Blind Dog sushi bar is also a great choice; in fact, the sushi and sashimi have been recognized nationally as some of the best you can find in the country.

A few of Park City`s best Italian restaurants include Cisero`s, Ghidotti`s, and Grappa. Cisero`s is a fine pick for families or travelers on a budget; and don`t forget to head downstairs to the bar/dance club to work off that dinner. Grappa is a celebrated Italian restaurant located at the top of Main Street in a picturesque old house, and is definitely worth a try. Ghidotti`s, located at Kimball Junction, is Bill White`s newest Italian restaurant, and combines a unique menu and atmosphere.

Park City, Utah has a number of pizzerias to satisfy the Friday (or Wednesday, or Thursday) evening pizza craving. Order a pizza pie from Red Banjo or Main Street Pizza & Noodle, both delicious pizza joints located on historic Main St. in Park City. Maxwell`s pizza restaurant is another nice selection, dishing up east-coast style pizza in the Newpark area of Park City. All three dining establishments deliver right to your hotel, vacation home, or condo at your request.

If your family is in the mood for Mexican food, there are quite a few delicious restaurants to choose from. Baja Cantina, located by the the base of PCMR, has great food and tasty margaritas for the adults in the group. Another delicious choice is Nacho Mama`s restaurant, which serves up delicious fajitas, tacos, and soups. If you are feeling like something out by Kimball Junction, try Loco Lizard, located behind the Chevron by the I-80 interchange.

If Asian cuisine is what your group is searching for, experiment with one of these Park City restaurants. The Last Samurai, near the I-80 entrance to town, is known for Asian-style cuisine similar to hibachi restaurants, and has shorter wait times than some of the in town restaurants. Or, try Shabu or Wahso, two high quality restaurants with fantastic service and award-winning culinary experiences.

Remember, vacation is a perfect time to create memories and visit attractions you may not experience again. Choose one of the establishments detailed above, and rest assured that your dining experience will be unforgettable!

Mrs. Sera Seger is a food lover and enjoys trying new restaurants. Sera recommends the Local Tourist guide for reviews on Pizza in Park City.

Expandable dining tables are gaining more popularity these days. The major advantage of using the expandable dining tables is the fact that the dining table could be expanded to a certain length when required. This is particularly useful when there are large number of guest in your home. The expandable dining tables can be increased in size by adding two leaves and also it could be brought back to the original shape and size easily.

Your small dining room tables can be expanded by just adding the removable leaves that you can purchase with your dining set. These come in handy specially when you are having extra guests and need a larger area. At the end all you need to do is remove the leaves and your table will return down to its original size for its daily use.

You can save a lot of money by using expandable dining table especially when you are moving from one place to another .For example if you are currently in a small room and is planning to move to a bigger one then there is absolutely no necessity for it you to buy a bigger dining table because the dining table can be easily expanded the required length.

The expandable dining tables can accommodate 15 to 20 people at one shot and this can be further increased if required. The expandable dining tables are made of wood that are mainly produced in North America. The wood produced in North America is of great quality and will last longer. These days veneer are used to prepare this because the hardwood takes a long time to grow and hence people have taken a shortcut to produce this product.

These expandable tables can not only be used for mealtime dining but for other business meetings or even as tables to display different items. With tables at these lengths, with the leaves to expand them there are many purposes for these expandable tables.

Although the expandable dining tables are made of hardwood it is sometimes manufactured using veneer. Veneer is an alternative for hardwood and you can get the same effect as hardwood. As the technology advances more people have now started experimenting using many metals including the stainless steel for preparing the expandable dining tables.

Personally I use round dining tables at home, simply due to its sheer elegance and timeless style. It adds a unique look to my dining room that wood or metal simply can’t provide, and it is a perfect mix of both form and function. For more information on how to choose the best dining chairs, visit my site

As a war veteran I know what it is like to be in the middle of the desert with no blanket with sand fleas and scorpions climbing up and down your legs and into your cloths. I’ve been awakened with the nudge of a cobra trying to sniff out my lunch in my backpack beneath the pale moon over the faintly lit sand hills with Hummer tracks dug into the side where the wind’s unrelenting blaze will spend the next 200 years forming mountains around them, disrupted by the modern mechanical carvings embedded in them.

As humans, disrupting nature is what we do. For better or for worse we evolve and force our surroundings to evolve with us. Coming in the form of modernization we corrupt our surroundings and pry them from their natural state and mold them into what we need them to be to add to the convenience of our lives. After all, you’re either moving forward or falling behind, isn’t that right? I used to think so but when I came back to the United States of America after two tours oversees with the US Rangers my feelings have been altered and I cater more towards preservation.

In the northeastern part of the United States there is a small town in Pennsylvania called ‘Doylestown’. This town is one that time has forgotten. Not that it hasn’t evolved but the preservation of the history there is so relevant in the lives of those who live there. The buildings predate the American Revolution, there are memorials bringing attention to those who had ‘recently’ fallen in the Civil War (monument from 1870). This little town had contributed to the war efforts since the inception of this great nation and continues to send it’s sons and daughters to service in the military when the country is at war and raises the flag for young patriots to risk that ultimate sacrifice.

Many don’t appreciate the sacrifices being made by war veterans. I myself was the target of lies on the infamous ripoffreport.com and when I was oversees, with bullets screaming by my head I wasn’t able to defend myself from lies and defamation here in the United States. Who protects the veterans who are being attacked from all angles when they are oversees fighting to stay alive while the citizens of the USA rip and shred a warriors family without allowing a man to defend his reputation?

Doylestown is one of those places that sees a veteran and will reach out a hand and say, ‘We’re here for you, what can we do?” This town is wonderful, beautiful and unique and I thank God that we’ve made it our home.

Doylestown, Today