Dirty Waitstaff Uniforms

[emhahn]

Ok.... this is a little pet-peeve I have with waitstaff uniforms.

Being a restaurant pro that I am, I have to be real honest about our waitstaff's uniforms.

Don't customers notice when a waiter or waitress comes to work in a uniform that is either dirty, smelly or wrinkled?

I know this doesn't affect the food, but doesn't this speak volumes about the organization of the person wearing this uniform?

.........just fielding my thoughts to intelligent observers......

Eric
http://www.restaurantedge.com

[Andrew563]

Waitstaff showing up to work dirty and smelling is absolutely unacceptable. There is absolutely no excuse for it. I get mad when the kitchen staff comes into stinking. I have been known to spray cooks who smell like a__ with deoderant just to get the point across. Now if they stink at the end of the shift, that is a different story. I usually do too.

[Peachcreek]

Cooks and chefs showing up in food caked grease splattered blown out "work" shoes! Yuk!

[cheftomlin]

imo anyone not properly dressed and cleaned for work doesnt work. as a consumer i leave when the waitstaff isnt up to par visually (because that tells me the parts of the facility i cant see must be horrible)

[panini]

I agree with all the posts. I will let is slide like in a waffle house on the way home fom poker at 3am but, I always put myself right in front of the cook so I can watch him or her or
This also brings up something that I have a hard time dealing with. Why is it that a good percentage of chefs, especially on TV (like the show that visits kitchens for recipes) have hands and fingernails that look like he or she has just finished replacing the transmission on the delivery vehicle? Not the TV personalities.
No nails to speak of, appearing unclean. Am I the only one who notices things like that.?Great Chefs was visiting some Inn in New Hampshire and I was excited about watching the dessert. Never saw it, I fixated on the womans fingernails, and don't remember a thing.

Eric,
I'm curious about how you feel about the way customers dress. We have a long summer here. When it breaks I only wear Tevas, shorts and an assortment of tye dyed shirts. I will wear this all the time except at work or a jacket required place. Most places I frequent usually know me as the guy who looks like Jerry Garcia. I also go to places where some of the clientele is dressed pretty nice.
I'm thinking that most of the restaurants that I go to just put up with me cuz I usually know the chef. My wife thinks it's horrible. I will usually be seated fast. I'm not sure if my relationship with the chef and staff or they want me out of the front of their restaurant.We went to the museum downtown last summer and decided we would get lunch. Well my son and I ate alone at the French Room @ The Adolphus and my wife refused because of my attire. She went back to the Museum. Needless to say it was a quiet ride home. We took a couple of hours to eat. Chatted with the chef and such.
What are your thoughts? Think I would bother you walking in?

ps I'm not sloppy, shorts and shirts are all in and out of the cleaners and not wrinkled.The tee's are from a New Mexico woman who I've been buying from for years.